Ikuko Mōri

Ikuko Mori was born in 1933 in Sukumo, Kochi, won a hot-spring inn beauty contest in 1955, and joined Daiei as a New Face in 1956. Billed as a glamour actress, she moved to the studio's Kyoto lot and became a fixture of kaidan horror and period films, including the Zatoichi and Nemuri Kyoshiro series, and her long-necked rokurokubi in the studio's yokai films is still remembered. Her career ended in December 1969, when she fatally stabbed the married man she had been involved with; she served about three years and never returned to the screen. The films remain, and so does the rest of her story, and I don't think either should be told without the other.

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Ikuko Mōri is a Japanese former actress born on April 25, 1933, in Sukumo, Kochi Prefecture. Born under the Taurus zodiac sign in the Year of the Rooster, she belongs to a generation of performers who came of age in the prewar and postwar eras of Japanese entertainment. Billed as a glamour actress, she joined Daiei as a New Face in 1956 and appeared in nearly 100 films, including kaidan horror and the Zatoichi and Nemuri Kyoshiro series, until 1969. In December 1969 she fatally stabbed the married man she had been seeing, served about three years in prison, and did not return to show business after her release.

Name (English)

Ikuko Mōri

Name (Japanese)

毛利郁子

Reading

もうり いくこ

Born

April 25, 1933 (age 93)

Origin

Kochi Prefecture, Japan

Height

160 cm

Occupation

Actress

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rooster

Active years

1956 - 1969

Works summary

Appearances

97 (1957–1969)

By year

1957: 3, 1958: 9, 1959: 13, 1960: 8, 1961: 8, 1962: 10, 1963: 8, 1964: 9, 1965: 4, 1966: 5, 1967: 5, 1968: 9, 1969: 6

Debut work

The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AF%9B%E5%88%A9%E9%83%81%E5%AD%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11547696

Tags

• Actress

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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