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Shizuko Hoshi is an American actress and theatre director living in Southern California. She is a graduate of Tokyo Women's College and University of Southern California. She was married to actor Mako Iwamatsu, the founding Artistic Director of East West Players in Los Angeles, and worked closely with the Asian American theatre company from 1965 to 1989.
While at East West Players, she received many awards for performance, directing and choreography, including a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Featured Performance in Wakako Yamauchi's And the Soul Shall Dance, as well as Drama-Logue Awards for Best Director for Hokusai Sketchbooks, Asa ga Kimashita, A Chorus Line and Mishima. Her film credits include Memoirs of a Geisha, Come See the Paradise and M. Butterfly.
She appeared in the indie film, Charlotte Sometimes and narrated the Academy Award winning Live Action Short Film, Visas and Virtue. She has also appeared on television, in such shows as Chicago Hope and M*A*S*H*. In 1995, Hoshi co-directed the English language premiere of the Japanese comedy The Fall Guy off-Broadway in New York City.
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Shizuko Hoshi
While at East West Players, she received many awards for performance, directing and choreography, including a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Featured Performance in Wakako Yamauchi's And the Soul Shall Dance, as well as Drama-Logue Awards for Best Director for Hokusai Sketchbooks, Asa ga Kimashita, A Chorus Line and Mishima. Her film credits include Memoirs of a Geisha, Come See the Paradise and M. Butterfly.
She appeared in the indie film, Charlotte Sometimes and narrated the Academy Award winning Live Action Short Film, Visas and Virtue. She has also appeared on television, in such shows as Chicago Hope and M*A*S*H*. In 1995, Hoshi co-directed the English language premiere of the Japanese comedy The Fall Guy off-Broadway in New York City.
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Filmography of Shizuko Hoshi (9 films)
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Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
, 2h25Directed by Rob Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, Suzuka Ōgo, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh, Samantha Futerman
Roles Sayuri Narration (voice)
Rating73%
The film tells the story of Chiyo Sakamoto, a poor Japanese girl who has been sold along with her older sister Satsu into a life of servitude by her parents. Chiyo is taken in by the proprietress of a geisha house, Mother, but Satsu is rejected and is sold to another house in the "pleasure district" of the Hanamachi. At the okiya, she meets another young girl named Pumpkin, and also has numerous unpleasant run-ins with the okiya's senior geisha Hatsumomo.
Charlotte Sometimes (2002)
, 1h25Directed by Eric Byler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Eugenia Yuan, Jacqueline Kim, Shizuko Hoshi
Roles Aunt
Rating62%
Nominated for two 2003 Independent Spirit Awards, and hailed by Roger Ebert as a breakthrough for Asian American filmmakers, Charlotte Sometimes is a "mysterious and erotic" romance exploring the kinds of love for which there are no names or clear arrangements.
Visas and Virtue (1997)
, 26minutesDirected by Chris Tashima
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films based on plays
Actors Diana Georger, Chris Tashima, Shizuko Hoshi
Roles Narrator (Elderly Mrs. Sugihara)
Rating65%
Haunted by the sight of hundreds of Jewish refugees outside the consulate gates, a Japanese diplomat and his wife, stationed in Kaunas, Lithuania, at the beginning of World War II, must decide how much they are willing to risk. Inspired by a true story, Visas and Virtue explores the moral and professional dilemmas that Consul General Chiune “Sempo” Sugihara faces in making a life or death decision: defy his own government’s direct orders and risk his career, by issuing life-saving transit visas, or obey orders and turn his back on humanity.
M. Butterfly (1993)
, 1h41Directed by David Cronenberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, L'usurpation d'identité, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Political films, Films based on plays, Escroquerie, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian William Richardson, Vernon Dobtcheff, Shizuko Hoshi
Roles Comrade Chin
Rating66%
Loosely based on true events (see Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu), the film concerns René Gallimard (Jeremy Irons), a French diplomat assigned to Beijing, China in the 1960s. He becomes infatuated with a Chinese opera performer, Song Liling (John Lone), who spies on him for the Government of the People's Republic of China.
Come See the Paradise (1990)
, 2h18Directed by Alan Parker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Prison films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi, Caroline Junko King, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Roles Mrs. Kawamura
Rating66%
In 1936, Jack McGurn (Quaid) is a motion picture projectionist, involved in a campaign of harassment against non-union theaters in New York City. One such attack turns fatal, as one of his fellow union members starts a fire. McGurn's boss, knowing that the feelings of guilt would likely cause Jack to go to the police, urges him to leave the area. Jack moves to Los Angeles where his brother Gerry lives. Jack's role as a "sweatshop lawyer" strains an already-rocky relationship with Gerry who is willing to have any job, barely keeping his family afloat during the Great Depression.
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (1990)
, 1h40Directed by Peter Werner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Actors Pat Morita, Judd Nelson, Max von Sydow, Mako Iwamatsu, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono
Roles Nurse Yama
Rating60%
The Wash (1988)
Directed by Michael Toshiyuki Uno
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Patti Yasutake, Shizuko Hoshi, Nobu McCarthy, Mako Iwamatsu, Sab Shimono, Takayo Fischer
Roles Kiyoko
Rating72%
Sylvester (1985)
, 1h44Directed by Tim Hunter
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, Films about horses
Actors Richard Farnsworth, Melissa Gilbert, Michael Schoeffling, Constance Towers, Arliss Howard, Shizuko Hoshi
Rating61%
A young woman called Charlie cares for a captured wild horse and helps turn him into a champion jumper.
Baby Sister (1983)
, 1h40Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ted Wass, Phoebe Cates, Pamela Bellwood, Efrem Zimbalist II, Thomas F. Duffy, Jill Jacobson
Roles Mrs. Chang
Rating55%
Annie Burroughs is a wild 19-year-old teenager who has just dropped out of college. Fearing to face her father, she packs her stuff and moves in with her older sister Marsha, who runs her own gallery in Los Angeles. Marsha is in a relationship with David Mitchell, a 31-year-old doctor who dreams of having his own private practice. Although they are very happy together, David isn't glad Marsha is spending so much time on work. Meanwhile, Annie immediately settles in the big city, landing a job as a receptionist at David's clinic. Although at first it is innocent and playful, Annie and David start flirting with each other.