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Acting

Yuko Tanaka

Career: Active from 1979 to 2026, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 37
top three billing

Average score: 70/100

Highest rated: Princess Mononoke
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 14 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Yuko Tanaka Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Situational Comedy
0.7, average 2.7
Pop Culture
0.2, average 2.2
Physical Comedy
0.6, average 2.4
Contemporary Realism
3.8, average 5.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character Study 6
Japanese Drama 4
Human Connection 3
Coming-of-Age 3
Emotional Intensity 2
Historical Drama 2
Japanese Historical Drama 2
Family Saga 2
Gritty Realism 2
Psychological Depth 2
Slice-of-Life Drama 2
Philosophical Themes 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

57

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

6 titles · average score 85

Children Untold

as Kei Yamai

The Real You

as Akiko Ishikawa

Monster

85

as Makiko Fushimi

Love with a Case

TV show · as Azuki Koarai

Thousand and One Nights

as Tomiko Wakamatsu

Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone

as Momoko Hidaka

2010s

16 titles · average score 72

One Night

68

as Koharu Inamura

The Island of Cats

84

as Yoshie

anone

TV show · as Anone Hayashida

Ties: A Miraculous Colt

TV show · as Kayoko Matsushita

Mare

TV show · as Okesaku Fumi

Homeland

as Tomiko

Woman

76

TV show · as Sachi Uesugi

Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story

as Kinoshita's mother

Backwater

61

as Jinko

Dearest

61

as Yoko Shimakura

The Firmament of the Pleiades

TV show · as Empress Dowager Cixi

Haru's Journey

68

as Aiko Shimizu

2000s

12 titles · average score 62

The Homeless Student

as Michiyo Kawai

as Setsu Takemoto

Tales from Earthsea

50

as Cob (voice)

Tokyo Tower ~ Okan and me, sometimes, Oton (SP version)

TV show · as Nakagawa Eiko

Tōkyō tawā: Okan to boku to, tokidoki, oton

as Eiko Nakagawa

The Buried Forest

67

as Machi's mother

The Milkwoman

70

as Minako Oba

Hibi

as Kiyoko Koyama

Wakaba

TV show

The Bleep Brothers

as Toyoko

The Firefly

as Tomoko Yamaoka

The Whispered City

as Fukuko

1990s

7 titles · average score 86

The Exam

as ToshieTogashi

Osaka Story

as Shimotsuki, Harumi

Princess Mononoke

86

as Eboshi Gozen (voice)

The Rainbow Seeker

as Yaeko Tonari

TV show

Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi

TV show

As If In Flight

TV show

1980s

14 titles · average score 70

Still Life - Kiriko and Marie's Criminal Cohabitation Life

as Kiriko

Wuthering Heights

68

as Kinu

Children on the Island

as Hisako Oishi

Demon

72

as Keiko

Capone Cries a Lot

as Kozome Takonoya

Oshin

82

TV show · as Oshin (16 to 46 years old)

Amagi Pass

67

as Hana Otsuka, prostitute

The Rape

as Michiko Yahagi

Tora-san, the Expert

as 螢子

Edo Porn

67

as Oei

Eijanaika

65

as Omatsu

Tennō no Ryōriban

TV show

1970s

2 titles

Daddy Long Legs

as ジュディ

Sister Ma

TV show · as Isono Machiko