Misa Shimizu

Awards and nominations

• 1991, won Awards of the Japanese Academy for 'Newcomer of the Year' for Isam sozoku, Bakayaro! 3: Henna Yatsura and Inamura Jane
• 1992, won Hochi Film Awards for ‘Best Actress’ for Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t, Future Memories: Last Christmas and Okoge
• 1992, won Nikkan Sports Film Awards for ‘Best New Talent’ for Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t, Future Memories: Last Christmas and Okoge
• 1993, won Yokohama Film Festival ‘Festival Prize’ for ‘Best Supporting Actress’ for Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t, Future Memories: Last Christmas and Okoge
• 1993, won Japanese Professional Movie Awards for Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t
• 1993, nominated for Japanese Academy Award for 'Best Supporting Actress' for Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t
• 1998, nominated for Japanese Academy Award for 'Best Actress’ for The Eel

  Filmography

• Shōnan Bakusōzoku
• Inamura Jane
• Baka Yarō! 3: Henna Yatsura
• Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
• Okoge
• Home Work
• "47 Ronin" Hori
• Chūshingura Shijūshichi-nin no Shikaku
• Gerende ga Tokeru Hodo Koi Shitai
• Shall We Dance as Natsuko
• Ningen Isu
• The Eel : Shimizu shot to worldwide fame at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival where this film won the Palme d'Or. For her role in this film, Shimizu was nominated for the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actress.
• Zakurokan
• Gimu to Engi
• Dr. Akagi
• Atsumono
• Kyū no Ichi Kinyūdō
• Warm Water Under a Red Bridge : Shimizu plays a woman with a rather bountiful problem—she fills up with water and the only way to get rid of it, is to make love... Entered into the Official Selection of the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
• The Sea is Watching : About samurai-era girls in a small seaside town brothel. Shimizu plays the slightly older, diffident Kikuno, a big sister to the younger girls in the house. Kimuno has two regular customers—an abusive middle-aged yakuza and a tender elderly widower who asks her to move in with him—but she weaves her own mysterious and forlorn story. Screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, directed by Kei Kumai.
• Paper Moon Affair : Shimizu stars as Keiko, an enigmatic Japanese beauty, married to a domineering Chinese husband, forced to find herself while lost in a small town in the remote Pacific Northwest.
• Ubume no Natsu
• Nijūni-sai no Wakare: Lycoris Hamizu Hanamizu Monogatari
• "Umikaze ni fukarete"
• The Unbroken "Shizumanu Taiyō"
• Rain Fall
• The Harimaya Bridge
• Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
• Ren'ai gikyoku: Watashi to koi ni ochitekudasai, Akiko Yazima
• Matataki
• Box!
• Shoujotachi no rashinban
• Tidy Up , Moe
• Little Love Song

  TV series

• Ude ni oboe ari Yoshikame
• Shinjitsu ichiro Shizuko
• Namida tataete bishô seyo: Meiji no musuko, Shimada Seijiro
• Kimi ga jinsei no toki Kana Usami
• Hotaru no yado Fuyuko
• Tokugawa Yoshinobu Oyoshi
• Rakuen eno hashi Shinji's elder sister
• 29-sai no Yūutsu : played 29-year-old Kudo, an owner of a lesbian bar.
• Kokubetsu Kazue Kosaka
• Yasashii jikan Inoue Mikako
• Fūrin Kazan : played Sanada Yukitaka's wife Shinome.
• Sonotoki made sayonara
• Hi to shio
• Sonotoki made sayonara
• Ichinenhan Mate : played on the BS-TBS award winning TV movie.
• Tokyo Control