Ranko Hanai

was a Japanese actress who appeared in about 200 films between 1929 and 1961.

Biography Hanai was born Yoshiko Shimizu in Osaka, Japan. and gave her screen debut under the name of Reiko Shimizu in 1929. and joined the Shintoho studio. During the 1950s, she also occasionally worked for Toho and other production companies, appearing in films of Mikio Naruse, Heinosuke Gosho, Kinuyo Tanaka and Kaneto Shindō. She died in 1961 at the age of 42.

Selected filmography The Million Ryo Pot (1935, dir. Sadao Yamanaka) Fallen Blossoms (1938, dir. Tamizō Ishida) Sanshiro Sugata (1943, dir. Akira Kurosawa) Ginza Cosmetics (1951, dir. Mikio Naruse) Repast (1951, dir. Mikio Naruse) Life of a Woman (1953, dir Kaneto Shindō) Love Letter (1953, dir. Kinuyo Tanaka) Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953, dir. Heinosuke Gosho) Onna no Koyomi (1954, dir. Seiji Hisamatsu) The Shiinomi School (1955, dir. Hiroshi Shimizu) A Wife's Heart (1956, dir. Mikio Naruse)