Yuko Tanaka is a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She has won several acting awards during a long career working in both film and television after she graduated from Meiji University.

KNOWN FOR

Oshin
1983
Princess Mononoke
1997
Mare
2015
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
2022
Monster
2023
Wakaba
2004
Mother
2010
Sister Ma
1979
As If In Flight
1990
Tales from Earthsea
2006
Woman
2013
The Firmament of the Pleiades
2010

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
62
Crew
1
2026
Children Untold
as Kei Yamai · unreleased
2024
The Real You
as Akiko Ishikawa
2023
Monster
as Makiko Fushimi
2022
Thousand and One Nights
as Tomiko Wakamatsu
2022
Love with a Case
as Azuki Koarai
2021
Gift of Fire
2020
Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone
as Momoko Hidaka
2019
The Island of Cats
as Yoshie
2019
One Night
as Koharu Inamura
2018
Haruko's Doll
as Tomita Shizuko
2018
anone
as Anone Hayashida
2017
Ties: A Miraculous Colt
as Kayoko Matsushita
2016
Through Their Eyes
2015
Mare
as Okesaku Fumi
2014
Homeland
as Tomiko
2014
Hana's Miso Soup
as Toyoka Yamaoka
2014
Midnight Diner
as Machiko Tsukaguchi
2013
Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story
as Kinoshita's mother
2013
Backwater
as Jinko
2013
Woman
as Sachi Uesugi
2012
Dearest
as Yoko Shimakura
2010
Haru's Journey
as Aiko Shimizu
2010
The Firmament of the Pleiades
as Empress Dowager Cixi
2010
Mother
as Mochizuki Hana
2008
Bōshi
as Setsu Takemoto
2008
The Homeless Student
as Michiyo Kawai
2006
Tales from Earthsea
as Cob (voice)
2006
Tokyo Tower ~ Okan and me, sometimes, Oton (SP version)
as Nakagawa Eiko
2005
The Buried Forest
2005
The Milkwoman
as Minako Oba
2005
Hibi
as Kiyoko Koyama
2005
The Buried Forest
as Machi's mother
2004
Wakaba
2002
The Bleep Brothers
as Toyoko
2001
The Firefly
as Tomoko Yamaoka
2000
The Whispered City
as Fukuko
1999
The Exam
as ToshieTogashi
1999
Osaka Story
as Shimotsuki, Harumi
1997
Princess Mononoke
as Eboshi Gozen (voice)
1996
The Rainbow Seeker
as Yaeko Tonari
1996
Terigaki
1993
Wild Geese
1993
Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi
1991
Ghost Story: Flower House
1990
As If In Flight
1989
Still Life - Kiriko and Marie's Criminal Cohabitation Life
as Kiriko
1988
Wuthering Heights
as Kinu
1987
Children on the Island
as Hisako Oishi
1985
Demon
as Keiko
1985
Capone Cries a Lot
as Kozome Takonoya
1985
Shiawase no Kuni: Aoi Tori Patapata?
as Hanako
1983
Amagi Pass
as Hana Otsuka, prostitute
1983
Oshin
as Oshin (16 to 46 years old)
1982
Tora-san, the Expert
as 螢子
1982
The Rape
as Michiko Yahagi
1981
Edo Porn
as Oei
1981
Fifth Movement
1981
Eijanaika
as Omatsu
1981
Precious Moments
1980
Tennō no Ryōriban
1979
Daddy Long Legs
as ジュディ
1979
Sister Ma
as Isono Machiko