Mitsuko Mito
Acting • Born 1919-03-23 – Died 1981-04-05
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.
Filmography
105 credits
Lantern Under a Full Moon
Movie • 1951
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Movie • 1954
Oko
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Movie • 1955
Oko
The Adventures of Chuji
Movie • 1957
Otsugi
Kanpai! Sararīman shokun
Movie • 1962
There Was a Father
Movie • 1942
Fumi
Asataro the Crow
Movie • 1956
Shin Aizen Katsura
Movie • 1948
Mr. Thank You
Movie • 1936
Red Love, Green Love
Movie • 1962
Marching Song
Movie • 1937
Swift Current
Movie • 1967
Zoku aizen katsura
Movie • 1939
Bridge
Movie • 1959
Flame of My Love
Movie • 1949
Chiyo
I Will Buy You
Movie • 1956
Utsukushiki Rinjin
Movie • 1940
Woman
Movie • 1948
Toshiko
Sailor
Movie • 1944
A Fallen Woman
Movie • 1967
Makiko
Southern Wind
Movie • 1939
South Wind
Movie • 1942
The Flower is not False
Movie • 1941
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
Movie • 1970
Otaki
The Wandering Princess
Movie • 1960
Izumi
Forget Love for Now
Movie • 1937
Woman at Hotel
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
Movie • 1973
Otaki
Navy
Movie • 1943
Ai no Noutan
Movie • 1959
悪魔の顔
Movie • 1957
白磁の人
Movie • 1957
Mune yori mune ni
Movie • 1955
Yûko Uemura
The Tale of Genji
Movie • 1951
Aoi no ue
A Woman's Face
Movie • 1949
Port of Flowers
Movie • 1943
Oharu
A Roaring Trade
Movie • 1962
House of Many Pleasures
Movie • 1955
Chiyoko
The Grand Master
Movie • 1948
Koharu
You Are the Next Eagle
Movie • 1944
Hana no yukyo-den
Movie • 1958
An Inn at Osaka
Movie • 1954
South Wind 2
Movie • 1942
With Wife, Children, and Friends
Movie • 1961
Takiyo Sugawa
Rebellion of Japan
Movie • 1967
The Song of the Cart
Movie • 1959
Army Intelligence
Movie • 1968
Tamiko Yamamoto
The Human Wall
Movie • 1959
The Golden Demon
Movie • 1954
Akagashi
Don't Tell Your Wife About It
Movie • 1937
Ohatsu
Jubilation Street
Movie • 1944
Takako
A Full Life
Movie • 1962
Harumi's mother-in-law
Suzhou Nights
Movie • 1941
Sinking the Unsinkable
Movie • 1944
The Spy Has Not Died Yet
Movie • 1942
Beyond Love and Hate
Movie • 1951
Masae Sakata
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Movie • 1971
Otaki
Woman Gambler Is Coming
Movie • 1968
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Movie • 1956
Oko (uncredited)
Moon Over the Ruins
Movie • 1937
Keiko
Fall of the Shogun's Militia
Movie • 1954
Oren
The Sunset is Calling Me
Movie • 1970
Goodbye to the Front
Movie • 1937
Shi no machi wo nogarete
Movie • 1952
Face in the Dark
Movie • 1958
Tomie
Tokyo Omnibus
Movie • 1959
The Radiant Prince
Movie • 1961
Lady Kokiden
Her Hidden Past
Movie • 1962
Mrs. Kono
Only She Knows
Movie • 1960
The Beauty Expert
Movie • 1957
This Way, That Way
Movie • 1952
Hibari no komoriuta
Movie • 1951
Ghost Story: Passion in Fukagawa
Movie • 1952
The Tree of Love
Movie • 1938
Warm Current
Movie • 1939
Gin Ishiwata
Wild Geese
Movie • 1966
Ugetsu
Movie • 1953
Ohama
Otome no iru kichi
Movie • 1945
The Young Swordsman
Movie • 1954
Ushiwakamaru
Movie • 1952
Tokiwa
Dedication of the Great Buddha
Movie • 1952
Yokubo
Movie • 1953
A Star Athlete
Movie • 1937
The Young Lord
Movie • 1955
Kateikyōshi
Movie • 1940
Yayoi Kajikawa
Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home
Movie • 1943
Mother and Child
Movie • 1938
Shigeko
New Woman Question and Answer
Movie • 1939
Kinuyo's First Love
Movie • 1940
Dancing with a Mask
Movie • 1943
Chie, sister
Love and Life
Movie • 1961
Teruyo Fuji
A Storm Zone
Movie • 1959
Shizue Tashiro
Confessions of a Gynecologist
Movie • 1950
The Detective Denshichi Case Files: The Beautiful Bat
Movie • 1957
Zoku Tange Sazen
Movie • 1953
Yukiwarisō
Movie • 1951
上州鴉
Movie • 1951
Kokoro no nichigetsu
Movie • 1954
Tange Sazen
Movie • 1953
Ohana han
Movie • 1966
Teru Asao
Ohana han: Dai ni bu
Movie • 1966
Teru Asao
Ukiyo buro
Movie • 1958
O-riku
The Man from the Moon
Movie • 1951
People Waiting for Spring
Movie • 1959
Ritsu Yamamura
Shin Shokoku Monogatari: Otena no To Part 1
Movie • 1955
Shin Shokoku Monogatari: Otena no To Part 2
Movie • 1956