Sachiko Murase

was a Japanese stage and film actress. She appeared in about 90 films between 1927 and 1991, often under the direction of Hiroshi Shimizu and Keisuke Kinoshita, and received numerous awards for her stage and film performances.

Biography

Sachiko Murase was born Sada Matsui in Honjo Ward, Tokyo. A graduate from Tokyo Prefectural Second Girls' High School, she joined the Tsukiji Shogekijo theatre in 1925. At the age of nineteen she became a stage actress, associated with Japan's leftist avant-garde. Murase gave her film debut in 1927 and entered the Shochiku film studio four years later. Together with her husband Kihachi Kitamura, she formed the Geijutsu Shogekijo theatre in 1937. In 1944, the year following the dissolution of Geijutsu Shogekijo, she was one of the founding members of the Haiyuza Theatre Company together with Koreya Senda, Eijirō Tōno, Chieko Higashiyama, Eitarō Ozawa and others. Since the mid-1950s, she also regularly appeared on television. She was the oldest active actress of Shingeki (Japanese modern realist) theatre in her lifetime.

Selected filmography

• (1930)
• (1930)
• (1931)
• (1931) – Ayako Kirihara
• (1932) – Mitsuko, reporter
• (1932)
• (1932) – Ayako Kirihara
• (1933)
• (1933)
• A Woman Crying in Spring (1933) – Oaki
• (1933)
• (1933)
• (1934)
• The Boss’s Son at College (1934) – Fumiko
• (1935) – Yoshiko
• (1935)
• (1936) – Namie – stepdaughter
• (1938) – Mrs. Hayakawa
• Sincerity (1939) – Mrs. Asada
• (1942) – Sakai's wife
• (1942) – Sakai's Wife
• (1942)
• Port of Flowers (1943) – O-yuki
• Marriage – Fujie Sugawara
• Spring Awakens (1947) – Masa Hirobe
• Apostasy (1948) – Inoko's wife
• Here's to the Young Lady (1949) – Proprietress of the bar
• (1949) – Yasuko
• A Broken Drum (1949) – Kuniko
• The Angry Street (1950) – Sudō's mother
• (1950)
• (1950)
• (1951) – Mihiko
• (1951)
• (1951) – Sakiko Kodama
• (1952)
• Carmen's Pure Love (1952)
• (1952) – Doctor
• (1953) – Itsuko, Natsuko's aunt
• (1953) – Setsuko's mother
• (1953) – Madame
• (1953) – Masako
• (1953)
• (1954) – Shizuko Matsuo
• (1955) – Aoshima's mother
• A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love (1955) – Junko Matsushima
• Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (1955) – Chengfei (uncredited)
• (1955) – Motoko
• (1955) – Landlady
• (1955) – Sei Komatsu
• (1955) – Satoko Kitahara
• (1955)
• RyÅ«ri no Kishi (1956) – Uta, Chiho's grand mother
• (1956) – Mineko Iizuka
• (1956) – Teruko Hisamoto
• (1956) – Atsuko
• (1956)
• (1957)
• (1957)
• Kisses (1957) – Kikyoko Shirakawa
• (1958) – Takako Sakō
• (1958) – Toshiko
• (1959)
• (1959) – Naoko, Shinobu's mother
• (1959)
• (1959) – Shizuko, Nogi's wife
• A False Student (1960) – Hikoichi's mother
• (1961)
• (1962) – Tsuya
• (1962)
• (1962) – Hatsu Shiozaki
• (1962) – Atsuko Yamagata
• Zatoichi the Fugitive (1963) – Maki
• (1963) – Setsu Noro
• (1964) – Fujiko Arima
• (1964) – Matsuyo Hidaka
• Zatoichi and the Doomed Man (1965) – Shimazo's wife
• The School of Spies (1966) – Kikuno Miyoshi
• The Kii River (1966) – Yasu
• (1966)
• Lost Spring (1967) – Taza Murakoshi
• Love for an Idiot (1967) – Sumie
• The Snow Woman (1968) – Soyo
• (1970)
• (1978)
• (1980) – Fusae Kawazu (YÅ«ko's mother)
• Station (1981) – Ryosuke's mother
• (1983)
• A Promise (1986) – Tatsu, Ryōsaku's wife
• Rhapsody in August (1991) – Kane

Awards and honours (selected)

• 1965: Ministry of Education's Outstanding Performance prize
• 1986: Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for A Promise
• 1989: Kinokuniya Theatre Award for Arifuku shijin
• 1990: Order of the Sacred Treasure, 4th Class
• 1991: Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Actress for Rhapsody in August

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