Background
Mizuno was born Maya Igarashi on 1 January 1937 in Niigata, Japan.
水野久美
Mizuno was born Maya Igarashi on 1 January 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.
Her most famous roles include Mission Namikawa in Invasion of Astro-Monster, Doctor in Frankenstein Conquers the World, and the island girl Dayo in Godzilla versus 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 2002"s Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, and again for 2004"s Godzilla: Final Wars.
By the time she started working on A Bridge for Us Alone (1958), her second movie, her name had changed to Kumi Mizuno.
Mizuno first worked with director Ishiro Honda in Seniors, Juniors, Company-Workers in 1959. She would later work with Honda in Attack of the Mushroom People, Frankenstein Conquers the World, Godzilla versus the Sea Monster, Gorath, Invasion of Astro-Monster and War of the Gargantuas.
In 1991, she played Kanako Yanagawa in Kihachi Okamoto"s Rainbow Kids.