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Natto Wada (和田 夏十) It was at Toho that he met Natto Wada. Wada was a translator for Toho. They agreed to marry sometime after Ichikawa completed his directorial debut. Natto Wada's original name was Yumiko Mogi (born 13 September 1920 in Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan); the couple both had failed marriages behind them. She graduated with a degree in English Literature from Tokyo Woman's Christian University. She married Kon Ichikawa on April 10, 1948, and died on February 18, 1983 of breast cancer.[1] During the rest of her life she wrote the scripts of many of her husband's films.
- ^ James Quandt (ed.), Kon Ichikawa, Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto, 2001, page 35.