Biography
Hitomi Nozoe (11 February 1937 – 4 May 1995) was a Japanese actress. She first gained attention in ingénue roles for Shochiku, including in Sincerity (1953), and joined Daiei after appearing in the studio's 1955 national "New Faces" recruitment drive.
She became known for roles such as Kyoko Shima in Yasuzo Masumura's Giants and Toys (1958) and Aiko, the barber's daughter, in Yasujiro Ozu's Floating Weeds (1959). In 1960 she married frequent co-star Hiroshi Kawaguchi, son of writer and Daiei executive Matsutaro Kawaguchi; both largely retired from acting within a few years. After Kawaguchi's death in 1987, Nozoe published the memoir Hiroshi-san, I Did My Best (1988) and wrote and lectured on illness before her death from thyroid cancer.
