Yatsuko Kaneko Tanami (Japanese: 丹阿弥 谷津子, born 25 June 1924)[1] is a Japanese actress, known for her performance during the Golden Age of Japanese film.[2]

Yatsuko Tan'ami
Tan'ami in 1954
Born
Yatsuko Tanami

(1924-06-25) 25 June 1924 (age 100)
EducationTokyo Higher Normal School
OccupationActress
Years active1950–2008
SpouseNobuo Kaneko (?–1995)
AwardsJapan Film Critics Award
Tan'ami Yatsuko on the cover of Asahigraph in 1951

Early years

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Her real name is Yatsuko Kaneko. Her father, Tanami Iwakichi (1901-1992), was a painter from Tokyo who studied under Taikan Yokoyama.[3] Her mother, Tomie, was a paulownia doll artist from Hikami-cho, Hyogo Prefecture (currently Tamba City). Her younger sister Tanami Niwako (1927-) became a copperplate engraver after entering Bunka Gakuin.[4]

Her family lived in Atelier Village in Nagasaki, Toshima Ward.[5]

Education

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In 1937, she graduated from Tokyo Higher Normal School Attached Elementary School and from Tokyo Prefectural 10th High School for Girls. In 1942, she graduated from Bunka Gakuin Faculty of Literature.[6] In 1942 she became a research student at the Bungakuza.[7] In the same year she made her debut in "Matsugoro Tomishima".[8] In 1945, she gained attention for her role as Anya in the new theater joint performance "The Cherry Orchard", and since then she has been known as an actress with both her beauty and acting skills, such as Roxanne in "Cyrano" and Fanny in "Marius".

Career

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On 24 March 1954, she left for France to attend the Cannes Film Festival.[9]

In 1964, she formed "Gekidan NLT" with Yukio Mishima, who had left Bungakuza due to the incident. She left the company in 1966 and formed a new group, New Theater Club Marui, with Kaneko. In 1967, she won the Encouragement Prize at the Arts Festival for "Love and Death of an Actress". In 2000, she won the 10th Japan Film Critics Award for Lifetime Achievement. She has made many appearances in TV dramas as the grandmother of her main character. She has appeared in commercials for Paramount Bed, Sawai Pharmaceutical, and others.[citation needed]

Personal life

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She was married to actor Nobuo Kaneko until his death in 1995.[citation needed]

She turned 100 in June 2024.

