Person Details

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Aliases: Mitsuko Sekiba , Мицуко Мито

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Onuma District, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

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Movie Involvements: 32

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Ugetsu
Average
8

Ugetsu

(1953) Ohama
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Average
7

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

(1956) Oko (uncredited)
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
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7
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Average
7
There Was a Father
Average
7

There Was a Father

(1942) Fumi
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
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6
Flame of My Love
Average
5

Flame of My Love

(1949) Chiyo
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
Average
7

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1973 Otaki
1971 Otaki
1970 Otaki
N/A
1968 N/A
Tamiko Yamamoto
1967 N/A
Makiko
N/A
1966 N/A
1962 N/A
Mrs. Kono
N/A
Harumi's mother-in-law
N/A
1961 Lady Kokiden
Teruyo Fuji
1960 N/A
Izumi
1959 N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
1958 Tomie
1957 N/A
N/A
Otsugi
N/A
1956 N/A
N/A
Oko (uncredited)
1955 Yûko Uemura
Oko
N/A
1954 N/A
Oren
Oko
N/A
Akagashi
1953 N/A
Ohama
1952 N/A
Tokiwa
N/A
N/A
N/A
1951 N/A
N/A
Aoi no ue
N/A
1949 N/A
Chiyo
1948 N/A
Koharu
Toshiko
1945 N/A
1944 Takako
N/A
N/A
1943 N/A
Chie, sister
Oharu
N/A
1942 N/A
N/A
Fumi
1941 N/A
N/A
1940 Yayoi Kajikawa
N/A
N/A
1939 Gin Ishiwata
N/A
N/A
N/A
1938 N/A
Shigeko
1937 N/A
N/A
Woman at Hotel
Ohatsu
N/A
Keiko
1936 N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

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