Mitsuko Miura
Mitsuko Miura was a Japanese actress active from 1938 to 1964. She appeared in over 150 films under the direction of filmmakers like Mikio Naruse, Kenji Mizoguchi and Hiroshi Shimizu.
Biography
After graduating from Otsuma Girls' High School, Tokyo, Mitsuko Miura joined the Nichigeki dancing team before signing to the Shochiku film studio. She gave her film debut in 1938 with Hotaru no hikari and appeared in films of Hiroshi Shimizu, Kenji Mizoguchi and Noboru Nakamura. After 1950, she worked for numerous different film companies, starring, among others, in a number of films of Mikio Naruse. She retired from film business in 1964 and died in 1969.Selected filmography
- 1938: Hotaru no hikari – dir. Yasushi Sasaki
- 1938: The Masseurs and a Woman – dir. Hiroshi Shimizu
- 1940: Nobuko – dir. Hiroshi Shimizu
- 1940: Himetaru kokoro – dir. Hideo Ōba
- 1941: The 47 Ronin a.k.a. The Loyal 47 Ronin of the Genroku Era – dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
- 1942: Aratanaru kōfuku – dir. Noboru Nakamura
- 1945: Izu no musumetachi – dir. Heinosuke Gosho
- 1946: Morning for the Osone Family – dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
- 1946: Victory of Women – dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
- 1948: The Portrait – dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
- 1950: White Beast – dir. Mikio Naruse
- 1952: Sisters of Nishijin – dir. Kōzaburō Yoshimura
- 1952: Lightning – dir. Mikio Naruse
- 1956: The Kuroda Affair – dir. Tomu Uchida
- 1957: Untamed – dir. Mikio Naruse
- 1964: Naked Shadow – dir. Kōji Wakamatsu