Asano Naganori
Yūko made her film debut in 1976 in "Hoshi to Arashi" and in 1979 appeared in "Ah! Nomugi Toge". She was cast in the 1983 Toho adaptation of the novel "The Makioka Sisters". In 1991 the Japan Academy recognized her as the Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for portraying Noriko Kai in the 1989 Toho film "Hana no Furu Gogo" (or "Afternoon when Flowers Fell"). She played Aguri (later Yōzei-in), the wife of Asano Naganori, in the 1994 "Chūshingura Shijū-shichinin no Shikaku".