{{Short description|Japanese actress (1933–2009)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2012}} {{Infobox person | name = Yōko Minamida | image = Yoko_Minamida_540105_Scan10006.JPG | alt = | caption = Minamida in 1954 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|3|1}} | birth_place = Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan | death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|10|19|1933|3|1}} | death_place = Japan | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1952–2006 | spouse = {{marriage|Hiroyuki Nagato|1961|2009}} }}
{{nihongo|'''Yōko Minamida'''|南田 洋子|''Minamida Yōko''| March 1, 1933 – October 21, 2009}}<ref>(October 21, 2009) [http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=466326 'Season of the Sun' actress Yoko Minamida dies at 76.]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Kyodo News, accessed October 21, 2009.</ref> was a Japanese actress. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in November 2008, and a television documentary was made about her condition and the efforts of her husband, actor Hiroyuki Nagato, to care for her.<ref>{{cite web|last=Brasor|first=Philip|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/05/10/national/media-national/a-death-from-human-kindness | title=A death from human kindness |publisher=Japan Times|date= May 10, 2009}}</ref> She died in Tokyo.
== Selected filmography == Her filmography includes 140 films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0316230.htm |access-date=May 27, 2009|title=Minimida Yōko|author=Y. Nomura|publisher=Japan Movie Database}}</ref> {{Div col}} * ''Himitsu'' (1952) - Eiko * ''Jūdai no yūwaku'' (1953) - Fusae Nishikawa * ''Zoku Jûdai no seiten'' (1953) - Akiko Yasutomi * ''Zoku zoku Jûdai no seiten'' (1953) - Setsuko Azabu * ''Yonin no haha'' (1954) * ''Kimimachi-bune'' (1954) - Kyôko Tazaki * ''The Crucified Lovers'' (1954)<ref name="variety"/> - Otama * ''Bara ikutabika'' (1955) - Mitsuko Matsushima * ''Princess Yang Kwei-Fei'' (1955)<ref name="variety">{{cite web|url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010614/?categoryId=25&cs=1|title=Yoko Minamida dies at 76|date=October 29, 2009|access-date=26 January 2013|last=Saperstein|first=Pat}}</ref> - Hung-tao * ''Sara no hana no toge'' (1955) - Toshiko Takenaka * ''Haha naki ko'' (1955) - Tomiko * ''Tokyo baka odori'' (1956) * ''Season of the Sun'' (1956)<ref name="variety"/> - Eiko Takeda * ''Waga machi'' (1956) * ''Tonari no yome'' (1956) * ''Ueru tamashii'' (1956) - Reiko Shiba * ''Hungry Soul, Part II'' (1956) - Reiko Shiba * ''Tange Sazen: Kenun no maki'' (1956) * ''Otemba san'nin shimai: Odoru taiyô'' (1957) * ''Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate'' (1957) - Koharu, the prostitute * ''Bitoku no yoromeki'' (1957) - Woman looks like an actress * ''Shori-sha'' (1957) * ''Kokoro to nikutai no tabi'' (1958) - Naomi Inamura * ''Nusumareta yokujô'' (1958) - Chidori Yamamura * ''Ginza no sabaku'' (1958) - Rika Kusunoki * ''Kagenaki koe'' (1958) - Asako Takahashi * ''Shî no kâbe no dâsshutsû'' (1958) * ''Onna o wasurero'' (1959) - Yukie * ''Kyo ni ikiru'' (1959) * ''Sekai o kakeru koi'' (1959) - Kaoru Nonomura * ''Yuganda tsuki'' (1959) - Namiko Eda * ''Nangoku Tosa o ato ni shite'' (1959) - Hamako * ''Jigoku no magarikado'' (1959) - Takako * ''Nirenjû no tetsu'' (1959) * ''Kizû tsukeru yajû'' (1959) * ''Kizû darakê no ôkite'' (1960) * ''Yakuza no uta'' (1960) - Yumi Kitano * ''Wataridori itsu mata kaeru'' * ''Chizu no naimachi'' (1960) * ''Umi no joji ni kakero'' (1960) - Yuriko Kwamura * ''Kenju burai-chō Asunaki Otoko'' (1960) - Sumi * ''Ippiki ôkami'' (1960) * ''Daisogen no wataridori'' (1960) * ''Pigs and Battleships'' (1961) - Katsuyo * ''Tokyo naito'' (1961) * ''Hayauchi yarô'' (1961) - Dancer Jane * ''Rokudenashi kagyo'' (1961) * ''Sandanju no otoko'' (1961) * ''Akai kôya'' (1961) - Sakie Yazaki * ''Kachan umi ga shitteru yo'' (1961) * ''Yôjinbo kagyô'' (1961) * ''Nosappu no jô'' (1961) * ''Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi'' (1962) - Emi Iwasaki * ''Moeru minamijûjisei'' (1962) - Akemi * ''Wataridori kokyô e kaeru'' (1962) - Misato Matsuyama * ''Ore ni kaketa yatsura'' (1962) * ''Garasu no Jonî: Yajû no yô ni miete'' (1962) - Yumi * ''Aoi sanmyaku'' (1963) - Umetaro * ''Samurai no ko'' (1963) * ''Taiyo e no dasshutsu'' (1963) * ''Izu no odoriko'' (1963) - Osaki * ''Kiriko no tango'' (1963) - Tae * ''Kyuchan katana o nuite'' (1963) * ''Keirin shônin gyôjyôki'' (1963) - Monoko Ban * ''Okashina yatsu'' (1963) - Fujiko, Shuntô * ''Ôre no senaka ni higa atarô'' (1963) * ''Zoku Haikei Tenno Heika Sama'' (1964) - Miri * ''Jakoman to Tetsu'' (1964) * ''Narazumono'' (1964) * ''Nihon kyôkaku-den'' (1964) - Kumeji * ''Korosareta onna'' (1964) * ''Kawachi zoro: kenja jamo'' (1964) * ''Kawachi zoro: doke chichu'' (1964) * ''Bakuto'' (1964) * ''Nihon Kyokaku-den: naniwa-hen'' (1965) * ''Irezumi'' (1965) * ''Nihon Kyokaku-den: kanto-hen'' (1965) * ''Kawachi zoro: abare cho'' (1965) * ''Ankoku gai jingi'' (1965) * ''Otoko no shôbu'' (1966) * ''Jigoku no okite ni asu wa nai'' (1966) - Akemi * ''Chieko-sho'' (1967) - Kazuko * ''Nihon kyokaku-den: kirikomi'' (1967) * ''Kigeki meoto zenzai'' (1968) * ''Nihon zan kyôsen'' (1969) * ''Nihon zankyô-den'' (1969) * ''Bakuto hyakunin - ninkyodo'' (1969) * ''Hiko shonen: Wakamono no toride'' (1970) - Fusa Morokoshi * ''Junko intai kinen eiga: Kantô hizakura ikka'' (1972) - Maid * ''Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no mon'' (1974) * ''Hana no kô-ni trio: Hatsukoi jidai'' (1975) - Keiko Yazawa * ''Nihon no jingi'' (1977) - Toyoko * ''House'' (1977) - Auntie Karei Hausu * ''Furimukeba ai'' (1978) - Tomi Oguchi * ''Mahiru nari'' (1978) * ''Zerosen moyu'' (1984) - Ine Hamada * ''Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki yuusha-tachi'' (1990) - Kiyo * ''Yuki no Concerto'' (1991) * ''Riyû'' (2004) - Kinue Ishida * ''Ghost Shout'' (2005)<ref>{{cite web|last=Schilling|first=Mark | url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ff20050112a3.htm |title=Getting into the spirit of things|publisher=Japan Times|date=January 12, 2005|access-date=26 January 2013}}</ref> * ''22 sai no wakare - Lycoris: Ha mizu hana mizu monogatari'' (2006) - (final film role) {{div col end}}
==Television== * Suna no Shiro (1997) -- Aya Iwaki
== References == {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0590940}}
{{Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actress}} {{Authority control}}
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