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Aiko Mimasu
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.
As actor
There Was a War When I Was a Child
The Machine Gun Dragon
Sanbaba
The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail
Yakuza of the Present
Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
The Last Kamikaze
Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Rogue
Human Torpedoes
Tales of the Inner Chamber
Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
Classmates
Kojiro
陽のあたる坂道
Start Here
Yearning
Raised in a Palace
Dobuike
Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
The Wiser Age
August Moon
The Ginza Three Boys
Sazae-san Plays Cupid
Moonlight in the Rain
This Greedy Old Skin
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
The Storm of the Pacific
The Lovelorn Geisha
Sazae And Aunt Apron