Yōko Minamida

Yōko Minamida (南田 洋子) 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. She died in Tokyo.

Selected filmography
Her filmography includes 140 films.


 * 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) - Otama
 * Bara ikutabika (1955) - Mitsuko Matsushima
 * Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (1955) - Hung-tao
 * Sara no hana no toge (1955) - Toshiko Takenaka
 * Haha naki ko (1955) - Tomiko
 * Tokyo baka odori (1956)
 * Season of the Sun (1956) - 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)
 * 22 sai no wakare - Lycoris: Ha mizu hana mizu monogatari (2006) - (final film role)

Television

 * Suna no Shiro (1997) -- Aya Iwaki