Yūko Tanaka

Q: Has Yūko Tanaka won any awards?

Yes, Yūko Tanaka has received several awards for her performances, including the Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Actress, highlighting her talent and contribution to Japanese cinema.

Q: When did Yūko Tanaka start her acting career?

Yūko Tanaka began her acting career in the early 1980s, transitioning from modeling to acting with significant roles in popular films and television series.

Q: What is Yūko Tanaka's acting style like?

Yūko Tanaka is known for her emotional depth and ability to portray complex characters, often excelling in both dramatic and comedic roles across various genres.

Q: Is Yūko Tanaka involved in television as well?

Yes, Yūko Tanaka has appeared in numerous television dramas and series, showcasing her versatility and popularity in the Japanese entertainment industry.

Q: What is Yūko Tanaka's estimated net worth?

Yūko Tanaka's estimated net worth is around $10 million, reflecting her successful career in film and television over the decades.

Q: What notable roles has Yūko Tanaka played?

Yūko Tanaka has played many notable roles, including characters in period dramas and contemporary films that highlight her range and acting prowess.

Q: Has Yūko Tanaka worked with any famous directors?

Yes, Yūko Tanaka has collaborated with several renowned directors throughout her career, contributing to critically acclaimed films and enhancing her reputation in the film industry.

Known for

Princess Mononoke (1997)

IMDb 8.4 / 10

1997 / Action, Adventure / 134 min

Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a...

Tales from Earthsea (2006)

IMDb 6.3 / 10

2006 / Adventure, Animation / 115 min

Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that people...

Monster (2023)

2023 / 125mins

Name

Yūko Tanaka

Height

5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)

Born

27 July 1961, Fukuoka, Japan

Spouses

Toshiyuki Nishida (1991–present)