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Director Note
1950 Nanairo no Hana Madam Tsubaki Masahisa Sunohara
1952 At War's End Tsuruko Sasaki Hideo Sekigawa
1952 Ikiru Bar Hostess Akira Kurosawa
1952 Tokyo no Ekubo Nobuko Kawakami Shūe Matsubayashi
1952 Koi no Ōen-danchō Sanae Kimura Umetsugu Inoue
1953 An Inlet of Muddy Water Harada Seki Tadashi Imai
1953 Zoku Jūdai no Seiten Miss Matsushita Kozo Saeki
1953 Wife Fusako Sagara Mikio Naruse
1953 Gendai Shojo Moriko Yoshimura Kozo Saeki
1954 Haha no Hatsukoi Tamiko Seiji Hisamatsu
1954 Sound of the Mountain Ikeda Mikio Naruse
1955 Ejima and Ikushima Ienobu Hideo Ōba
1956 Through A Child's Eye Junko Yoshirō Kawazu
1956 Red and Green Toyoko Masuyama Noboru Nakamura
1957 Untamed Woman Mikio Naruse
1958 Symphoney of Love Shizue Kaneda Teinosuke Kinugasa
1958 A Woman of Osaka Otae Teinosuke Kinugasa
1959 The Most Valuable Madam Yomoko Mihara Yasuzo Masumura
1959 Onna Gokoro Tsukiko Seiji Maruyama
1960 When a Woman Loves Yukiko Heinosuke Gosho [10]
1960 Spring Dreams Tamiko Okudaira Keisuke Kinoshita
1961 Adorable Schemers Mami Keigo Kimura
1961 Lost in the Sun Yaeko Yashiro Toshio Masuda
1961 Poignant Story Hanae Mikio Naruse
1962 Akiko Koji Shima [11]
1962 Diary of a Mad Old Man Mutsuko Keigo Kimura
1962 Sabakareru Echizen-no-kami Onui Tokuzō Tanaka
1962 Stolen Pleasure Yukiko Yasuzo Masumura
1962 A Woman's Place Ranko Ishikawa Mikio Naruse
1963 Zoku Ōsho Junya Sato
1963 A House of Shame Hisako Tomotaka Tasaka
1963 Utsukushii Koyomi Yajima Chie Kenjirō Morinaga
1963 Kekkonshiki Kekkonshiki Mitsuko Noboru Nakamura
1964 The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers Kinu Hiromichi Horikawa
1964 A Public Benefactor Kaneko Yokota Satsuo Yamamoto
1964 Geisha Gakkō Keigo Kimura
1967 The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka Saheiji's Wife Yasuzo Masumura
1967 Nani wa naku tomo zen'in shûgô!! Yūsuke Watanabe
1968 Amadera Maruhi Monogatari Kiyo Sadao Nakajima
1968 Lone Wolf Isazo Kazuo Ikehiro
1968 Eternal Love Mitsuyo Shinjo Katsumi Nishikawa
1979 Demon Pond Nurse Masahiro Shinoda
1979 The Shogun Assassins Mochizuki Chiyome Sadao Nakajima
1986 Lost in the Wilderness Hatsu Uemura Junya Sato
1987 Guys Who Never Learn Haruyo Abe Azuma Morisaki
1988 Free and Easy Hisae Suzuki Tomio Kuriyama
1989 Free and Easy II Hisae Suzuki Tomio Kuriyama
1990 Tsuribaka nisshi 3 Hisae Suzuki Tomio Kuriyama
1991 Tsuribaka Nisshi 4 Hisae Suzuki Tomio Kuriyama
1993 Tsuribaka Nisshi 6 Hisae Suzuki Tomio Kuriyama
2006 Three Year Delivery Aki Miako Tadano

Television

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Year Title Role Note
1961 Hakai
1961 Green Gekijō Episode 18: Ore wa Shiranai
1961 Kiken na Shamen
1962 Takasebune
1965 The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
1966 Kawa no Hotori de
1967 Tokyo Story
1974 Submersion of Japan Kayo Onodera the mother of Toshio
1976 Kaze to kumo to niji to
1978 Queen Mother of the West Queen Mother of the West 1 episode
1980 Ikenaka Genta 80 kilo Harue
1980 Hadaka no Taisho Horoki
1981 Haha taru koto wa jigoku no gotoku Sawako TV movie
1984 Aoi Hitomi no Seiraifu
1981 Kazunomiya sama otome Oshizu TV movie
1988 Kaseifu wa mita! 6 TV movie
1989 New Tokyo Story Tomi Hirayama TV movie
1993 Eenyobo Toki Asakura 86 episodes
2004 Sakura Sakumade Hana Wakabayashi
2007 Asakusa Fukumaru Ryokan 1 episode
2008 Saigo no Senpan TV movie

References

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  1. ^ "丹阿弥 谷津子|日本タレント名鑑". 日本タレント名鑑 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-08-29.
  2. ^ "丹阿弥谷津子 - 映画ならKINENOTE". www.kinenote.com. Retrieved 2022-08-29.
  3. ^ 日本人名大辞典+Plus, デジタル版. "丹阿弥岩吉とは". コトバンク (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-08-29.
  4. ^ Chigasaki City Museum of Art, May 2015.
  5. ^ "アトリエ散策マップ|豊島区公式ホームページ". archive.ph. 2016-05-30. Retrieved 2022-08-29.
  6. ^ Yomiuri People Database
  7. ^ Nichigai Associates Modern Person Information.
  8. ^ Nichigai Associates Information on Modern People.
  9. ^ "Yatsuko Tanami, Films presented at Cannes". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  10. ^ "わが愛". JFDB. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  11. ^ "御身". JFDB. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
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