Mitsuko Yoshikawa
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.307 |
| Birthday | 1901-06-21 |
| Place of Birth | Chūō, Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | 吉川満子, Мицуко Ёсикава, |
1932
I Was Born, But...
7.48/122
Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film is a social satire that draws from the antics of ch...
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I Was Born, But...
1984
The Funeral
7.2/40
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three d...
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The Funeral
1936
The Only Son
7.391/87
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo...
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The Only Son
1947
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
7.19/42
An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.
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Record of a Tenement Gentleman
1940
Nobuko
6.2/4
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.
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Nobuko
1941
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
6.857/28
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...
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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
1937
What Did the Lady Forget?
6.296/27
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a l...
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What Did the Lady Forget?
1933
Every-Night Dreams
7.2/18
In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and walke...
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Every-Night Dreams
1934
A Mother Should Be Loved
6/13
A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for alway...
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A Mother Should Be Loved
1937
Children in the Wind
7.6/10
On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.
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Children in the Wind
1936
Woman in the Mist
0/0
Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a wastrel...
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Woman in the Mist
1943
The Living Magoroku
7/8
A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.
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The Living Magoroku
1930
Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
0/0
Silent comedic short by Mikio Naruse
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Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
1935
A Hero of Tokyo
5/1
The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is...
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A Hero of Tokyo
1944
The Man Who Has Returned
0/0
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The Man Who Has Returned
1933
The Boss's Son at College
7/1
The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce manufa...
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The Boss's Son at College
1934
Eclipse
0/0
The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their home...
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Eclipse
1950
Wedding Ring
6.8/9
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
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Wedding Ring
1933
Apart from You
6.9/18
An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...
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Apart from You
1935
Burden of Life
6.4/7
Family drama. A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unw...
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Burden of Life
1932
Until the Day We Meet Again
7.5/2
A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be...
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Until the Day We Meet Again
1931
The Lady and the Beard
5.9/8
Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.
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The Lady and the Beard
1959
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
0/0
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argum...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
1960
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
0/0
Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
1961
Samurai Hawk
5.2/4
1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the government tries to keep these incidents under wraps, they...
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Samurai Hawk
1960
Deep River Melody
0/0
A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.
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Deep River Melody
1954
Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
0/0
Japanese war film.
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Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
1966
The Tale of Genji
0/0
An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the...
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The Tale of Genji
1938
Family Diary
5.7/3
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’ famili...
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Family Diary
1961
A Fishwife's Tale
0/0
Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological...
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A Fishwife's Tale
1956
The Rose on His Arm
5.8/5
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
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The Rose on His Arm
1959
The Tokyo Dame
0/0
A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister.
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The Tokyo Dame
1958
Detective Duel
6/1
A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating th...
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Detective Duel
1948
365 Nights
7/1
A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and d...
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365 Nights
1968
Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit
8.5/2
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns hersel...
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Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit
1945
Victory Song
5.2/4
Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.
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Victory Song
1961
Lakeside Figure
0/0
A story of Minako who struggles finding love and peace in life. When Minako’s hope for ultimate happiness, marriage to her beloved fiancé, comes to a...
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Lakeside Figure
1937
Lady Doctor Kinuyo
4.6/4
Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...
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Lady Doctor Kinuyo
1937
Don't Tell Your Wife About It
6/1
A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive lace...
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Don't Tell Your Wife About It
1937
The Golden Demon
6/5
A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and becom...
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The Golden Demon
1939
Four Seasons of Children
8.3/7
The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their...
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Four Seasons of Children
1962
The Warrior from Kishu
0/0
This is a story of a young heir to a powerful house, sent away to be raised by his nanny, so the young lord Genrokuro grew up bitter about his parents...
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The Warrior from Kishu
1931
The Sorrow of the Beautiful Woman
0/0
Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost.
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The Sorrow of the Beautiful Woman
1960
Heavenly Dragon
6/1
From the opening theme song to the grand finale, you know that you have found something special as this exciting movie stars the great Misora Hibari i...
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Heavenly Dragon
1936
Men vs. Women
0/0
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
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Men vs. Women
1961
The Tale of Oiwa's Ghost
7.5/6
Yotsuya Kaidan, the story of Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon, is a tale of betrayal, murder and ghostly revenge. Arguably the most famous Japanese ghost story o...
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The Tale of Oiwa's Ghost
1949
Delinquent Girl
0/0
"Delinquent Girl" - A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular “bad girl” and the optimistic scholar returning from the...
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Delinquent Girl
1960
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
0/0
Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.
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Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
1955
Growing Up
6.8/5
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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Growing Up
1959
Diary of Forsaken Love
0/0
Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.
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Diary of Forsaken Love
1962
Four Sisters
6/1
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
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Four Sisters
1929
The Life of an Office Worker
0/0
When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates other employment opportunities. Considered to be a...
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The Life of an Office Worker
1930
The Luck Which Touched the Leg
0/0
A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner. However his colleagues immediately start borrowin...
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The Luck Which Touched the Leg
1930
A Primer on Marriage
0/0
Bored in his marriage, a dentist flirts with a young woman on a train. However he soon finds himself embroiled in a series of misunderstandings with h...
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A Primer on Marriage
1928
Couple on the Move
0/0
When a woman unfairly suspects her husband of flirting with a shop assistant, she decides to flirt with their landlord to get revenge. Considered to b...
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Couple on the Move
1928
Physical Beauty
0/0
A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge b...
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Physical Beauty
1939
Lovers' Duet
5/1
Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut
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Lovers' Duet
1952
A Ripple in a Morning
0/0
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
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A Ripple in a Morning
1967
Journey
0/0
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Journey
1937
Song of the Flower Basket
0/0
Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.
