Yōko Nogiwa

Yoko Nogiwa
野際 陽子
Yoko in 1963
Born	(1936-01-24)24 January 1936 Tsubata, Ishikawa, Japan
Died	13 June 2017(2017-06-13) (aged 81) Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupations	Actress television presenter narrator
Years active	1958–2017
Spouse	Sonny Chiba ​ ​ (m. 1973; div. 1994)​
Children	Juri Manase

Yōko Nogiwa (野際 陽子, Nogiwa Yōko, 24 January 1936 – 13 June 2017) was a Japanese actress. Her acting career spanned from 1958 until 2017.

Biography

Nogiwa was born in Toyama, Toyama, and grew up in Suginami, Tokyo from the age of three.[1] She graduated from Rikkyo University.[1]

In 1973, she married Sonny Chiba, with whom she co-starred in the TV series Key Hunter.[1] They had a daughter, Juri Manase, in 1975, who later became an actress.[1] Nogiwa and Chiba divorced in 1994.

Nogiwa died from lung cancer on 13 June 2017, at the age of 81.[1][2]

Filmography

Films

• Yakuza Deka (1970) – A singer
• Nichiren (1979)
• The Battle of Port Arthur (1980) – Shizuko Nogi
• Shaso (1989)
• Minna no Ie (2001) – Setsuko Iijima
• When Will You Return? (2017) – Tomoko Ashimura (present days)

Television

• Key Hunter (1967) - Keiko Tsugawa
• Onihei Hankachō(1975) -Omasa
• The Super Girl (1979) - Yuko Hirose
• Hideyoshi (1996) – Omaki no kata
• Trick (2000) – Satomi Yamada
• Honmamon (2001–2002)[3]
• At Home Dad [ja] (2004) – Yoshie Koshikawa
• Shinsengumi! (2004) – Kondō Fude
• Yasuragi no Sato (2017) – Ryoko Ibuka

Dubbing

• Alien (1980 Fuji TV edition) – Ripley (Sigourney Weaver)[4]

References

1. 野際陽子さん１３日に亡くなる、８１歳 [Yoko Nogiwa dies on 13th, aged 81]. Sports Hochi (in Japanese). The Hochi Shimbun. Archived from the original on 15 June 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
2. "Actress Yoko Nogiwa dies at 81 after three-year battle with cancer", The Japan Times, 13 June 2017
3. "連続テレビ小説 ほんまもん". NHK. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
4. "Alien Japanese Dubbing Complete Edition Collector's Blu-ray Box (First-Press Limited Edition) (Blu-ray)". Amazon. 5 November 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2021.

External links

• Yoko Nogiwa at IMDb
• Yoko Nogiwa at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)