Yoshiko Yamaguchi
Yoshiko Yamaguchi (山口 淑子, Yamaguchi Yoshiko, February 12, 1920 – September 7, 2014), also known by her stage names Shirley Yamaguchi and Li Xianglan, is a China-born Japanese actress and singer who made a career in China, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United States. She was elected as a member of the Japanese Parliament in the 1970s and served for 18 years. Early in her career, the Manchukuo Film Association concealed her Japanese origin and she went by the Chinese name Li Hsiang-lan (李香蘭), rendered in Japanese as Ri Kōran. This allowed her to represent China in Japanese propaganda movies. After the war, she appeared in Japanese movies under her real name, as well as in several English language movies under the stage name, Shirley Yamaguchi. After becoming a journalist in the 1950s under the name Yoshiko Ōtaka (大鷹 淑子, Ōtaka Yoshiko), she was elected as a member of the Japanese parliament in 1974, and served for 18 years. After retiring from politics, she served as vice president of the Asian Women's Fund. She died at the age of 94 in Tokyo on September 7, 2014.
Scandal
as Miyako SaijoA celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a...
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Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
as (archive footage)A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.
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House of Bamboo
as MarikoEddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson,...
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Japanese War Bride
as Tae ShimizuA Korean war vet and his bride face subtle and sometimes extreme racism when they return to his...
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Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
as Angela, her teacherA Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued...
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Sword for Hire
as OryoSoldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind...
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Chin Ping Mei
as uncreditedChin Ping Mei 金瓶梅 (1955) is a Hong Kong feature film written by Ku Wen-Chung and directed by...
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The Legend of the White Serpent
as The White LadyLavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in...
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John Gunther's High Road
as SelfJohn Gunther, a great traveler in many parts of the globe, presented on the American ABC channel...
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Dear Soldier
as SingerTwo Korean conscripts undergo Imperial Japanese Army training, much to the pleasure of their...
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A Holiday in Tokyo
as uncreditedMay Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New...
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The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
as uncreditedLife and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the...
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The Lady of Mystery
as uncreditedSpies, Military Documents and Traitors.
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Eternity
as 凤姑The life and story of Lin Zexu and the First Opium War.
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The Monkey King
as Oriental WomanA legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan....
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Suzhou Nights
as uncreditedA hostile Chinese nurse (Yamaguchi) who works in an orphanage is won over by the care and...
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Escape at Dawn
as HarumiMikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is...
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My Nightingale
as MarikoSumida is separated from his wife and daughter when conflict erupts in Harbin. Years later, he ...
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Foghorn
as Chiyo (Hana)A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.
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Oath on the Burning Sands
as uncreditedA Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a...
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The Last Embrace
as Yukiko NogamiYukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two...
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Toyuki
as Liqin, the TypistShot mostly in Tokyo, this comedy depicts two Chinese tourists who have travelled from their...
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Navy Wife
as AkashiJapanese women, seeng how well American soldiers stationed in their country treat their wives,...
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Winter Jasmine
as uncreditedAn inept and recently graduated Japanese man begins working in the administration of Manchuria,...
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Ningen moyo
as uncreditedA love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.
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Sayon's Bell
as SayonBased on the true story of a 17-year old Atayal girl called Sayun Hayun from Nan'oku village,...
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The Ed Sullivan Show
as SelfThe Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...
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