Yōko Yaguchi
Born Kiyo Katō, August 27, 1921 in British Hong Kong – February 1, 1985 in Fukuoka was a Japanese actress, and the wife of Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa for 39 years. She had two children with Kurosawa: a son named Hisao and a daughter named Kazuko.
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Yōko Yaguchi
東寶映畫社 · 『東寶映畫』1940年4月下旬号。発行所： 東寶映畫社 。 · Public domain
- Name
- Yōko Yaguchi
- Birth Name
- Kiyo Katō
- Born
- 27 August 1921
- Birthplace
- British Hong Kong
- Died
- 1 February 1985
- Place of death
- Fukuoka, Japan
- Full name
- 加藤 喜代.
- Nationality
- Japan and Empire of Japan.
- Occupation
- actress.
- Languages
- Japanese.
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• Name — Yōko Yaguchi • Birth Name — Kiyo Katō • Born — 27 August 1921 • Birthplace — British Hong Kong • Died — 1 February 1985 • Place of death — Fukuoka, Japan • Children — Kazuko Kurosawa Hisao Kurosawa
Personal life
Personal life
While working on Akira Kurosawa's second film, The Most Beautiful, Yaguchi clashed over the alleged ways the director treated the actors. However, the pair found a connection, despite these clashes, and married in 1945. Their son Hisao was born that same year. Yaguchi never returned to acting after her marriage to Akira Kurosawa, effectively ending her film career.
Partial filmography
Partial filmography
• Renga joko (1940) • Enoken no songokū: songokū zenko-hen (Enoken's Sun Wukong) (1940) • Jogakusei-ki (1941) • The Most Beautiful (1944)
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Shanghai.
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- 1.Note : Wikipédia en japonais indique comme lieu de naissance Hong Kong (colonie) tandis que d'autres sources comme IMDb indiquent Shanghai.
- 2.Filmographie. JMDb.
- 3.Akira Kurosawa. Rowman & Littlefield. 2018. 978-1-5381-1090-4.
- 4.100 Great War Movies. ABC-CLIO. 2018. 978-1-4408-3386-1.
- 5.La Fille de l'usine de briques (1946) : titre français du film lors de la rétrospective « 100 ans de cinéma japonais (1ère partie) » du 26 septembre au 22 octobre 2018 à la Cinémathèque française.
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