Isuzu Yamada
Isuzu Yamada (Japanese山田 五十铃; born February 5, 1917 in Osaka as Mitsu Yamada山田 美 津; † 9 July 2012) was a Japanese actress.
Life
Yamada, the daughter of actor Yamada Kazuo, made her first film Adauchi Senshu at the age of only 13 years and was known in the result, especially through collaboration with director Kenji Mizoguchi, in groundbreaking films such as Osaka Elegy and Sisters of their main roles Gion was. The latter was her final breakthrough, the role of bucking tradition young geisha Omocha she made in Japan for the star. During the Second World War, she was one of the most popular actresses and turned alone between 1939 and 1945 all 20 films, including Shori no Hi no Tsuki made and Shanhai Mikio Naruse with director. So vivid as her film career is also designed her private life: After three divorces, she married in 1956, for the fourth time, for the then still very traditional Japan a monstrous process.
1957 began in a sense the second spring of her career, which was characterized by the collaboration with Akira Kurosawa in films such as Castle in the night Spinnwebwald and asylum, by which it was known in the West. In Kurosawa's Yojimbo great success - The bodyguard then played in 1961 her last major role as conniving brothel boss. Then sounded her career as a film actress, in which she had turned 90 films, slowly and she focused on working in the theater.
It became the Bunka Kōrōsha, the person with special cultural merits, appointed in 1993.