Hiroko Mita

Hiroko Mita arrived in the early 1980s as one of Japan's classic clean-cut idols, an actress and singer who broke through with the school drama 2-nen B-gumi Senpachi Sensei and the film Kakete Kita Shojo. What interests me is not the debut but everything after it. A performer who once stood at the center of the frame married into the world of kabuki, a tradition where the family name outweighs any individual, and took on the work of supporting someone else's career. That is a harder adjustment than it sounds, and plenty of people never manage it. Yet whenever she turns up on television she is warm, quick and completely unsentimental about any of it. Born in Kyoto in 1966, she has stayed visible for four decades without ever seeming to fight for the spotlight, and that is its own kind of skill.

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Name (English)

Hiroko Mita

Name (Japanese)

三田寛子

Reading

みた ひろこ

Born

January 27, 1966 (age 60)

Origin

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Height

160 cm

Occupation

actor / singer / tarento

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Horse

Blood type

B

Agency

プントリネア

Active years

1980 -

Spouse

八代目 中村芝翫

Works summary

Appearances

258 (1980–2025)

By year

1980: 1, 1981: 1, 1982: 10, 1983: 11, 1984: 14, 1985: 14, 1986: 10, 1987: 12, 1988: 7, 1989: 6, 1990: 9, 1991: 9, 1992: 2, 1993: 1, 1995: 1, 1998: 1, 1999: 1, 2000: 2, 2002: 1, 2004: 1, 2015: 1, 2016: 2, 2017: 1, 2018: 1, 2019: 1, 2022: 1, 2024: 1, 2025: 1

Debut work

DIGIC DECK TC-FX6

Filmography / notable works

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mita.hiroko_official/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroko%20Mita
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E7%94%B0%E5%AF%9B%E5%AD%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3545816

Tags

• Kyoto Prefecture
• actor
• singer
• tarento

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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