Kumi Mizuno

Godzilla, Ebirah, Mothra: A Great Duel In The South Seas (1966)

International secret police mortal life(1967)

Kumi Mizuno is a Japanese film actress famous for staring in Toho Godzilla films in the 1960s-1970s.

## Personality

Born in Sanjo City , Niigata Prefecture . Graduated from Niigata Prefectural Sanjo East High School . While in high school, he belonged to the drama club, played the heroine for three consecutive years at the recital, and was ranked first in Miss Junior Soraiyu, sponsored by the teenager magazine Junior Soriiyu . My family runs a photo studio.

1957 , Shochiku debut in the movie "Mad villages". Giant Baba is a friend of the same town from before Tokyo, and he lived in the same apartment when he was in the loading stage. In 1958 , Toho joined. 1959 , troupe Haiyuza graduated from the training school as an eighth graduating class.

Still, it was before overseas travel liberalization in 1960 , it was held until August 2, from the same July 27, Caracas for the Toho Film Festival, South America of Venezuela has visited. Then , I attended the opening ceremony of Toho La Brea Theater, which opened in Los Angeles , USA on August 5th.

In 1963, he left Toho and became free. Since then, he has appeared in numerous films including TV drama and stage. It was called " **Japanese Francoise Arnour** " because of its **bewitching** beauty  .

In the 1960s, he appeared in many Toho special effects movies as a bewitching vamp, and he still has a lot of enthusiastic fans. 1998 is the " monster large war played in," " X Alien of" figures have been released. When he appeared in " Tetsuko's Room ", he touched on this and commented , "I **have** played **Martians** a long time ago ."

2002 "of The War of the Gargantuas appeared on the audio commentary in" DVD at launch, from the fact that he said "And you want to appear on special effects movie," 2002 "of Godzilla × Mechagodzilla appeared on". In 2004, he appeared in the role of Reiko Namikawa, who has the same name as "Kaiju Taisen" in " Godzilla Final Wars ".

In private life, he married actor Yamamoto Manabu in 1964, but later divorced. 1973 to CAL producer of Michio Igarashi was married ( 1999 bereavement in). The eldest son (the only son) with Igarashi is a former actor (currently moderator) Junichi Mizuno . Junichi has appeared in "Godzilla x Mechagodzilla" as a parent and child.

In 2012, the first autobiographical book “Actress Kumi Mizuno Kaiju, Action, Melodrama Yosei” ( co-authored with Naofumi Higuchi / Yosensha) was published, and to celebrate this, the “Kumi Mizuno Film Festival” will be held in Ginza Cinepatos.

2017 , the 72nd Mainichi Film Award at Kinuyo Tanaka won the prize.

