Actress Mitsuyo Asaka (real name Akiko Kitaoka = Shoko Kitaoka), a star of a women’s sword game, died of pancreatic cancer in a Tokyo hospital on the 13th. She was 92 years old.

According to a person familiar with the matter, he was hospitalized in October, but was well enough to be interviewed for the NHK-BS program that will air on December 22 at the beginning of the same month. In fact, he was married to comedian Seishi Bonta.

In May 2018, Asaka held a “graduation celebration” at a Tokyo hotel and showed off her spirited appearance in front of Kinichi Hagimoto, Akiko Shanto, and others. In December of the same year, the non-fiction book “Whole Body Entertainer” was published. He attended the publication’s commemorative talk. Seishi said, “I am the sixth owner of Mitsuyo Asaka. It has been 28 years since I lived together. There should be three differences, but actually, six were different.” I was showing a passage.

Asaka became the president of the fencing company “Asaka Mitsuyo Ichiza” at the age of 14 in 1942 (Showa 17) during the war. Renowned for their precocious and precocious talent, he and Michiko Oe created a boom in the “female sword game”, and the production of “screeching”, in which the thighs were glimpsed in the play, was also popular.

After the war, Shinsuke Sanba and Mutsuo Totsuka, who gathered a large number of spectators and later formed the Tempuku Trio, also temporarily signed up. With the decline of female fencing, she began to appear as an actress in the dramas “Kanako” and “Nanairo Tongarashi” and in the films “Sachiko no Sachi” and “Sunny, sometimes murder”.

She also appeared on variety shows and in 1999 caused a “Satchie uproar” in which she criticized and quarreled with Ms. Sachiyo Nomura, the director’s wife, and was actively involved in the extensive shows on each station. Furthermore, in 2014, she announced in a women’s magazine that “there is a secret boy who gave birth at the age of twenty,” and his father was also “a married politician who was prime minister (deceased) and gave his son a name. “. I have not disclosed it, “he once made a shocking confession.

◆ Mitsuyo Asaka Born in Tokyo on February 20, 1928 (Showa 3). He joined the theater company at age 9 and formed the “Asaka Mitsuyo Ichiza” at age 14. She became a central member of the heyday of women’s fencing. He appeared in movies and dramas, and is also active in variety shows. His nickname is Mitchie. Asahi Sun Somitsusho in 2009.