| Michiko Kuwano | |
| Birth Date: | 4 January 1915 |
| Birth Place: | Shiba, Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation: | Actress |
| Years Active: | 1934–1946 |
was a Japanese film actress.[1] [2] [3]
Michiko Kuwano was born on 4 January 1915 in the former municipality of Shiba-ku, which is now located in the Minato ward in Tokyo.[4] Her father was a chef, and her mother died when she was four years old.[5]
She joined Shōchiku in 1934[5] and made her first film with Hiroshi Shimizu, a director with whom she collaborated numerous times.
She gave birth in to Miyuki Kuwano, who would later become an actress.
On, she fainted during the filming of Victory of Women by Kenji Mizoguchi.[5] She died on from complications of a hemorrhage due to an ectopic pregnancy at the age of 31.[5]
Michiko Kuwano appeared in nearly 90 films for Shōchiku between 1934 and 1946.[6]
Kuwano was born in Shiba ward, Tokyo.[7] After graduating from Mita High School in 1932, she first worked as a "sweets girl" for Morinaga & Company before entering the Shochiku film studios in 1934, where she gave her debut in Hiroshi Shimizu's Eclipse. In addition to many films directed by Shimizu, she starred in films by Yasujirō Ozu and Yasujirō Shimazu. In 1946, she collapsed on the set of Kenji Mizoguchi's Victory of Women. She is the mother of actress Miyuki Kuwano.