Biography
Born in Osaka in 1955. Tanaka won numerous awards for her leading role in the 1983 film Amagi Pass, including Best Actress Award at the Montreal World Film Festival, Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actress, Kinema Junpo Award for Best Actress, and Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress. In the same year, she portrayed the adult protagonist in the NHK drama serials Oshin which achieved record-breaking ratings and gained worldwide popularity. In 1997, she voiced Lady Eboshi for Miyazaki Hayao's Princess Mononoke. In 2005, her performance in The Milkwoman and Hi-bi: Days of Fire won her Kinema Junpo Award for Best Actress, Hochi Film Award for Best Actress, and Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress. She has also appeared numerous TV dramas including Mother, Woman, Anone, and Love with a Case written by Sakamoto Yuji.
Festival de Cannes
Actress
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2018 |
Anone |
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Episode 10 (E10) |
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Episode 9 (E09) |
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Episode 8 (E08) |
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more episodes (7) | ||
2015 |
Mare |
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2013 |
Woman |
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2010 |
Mother |
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Zutto aishiteru (E11) |
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Hitome aitai (E10) |
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Hikisaka reru futari (E09) |
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more episodes (6) | ||
The Firmament of the Pleiades |
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2006 |
The Daughter of a Public Bath Owner!? |
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2004 |
Wakaba |
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1990 |
Tobuga gotoku |
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1983 |
Ošin |
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1980 |
Tennó no rjóriban |
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1979 |
Má-néčan |
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2005 |
Nepos Napos (series) |