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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 ...
The staff of Variety magazine wrote of the film, "Novelty of scene and a warm, believable performance by Japanese star Shirley Yamaguchi are two of the better values in the production. Had story treatment and direction been on the same level of excellence, House would have been an all-round good show.
The film featured the American debut of Shirley Yamaguchi in the title role. In February 2020, the film was shown at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival , as part of a retrospective dedicated to King Vidor's career.
Navy Wife is a 1956 American comedy film directed by Edward Bernds (who also directed "Three Stooges" and "Bowery Boys"), and starring Joan Bennett, Gary Merrill, Shirley Yamaguchi. The screenplay was written by Kay Lenard, based on the novel Mother Sir by Tats Blain. The film was produced by Walter Wanger, who was Bennett's husband in real life.
[2] [3] It stars Shirley Yamaguchi and Toshirō Mifune. It was produced by Toho Studios. The film, based on a novel by Jirō Osaragi, [4] which was previously filmed in 1934 by Minoru Murata, [5] is about a Japanese woman, the lover of an American, who falls in love with her servant.
Shirley Yamaguchi as Bai Niang (Madame White Snake) Kaoru Yachigusa as Xiao-Qing. Bai-niang's servant, a green snake; Musei Tokugawa as the selfish Taoist monk; Kichijiro Ueda as Wang Ming, the moneylender; Nijiko Kiyokawa; Haruo Tanaka; Eijirō Tōno; Yoshio Kosugi as leader of the guard; Akira Tani; Ikio Sawamura as a guardsman; Bokuzen Hidari
Japanese War Bride, a 1952 film by King Vidor featuring Shirley Yamaguchi and Don Taylor; Madame Butterfly, a 1904 opera by Giacomo Puccini about a Japanese child bride who is abandoned by her husband, a US Navy lieutenant, redone in 1989 as Miss Saigon
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 1940: Kaze no Matasaburo: Koji Shima: Akikhiko Katayama: Drama: Nobuko: Hiroshi Shimizu: Drama: Shina no yoru: Osamu Fushimizu: Kazuo Hasegawa, Shirley Yamaguchi