Haruyo Ichikawa

{{Infobox person

| name = Haruyo Ichikawa
市川春代

| image = IchikawaHaruyo.jpg

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| caption = Haruyo Ichikawa in 1934

| birth_date = {{birth date|1913|2|9|df=y}}

| birth_place = Nagano, Japan

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2004|11|18|1913|2|9|df=y}}

| death_place = Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

| nationality = Japanese

| other_names =

| occupation = Actress, singer

}}

{{nihongo|Haruyo Ichikawa|市川春代|Ichikawa Haruyo|9 February 1913 – 18 November 2004}} was a Japanese film actress and singer.{{cite web|title=市川春代 |url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%B8%82%E5%B7%9D%20%E6%98%A5%E4%BB%A3-1669899 |website=Kotobank |access-date=2 August 2023 |language=ja}}{{cite news|title=Ichikawa Haruyo-san shikyo: joyū |url=http://www.47news.jp/CN/200411/CN2004111901000969.html |work=47 News |access-date=30 January 2012 |date=19 November 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130218124659/http://www.47news.jp/CN/200411/CN2004111901000969.html |archive-date=18 February 2013 |language=ja}}

Career

Born in the city of Nagano, Ichikawa entered the Nikkatsu studios in 1926, where she gave her film debut in Miyako no seihoku. In the 1930s, she first moved to the Shinkō Kinema film company, then to Tokyo Hassei Eiga Seisakusho (later Toho), before returning to Nikkatsu.{{cite web|title=市川春代 |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0153750.htm |website=Japanese Movie Database |access-date=2 August 2023 |language=ja}} At Tokyo Hassei Eiga Seisakusho, she starred in a number of films by Shirō Toyoda, most notably Young People (1937).

After the war, Ichikawa appeared in smaller roles in films like Kenji Mizoguchi's The Life of Oharu (1952) and Keisuke Kinoshita's The Tattered Wings (1955). She continued acting until the 1960s, appearing in a total of over 180 films. She died on 18 November 2004 at the age of 91.

Selected filmography

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{{IMDb name|0406718}}

Category:1913 births

Category:2004 deaths

Category:Japanese film actresses

Category:Japanese silent film actresses

Category:20th-century Japanese actresses

Category:Actors from Nagano Prefecture

Category:Japanese child actresses

Category:Singers from Nagano Prefecture

Category:20th-century Japanese women singers