Yumiko Hasegawa

Born in Tokyo at the tail end of 1924, Yumiko Hasegawa lived through basically all of it — the militarism, the war, the rubble, the economic miracle, the bubble — and kept acting through the whole thing. That's not a career, that's a life's work in the truest sense. There's something about performers from that generation that I find genuinely humbling: they didn't have the safety net of social media goodwill or a streaming platform to revive a forgotten filmography, they just had to be good and show up and earn it, decade after decade. I don't know her best roles well enough to name-drop them, but I don't need to; the fact that she stayed in the craft through all that says more than any award ever could. Gone since 2010, and quietly irreplaceable.

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Yumiko Hasegawa (December 8, 1924 – July 27, 2010) was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo. She was active during the Showa era, a period of sweeping social and political change in Japan. She passed away in 2010, leaving behind a career that spanned much of the twentieth century.

Name (English)

Yumiko Hasegawa

Name (Japanese)

長谷川裕見子

Reading

はせがわ ゆみこ

Born

December 8, 1924 – July 27, 2010

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Actress

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rat

Active years

1950s - 1970s

Spouse

船越英二

Works summary

Appearances

26 (1950–1974)

By year

1950: 1, 1951: 1, 1954: 1, 1955: 2, 1956: 2, 1957: 3, 1958: 5, 1959: 3, 1961: 1, 1963: 1, 1964: 1, 1965: 1, 1966: 1, 1968: 1, 1974: 1

Debut work

傷だらけの男

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%95%B7%E8%B0%B7%E5%B7%9D%E8%A3%95%E8%A6%8B%E5%AD%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11653973

Tags

• from Tokyo
• actress

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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