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.
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Masumi Harukawa is een Japanse karakteractrice, erkend voor haar uitgebreide werk in zowel mainstream studiofranchises als avant-gardistische cinema.
Ze staat bekend om haar optredens in Shohei Imamura's The Insect Woman en diverse populaire Japanse filmseries.
Ze werkte samen met prominente Japanse filmmakers, waaronder Shohei Imamura en Shuji Terayama. Volledige filmografie op Mood.