Children

2 children, names not publicly known

Parents

Yoshiko Tanaka, Toshiro Tanaka

Estimated Net Worth

$10 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2024	Movie The Real You Why had a mother who seemed happy desired to end her own life? Desperate to uncover his mother’s true intentions,...	Akiko Ishikawa	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2023	Movie Monster After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion...	Makiko Fushimi	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2022	Movie Thousand and One Nights Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to return. She lives alone in...	Tomiko Wakamatsu	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2022	TV Love with a Case Detective Suzunosuke Shikahama is currently suspended from work after a screw up. He gets together with Haruhi Mabuchi from the...	Azuki Koarai	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2021	Movie Gift of Fire Towards the end of WWII, the Navy gave the Kyoto University's physics lab the secret of a bomb that makes...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2020	Movie Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone In 1964, Momoko came by herself to Tokyo from her hometown. She met Shūzō and married him. They raised two...	Momoko Hidaka	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2019	Movie One Night A family reunites after 15 years. They each have a story to tell as they have not forgotten what happened...	Koharu Inamura	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2019	Movie The Island of Cats Daikichi is a 70-year-old man and lives on a small island. Since his wife died, he has lived with his...	Yoshie	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2018	Movie Haruko's Doll In the early days of the Showa era in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture a newborn baby is abandoned with a doll...	Tomita Shizuko	Not rated
2018	TV anone A solitary young woman and a lonely widow make a tentative connection as a pile of fake money brings trouble...	Anone Hayashida	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2017	TV Ties: A Miraculous Colt Based on novel "Kizuna ~ Aru Jinba no Monogatari~” by Akihiro Shimada (published from June, 2012 to December, 2012 in...	Kayoko Matsushita	Not rated
2016	Movie Through Their Eyes A compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding the welfare and ethical treatment of neglected...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2015	TV Mare Mare is an elementary school student. She lives with her family in the city, but, right before her father goes...	Okesaku Fumi	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2014	Movie Midnight Diner A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons...	Machiko Tsukaguchi	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2014	Movie Hana's Miso Soup Yasutake Shingo works as a newspaper reporter but his life is stiffled and lifeless. That changes one day when he...	Toyoka Yamaoka	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2014	Movie Homeland Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village...	Tomiko	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2013	Movie Backwater Toma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend. Witnessing his father's predilections for...	Jinko	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2013	TV Woman After the accidental death of her husband and being deemed ineligible for welfare, Koharu struggles to care for her two...	Sachi Uesugi	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2013	Movie Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to...	Kinoshita's mother	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2012	Movie Dearest The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. Eiji...	Yoko Shimakura	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2010	Movie Haru's Journey Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant...	Aiko Shimizu	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2010	TV Mother Yasuko Matsuyuki plays the part of Nao Suzuhara, an elementary school teacher. When she realizes that one of the female...	Mochizuki Hana	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2010	TV The Firmament of the Pleiades Two young men looking for a better life enter the royal palace in the midst of a tumultuous political era...	Empress Dowager Cixi	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2008	Movie The Homeless Student Based on an autobiography by Hiroshi Tamura, the film follows story of the author's experience of homelessness when this father...	Michiyo Kawai	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2008	Movie Bōshi	Setsu Takemoto	Not rated
2006	TV Tokyo Tower ~ Okan and me, sometimes, Oton (SP version) Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, the gentle coming-of-age drama Tokyo Tower - Mom and Me...	Nakagawa Eiko	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2006	Movie Tales from Earthsea Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more...	Cob (voice)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2005	Movie The Milkwoman Minako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk door to door....	Minako Oba	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2005	Movie The Buried Forest Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2005	Movie The Buried Forest Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by...	Machi's mother	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2005	Movie Hibi Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She does remarkable job...	Kiyoko Koyama	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2004	TV Wakaba The story is about a young woman who becomes a landscape gardener following her father's wishes. Wakaba, born and brought...	Unknown character	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2002	Movie The Bleep Brothers Tatsuo and Ikuo have been raised by hard-working parents who run a funeral home. For relief, they practice games of...	Toyoko	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2001	Movie The Firefly Shūji Yamaoka was a suicide pilot during the war who somehow survived Japan's surrender. After decades of working as a...	Tomoko Yamaoka	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2000	Movie The Whispered City Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with...	Fukuko	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1999	Movie The Exam Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grade school entrance examinations, but he...	ToshieTogashi	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1999	Movie Osaka Story Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without...	Shimotsuki, Harumi	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1997	Movie Princess Mononoke Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the...	Eboshi Gozen (voice)	TMDB 8.3 / 10
1996	Movie The Rainbow Seeker A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose...	Yaeko Tonari	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1996	TV Terigaki The drama depicts the love-hate and conflict between two men and a woman who meet after a fall at a...	Unknown character	Not rated
1993	TV Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi Through the lives of people aging in a seaside retirement home, the drama depicts the aging process that comes to...	Unknown character	Not rated
1993	Movie Wild Geese In the 39th year of Meiji, a Yucheng, who had lived in poverty since childhood, lived in a house near...	Unknown character	Not rated
1991	Movie Ghost Story: Flower House An eerie statue of the Kannon shedding tears in an old Western-style house. Fifty years of the strange lives of...	Unknown character	Not rated
1990	TV As If In Flight Historical drama about the life of Saigō Takamori and his involvement with the Meiji Restoration.	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1988	Movie Wuthering Heights Young orphan Onimaru is adopted by the wealthy Yamabe family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new...	Kinu	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1987	Movie Children on the Island The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between...	Hisako Oishi	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1985	Movie Demon Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life...	Keiko	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1985	Movie Capone Cries a Lot Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and...	Kozome Takonoya	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1983	TV Oshin Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from April 4, 1983 to March 31,...	Oshin (16 to 46 years old)	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1983	Movie Amagi Pass Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when...	Hana Otsuka, prostitute	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1982	Movie Tora-san, the Expert Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a...	Keiko	TMDB 8.7 / 10
1982	Movie The Rape Yahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the logistics of the police, hospital,...	Michiko Yahagi	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1981	Movie Fifth Movement When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1981	TV Precious Moments In a red-light district, Nemoto Norio (Shibata Kyohei) is indiscriminately soliciting passersby. "Would you mind taking part in a survey?...	Unknown character	Not rated
1981	Movie Edo Porn The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in...	Oei	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1981	Movie Eijanaika The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867...	Omatsu	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1980	TV Tennō no Ryōriban A biographical series about Tokuzō Akiyama, who served as the imperial cook, from his youth until he became the chief...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1979	Movie Daddy Long Legs An orphan girl receives a scholarship for a prestigious school from an anonymous benefactor who she refers to as Daddy...	ジュディ	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1979	TV Sister Ma A serialized television series, aired in 1979, based on Hasegawa Machiko's "Sazae-san Uchiakebanashi" (Sazae-san Confessions), which depicts the true vibrant...	Isono Machiko	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2021	TV Blade Runner: Black Lotus Los Angeles 2032. A young woman wakes up with no memories, and possessing deadly skills. The only clues to her...	Motion Actor Crew	TMDB 7.1 / 10

The Real You

2024 / TMDB 7.4

Monster

2023 / TMDB 7.9

Thousand and One Nights

2022 / TMDB 6.0

Gift of Fire

2021 / TMDB 8.2

Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone

2020 / TMDB 7.3

One Night

2019 / TMDB 7.2

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Has Yūko Tanaka won any awards?

When did Yūko Tanaka start her acting career?

What is Yūko Tanaka's acting style like?

Is Yūko Tanaka involved in television as well?

What is Yūko Tanaka's estimated net worth?

What notable roles has Yūko Tanaka played?

Has Yūko Tanaka worked with any famous directors?