Aiko Mimasu
Known for: Acting
Born: November 2, 1902
Died: January 18, 1982
Place of birth: Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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.
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Filmography
86 movies · 3 TV shows, newest first
5.5
There Was a War When I Was a Child
1981NR
不断草
1980
6.5
The Machine Gun Dragon
1976
9.0
Sanbaba
1974
7.0
Yakuza of the Present
1973
10.0
The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail
1973
10.0
Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
1971
7.0
The Last Kamikaze
1970NR
Women of Osaka Castle
1970
7.5
Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
1969
5.0
Tales of the Inner Chamber
1968
7.0
Rogue
1968
NR
Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
1968
NR
Ooku
1968
7.0
Human Torpedoes
1968
6.5
Classmates
1967
8.0
Kojiro
1967
10.0
陽のあたる坂道
1967
7.0
Start Here
1965
7.0
Raised in a Palace
1964
8.1
Yearning
1964
NR
Dobuike
1963
NR
August Moon
1962
7.0
Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
1962
7.2
The Wiser Age
1962
9.0
Moonlight in the Rain
1961
8.0
Sazae-san Plays Cupid
1961
NR
The Ginza Three Boys
1961
10.0
Sazae And Aunt Apron
1960
10.0
This Greedy Old Skin
1960
6.9
The Lovelorn Geisha
1960
7.3
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
6.0
The Storm of the Pacific
1960
7.0
The Naked General
1958
5.0
A Mother's Journey
1958
NR
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
1958
6.3
The Loyal 47 Ronin
1958
NR
Mother
1958
6.8
Kisses
1957
6.0
An Osaka Story
1957
NR
Daiei Studio is Bustling
1957
7.0
Tsukigata Hanpeita
1956
NR
Children Seeking a Mother
1956
7.7
Street of Shame
1956
NR
Tama wa kudakezu
1955
NR
五十円横町
1955
10.0
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
1955
NR
Haha chigusa
1954
NR
Date sōdō: Haha goten
1954
NR
Haha tokidori
1954
NR
A Long, Comic Story of Houses in Their Prime
1954NR
Four Mothers
1954
NR
This Love Costs 50 Million Yen
1954
NR
Haha no mizūmi
1953
NR
Kurohyō
1953
NR
Koshō musuko
1953
NR
Haha nami
1953
10.0
The End of the Night
1953
NR
Haha no hitomi
1953
NR
Sugamo's Mothers
1952
NR
The Paths of Two Maidens
1952
NR
Hahakozuru
1952
NR
Haha yamahiko
1952
NR
Yobiko hoshi
1952
NR
Mabuta no haha
1952
NR
Boshisen
1951
NR
Haha ningyō
1951
NR
Haha chidori
1951NR
Haha zukiyo
1951
NR
Kyūjō hiroba
1951NR
Shimai hoshi
1950NR
Kenjū no mae ni tatsu haha
1950
NR
Haha tsubaki
1950NR
Haha tōdai
1949
NR
Nagareru hoshi wa ikiteiru
1949
NR
Haha koiboshi
1949
NR
Three Mothers
1949
NR
Haha kōbai
1949NR
Mother
1948
NR
Oyabaka taishō
1948
NR
Wildcat Lady or Mountain Cat Woman
1948
NR
Chōchō shissō jiken
1947
10.0
These Foolish Times
19478.0
Onna keizu
1942
6.5
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
1941
7.0
The Monkey King
1940
9.0
Japanese Women's Textbook
1937NR
Harikiri Boy
1937
NR
Radio Queen
1935