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. She became one of the three most popular female singers in the early postwar Japan, along with

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. Eri, who died in 1982, and Misora, who died in 1989, also recorded songs with Yukimura as a group in the 1950s, but those recordings had not been released for about 50 years because they each belonged to separate record labels. In 2004, their album including those songs was finally released for the first time.

Filmography

* '' Alice in Wonderland'' (1951) (

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for the Japanese release of Disney film) * (1955) * (1956) * ''

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'' (1956) * aka ''The Princess of Badger Palace'' (1958) * (1958) * ''

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'' (1959) * '' (1964) * ''

The Laughing Frog is a 2002 Japanese film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama. Cast * Kyōzō Nagatsuka as Ippei Kurasawa * Nene Ohtsuka as Ryoko Kurasawa * Mickey Curtis as Kiichiro Aisawa * Jun Kunimura as Akio Yoshizumi * Kitarō as Kentaro Inamatsu * Shuzo Mitamu ...

'' (2002)

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* Japanese women singers Japanese idols Japanese actresses 1937 births Living people Singers from Tokyo {{Japan-singer-stub