Early life and career Sumiko Nakazawa was born on 4 November 1933 in Higashi-
Ryōgoku, an area in
Honjo, Tokyo, the eldest of the four daughters of an umbrella plating businessman. She attended kindergarten at , where she started a long friendship with
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. After graduating from in 1952, However, after receiving an employment offer at the company's
Nihonbashi store, she began working without incident. She married actor in 1956, but the next year they divorced and she temporarily left the film industry. In 1960, she returned from her hiatus due to encouragement from her Shintoho peers, appearing in . In 1961, she moved to
Tokyo Eiga after Shintoho closed, before becoming freelance in 1970. She attended Shintoho president 's funeral after he died in 1978.
Later life and death In 1999, she was awarded the and . In April 2007, she was hospitalized for testing and diagnosed with
interstitial pneumonia, lung cancer, and
pleural effusion; therefore she stepped down from the national performance of
Botan Dōrō, which was scheduled to begin on 25 May. but afterwards she was readmitted to the hospital following a relapse of cancer. It was hosted by
Jun Inoue and . •
Yukiji Asaoka •
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