is a Japanese actress. She was born in Otaru, Hokkaidō, and raised in Nagoya. She was married to director Juzo Itami from 1969 until his death in 1997, and regularly starred in his films.

She has been nominated for eight Best Actress Japanese Academy Awards, winning in 1988 for her role in A Taxing Woman.

Selected filmography

Film Lost Sex (1966) Sing a Song of Sex (1967) The Funeral (1984) Tampopo (1985) A Taxing Woman (1987) A Taxing Woman's Return (1988) Sweet Home (1989) as Akiko Hayakawa A-Ge-Man: Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990) Minbo (1992) Daibyonin (1993) Supermarket Woman (1996) Woman in Witness Protection (1997) Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997) Hankyu Railways: A 15-Minute Miracle (2011) as Tokie Hagiwara Isoroku (2011) (2019) Stand by Me Doraemon 2 (2020) It's a Flickering Life (2021) as Yoshiko BL Metamorphosis (2022) as Yuki Ichinoi Haw (2022)

Television Uchi no Ko ni Kagitte... (1984) Mōri Motonari (1997), Tae Manten (2002–03) Tenchijin (2009), narrator Amachan (2013) Botchan (2016) Hiyokko (2017), Suzuko In This Corner of the World (2018), Ito Morita Hiyokko 2 (2019), Suzuko House of Ninjas (2024), Taki Tawara

Honours Medal with Purple Ribbon (2014) Kinuyo Tanaka Award (2022) Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2022)

References

External links

Nobuko Miyamoto's JMDb Listing (in Japanese)