Sumiko Suzuki

Born in 1904 — the same year the Wright brothers were making history — Sumiko Suzuki came into the world right as cinema itself was being invented, which means she lived through literally every era of the craft: silents, talkies, the war years, postwar reconstruction, and on into the television age before she passed in 1985 at 80. That kind of longevity across a medium's entire transformation is genuinely staggering to me. She was famous in her day as the "ghost-cat actress," the star of Japan's bakeneko horror films, and the atmosphere of whole decades of Japanese film is built on performers exactly like her. I just have a lot of respect for anyone who kept showing up through all of it.

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Sumiko Suzuki (1904–1985) was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo on October 26, 1904. She was active during the Taisho and Showa eras, a period that spanned the silent film age through postwar Japanese cinema and stage. She passed away on January 18, 1985, at the age of 80. She became famous as the "ghost-cat actress" for her roles in bakeneko films.

Name (English)

Sumiko Suzuki

Name (Japanese)

鈴木澄子

Reading

すずき すみこ

Born

October 26, 1904 – January 18, 1985

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dragon

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%88%B4%E6%9C%A8%E6%BE%84%E5%AD%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11649053

Tags

• Tokyo
• Actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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