Masako Natsume
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Masako Natsume (夏目 雅子 Natsume Masako, December 17, 1957 - September 11, 1985) was a Japanese actress from Tokyo.
She played the part of "Tripitaka" (Sanzō-hōshi, Japanese translation of Sanzang-fashi) in the 1970s Japanese TV program Saiyūki which proved amazingly popular in many English-speaking countries in the 1980s when dubbed by the BBC and titled Monkey.
She died from acute leukemia at the age of 27.
[edit] External links
- Masako Natsume Tripitaka in legendary TV series 'Monkey'
- Biography of Natsume
- Burial monument (Japanese)
- The Sunflower Foundation, a cancer organization dedicated to Natsume (Japanese)
