Masako Izumi

Masako Izumi (和泉 雅子) is a Japanese actress and woman adventurer. Izumi joined Wakakusa Theatre Company and started her acting career as a child actress at the age of11. Three years later, she moved to Nikkatsu Film company and she became one of the three representative actresses of the Nikkatsu called Nikkatsu Sannin Musume along with Sayuri Yoshinaga and Chieko Matsubara.

In 1963, Izumi starred Kirio Urayama's film Bad Girl and the film won a Golden Prize at the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival.

Selected filmography

 * Kojo no Tsuki (1958)
 * The Snow Flurry (1959) as Sakura Nagura
 * The Seven Challengers (1961)
 * The Love Story of Ginza (1962)
 * Bad Girl (1963) as Wakae Kita
 * Hikaru umi (1963)
 * The Bastard (1963) as Emiko Okamura
 * Wakakusa Monogatari (1964) as Chieko
 * Tattooed Life (1965) as Midori Kinoshita
 * The Society (1968) as Mineko Kobayashi
 * The Wild Sea (1969)
 * Earth Ninja Chronicles: Duel in the Wind (1979)
 * Men and War Part II (1971)
 * Blood Vendetta (1971)
 * Shin Heike Monogatari (1972) (TV series) as Yomogiko
 * Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari (1998) (TV series)