- Joined the Shochiku Film Company as an actress in 1924. A significant star of Japanese film in the 1930's, she became best known for her work under director Kenji Mizoguchi. Directed from 1953. Occasionally appeared in films of her husband, the director Hiroshi Shimizu.
- She has a museum dedicated to her in Japan.
- Was one of the first Japanese woman directors.
- In Japanese films from the age of 14, after brief experience in light opera.
- Joined a music troupe at age eleven.
- She appeared in several of her own films.
- Cousin of Kobayashi Masaki.
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