# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jitsuko-yoshimura
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:27:44.495Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jitsuko-yoshimura"
name: "Jitsuko Yoshimura"
slug: "jitsuko-yoshimura"
description: "Jitsuko Yoshimura  is a Japanese film and television actress. She was discovered by Shōhei Imamura as a newcomer and cast in the film Pigs and Battleships. She went on to appear in films like Imamura's The Insect Woman, Kaneto Shindō's Onibaba, for which she received the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Akira Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den. She retired from acting in 1970, but returned in 1980 and continues to work to this day."
tagline: "Actress"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/wlH7kdIzQuTwOJDLmM9Qw43uf5z.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1943-04-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.17
  momentum:             1.628678911263554
  historical:           5.655846666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0949030/"
    handle:    "nm0949030"
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%DA%A9%D9%88_%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "جیتسوکو یوشیمورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "چيتسوكو يوشيمورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitsuko_Yoshimura"
    title: "Jitsuko Yoshimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitsuko_Yoshimura"
    title: "Jitsuko Yoshimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%89%E6%9D%91%E5%AE%9F%E5%AD%90"
    title: "吉村実子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6203330"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33729"
    title: "Jitsuko Yoshimura"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump