Yōko Yaguchi
Japanese actress (1921–1985)
Akira Kurosawa
(m. 1945)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]
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
External links
- Yōko Yaguchi at IMDb
- New York Times
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Films directed by Akira Kurosawa
- Works
- Filmmaking technique
- Awards and honors
- Bibliography
- Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
- The Most Beautiful (1944)
- Sanshiro Sugata Part II (1945)
- The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945)
- Those Who Make Tomorrow (1946)
- No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
- One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
- Drunken Angel (1948)
- The Quiet Duel (1949)
- Stray Dog (1949)
- Scandal (1950)
- Rashomon (1950)
- The Idiot (1951)
- Ikiru (1952)
- Seven Samurai (1954)
- I Live in Fear (1955)
- Throne of Blood (1957)
- The Lower Depths (1957)
- The Hidden Fortress (1958)
- The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
- Yojimbo (1961)
- Sanjuro (1962)
- High and Low (1963)
- Red Beard (1965)
- Dodes'ka-den (1970)
- Dersu Uzala (1975)
- Kagemusha (1980)
- Ran (1985)
- Dreams (1990)
- Rhapsody in August (1991)
- Madadayo (1993)
- Criticism
- Film remakes
- Akira Kurosawa Memorial Short Film Competition
- Kurosawa Film Studio
- A.K.
- Kurosawa's Way
- Seven Samurai 20XX
- Nioh
- Yōko Yaguchi (wife)
- Kazuko Kurosawa (daughter)
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