Mitsuko Mito

Mitsuko Mito 水戸光子 Mito Mitsuko 23 March 1919 5 April 1981 was a Japanese actress She appeared in more than 50 films between 1935 and 1973 Her real name was Mitsuko Sekiba In 1934 the year after she dropped out of Okazaki Municipal Girls High School now Aichi Prefectural Okazaki Kita High School she moved from the Manpei Hotel in Nagoya to the Manpei Hotel in Atami where she was working There she was scouted by Shochiku director Isaburo Inoue who happened to be staying at the hotel and joined the Shochiku Kamata Studios In 1945 she married actor Morikawa Shin She retired from acting and had a child but divorced the following year She returned to the big screen early in Omitsu no Endan released in October of the same year While she played cheerful downtoearth characters after leaving Shochiku she also broadened her acting range by taking on dirty roles in films such as Woman Osho Outcome of War Ugetsu Monogatari and An Inn at Osaka She died of a liver tumor on April 5 1981 at the age of 62