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Song of the Flower Basket
1958
Maria of the Ant Village
0/0
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been bapti...
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Maria of the Ant Village
1936
The New Road: Akemi
7/1
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is told...
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The New Road: Akemi
1938
The Tree of Love
6.5/2
A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run a...
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The Tree of Love
1932
First Steps Ashore
7/1
Early Japanese sound film, a remake of Josef von Sternberg’s DOCKS OF NEW YORK set in Yokohama.
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First Steps Ashore
1962
A Carpenter and Children
0/1
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning comb...
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A Carpenter and Children
1958
With Songs in My Heart
0/0
Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and song...
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With Songs in My Heart
1962
Mark of Blood
6/1
Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.
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Mark of Blood
1962
Akitsu Hot Springs
6.5/24
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction...
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Akitsu Hot Springs
1966
Zatoichi's Vengeance
6.773/33
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town...
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Zatoichi's Vengeance
1935
An Innocent Maid
0/0
In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the neig...
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An Innocent Maid
1954
Love and Duty
0/0
Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth an...
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Love and Duty
1932
Passion
0/0
Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.
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Passion
1929
Modan kaidan: 100,000,000 yen
0/0
A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.
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Modan kaidan: 100,000,000 yen
1936
The New Road: Ryota
8/1
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the per...
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The New Road: Ryota
1950
Rumba of Passion
0/0
Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
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Rumba of Passion
1929
Mother
0/0
The 1929 Japanese film "Mother" which helped child actress Hideko Takamine become a star.
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Mother
1952
Bikkuri Sanjuushi
0/0
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Bikkuri Sanjuushi
1955
Four Swordsmen of Ashura
0/0
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Four Swordsmen of Ashura
1940
Kateikyōshi
0/0
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Kateikyōshi
1956
Zangiku monogatari
7/1
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Zangiku monogatari
1943
Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home
0/0
A family story in the year of 1943 during the war. The director is Shunkai Mizuho, who worked on "Hibari no Circus Sad Kobato" starring Hibari Misora...
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Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home
1938
Mother and Child
0/0
The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her mot...
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Mother and Child
1940
Kinuyo's First Love
6/1
Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human relations...
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Kinuyo's First Love
1946
Lord for a Night
8/1
Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
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Lord for a Night
1942
Dance of the Capital
0/0
Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film
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Dance of the Capital
1941
Dawn Chorus
0/0
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Dawn Chorus
1943
Dancing with a Mask
0/0
Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.
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Dancing with a Mask
1947
The Age of Beginnings
0/0
A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets int...
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The Age of Beginnings
1967
Shroud of Snow
0/0
1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a relationship with their servant.
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Shroud of Snow
1937
A Man's Recompense: Part 1
0/0
Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting to...
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A Man's Recompense: Part 1
1937
A Man's Recompense: Part 2
0/0
Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting to...
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A Man's Recompense: Part 2
1938
Kokumin no chikai
0/0
This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to create support for the coming winter olympics of 1940...
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Kokumin no chikai
1939
Women at War
0/0
Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film company (Ken Uehara), that he was going to ma...
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Women at War
1941
Flower
0/0
Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes mar...
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Flower
1961
The Yellow Climate
0/0
Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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The Yellow Climate
1966
Dash to the Sun
0/0
A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo wi...
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Dash to the Sun
1959
A Young Rabble 2
0/0
An adventure of a feisty girl Oyuki and Santa, a homeless child she saves.
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A Young Rabble 2
1953
Sisters
0/0
Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko Tsushima), the second was Tsugumi (Keiko Awaji), an...
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Sisters
1955
The Dawn of Judo
0/0
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The Dawn of Judo
1958
Don't get in your hands
0/0
A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken away...
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Don't get in your hands
1951
母恋草
0/0
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母恋草
1942
Sumida River
0/0
Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big st...
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Sumida River
1942
A Certain Woman
0/0
Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who...
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A Certain Woman
1939
Mother is Strong
0/0
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Mother is Strong
1962
Hagure kigeki mandara
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Hagure kigeki mandara
1948
Shin Aizen Katsura
0/0
1948 Japanese movie
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Shin Aizen Katsura
1962
Third Generation's Loyalty Offering
0/0
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie
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Third Generation's Loyalty Offering
1939
Zoku aizen katsura
0/0
1939 Japanese movie
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Zoku aizen katsura
1935
Mother's Love Letter
0/0
Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.
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Mother's Love Letter
1939
Surging Waves
0/0
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Surging Waves
1951
情艶一代女
0/0
Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins training with the Onnagata Kikugoro...
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情艶一代女
1953
江戸いろは祭
0/0
Hatamoto Akabane Tanaka once ruined his life with alcohol in his youth, leaving behind his wife and son, Hanji, to embark on a journey. He killed a ma...
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江戸いろは祭
1939
Haha o tataeru uta
0/0
A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children
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Haha o tataeru uta
1941
Introspection Tower
6.7/7
A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is ofte...
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Introspection Tower
1935
Okoto and Sasuke
6.7/3
A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki Jun...
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Okoto and Sasuke
1950
憧れのハワイ航路
0/0
Akogare no Hawaii kôro
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憧れのハワイ航路
1948
Golden Devil
0/0
1948 adaptation of Golden Devil
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Golden Devil
1948
Golden Devil Part 2
0/0
1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2
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Golden Devil Part 2
1930
Love and Power
0/0
Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
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Love and Power
1945
Tengoku no hanayome
0/0
1945 Japanese movie
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Tengoku no hanayome
1948
A Flower Blooms
0/0
Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.
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A Flower Blooms
1951
Minami kaze
0/0
1951 Japanese movie
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Minami kaze
1934
The Genealogy of Women
0/0
A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The Romanc...
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