Mitsuko Yoshikawa

{{short description|Japanese actress}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Mitsuko Yoshikawa

| image = Mitsuko Yoshikawa.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Mitsuko Yoshikawa in Apart From You

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1901|6|21|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Tokyo, Japan

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1991|8|8|1901|6|21|df=yes}}

| death_place = Tokyo, Japan

| nationality = Japanese

| other_names =

| known_for =

| occupation = Actress

| years_active =1926-1984

}}

{{nihongo|Mitsuko Yoshikawa|吉川 満子|Yoshikawa Mitsuko|21 June 1901 – 8 August 1991}} was a Japanese actress{{cite web |title=吉川 満子 |url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%90%89%E5%B7%9D%20%E6%BA%80%E5%AD%90-1658312 |website=Kotobank |language=ja |access-date=1 November 2022}} who played in over 250 films, often under the direction of Yasujirō Ozu and Hiroshi Shimizu.{{cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0074400.htm |title=吉川満子 |website=Japanese Movie Database |language=ja |access-date=1 November 2022}}

She joined the Shochiku film studios in 1924 and gave her film debut in 1926 in Kujaku no hikari. After the war, she became a freelancer and, besides working for Shochiku, appeared in productions of Toho, Shintoho, Daiei and other studios She gave her final performance in 1984 in Juzo Itami's The Funeral.{{cite web|url=http://www.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/person.aspx?person_id=92046 |title=吉川満子 |website=Kinenote |language=ja |access-date=1 November 2022}}