Masumi Harukawa - Movies, Bio & Filmography

Meet Masumi Harukawa

★ Acting🎥 113 films📺 7 TV shows📅 1959–1993🔥 1

Also known as: 瀧川マチエ, Masumi Harukawa, Machie Takigawa

Born in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan

1935-11-16 (age 90)

Born Machie Takigawa, she was active as a dancer at the Asakusa Rock Theater under the stage name Mary Rose in the early 1950s. Due to her appearance, she was affectionately nicknamed Daruma-chan and Jumbo-chan. Soon after moving to the Nichigeki Music Hall, she was scouted by the film industry and made her acting debut in "Gurama-to no yuwaku/The Temptation of Grama Island."

Memorable in Japan for her regular role in eight of the ten Toei film series " Trucker Rascals," playing the wife of the series co-star Aikawa Kinya, among appearances in other popular cinematic serials such as Zatoichi and Tora-san. International audiences would be more familiar with her work with avant-garde directors Shōhei Imamura & Shūji Terayama.