---
name: "Hitomi Nozoe"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hitomi-nozoe"
fi1m_id: "hitomi-nozoe"
imdb_id: "nm0637603"
tmdb_id: 1185123
wikidata_id: "Q11645806"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "11 February 1937"
died: "4 May 1995"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T08:59:18.788583+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Hitomi Nozoe

## Identity

Hitomi Nozoe

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hitomi-nozoe
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hitomi-nozoe
- **IMDb ID:** nm0637603
- **TMDB ID:** 1185123
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11645806
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitomi_Nozoe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11645806, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0637603/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1185123

Actor. Born 11 February 1937 in Tokyo, Japan. Died 4 May 1995.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 11 February 1937, Tokyo, Japan
- **Died:** 4 May 1995
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitomi_Nozoe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11645806, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0637603/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1185123

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Floating Weeds*](https://film.one/film/floating-weeds.md) (84)

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## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Floating Weeds* (1959), Fi1m 84, as Aiko — [page](https://film.one/film/floating-weeds.md)

## Complete filmography (67)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape* (1971), Actor
- *Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers* (1969), Actor
- *The Private Police* (1969), Actor
- *Outlaw: Kill!* (1969), Actor
- *Territory of the Night* (1967), Actor
- *The Venus' Tear* (1962), Actor
- *Closing Time* (1962), as Setsuko Matsuno
- *Mito Komon’s Journey to Ezo* (1961), as Nosappu
- *Les Mesdemoiselles* (1961), as Chieko Hanamura
- *Marriageable Age* (1961), Actor
- *The Ginza Three Boys* (1961), as Setsuko
- *Dare yori mo kimi o aisu* (1960), Actor
- *The Last Betrayal* (1960), as Yōko Komie
- *Patterns of Love* (1960), as Chidori Akagi
- *Victory and Defeat* (1960), as Yoko, Muneo's sister
- *Ah Special Attack Corps* (1960), Actor
- *A Woman's Testament* (1960), Actor
- *The Grave Tells All* (1960), Actor
- *Floating Weeds* (1959), as Aiko — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/floating-weeds.md)
- *Utamaro, Painter of the Woman* (1959), Actor
- *The White Road Across the River* (1959), Actor
- *Beauty the Enemy* (1959), as Kaoru Shimizu
- *The Person I Chose* (1959), Actor
- *Goodbye, Hello* (1959), as Michiko Aota
- *Disobedience* (1958), as Kaneko Ema
- *The Snowy Heron* (1958), Actor
- *Musume no boken* (1958), Actor
- *The Lowest Man* (1958), as Hideko Yamabe
- *Tainted Flowers* (1958), Actor
- *Giants and Toys* (1958), as Kyoko Shima
- *The Precipice* (1958), Actor
- *Mother* (1958), Actor
- *Shogun's Holiday* (1958), Actor
- *Shiroi akuma* (1958), Actor
- *Chance Meeting* (1958), as Kana Shinohara
- *Makeraremasen katsumadewa* (1958), Actor
- *Forbidden Lips* (1958), Actor
- *Warm Current* (1957), as Keiko Shima
- *On This Earth* (1957), as Wakako Yoshikura
- *Kisses* (1957), as Akiko Shirakawa
- *A Case of Honor* (1957), Actor
- *Typhoon Over Nagasaki* (1957), Actor
- *Young Lovers* (1957), Actor
- *Typhoon Furor* (1956), Actor
- *Here It is Quiet* (1956), Actor
- *Shochiku Festival: All-Star Lineup – Studio Express / The Birth of an Actress* (1956), Actor
- *俺は死なない* (1956), Actor
- *Twice on a Certain Night* (1956), Actor
- *Ai to chie no wa* (1956), Actor
- *Every Day That New Life* (1955), Actor
- *Youth* (1955), Actor
- *Christ in Bronze* (1955), as Ocho
- *Yukiko* (1955), Actor
- *Twilight Saloon* (1955), as Yuki Noguchi
- *Beautiful Days* (1955), as Kikuko
- *Sisters* (1955), Actor
- *A Woman's Life* (1955), as Midori, Aoshima's younger sister
- *Kenkagarasu* (1954), Actor
- *Between Yesterday and Tomorrow* (1954), Actor
- *Always in My Heart Part 3* (1954), Actor
- *Sunny house* (1954), as Natsuko
- *Kyūkon sannin musume* (1954), Actor
- *Always in My Heart Part 2* (1953), Actor
- *Always in My Heart* (1953), Actor
- *Aiyoku no sabaki* (1953), Actor
- *Omokage no uta* (1953), Actor
- *Sincere Heart* (1953), Actor

## Gallery

- ![野添ひとみ（1954年）](https://film.one/media/person/3877001/gallery-722a9cc97ccc.jpg) 野添ひとみ（1954年） — 産業経済新聞社（Sankei Shinbun Co., Ltd.）, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Nozoe-Hitomi-1.jpg/1280px-Nozoe-Hitomi-1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![From L to R: Hitomi Nozoe, Hiroshi Kawaguchi in "Oyafuko Dōri" (1958) - publicity still (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/3877001/gallery-d2c0ed91640b.jpg) From L to R: Hitomi Nozoe, Hiroshi Kawaguchi in "Oyafuko Dōri" (1958) - publicity still (2014) — Daiei Motion Picture Company （大映株式会社）, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Oyafuko_D%C5%8Dri.1958.jpg/1280px-Oyafuko_D%C5%8Dri.1958.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Hitomi Nozoe](https://film.one/media/person/3877001/gallery-ff90f6a1c35a.jpg) Hitomi Nozoe — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Hitomi_Nozoe.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![『台風騒動記』。野添ひとみ、菅原謙次。 (1958)](https://film.one/media/person/3877001/gallery-56d3a2963e83.jpg) 『台風騒動記』。野添ひとみ、菅原謙次。 (1958) — Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Sugawara-Kenji-2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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