— Kumi Mizuno

## Films

* Mad Buraku (1957, Shochiku )
* Nemikashiro Murai Hell (also known as Nemokushiro 1958, Toho )
* Young girls (1958, Toho)
* Furyu Onsen Diary (1958, Takarazuka Movie )
* The young husband is the third generation (1958, Toho)
* A bridge for two people (1958, Toho)
* Executive Chair (Toho, 1958)
* Sardines (1958, Toho)
* Who is the finger man (1958, Toho)
* Holiday in Tokyo (1958, Toho)
* Continued New Japan Chindo Middle East Volume (1958, Shintoho )
* Kotan's Whistles (1959, Toho)
* I want to be a shellfish (1959, Toho)
* Young Husband Will Do Great (1959, Toho)
* Fox and raccoon dog (1959, Toho)
* Employee unrequited angry version (1959, Toho)
* Birth of Japan (1959, Toho)-Sakon
* The bride is the best in the world (1959, Tokyo movie )
* Counterattack by Employees (1959, Toho)
* One day I (Toho, 1959)
* Superior/Lower/Same Role (1959, Toho)
* President Taihei (1959, Toho)
* Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei Iki no Maki (1960, Toho)
* Separate Song (1960, Toho)
* Independence troupe west (1960, Toho)
* Salary Girl Readers Employees (1960, Toho)
* Salaryman's Opinion Note Useless (1960, Toho)
* New Third Executive Director Volume on Education (1960, Toho)
* Tadashi Kunikata (1960, Toho)
* Ginza Bored Musume (1960, Toho)
* Salaryman's Opinion 帖 A big deal for a man (1960, Toho)
* Black petals (1960, Tokyo movie)
* Contemporary office worker Love Bushido (1960, Toho)
* New employee tenth game (1961, Toho)
* The Trap of Uselessness (1961, Toho)
* Bullet holes in the underworld (Toho, 1961)
* Blue night fog challenge (Toho, 1961)
* Set a career path (1961, Toho)
* BG story Twenty-year-old design (1961, Toho)
* As a wife and as a woman (1961, Toho)
* Order to destroy the underworld (1961, Toho)
* Cliff duel (1961, Takarazuka movie)
* Love and fire (1961, Toho)
* Red Sea (Toho, 1961)
* Die in the face role (Toho, 1961)
* Red Sky (1962, Toho)
* Rooster Jailbreak Prisoner (1962, Toho)
* As long as there is tomorrow (1962, Tokyo movie)
* Chushingura Flower and Snow Rolls (1962, Toho)
* Women themselves (1962, Toho)
* Our failure (1962, Toho)
* Fang of the Underworld (1962, Toho)
* Operation Dobu Mouse (1962, Toho)
* Break through the woman difficulty course (1962, Toho)
* Yamaneko Operation (1962, Toho)
* There is a woman in that place (1962, Toho)
* Gosei Goras (Toho, 1962) -Takiko Nomura
* Succeeding new employee tenth game Salaryman one-sword style (1962, Toho)
* International Secret Police Directive No. 8 (1963, Toho)
* Our office worker (1963, Takarazuka movie)
* Matango (1963, Toho) -Asami Sekiguchi
* Samurai (1963, Toho)
* Bandit (1963, Toho)
* Ichi or Bachi (1963, Toho)
* International Secret Police Tiger Fang (1964, Toho)
* International secret police barrel of gunpowder (1964, Toho)
* Operation Ant Hell (1964, Takarazuka movie)
* Blood and Diamond (1964, Takarazuka Movie)
* Shiryo Mado Dairyumaki (1964, Takarazuka movie)
* Frankenstein vs. Underground Monster (1965, Toho)-Kiko Togami
* Hong Kong White Rose (1965, Toho = Taiwan Province Television)
* Godzilla series (Toho)
	+ King Ghidorah vs. Godzilla: The Giant Monster War (1965)-Ms. Nagawa
	+ Godzilla, Ebirah, Mothra: A Great Duel In The South Seas (1966)-Dayo
	+ Godzilla x Mechagodzilla (2002)-Machiko Tsuge
	+ Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)-Reiko Namikawa
* Frankenstein's Monster Sanda vs. Gaira (1966, Toho)-Akemi Togawa
* International Secret Police Desperate Life (1967, Toho)
* Heiji Zenigata ( Toei , 1967 )
* Watanabe Retsuden (1969, Toei)
* Record of fresh blood (1970, Nikkatsu )
* Female leader (1970, Daiei )
* Abu Sen (1970, Daiei)
* Female Police Disordered Butterfly (1970, Nikkatsu)
* Love is in the green wind (Toho, 1974)
* Female (1974, Shochiku)
* Cheering songs of the souls The final battle of Waseda (1979, Toho)
* Glitter season (1980, joint movie)
* Night train (1987, Toei)
* Kaito Ruby (1988, Victor Music Industry)
* Stupid! 2 I want to be happy. Episode 4: "Woman Takes Toshi" (1989, Mitsuwa International)
* Gold Rush (1990, Wanibooks-K Management Office)
* Embraced by the wind of Florence (1991, Toei Classic Film)
* Large Kidnapping (1991, "Large Kidnapping" Production Committee)
* Graduation trip I came from Japan (1993, Toho = Bandai Visual)
* I am Reiko Shiratori! (Toei=Fuji TV, 1995)
* The man who wipes the mirror (2004, Japan Skyway = Pal project)
* Blue sky in Japan (2007, indies)
* Fumiko's Sea (2007, Indies)
* A place anywhere in the world (2011)
* Centennial clock (2012)
* Intermission (2013)
* Cairin (2017)
* Amanogawa (2018)-Kinoe Kaminozono

### Dubbing

* Dubbed Japanese Version: Detective Colombo Farewell Admiral (Joanna: Diane Baker).

### Other

* DVD Frankenstein's Kaiju Sanda vs. Gaira (voice bonus audio commentary)
* Nippon Yakushido TV Shopping "Lark Seven"

## Notes

1. Risori Kiritsu " Ishirō Honda Uncrowned Master," Yosensha 2014. In 402p of this book, it is stated that there is a sentence introducing Mizuno as "Japanese Arnur" in the " Matango " theater pamphlet.
2. Fukaumi Nakamura/"Eternal Toho Movie Actor" Kumi Mizuno Interview, Kumagai Shobo, 2014.