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Исудзу Ямада
ایسوزو یامادا
Isuzu Yamada
Acting
Biography
Isuzu Yamada (山田 五十鈴, Yamada Isuzu, 5 February 1917 – 9 July 2012) was a Japanese stage and screen actress whose career spanned seven decades.
Yamada was born in Osaka as Mitsu Yamada, the daughter of Kusudu Yamada, a shinpa actor specialising in onnagata roles, and Ritsu, a geisha. Yamada debuted as a film actress in 1930 at age twelve, appearing in the Nikkatsu film Tsurugi wo koete. She soon became one of Nikkatsu's top actresses, but it was her portrayals of strong-willed modern girls in Kenji Mizoguchi's Osaka Elegy and Sisters of the Gion in 1936 at the new Daiichi Eiga studio that earn…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Throne of Blood'
as Self
Kurosawa
as Self
Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder!
as Oriku
Sure Death
Suspicion
as Tokie Horiuchi
Arashi Tatsunari
as Tatsu
Japanese Ghost Story Masterpiece Theater: The Ghost of Yotsuya
Ameyuki-san
as Waka Yamada
Shogun's Samurai
as Oeyo
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
as Self
