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Michiko Kuwano (桑野通子, Kuwano Michiko, 4 January 1915 – 1 April 1946) was a Japanese film actress.




Biography



Michiko Kuwano was born on (1915-01-04)January 4, 1915 in the former municipality of Shiba-ku, which is now located in the Minato ward in Tokyo. Her father was a chef, and her mother died when she was four years old.
She joined Shōchiku in 1934 and made her first film with Hiroshi Shimizu, a director with whom she collaborated numerous times.
She gave birth in 1942 to Miyuki Kuwano, who would later become an actress.
On (1946-03-29)March 29, 1946, she fainted during the filming of Victory of Women by Kenji Mizoguchi. She died on (1946-04-01)April 1, 1946 from complications of a hemorrhage due to an ectopic pregnancy at the age of 31.
Michiko Kuwano appeared in nearly 90 films for Shōchiku between 1934 and 1946.




Career


Kuwano was born in Shiba ward, Tokyo. After graduating from Mita High School in 1932, she first worked as a "sweets girl" for Morinaga & Company before entering the Shochiku film studios in 1934, where she gave her debut in Hiroshi Shimizu's Eclipse. In addition to many films directed by Shimizu, she starred in films by Yasujirō Ozu and Yasujirō Shimazu. In 1946, she collapsed on the set of Kenji Mizoguchi's Victory of Women. She is the mother of actress Miyuki Kuwano.




Selected filmography


1934: Eclipse
1936: Mr. Thank You
1937: What Did the Lady Forget?
1939: A Brother and His Younger Sister
1940: The Legend of Tank Commander Nishizumi
1942: Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
1946: Victory of Women




References






External links


Michiko Kuwano at IMDb

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• Late Autumn (film 1960)
• Michiko Kuwano
• Kuwano
• Mr. Thank You
• What Did the Lady Forget?
• A Brother and His Younger Sister
• The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi
• Eclipse (1934 film)
• Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
• List of Japanese films of the 1940s
• 1915 in Japan