Mitsuko Mito
Known for: Acting
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
Film
Ugetsu
Ohama
1953
Film
8:13 PM
1956
Studio wa ōsawagi
1956
Film
Modern Gentleman
1964
Zoku tenshi mo otoshi goro
1956
Film
Tenshi mo otoshi goro
1956
Film
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Oko (uncredited)
1956
Film
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Oko
1954
Film
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Oko
1955
Film
Asashio yushio
1956
Film
Zoku suna-e jubaku: Yukijorō
1953
Suna-e jubaku
1953
Film
New Tale of Genji: Shizuka and Yoshitsune
1956
Film
The Scarlet Bat
1950
Film
The Tale of Genji
Aoi no ue
1951
Film
There Was a Father
Fumi
1942
Film
Navy
1943
Film
The End of the War
1950
Avalanche
Tokie Kijima
1952
Film
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
Otaki
1973
Film
The Wandering Princess
Izumi
1960
Film
Mr. Thank You
1936
Film
Flame of My Love
Chiyo
1949
Film
The Golden Demon
Akagashi
1954
Doro ni mamirete
1951
Film
House of Many Pleasures
Chiyoko
1955
Film
The Tree of Love
1938
Film
Jubilation Street
Takako
1944
Film
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
Otaki
1970
Film
The Song of the Cart
1959
A Fallen Woman
Makiko
1967
Film
Face in the Dark
Tomie
1958
Film
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Otaki
1971
Film
Mune yori mune ni
Yûko Uemura
1955
Film
Kanpai! Sararīman shokun
1962
Film
Kinuyo's First Love
1940
Film
Ohana han: Dai ni bu
Teru Asao
1966
Film
Hakuchō wa kanashikarazuya
1949
My Name Is Mistress
1949
Film
Rebellion of Japan
1967
Film
Doburoku no Tatsu
1949
Tsuma mo koisu
1950
Film
Her Hidden Past
Mrs. Kono
1962
Film
The Radiant Prince
Lady Kokiden
1961
Film
Fall of the Shogun's Militia
Oren
1954
Film
Minami no bara
1950
Film
Asataro the Crow
1956
Film
Swift Current
1967
Film
Lantern Under a Full Moon
1951
Film
Desire
1953
Film
Forget Love for Now
Woman at Hotel
1937
Film
Kokoro no nichigetsu
1954
Film
Three Mothers
1949
Film
The Human Wall
1959
Film
Port of Flowers
Oharu
1943
Film
Tokyo Omnibus
1959
Film
Woman
Toshiko
1948
Film
The Beauty Expert
1957
Film
The Sea of Beauty
1950
Film
The Detective Denshichi Case Files: The Beautiful Bat
1957
Film
Haha to ko no mado
1957
Film
Otome no iru kichi
1945
Goodbye to the Front
1937
Film
A Star Athlete
1937
Film
A Full Life
Harumi's mother-in-law
1962
Film
Beyond Love and Hate
Masae Sakata
1951
Film
The Young Swordsman
1954
Film
Dedication of the Great Buddha
1952
Film
Tange Sazen
1953
Film
People Waiting for Spring
Ritsu Yamamura
1959
Aizenso
1949
Film
With Wife, Children, and Friends
Takiyo Sugawa
1961
Film
Army Intelligence
Tamiko Yamamoto
1968
Film
This Way, That Way
1952
Film
I Will Buy You
1956
Film
Mother and Child
Shigeko
1938
Film
Ai no Noutan
1959
Onna dake no yoru
1947
Film
The Man from the Moon
1951
Film
The Sunset is Calling Me
1970
Film
The Adventures of Chuji
Otsugi
1957
Film
Shin Shokoku Monogatari: Otena no To Part 2
1956
Film
Sinking the Unsinkable
1944
Film
Ohana han
Teru Asao
1966
Film
Marching Song
1937
Film
A Roaring Trade
1962
Film
The Spy Has Not Died Yet
1942
Film
Only She Knows
1960
Film
The Grand Master
Koharu
1948
Film
Bridge
1959
Film
New Woman Question and Answer
1939
Film
Warm Current
Gin Ishiwata
1939
Film
Shin Shokoku Monogatari: Otena no To Part 1
1955
Film
An Inn at Osaka
Orika
1954
Film
Komadori fujin
1948
Film
Southern Wind
1939
Film
Hana no yukyo-den
1958
Film
I Will Never Forget
1960
Film
As If To Kill
1948
Film
Ukiyo buro
O-riku
1958
Film
Hakuji no hito
Sagako Kuroki
1957
Film
Shin Aizen Katsura
1948
Film
Escape from the City of Death
1952
Film
Wild Geese
1966
Film
Woman Gambler Is Coming
1968
Film
Akuma no kao
1957
Film
Ghost Story: Passion in Fukagawa
1952
Film
Jushu karasu
1951
Film
Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home
1943
Film
Ushiwakamaru
Tokiwa
1952
Film
Confessions of a Gynecologist
1950
Film
You Are the Next Eagle
1944
Don't Tell Your Wife About It
Ohatsu
1937
Moon Over the Ruins
Keiko
1937
Film
Hibari no komoriuta
1951
Film
A Woman's Face
1949
Film
Doyō fujin
Yōko Nakaseko
1948
Film
Love and Life
Teruyo Fuji
1961
Film
South Wind 2
1942
Film
Dancing with a Mask
Chie, sister
1943
Film
Zoku aizen katsura
1939
Film
Sailor
1944
Film
The Flower is not False
1941
Film
A Storm Zone
Shizue Tashiro
1959
Film
Zoku Tange Sazen
1953
Film
Utsukushiki Rinjin
1940
Film
Red Love, Green Love
1962
The Young Lord
1955
Film
Kateikyōshi
Yayoi Kajikawa
1940
Film
South Wind
1942
Film
Suzhou Nights
1941
Film
Yukiwarisō
1951
Series
Chiba Shusaku: Kendo Masshigura
キク
1970
Film
Chūzaisho nikki
1957