
Yoshiko Yamaguchi
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1920-02-12
Day of Death
2014-09-07 (94 years old)
Place of Birth
Fushun, Manchuria
Yoshiko Yamaguchi
Biography
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.
Known For
Acting
(2019)
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
as (archive footage)
(1959)
John Gunther's High Road
as Self
(1958)
Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
as Angela, her teacher
(1958)
(1957)
(1956)
Navy Wife
as Akashi
(1956)
The Legend of the White Serpent
as The White Lady
(1955)
House of Bamboo
as Mariko
(1955)
(1953)
The Last Embrace
as Yukiko Nogami
(1952)
Japanese War Bride
as Tae Shimizu
(1952)
Shanghai Rose
as Li Lili
(1952)
(1952)
Sword for Hire
as Oryo
(1952)
Foghorn
as Chiyo (Hana)
(1950)
Scandal
as Miyako Saijo
(1950)
Escape at Dawn
as Harumi
(1950)
(1949)
Endless Passion
as Beautiful singer
(1949)
(1948)
(1944)
Dear Soldier
as Singer
(1944)
My Nightingale
as Mariko
(1943)
Sayon's Bell
as Sayon
(1943)
Eternity
as 凤姑
(1942)
(1941)
(1941)
君と僕
as Manchurian girl
(1940)
(1940)
(1940)
Toyuki
as Liqin, the Typist
(1940)
The Monkey King
as Oriental Woman
(1939)
(1939)