She was raised in the household of her older sister and her brother-in-law, writer Mizutani Chikushi [ja], whose family name she also used.

[4] There is an audio recording of her performing in 1929, in Shishi ni Kuwareru Onna (The Woman Eaten by a Lion).

[12] She played the tragic title role in two adaptations of Taii no musume (The Captain's Daughter), in 1929 and 1936.

[10] In 1941 she starred in Hiroshi Shimizu's Utajo Oboegaki (Notes of an Itinerant Performer), playing an actress who becomes a tutor in a tea merchant's household.

In her last screen performances, Mizutani was a regular cast member on the television program Hyôketsu (Missing, 1962–1966).

[1] Journalist Takao Tokuoka [ja] commented that "She was invariably attractive, and at the same time expressive, as great actresses always are, of eternal womanhood.