Acting

36

Woman

Feb 12, 1920

Fushun, Manchuria

Yoshiko Yamaguchi

Yoshiko Yamaguchi (山口 淑子, Yamaguchi Yoshiko, February 12, 1920 – September 7, 2014), also known by her stage names Shirley Yamaguchi and Li Xianglan, is a China-born Japanese actress and singer who made a career in China, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United States. She was elected as a member of the Japanese Parliament in the 1970s and served for 18 years. Early in her career, the Manchukuo Film Association concealed her Japanese origin and she went by the Chinese name Li Hsiang-lan (李香蘭), rendered in Japanese as Ri Kōran. This allowed her to represent China in Japanese propaganda movies. After the war, she appeared in Japanese movies under her real name, as well as in several English language movies under the stage name, Shirley Yamaguchi. After becoming a journalist in the 1950s under the name Yoshiko Ōtaka (大鷹 淑子, Ōtaka Yoshiko), she was elected as a member of the Japanese parliament in 1974, and served for 18 years. After retiring from politics, she served as vice president of the Asian Women's Fund. She died at the age of 94 in Tokyo on September 7, 2014.

Scandal

April 26, 1950

House of Bamboo

July 1, 1955

The Ed Sullivan Show

June 20, 1948

Sword for Hire

May 22, 1952

The Legend of the White Serpent

June 22, 1956

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

October 13, 2019

Escape at Dawn

January 8, 1950

Japanese War Bride

January 29, 1952

John Gunther's High Road

September 7, 1959

My Nightingale

March 24, 1944