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Occupation
  
Actress

Albums
  
Mitsuko Mori

Role
  
Actress

Name
  
Mitsuko Mori

Years active
  
1935–2012


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Born
  
May 9, 1920 (
1920-05-09
)
Tokyo, Japan

Died
  
November 10, 2012, Tokyo, Japan

Spouse
  
Yoshihiko Okamoto (m. 1959–1963)

Movies
  
Princess Mononoke, Two in the Shadow, Lost Spring

Similar People
  
Hisaya Morishige, Yoshihiko Okamoto, Noriyuki Higashiyama, Ken Takakura, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

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Mitsuko Mori (森 光子, Mori Mitsuko, May 9, 1920 – November 10, 2012), real name Mitsu Murakami (村上美津, Murakami Mitsu), was a Japanese actress. In May 2009, she became the first actor in Japan to have performed the stage play Hōrōki (放浪記, "A Wanderer's Notebook") 2,000 times. She was born in Kyoto, Japan.

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Mitsuko Mori actress Mitsuko Mori dies at 92 They Didnt Japanese

On May 11, 2009, Takeo Kawamura announced that Mori would be awarded the People's Honour Award.

Mori died of heart failure on November 10, 2012, at a hospital in Tokyo, aged 92.

Film

  • Lost Spring (1967) – Hatsu
  • Princess Mononoke (1997) – Hii-sama (voice)
  • Sennen no Koi Story of Genji (2001) – Sei Shōnagon

    • Television drama

  • Onna tachi no Hyakuman goku (1988) – Maeda Matsu
  • Nene: Onna Taikōki (2009)

    • Dubbing

  • Murder, She Wrote – Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury)

    • Honours

  • Medal with Purple Ribbon (1984)
  • Order of the Sacred Treasure, 3rd class, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon (1992)
  • Person of Cultural Merit (1998)
  • Order of Culture (2005)
  • People's Honour Award (2009)
  • Junior Third Rank (2012; posthumous)

    • References

    Mitsuko Mori Wikipedia
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