Kumi Mizuno

Kumi Mizuno is a Japanese actress, most famous for appearing in several Toho Kaiju films of the 1960s and early 1970s. Her most famous roles include Miss Namikawa in Invasion of AstroMonster, Dr. Sueko Togami in Frankenstein Conquers the World, and the island girl Dayo in Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster. She is also known for her role as Azami in the 1959 epic The Birth of Japan. Mizuno returned to the kaiju genre for 2002s Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, and again for 2004s Godzilla Final Wars.

Mizuno was born Maya Igarashi onJanuary 1937 in Niigata, Japan. She enrolled and eventually graduated from an acting school and began a professional career in film in 1957 in Crazy Society. By the time she started working on A Bridge for Us Alone , her second movie, her name had changed to Kumi Mizuno. Mizuno first worked with director Ishiro Honda in Seniors, Juniors, CoWorkers in 1959. She would later work with Honda in Attack of the Mushroom People, Frankenstein Conquers the World, Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, Gorath, Invasion of AstroMonster and War of the Gargantuas.

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