Shizue Natsukawa

Shizue Natsukawa (夏川 静枝 / 夏川 静江, Natsukawa Shizue, 9 March 1909 – 24 January 1999) was a Japanese actress.

Shizue Natsukawa
夏川静枝
Shizue Natsukawa in 1932
Born	March 9, 1909 Tokyo, Japan
Died	January 24, 1999 (aged 89) Tokyo
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1916–1999

Career

Natsukawa was born in Tokyo and first appeared on stage at age seven.[1] She joined the Nikkatsu studio in 1927 and came to fame through such films as Kantsubaki and Kenji Mizoguchi's Tokyo March. She married the song composer Nobuo Iida and retired from acting for a while,[2][3] but returned to the screen with Shiro Toyoda's Kojima no haru. She played many secondary roles on film and television after the war.[1][2]

Both her brother Daijirō Natsukawa[4] and her daughter Kahoru Natsukawa took up acting.[5]

Selected filmography

Film

• The Glow of Life (1918)
• Tokyo March (1929)
• Spring on Leper's Island (1940)
• Love Letter (1953)
• Be Happy, These Two Lovers (1953)
• Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
• Shuzenji Monagatari (1955), Hōjō Masako

Television

• Akō Rōshi (1964)

References

1. "Natsukawa Shizue". Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus. Kōdansha. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
2. 夏川静枝さん死去. Asahi Shinbun (in Japanese). 31 January 1999. p. 31.
3. 飯田信夫氏死去「隣組」の作曲家. Asahi Shinbun (in Japanese). 21 August 1991. p. 31.
4. 夏川大二郎氏死去. Asahi Shinbun (in Japanese). 17 July 1987. p. 27.
5. 夏川かほるさん死去. Asahi Shinbun (in Japanese). 31 January 1998. p. 35.

External links

• Shizue Natsukawa at IMDb
• Shizue Natsukawa at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)