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Misa Shimizu Born September 25, 1970
Tanashi, Tokyo, JapanOccupation Actress Misa Shimizu (清水美沙 Shimizu Misa, born 25 September 1970) is a Japanese actress. She made her screen debut by winning the heroine audition for 1987 film Shōnan Bōsōzoku. She starred in NHK's morning drama series Seishun Kazoku in 1989. She portrayed Keiko, the female protagonist, in Palme d'Or winning The Eel directed by Shohei Imamura.[1] She also makes regular appearances in Masayuki Suo's films. She won the award for best actress at the 17th Hochi Film Award for Okoge, Sumo Do, Sumo Don't, Future Memories: Last Christmas.[2]
In 1998, she married an enlisted US Army soldier stationed in Japan and moved to the USA. She gave birth to a daughter in April 2003, and a son two years later. She lived in Maryland with her husband and two children, until they returned to Japan in 2005.
Contents
Filmography
(partial list)
- Shōnan Bakusōzoku (湘南爆走族) (1987)
- Inamura Jane (稲村ジェーン Inamura Jeen) (1990)
- Baka Yarō! 3: Henna Yatsura (バカヤロー!3 へんな奴ら) (1990)
- Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (シコふんじゃった。 Shiko Funjata.) (1991)
- Mirai no Omoide (未来の想い出) (1992)
- Okoge (おこげ) (1992)
- Home Work (1992)
- Chūshingura Shijūshichi-nin no Shikaku (忠臣蔵 四十七人の刺客) (1994)
- Gerende ga Tokeru Hodo Koi Shitai (ゲレンデがとけるほど恋したい。) (1995)
- Shall We Dance (Shall We ダンス Shall We Dansu) (1996) as Natsuko
- Ningen Isu (人間椅子) (1997)
- The Eel (うなぎ) (1997): Shimizu shot to worldwide fame at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival where this film won the Palme d'Or. She later won the Fumiko Yamaji Prize and the Japan Academy's Leading Actress award.
- Zakurokan (柘榴館) (1997)
- Gimu to Engi (義務と演技) (1997)
- Dr. Akagi (カンゾー先生 Kanzō-sensei) (1998)
- Atsumono (あつもの) (1999)
- Kyū no Ichi Kinyūdō (九ノ一金融道) (1999)
- Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (赤い橋の下のぬるい水 Akai Hashi no Shita no Nurui Mizu) (2001): Shimizu plays a woman with a rather bountiful problem—she fills up with water and the only way to get rid of it, is to make love...
- The Sea is Watching (海は見ていた Umi wa Miteita) (2002): About samurai-era girls in a small seaside town brothel. Shimizu plays the slightly older, diffident Kikuno, a big sister to the younger girls in the house. Kimuno has two regular customers—an abusive middle-aged yakuza and a tender elderly widower who asks her to move in with him—but she weaves her own mysterious and forlorn story. Screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, directed by Kei Kumai.
- Paper Moon Affair (プライベート・ムーン Puraibeeto Mūn) (2005): Shimizu stars as Keiko, an enigmatic Japanese beauty, married to a domineering Chinese husband, forced to find herself while lost in a small town in the remote Pacific Northwest.
- Ubume no Natsu (姑獲鳥の夏) (2005)
- Nijūni-sai no Wakare: Lycoris Hamizu Hanamizu Monogatari (22才の別れ Lycoris 葉見ず花見ず物語) (2005)
- "Umikaze ni fukarete" (2008)
- Rain Fall (2009)
- The Harimaya Bridge (2009)
- Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (誰かが私にキスをした) (2010)
TV series
(partial list)
- 29-sai no Yūutsu (29歲の憂うつ) (2000): played 29-year old Kudo, an owner of a lesbian bar.
- Fūrin Kazan (風林火山) (2007): played Sanada Yukitaka's wife Shinome.
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Eel". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4800/year/1997.html. Retrieved 2009-09-24.
- ^ "報知映画賞ヒストリー" (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/1992/. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
External links
- Shimizu Misa at the Internet Movie Database
- Shimizu Misa at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)
- Misa Shimizu - Rotten Tomatoes Celebrity Profile
- Misa Shimizu DVDs - Netflix
- Misa Shimizu @ Filmbug
Kumiko Akiyoshi (1976) · Shima Iwashita (1977) · Meiko Kaji (1978) · Junko Miyashita (1979) · Chieko Baishō (1980) · Keiko Matsuzaka (1981) · Kaori Momoi (1982) · Masako Natsume (1983) · Sayuri Yoshinaga (1984) · Mitsuko Baisho (1985) · Ayumi Ishida (1986) · Shinobu Ōtake (1987) · Narumi Yasuda (1988) · Yoshiko Tanaka (1989) · Keiko Matsuzaka (1990) · Youki Kudoh (1991) · Misa Shimizu (1992) · Ruby Moreno (1993) · Saki Takaoka (1994) · Miho Nakayama (1995) · Mieko Harada (1996) · Hitomi Kuroki (1997) · Mieko Harada (1998) · Jun Fubuki (1999) · Naomi Fujiyama (2000) · Kyōko Koizumi (2001) · Rie Miyazawa (2002) · Shinobu Terajima (2003) · Takako Matsu (2004) · Yūko Tanaka (2005) · Miki Nakatani (2006) · Kumiko Aso (2007) · Kyōko Koizumi (2008) · Takako Matsu (2009)
Yokohama Film Festival Best Supporting Actress Ako (1980) · Ran Ito (1981) · Yūko Tanaka (1982) · Masako Natsume (1983) · Misako Tanaka (1984) · Kin Sugai / Etsuko Shihomi (1985) · Kie Nakai (1986) · Noriko Watanabe (1987) · Eri Ishida (1988) · Shuko Honami (1989) · Haruko Sagara (1990) · Tomoko Nakajima (1991) · Emi Wakui / Reona Hirota (1992) · Keiko Oginome / Misa Shimizu (1993) · Kaoru Mizuki / Ruby Moreno (1994) · Shigeru Muroi (1995) · Shinobu Nakayama (1996) · Reiko Kusamura (1997) · Reiko Kataoka (1998) · Yumi Yoshiyuki (1999) · Naomi Nishida (2001) · Kou Shibasaki / Yūki Amami (2002) · Nene Otsuka (2003) · Kimiko Yo (2004) · Kirin Kiki (2005) · Hiroko Yakushimaru (2006) · Yūko Nakamura / Kazue Fukiishi (2007) · Hiromi Nagasaku (2008) · Ryōko Hirosue / Kimiko Yo (2009) · Sakura Andou (2010)
Categories:- Japanese film actors
- 1970 births
- Living people
- People from Western Tokyo
- Japanese actor stubs
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