Masako Natsume

• Year — Title — Role — Director — Notes • 1977 — Ore no Sora (My Sky) — Masashi Matsumoto • Truck Yaro: Otoko Ippiki Momojiro The title Torakku Yaro means "truck guys" or "truck rascals"{translation required} — Masako — Norifumi Suzuki — The title Torakku Yaro means "truck guys" or "truck rascals", and the films involve two truckers and their various escapades as they travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. The plot formula is similar to the Otoko wa Tsurai yo films. Each time Momojiro falls in love with a woman (the "Madonna") and then ends up having to help her romance with another man. The stories end with Momojiro having to race his truck to meet a deadline to rejoin the couple. • 1980 — The Battle of Port Arthur — Sachi Matsuo — Toshio Masuda — A Russo-Japanese War Drama about the Siege of Port Arthur. Masako plays the role of an Imperial Japanese Army officer's girlfriend who stays in Japan. • 1981 — Masho no Natsu (The Summer of Evil Spirits) — Sode — Yukio Ninagawa • 1982 — Onimasa — Matsue Kiryuin — Hideo Gosha — It was Japan's submission to the 55th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film but was not accepted as a nominee. • Dai Nippon Teikoku (film) (The Great Japanese Empire) — Kyōko / Maria — Toshio Masuda — A WW2 drama where Masako plays two roles. A terminally ill Japanese student striving to become a painter and a Filipino woman. • Future War 198X — Laura Gain — Tomoharu Katsumata / Toshio Masuda — Voice, An animated film with Masako providing the voice for a pilot in the United States Airforce. • 1983 — Time and Tide — Mayumi / Misato — Azuma Morisaki — Jidai-ya is the name of a shop. Masako plays two roles. The wife of the shops owner who walks out on him and the customer he falls in love with because she looks like his wife. • Antarctica — Keiko Kitazawa — Koreyoshi Kurahara • Shōsetsu Yoshida Gakkō (Yoshida School) — Kazuko Asō — Shirō Moritani • The Catch — Tokiko Kohama — Shinji Sōmai • 1984 — MacArthur's Children — Komako Nakai — Masahiro Shinoda • Fireflies in the North — Narrator — Hideo Gosha — (final film role)

In 1997, Canon produced a television commercial for a copy machine, featuring her photocopied images, which offered 100 free compilations of the images in a book. Canon received 230,000 applications. Masako Natsume picture books and calendars are still popular in Japan today. In 2007, TBS broadcast a documentary on Masako's life entitled Himawari – Natsume Masako 27-nen no shōgai to haha no ai ("Sunflower: Masako Natsume, a 27-year life and a mother's love") based on the book Futari no Masako written by her mother, Sue Odate. Yagi Yūki played the part of the young Masako and Nakama Yukie portrayed her as an adult.

• Year — Award — Category — Work(s) — Result • 1981 — 4th Japan Academy Prize — Best Supporting Actress — Port Arthur • 1982 — 6th Elan d'or Awards — Newcomer of the Year — Herself • 1983 — 4th Yokohama Film Festival — Best Supporting Actress — Dai Nippon Teikoku • 25th Blue Ribbon Awards — Best Actress — Onimasa • 8th Hochi Film Award — Best Actress — The Catch and Time and Tide • 1984 — 7th Japan Academy Prize — Best Actress • 1985 — 8th Japan Academy Prize — MacArthur's Children