Masako Izumi

Her occupation list holds a word I have seen on no other actress: adventurer. A child actor from Ginza who became a 1960s screen star and won the Elan d'or newcomer prize in 1963, then, past forty, walked across the ice to the North Pole. A beloved career demands nothing that cold. She went anyway. She died in 2025.

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Name (English)

Masako Izumi

Name (Japanese)

和泉雅子

Reading

いずみ まさこ

Born

July 31, 1947

Origin

Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

actor / singer / child actor / adventurer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Boar

Blood type

A

Active years

1958 - 2025

Awards & achievements

• 1963 Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year

Works summary

Appearances

175 (1958–2008)

By year

1958: 1, 1959: 2, 1960: 2, 1961: 4, 1962: 8, 1963: 14, 1964: 9, 1965: 15, 1966: 18, 1967: 11, 1968: 10, 1969: 15, 1970: 7, 1971: 6, 1972: 2, 1973: 1, 1974: 7, 1975: 2, 1976: 2, 1977: 4, 1978: 3, 1979: 3, 1980: 1, 1981: 2, 1982: 1, 1983: 1, 1984: 3, 1989: 1, 1992: 1, 1998: 1, 2008: 2

Debut work

荒城の月

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masako%20Izumi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%92%8C%E6%B3%89%E9%9B%85%E5%AD%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11417844

Tags

• Tokyo
• actor
• singer
• child actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.