Shizue Tatsuta

Shizue Tatsuta was born in 1903 in Kaminoyama, Yamagata, right at the tail end of the Meiji era, which tells you everything about the world she was stepping into. The fact that she chose acting as a path in that time and place? That alone takes guts I can only imagine. She lived through the most turbulent stretch of modern Japanese history: two world wars, the collapse and reinvention of an entire society, the birth of sound film, the golden age of postwar cinema. Fifty-eight years, all of it. A quiet flame, as they say.

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Shizue Tatsuta (February 11, 1903 – January 21, 1962) was a Japanese actor born in Kaminoyama, Yamagata Prefecture. She starred in silent films from the late Taishō era into the early Shōwa era and retired from Shochiku in 1936 as talkies arrived, living to the age of 58. Born Shizue Shiono, she briefly attended Japan Women's University and later opened a bar in Ginza after retiring.

Name (English)

Shizue Tatsuta

Name (Japanese)

龍田静枝

Reading

たつた しずえ

Born

February 11, 1903 – January 21, 1962

Origin

Kaminoyama, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rabbit

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BE%8D%E7%94%B0%E9%9D%99%E6%9E%9D
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11679320

Tags

• From Yamagata Prefecture
• Actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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