Yumiko Nogawa

I've got a real soft spot for actresses like Yumiko Nogawa, the kind who came up through Japan's postwar studio era when filmmaking was scrappy and physical and you had to actually mean it on camera. A Kyoto woman born in 1944, she's been working for the better part of forever, and that longevity tells you something the stats never could: she's a survivor of an industry that chewed people up. What I love about performers from that generation is the density of presence. There's a stillness, a lived-in gravity, that modern training just doesn't manufacture. She's not loud about herself, no flashy social media, none of the noise, and honestly I respect that quiet. To me she reads as the genuine article, all backbone and understated steel, and I'm just glad she's still around.

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Yumiko Nogawa is a Japanese actress born on August 30, 1944, in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. She stands 160 cm tall and has built a career spanning several decades in the Japanese film and entertainment industry. She is known as a veteran screen actress with roots in the golden era of Japanese cinema. She made her film debut in Gate of Flesh (1964) for Nikkatsu and is represented by Office Tendo.

Name (English)

Yumiko Nogawa

Name (Japanese)

野川由美子

Reading

のがわ ゆみこ

Born

August 30, 1944 (age 82)

Origin

Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Height

160cm

Occupation

Actress

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Monkey

Blood type

A

Active years

1963 -

Works summary

Appearances

277 (1962–2016)

By year (titles with a known year)

1962: 2, 1963: 3, 1964: 16, 1965: 19, 1966: 18, 1967: 25, 1968: 11, 1969: 13, 1970: 5, 1971: 10, 1972: 7, 1973: 3, 1974: 3, 1975: 2, 1976: 6, 1977: 4, 1978: 2, 1979: 1, 1980: 4, 1981: 5, 1982: 10, 1983: 4, 1984: 4, 1985: 3, 1986: 6, 1987: 3, 1988: 2, 1989: 1, 1990: 2, 1991: 3, 1992: 4, 1994: 1, 1995: 2, 1996: 1, 1997: 4, 1999: 3, 2001: 1, 2002: 2, 2003: 4, 2004: 3, 2005: 2, 2006: 4, 2007: 5, 2008: 3, 2009: 1, 2010: 2, 2012: 1, 2013: 1, 2016: 1, year unknown: 35

Debut work

裏をたどれ

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%8E%E5%B7%9D%E7%94%B1%E7%BE%8E%E5%AD%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8061126

Tags

• From Kyoto Prefecture
• Actress

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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