Aiko Mimasu

Known for ActingBorn 1902-11-02Died 1982-01-18Osaka, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail

Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler

陽のあたる坂道

This Greedy Old Skin

Sazae And Aunt Apron

A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love

The End of the Night

These Foolish Times

Sanbaba

Moonlight in the Rain

Japanese Women's Textbook

Yearning

Kojiro

Sazae-san Plays Cupid

Onna keizu

Street of Shame

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

The Wiser Age

Yakuza of the Present

The Last Kamikaze

Rogue

Human Torpedoes

Start Here

Raised in a Palace

Ika naru hoshi no moto ni

The Naked General

Tsukigata Hanpeita

The Lovelorn Geisha

The Monkey King

Kisses

The Machine Gun Dragon

Classmates

The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday

The Loyal 47 Ronin

The Storm of the Pacific

An Osaka Story

There Was a War When I Was a Child

Tales of the Inner Chamber

A Mother's Journey

不断草

Women of Osaka Castle

Brothers'Code - The Back Relation

Ooku

Dobuike

August Moon

The Ginza Three Boys

Mother