Aiko Mimasu
Birthday: 1902-11-02
Place of Birth: Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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.
Movies
Rogue
Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining ...
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The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail
Part 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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Street of Shame
The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passag...
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Yearning
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years ...
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The Monkey King
A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The S...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaul...
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This Greedy Old Skin
A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow ...
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen in...
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The Storm of the Pacific
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanes...
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Raised in a Palace
Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl...
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Classmates
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II....
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Human Torpedoes
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of th...
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The Last Kamikaze
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up s...
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The End of the Night
Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a b...
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The Lovelorn Geisha
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother man...
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The Wiser Age
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner....
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The Machine Gun Dragon
Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun an...
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An Osaka Story
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji...
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There Was a War When I Was a Child
An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War....
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Yakuza of the Present
In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi rest...
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Kojiro
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the ...
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Kisses
Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bic...
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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assass...
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The Naked General
A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities....
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The Ginza Three Boys
The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty o...
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Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler...
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Classmates
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II....
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A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa....
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Tsukigata Hanpeita
During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a c...
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Tales of the Inner Chamber
Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle....
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Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he me...
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Children Seeking a Mother
While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son....
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Moonlight in the Rain
A home drama about a mother and her three daughters, based on the novel by Fumiko Hayashi....
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Sugamo's Mothers
Directed by Nobuo Adachi and starring Aiko Mimasu as a mother who lost three of her four sons to war...
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Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scan...
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Tama wa kudakezu
A love melodrama about five siblings and the daughter of a businessman....
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Start Here
Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family con...
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Wildcat Lady or Mountain Cat Woman
The first in a series of 31 "mother films" produced by Daiei in the post-war period....
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