Michiko Kuwano

Michiko Kuwano
Born(1915-01-04)4 January 1915
Shiba, Tokyo, Japan
Died1 April 1946(1946-04-01) (aged 31)
OccupationActress
Years active1934–1946

Michiko Kuwano (桑野通子, Kuwano Michiko, 4 January 1915 – 1 April 1946) was a Japanese film actress.[1][2][3]

Biography

Michiko Kuwano in 1936.

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.[4] Her father was a chef, and her mother died when she was four years old.[5]

She joined Shōchiku in 1934[5] 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.[5] She died on (1946-04-01)April 1, 1946 from complications of a hemorrhage due to an ectopic pregnancy at the age of 31.[5]

Michiko Kuwano appeared in nearly 90 films for Shōchiku between 1934 and 1946.[6]

Career

Kuwano was born in Shiba ward, Tokyo.[7] 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.[1][3] 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.[1] She is the mother of actress Miyuki Kuwano.[1]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ a b c d "桑野通子". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Michiko Kuwano". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 24 March 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  3. ^ a b "桑野通子". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  4. ^ "桑野通子" [Michiko Kuwano]. kotobank.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d "Archive of a site dedicated to Michiko Kuwano" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 20 June 2009. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  6. ^ "Filmography". JMDb (in Japanese). Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  7. ^ "桑野通子". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 1 November 2022.


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