Kumi Mizuno

Kumi Mizuno (水野久美, Mizuno Kumi, born 1 January 1937) is a Japanese actress, most famous for appearing in several Toho Kaiju films of the 1960s and early 1970s. Her most famous roles include Miss Namikawa in Invasion of Astro-Monster, Dr. Sueko Togami in Frankenstein Conquers the World, and the island girl Dayo in Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster. She is also known for her role as Azami in the 1959 epic The Birth of Japan. Mizuno returned to the kaiju genre for 2002's Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, and again for 2004's Godzilla: Final Wars.

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• References

Mizuno was born Maya Igarashi on 1 January 1937 in Niigata, Japan. She enrolled and eventually graduated from an acting school and began a professional career in film in 1957 in Crazy Society. By the time she started working on A Bridge for Us Alone (1958), her second movie, her name had changed to Kumi Mizuno. Mizuno first worked with director Ishiro Honda in Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers in 1959. She would later work with Honda in Attack of the Mushroom People, Frankenstein Conquers the World, Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, Gorath, Invasion of Astro-Monster and War of the Gargantuas.

In 1991, she played Kanako Yanagawa in Kihachi Okamoto's Rainbow Kids.

Films

Crazy Society (1957)

A Bridge for Us Alone (1958), Chie Kimura

A Holiday in Tokyo (1958)

The Spell of the Hidden Gold (1958)

Herringbone Clouds (1958)

The Three Treasures (1959), Azami

One Day I... (1959), Hideko Kawamura

Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers (1959)

Lips Forbidden to Talk (1959)

Fox and Tanuki (1959), Sagawa Kayoko

Whistle in My Heart (1959)

The Birth of Japan (1959), Azami

Westward Desperado (1960), Hashima

The Gambling Samurai (1960), Kiku

Wanton Journey (1960)

Challenge to Live (1961)

The Merciless Trap (1961)

The Crimson Sea (1961)

Witness Killed (1961)

Counterstroke (1961)

Big Shots Die at Dawn (1961)

The Underworld Bullet Marks (1961)

Kill the Killer! (1961)

Gorath (1962), Takiko Nomura

Chushingura (1962), Saho

The Crimson Sky (1962)

Operation X (1962)

Operation Enemy Fort (1962)

Weed of Crime (1962)

Matango (1963), Mami Sekiguchi

Samurai Pirate (1963), Miwa, Rebel Leader

Interpol Code 8 (1963), Saeko Kinomiya

Sink or Swim (1963), Tomie Tazawa

Warring Clans (1963)

Attack of the Mushroom People (1963)

Trap of Suicide Kilometer (1964)

Blood and Diamonds (1964)

Whirlwind (1964), Witch

Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965), Miss Namikawa

Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965), Sueko Togami, Doctor

Key of Keys (1965)

White Rose of Hong Kong (1965)

Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965), Dr. Sueko Togami

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966), Dayo, Ifant Islander

The War of the Gargantuas (1966), Akemi, Stewart's Assistant

The Killing Bottle (1967)

Love is in the Green Valley (1974), Mother

Mysterious Robber Ruby (1988)

Rainbow Kids (1991), Kanako Yanagawa, 1st Daughter

Graduation Journey: I Came from Japan (1993)

Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002), Machiko Tsuge, Prime Minister

Godzilla: Final Wars (2004), Akiko Namikawa, E.D.F. Commander

Television

Segodon (2018), Saigō Takamori's grandmother