was a Japanese actress, and the wife of Japanese filmmaker
Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dyna ...
for 39 years. She had two children with Kurosawa: a son named Hisao and a daughter named
Kazuko.
Personal life
While working on
Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dyna ...
's second film,
The Most Beautiful
is a 1944 Japanese drama and propaganda film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The semidocumentary film follows a group of female volunteer workers at an optics factory during the Second World War, during which the film was produced.
Plot
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, Yaguchi clashed over the alleged ways the director treated the actors. However, the pair found a connection, despite these clashes, and married in 1945.
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
is a 1944 Japanese drama and propaganda film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The semidocumentary film follows a group of female volunteer workers at an optics factory during the Second World War, during which the film was produced.
Plot
...
'' (1944)
References
External links
*
''New York Times''
1921 births
1985 deaths
20th-century Japanese actresses
Akira Kurosawa
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