Biography
Hiroko Seki ( 関 弘 子), whose real name is Kanze Hiroko ( 観 世 弘 子) , born in Tokyo on July 30, 1929 and died on May 11, 2008, is a Japanese actress . Trained at the Gekidan Haiyūza theater in Tokyo, she co-founded the Gekidan Seinenza troupe in 1954. She married Hideo Kanze in 1969, a master of noh, a form of classical Japanese theater. She has performed for both television and theater, notably Noh plays and text readings. She participated in the dubbing of two animated films by Hayao Miyazaki: K...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Porco Rosso
1992
as Bâ-chan (voice)
In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the s...

Tales of a Golden Geisha
1990
The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her...

Kiki's Delivery Service
1989
as Barsa (voice)
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air co...

The Funeral
1984
as Teacher in Videotape
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three d...

Mermaid Legend
1984
as Nobu
After a woman is framed for the murder of her fisherman husband, she seeks out a bloody revenge on the corrupt businessmen responsible.

Season of the Sun
1956
The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often th...

Cell No. 8
1956
A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.

A Hole of My Own Making
1955
Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is en...

Tales of Ginza
1955
as "Bar Encore" Chaa
In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man who...

Till We Meet Again
1955
as Dressmaking Shop Clerk Teruko
Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted...

First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
1953
as Tamago (Maid)
Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a ...

Koibito-tachi no iru machi
1953
Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop, i...

Dispersed Clouds
1951
as Yoshiko Miki
Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station. Ose...