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    Kaoru Yachigusa

    Japanese actress

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  1. Years active. 1947–2019. Kaoru Yachigusa (八千草 薫, Yachigusa Kaoru, January 6, 1931 – October 24, 2019) was a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture. From 1947 to 1957, she was a member of the Takarazuka Revue. After leaving the revue, she was active in film, television, and narration . She famously quit part way through the filming ...

  2. Oct 28, 2019 · Japanese actress Kaoru Yachigusa, who appeared opposite Toshiro Mifune in Oscar-winner Samurai, the Legend of Musashi, has died.She was 88. Yachigusa died of pancreatic cancer Thursday at a ...

  3. In thinking back on the film career of Kaoru Yachigusa (who died on October 24th this year, age 88), the dominant image that again and again comes to mind is one not identical but somewhat akin to what one imagines through recalling her marriage to Taniguchi: one chiefly remembers the many times she played passionate—sometimes even self-sacrificing—women unrelentingly supportive and caring ...

  4. Oct 29, 2019 · Actress Kaoru Yachigusa, who rose to prominence with her role in Oscar-winning film "Samurai, The Legend of Musashi" and starred in a number of major Japanese films and TV dramas, died of pancreatic cancer last Thursday at a Tokyo hospital, her office said Monday. She was 88. The Osaka native,…

  5. Oct 29, 2019 · Actress Kaoru Yachigusa, whose career spanned seven decades in movies, TV dramas and stage plays, died on Oct. 24. She was 88. The titles of many of the works she starred in read like a list of ...

  6. Kaoru Yachigusa, a popular actress most widely remembered for playing Mifune’s love interest in Hiroshi Inagaki’s Musashi Miyamoto trilogy, passed away a few months ago. She was married to Senkichi Taniguchi, one of Kurosawa’s colleagues from his assistant directors days at Photo Chemical Laboratory. A short piece on Yachigusa’s career.

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  8. Oct 28, 2019 · Kaoru Yachigusa, actress in "Samurai, The Legend of Musashi," dies. Actress Kaoru Yachigusa, who rose to prominence with her role in Oscar-winning film "Samurai, The Legend of Musashi" and starred in a number of major Japanese films and TV dramas, died of pancreatic cancer last Thursday at a Tokyo hospital, her office said Monday. She was 88.

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