Yōko Yaguchi | |
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Personal details | |
Born | Kiyo Katō August 27, 1921 |
Died | February 1, 1985 | (aged 63)
Nationality | Japanese |
Spouse | |
Children | Kazuko Kurosawa Hisao Kurosawa |
Yōko Yaguchi (矢口 陽子, Yaguchi Yōko, born Kiyo Katō, 27 August 1921 in British Hong Kong[1] – 1 February 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.[2]
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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.[3] Their son Hisao was born that same year.
Partial filmography
- Renga joko (1940)
- Enoken no songokū: songokū zenko-hen (Enoken's Sun Wukong) (1940)
- Jogakusei-ki (1941)
- The Most Beautiful (1944)
References
- ^ "矢口陽子 - 映画ならKinenote".
- ^ Kurosawa grandchildren
- ^ San Juan, Eric (2018). Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 12. ISBN 9781538110904.
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