Sumiko Mizukubo

Sumiko Mizukubo was born in Tokyo in 1916, right in the thick of the Taisho era, and that alone makes my head spin a little. This is someone who came of age when cinema was still young and silent, when a performer's entire world was the stage or a single flickering reel — no YouTube clips, no streaming replays, just the moment itself and whatever impression you left on the people in that room. I don't know her filmography well enough to cite specific titles with confidence, but there's something that pulls at me about actors from that generation: they had to carry everything in their body and their presence, no retakes to fall back on, no algorithm to give them a second life.

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Sumiko Mizukubo was a Japanese actor born on October 10, 1916, in Tokyo, Japan. She was active during an era that spanned the late Taisho and Showa periods, a formative time for Japanese film and stage performance. She joined the Tokyo Shochiku revue troupe in 1930 and moved into film at Shochiku's Kamata studio in 1932, later working at Nikkatsu's Tamagawa studio.

Name (English)

Sumiko Mizukubo

Name (Japanese)

水久保澄子

Reading

みずくぼ すみこ

Born

October 10, 1916

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dragon

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B4%E4%B9%85%E4%BF%9D%E6%BE%84%E5%AD%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11548258

Tags

• from Tokyo
• actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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