Mitsuko Baisho
Acting
Born November 22, 1946, Ibaraki, Japan
Mitsuko Baisho (born 22 November 1946 in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan) is a noted Japanese actress, whose most internationally known work has been for director Shohei Imamura, from 1979 up to the director's final film in 2002. Baisho has also been in films of Akira Kurosawa. She also won the awards for best actress at the 10th Hochi Film Award for Love Letter and Ikiteru uchi ga hana nano yo shindara sore made yo to sengen.She also won the award for best supporting actress at the 8th Hochi Film Award for The Geisha and at the 22nd Hochi Film Award for Tokyo Lullaby. Her sister is actress-singer Chieko Baisho.
Filmography
- 2026UNDERGIRL
- 2025Brighter Days — Sae Yukino
- 202452-Hertz Whales — Sachie Muranaka
- The Inugami Family — Setsuko
- 2023友情 ～平尾誠二と山中伸弥 『最後の一年』～
- Gannibal — Gin Gotô
- Involvement in Family Affairs — Yasuko Miyama
- 2022Offbeat Cops — Sachiko Naruse
- Roppongi Class
- 2021In the Wake — Kei Tōshima
- Kawa no Hotori de
- Request to the Angel — Kazuko Sato
- 2020Threads - Our Tapestry of Love — Setsuko Murata
- Detective Akechi Kogoro — Koumoto Keiko
- Two Weeks
- 2019When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes — Akiko
- 2018Akuma ga Kitarite Fue wo Fuku
- Black Pean — Harue Tokai
- 2018Cinema Fighters — Miyuki
- 2018Snowman — Miyuki (old)
- 2017An Emblem Dedicated To You — Takajo Waka
- 2016Big & Little — Masako
- 2016Bōkyō — (segment "Mikan no hana")
- 2016Sing My Life — Katsu Seyama
- 2015Mr. Love Chemistry 2
- 2015Risking it All: The Spirit of the Men in Orange
- Shitamachi Rocket
- Miyamoto Musashi — Otsu
- 2014Time Never Stops — Iku Hamaguchi
- Hanzawa Naoki — Natsuko Hane
- Take Five: Should we Steal for Love? — Mysterious Woman
- 2013The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up — Harue Fujishima
- Blackboard — Ryoko Yokote, Yokote Ryoko
- 2012Blazing Famiglia — Donbaa
- Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
- Late Blooming Sunflower My Life Renewed — Ikuko Omura
- 2012Shichou Shisu
- Umechan Sensei — 下村正枝
- 2011Dendera — Masari Shiina
- 2011Rock: Wanko no Shima
- 2010Postcard — Chiyo Morikawa, the Mother-in-Law
- Ryōmaden
- 2010The Lady Shogun and Her Men — Yorinobu Mizuno
- 2009Counterfeit — Kageko Sada
- 2009Noriben - The Recipe for Fortune — Fumiyo Hara
- 2008All Around Us — Namiko Yoshida
- Last Friends — Chinatsu Aida
- 2008最後の戦犯
- Tokyo Tower — Eiko Nakagawa
- 2006Haru, Bânîzu de
- 2006Tales from Earthsea — The Mistress (voice)
- Ruri's Island — Nakama Megumi
- 2005Shining Boy & Little Randy — Asako Fujisawa, Asako Fujisawa (as Mitsuko Baisho)
- 2004Chicken Is Barefoot
- 2004Locomotive Teacher
- 2002Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS — Masae Murakami
- 2002Out — Yoshie 'Sensei' Azuma
- 2002September 11 — Kayo Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
- 2001A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River
- 2001Turn — Mori Satoko
- 2001Warm Water Under a Red Bridge — Mitsu Aizawa
- 2000By Player
- Suzuran — Fuki Kawamoto
- 1998Love Letter
- 1998Solitude Point — Yukie
- 1998The Hidden Festival
- Gift — Reiko Sakuhara（朔原 令子）
- 1997The Eel — Misako Nakajima
- 1997The Girl Who Leapt Through Time — Yukiko Yoshiyama
- 1997Tokyo Lullaby — Hisako Hamanaka
- 1995A Last Note — Naoko Yazawa
- Haru yo koi — 高倉リュウ
- 1990Dreams — Mother of 'I'
- 1989My Phoenix — Takako Demachi
- 1989Sensei — Shota's mother
- An Early Autumn
- 1987Sure Death 4 — Ofuku
- 1987Zegen — Shiho
- 1986Cabaret — Megumi Nanbu
- 1986Women Who Do Not Divorce
- 1985Let Him Rest in Peace — Shima Akai
- 1985Love Letter — Kyoko Takehara
- 1985Nuclear Gypsies
- 1984Curtain Call — Haruko Nakamichi
- 1984The Crazy Family — Saeko Kobayashi
- 1983P. P. Rider — Ikuko
- 1983The Ballad of Narayama — Oei
- 1983The Geisha — Osodé
- 1981Eijanaika — Oko
- 1981Flames of Blood — Orin
- Aoki Ookami Narukichiomoase no Shougai — ボルテ
- 1980Kagemusha — Oyunokata
- 1980Wings of Icarus' Flight
- Detective Story — Masako Aiki
- Mr. Kinpachi in Class 3B
- 1979Vengeance Is Mine — Kazuko Enokizu
- 1978Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron — Omatsu
- 1978Winter's Flower — Mary
- 1977A Scream from Nowhere — Sumiko Miyajima - The Actress
- 1977The Life of Chikuzan — Chikuzan's 2nd wife
- 1977The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
- 1976Love Is a Hunter — Michiko Matsumoto
- 1976Manhunt — Otsuki Kyoko
- 1976The Three Ginza Rascals
- 1973Daddy on a Rocking Boat
- 1973Flower and Dragon
- Kao de Waratte — Hideko Hanada
- 1973Miyamoto Musashi — Akemi
- 1973The Shinano River
- 1972Chase That Man
- 1972Theater of Life
- 1971Challenge at Dawn
- 1971Follow the Girls
- 1971Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
- 1971The Instant Services Bureau
- 1970Charming Men — Haruko
- 1970Duel at Fort Ezo — Aka Shu
- 1970Fun on the Run — Ponta
- 1969Our Miyo-chan — Miyo
- 1969Tenchu! — Onimo
- 1969Women Can't Be Beaten — Aiko
- 1968The Million Dollar Pursuit
- 1967Lover's Duet — Yachiyo Kawada
Appearances as themselves (1)
- 1978The Blind Swordsman — Self