Mitsuko Mito

Biography

Mitsuko Mito (水戸光子 Mito Mitsuko, 23 March 1919 – 5 April 1981) was a Japanese actress. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1935 and 1973. Her real name was Mitsuko Sekiba. In 1934, the year after she dropped out of Okazaki Municipal Girls' High School (now Aichi Prefectural Okazaki Kita High School), she moved from the Manpei Hotel in Nagoya to the Manpei Hotel in Atami where she was working. There, she was scouted by Shochiku director Isaburo Inoue, who happened to be staying at the hotel, and joined the Shochiku Kamata Studios . In 1945, she married actor Morikawa Shin. She retired from acting and had a child, but divorced the following year. She returned to the big screen early in Omitsu no Endan, released in October of the same year. While she played cheerful, down-to-earth characters, after leaving Shochiku she also broadened her acting range by taking on dirty roles in films such as Woman, Osho, Outcome of War, Ugetsu Monogatari, and An Inn at Osaka. She died of a liver tumor on April 5, 1981 at the age of 62.

Filmografi

Ore no namida wa amakunai1960 · Moon Over the Ruins1937 · KeikoUgetsu1953 · OhamaStudio wa ōsawagi1956 · The Sea of Beauty1950 · Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island1956 · Oko (uncredited)Asashio yushio1956 · 8:13 PM1956 · Doro ni mamirete1951 · The Scarlet Bat1950 · The End of the War1950 · Zoku tenshi mo otoshi goro1956 · Zoku suna-e jubaku: Yukijorō1953 · Tenshi mo otoshi goro1956 · Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto1954 · OkoAvalanche1952 · Tokie KijimaThe Golden Demon1954 · AkagashiA Full Life1962 · Harumi's mother-in-lawThree Mothers1949 · Tsuma mo koisu1950 · Modern Gentleman1964 · Suna-e jubaku1953 · New Tale of Genji: Shizuka and Yoshitsune1956 · Doburoku no Tatsu1949 ·