Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Birthday: 1901-06-21
Place of Birth: Chuo, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Mitsuko Yoshikawa (吉川 満子) (June 21, 1901 – August 8, 1991) was a Japanese actress. She debuted during the silent film era in 1926 and made her last film in 1984, which was Juzo Itami's The Funeral.
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I Was Born, But...
Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film i...
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The Funeral
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events a...
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The Age of Beginnings
A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo...
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Third Generation's Loyalty Offering
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie...
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Shroud of Snow
1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a re...
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The Only Son
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite thei...
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Record of a Tenement Gentleman
An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, ...
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Apart from You
An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geish...
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Mother's Love Letter
Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo ...
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Nobuko
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and ...
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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to ...
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What Did the Lady Forget?
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niec...
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Every-Night Dreams
In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return o...
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A Mother Should Be Loved
A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unawa...
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Children in the Wind
On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is impri...
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Woman in the Mist
Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed every...
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The Living Magoroku
A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitiou...
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A Man's Recompense: Part 1
Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archa...
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A Man's Recompense: Part 2
Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archa...
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Kokumin no chikai
This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to crea...
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Women at War
Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a ...
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Flower
Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe ...
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江戸いろは祭
Hatamoto Akabane Tanaka once ruined his life with alcohol in his youth, leaving behind his wife and ...
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情艶一代女
Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her danci...
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Dash to the Sun
A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It te...
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A Young Rabble 2
An adventure of a feisty girl Oyuki and Santa, a homeless child she saves....
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その手にのるな
A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag conta...
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Sisters
Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko T...
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Introspection Tower
A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers an...
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A Hero of Tokyo
The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the her...
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The Lady and the Beard
Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tensi...
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Eclipse
The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his co...
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The Boss's Son at College
The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's...
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Okoto and Sasuke
A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devo...
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Sumida River
Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to hav...
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A Certain Woman
Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a nu...
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Burden of Life
A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to...
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A Flower Blooms
Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her....
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Until the Day We Meet Again
A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and h...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. The...
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Wedding Ring
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness....
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant bus...
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The Tale of Genji
An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, th...
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Deep River Melody
A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's ...
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Samurai Hawk
1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the governmen...
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Family Diary
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married...
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A Fishwife's Tale
Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she...
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The Rose on His Arm
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of de...
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The Genealogy of Women
A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparentl...
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The Tokyo Dame
A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister....
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Detective Duel
A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private ...
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365 Nights
A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love wi...
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Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wi...
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Don't Tell Your Wife About It
A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wiv...
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Lakeside Figure
A story of Minako who struggles finding love and peace in life. When Minako’s hope for ultimate happ...
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The Golden Demon
A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playbo...
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Lady Doctor Kinuyo
Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families al...
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Four Seasons of Children
The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the fa...
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The Warrior from Kishu
This is a story of a young heir to a powerful house, sent away to be raised by his nanny, so the you...
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The Sorrow of the Beautiful Woman
Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost....
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Men vs. Women
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the er...
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The Tale of Oiwa's Ghost
A samurai plots to reclaim his estranged wife after she leaves him over a murder scandal. When her s...
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Heavenly Dragon
From the opening theme song to the grand finale, you know that you have found something special as t...
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Delinquent Girl
A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic...
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Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers....
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Diary of Forsaken Love
Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan....
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Growing Up
A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel....
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Four Sisters
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with ea...
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A Primer on Marriage
Bored in his marriage, a dentist flirts with a young woman on a train. However he soon finds himself...
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The Luck Which Touched the Leg
A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner....
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The Life of an Office Worker
When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates o...
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Couple on the Move
When a woman unfairly suspects her husband of flirting with a shop assistant, she decides to flirt w...
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Physical Beauty
A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with h...
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A Ripple in a Morning
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in pos...
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Song of the Flower Basket
Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi...
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Maria of the Ant Village
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young ...
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The New Road: Akemi
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow ari...
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The Tree of Love
A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a...
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First Steps Ashore
The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide....
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A Carpenter and Children
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an aff...
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With Songs in My Heart
Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of...
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Akitsu Hot Springs
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal s...
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Mark of Blood
Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil....
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Zatoichi's Vengeance
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no ide...
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An Innocent Maid
In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic c...
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Love and Duty
Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels ...
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Passion
Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Tak...
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Modan kaidan: 100,000,000 yen
A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold prote...
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The New Road: Ryota
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow ari...
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Mother
The 1929 Japanese film "Mother" which helped child actress Hideko Takamine become a star....
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Zangiku monogatari
Based on the novel by Shofu Muramatsu, the film is dedicated to the actors of the renowned Japanese ...
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Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home
A family story in the year of 1943 during the war. The director is Shunkai Mizuho, who worked on "Hi...
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Mother and Child
The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his ne...
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Kinuyo's First Love
Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend....
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Lord for a Night
In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization fr...
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Dawn Chorus
A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor....
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Eleven High School Girls
With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with yo...
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A Man's Dark Finger
A touching action film about a young yakuza who becomes infected with evil because he has the abilit...
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Irresponsible Life in Edo Japan
A comedy directed by Kajiro Yamamoto, based on an original idea by Koji Toita, co-written by Yasuo T...
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The Parting
A university boxing captain struggles between love and ambition as he secretly longs for a woman pro...
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The Tale of Kinuyo
Japanese silent film from 1930. Directed by Heinosuke Gosho, the film marked a new stage in the arti...
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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of ali...
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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of ali...
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The Golden Demon
Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to ma...
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The Sun Rises from the East
The Japanese debut film of silent-era star Sessue Hayakawa, in which he not only starred but directe...
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The Cheerleading Captain's Love
Tsukamoto and Omitsu are close friends, but one day, Tsukamoto becomes fascinated by Ayako, whom he ...
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Clear and Cloudy
Japanese film from 1933, adapted from a story serialized in the entertainment magazine "Fuji."...
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Mother's Ambition
The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu w...
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Mother of the East
Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu....
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Tekirei san'nin musume
The Matsukawa family lived modestly as a close-knit trio of mother and daughters, relying on the inc...
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The Valley Between Love and Death
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that i...
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