Career
In Japan, she is well known for her performance as Sakura in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series from 1969 until 1995. In addition, she has acted in many films directed by Yōji Yamada since the 1960s. She sometimes performs as a voice actress, such as "Sophie" in Howl"s Moving Castle in 2004.
Although different voice actresses usually played young and old Sophie in the foreign dubs of the film, Baisho performed both roles alone, as well as the movie"s theme song.
Her 1965 single, "Sayonara wa dance atoni", a cha-cha ballad, later had its melody inspire the 1992 song "Moonlight Densetsu", the theme song for the first four series of Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon. A cover by Mariko Takahashi would later appear in another Ghibli film, Only Yesterday.
She is the older sister of Mitsuko Baisho, who is also an actress.