Aiko Mimasu
Acting • Born 1902-11-02 – Died 1982-01-18
Biography
Aiko Mimasu ( November 2, 1910– January 18, 1982) was a Japanese actress. After the war, she became famous for her role in mother-movie films, and was known as the "mother-movie actress." Her real name is Aiko Kawaguchi, and her maiden name is Inui. She was born in Minami-Sumiyacho , Minami-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture (now Chuo-ku ). Her husband is Shotaro Kawaguchi , a Naoki Prize-winning author . She has three sons and one daughter with Kawaguchi, and actor Hiroshi Kawaguchi is her eldest son. Ruriko Kikawa, a member of the 24th class of the Takarazuka Revue , is her younger sister. In November of 1976, she was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon . In 1982 , she died of pancreatic cancer at Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital at the age of 71.
Filmography
61 credits
Rogue
Movie • 1968
Fusayo
The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail
Movie • 1973
Street of Shame
Movie • 1956
Yumeko
Kurohyō
Movie • 1953
These Foolish Times
Movie • 1947
Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
Movie • 1962
Onna keizu
Movie • 1942
Yearning
Movie • 1964
Shizu Morita
母山彦
Movie • 1952
Japanese Women's Textbook
Movie • 1937
The Monkey King
Movie • 1940
Yoyo
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Movie • 1958
Notsubone Toda
Nagareru hoshi wa ikiteiru
Movie • 1949
This Greedy Old Skin
Movie • 1960
Oshika
The Paths of Two Maidens
Movie • 1952
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Movie • 1960
Aki Sakanishi
The Storm of the Pacific
Movie • 1960
Sato
Raised in a Palace
Movie • 1964
Osen
Classmates
Movie • 1967
Sadako Shiratori
Human Torpedoes
Movie • 1968
The Last Kamikaze
Movie • 1970
The End of the Night
Movie • 1953
The Lovelorn Geisha
Movie • 1960
The Wiser Age
Movie • 1962
Matsuyo Tamura
The Machine Gun Dragon
Movie • 1976
An Osaka Story
Movie • 1957
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
Movie • 1941
There Was a War When I Was a Child
Movie • 1981
Yakuza of the Present
Movie • 1973
Yone
Kojiro
Movie • 1967
Sanbaba
Movie • 1974
Kisses
Movie • 1957
Ryoko Uno
Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Movie • 1969
Tatsu Onuma
The Naked General
Movie • 1958
The Ginza Three Boys
Movie • 1961
Kiku Takarai
Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
Movie • 1971
母子鶴
Movie • 1952
Nobuko Tsuji
Classmates
Movie • 1967
Sazae And Aunt Apron
Movie • 1960
Sazae-san Plays Cupid
Movie • 1961
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
Movie • 1955
Tsukigata Hanpeita
Movie • 1956
Ai
Tales of the Inner Chamber
Movie • 1968
五十円横町
Movie • 1955
August Moon
Movie • 1962
Fuji Mishima
Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
Movie • 1968
Radio Queen
Movie • 1935
Children Seeking a Mother
Movie • 1956
Aki Yamamoto
Harikiri Boy
Movie • 1937
Mother
Movie • 1958
Kiyo Yuasa
Daiei Studio is Bustling
Movie • 1957
Moonlight in the Rain
Movie • 1961
Sugamo's Mothers
Movie • 1952
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
Movie • 1958
Yone (maid)
Tama wa kudakezu
Movie • 1955
Start Here
Movie • 1965
Sumi Hanai
Wildcat Lady or Mountain Cat Woman
Movie • 1948
陽のあたる坂道
Movie • 1967
Ooku
TV • 1968
Women of Osaka Castle
TV • 1970
不断草
TV • 1980