# Yōko Minamida

Yōko Minamida (南田 洋子, Minamida Yōko, March 1, 1933 – October 21, 2009) 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