is a Japanese stage actress. Shiraishi became involved in the Angura ("underground") theater movement in Japan in the early 1960s, as the star performer in a theater troupe called the Waseda Little Theatre, led by director Tadashi Suzuki. In Shiraishi, Suzuki found an actress whose physical talents could capture his theories about Japanese stage performance. Her first film role was as Oba in Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1973). She is the narrator in the 1992 film of Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex directed by Julie Taymor.
Filmography Films DateTitleRoleNotesRef.1973Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41Oba1977Akuma no Temariuta1983The Makioka Sisters1992Oedipus Rexnarrator2004Umizaru2005Yamato2008Fine, Totally Fine2020Labyrinth of Cinema 2022Thousand and One Nights 2023Kumo to Saru no KazokuRohan at the Louvre2025ScarletOld woman (voice) A Sower of Seeds 5
Television DateTitleRoleNotesRef.2004Dark Tales of JapanTV movie2017HiyokkoTomi TachibanaAsadora2019IdatenWakako MishimaTaiga drama2023The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko HouseKiyo's grandmother
Honours Medal with Purple Ribbon (2005) Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2012)
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