Acting
Aiko Mimasu
Born 1902-11-02 · 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.
Acting credits
6.3Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target of a merciless revenge.
The Loyal 47 Ronin
1958
10.0No synopsis available yet.
陽のあたる坂道
1967
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Japanese Women's Textbook
1937
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Haha no mizūmi
1953
7.7Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
Street of Shame
1956
7.0Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family conflicts and her mother’s unexpected remarriage lead her to rethink happiness and relationships.
Start Here
1965
8.1War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.
Yearning
1964
NRDue to obligation, they parted ways, but mother and child meet again in front of the father's grave.
Haha chidori
1951
6.0Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Midway.
The Storm of the Pacific
1960
7.0Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
Human Torpedoes
1968
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Yobiko hoshi
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Oyabaka taishō
1948
NRA blind little girl searches for her mother.
Haha no hitomi
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hahakozuru
1952
7.3Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Haha yamahiko
1952
10.0A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
1955
6.8Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together at the beach.
Kisses
1957
NRSoemon, the master of Gidayū-style madcap performances, has gathered the entire tenement block again tonight and is tormenting everyone with his terrible Gidayū singing.
A Long, Comic Story of Houses in Their Prime
1954
7.0A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.
The Naked General
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Haha koiboshi
1949
Twenty years after the father’s death and the mother and child’s separation, when they are reunited, a pistol aimed at the mother glints coldly in the child’s hand.
Kenjū no mae ni tatsu haha
1950
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Boshisen
1951
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Kyūjō hiroba
1951