Sumiko Mizukubo

was a Japanese actress and dancer known for her roles in theatrical revue and in the Japanese cinema, primarily during the era of silent film of the early 1930s, where at the height of her fame she was billed as the Japanese Sylvia Sidney.

Biography She was born in Meguro Village, Ebara County, Tokyo Prefecture (present day Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan). Her sister Kiyoko Tagawa was a dancer.

Mizukubo attended the Senzoku High School for Girls |ja|洗足学園第一高等学校, before training at the revue and musical theatre company of Shochiku alongside other future film actors such as Yumeko Aizome and . Mizukubo acted at the Shochiku Kamata Studio and the Nikkatsu Tamagawa studios,

She made her film debut in 1932 appeared in 39 movies as a young star, including films directed by Naruse Mikio and Ozu Yasujiro. She quit film-acting in 1935, but continued to dance and appear in stage roles with the Yoshimoto Kogyo

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