Yukari Oshima

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Yukari Oshima (大島由加里 Ôshima Yukari, Pinyin: Dàidǎo Yóujiālǐ, born December 31, 1963) is a Japanese actress and martial artist. Born Tsumura Yukari (津村ゆかり) in Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan to a successful Japanese businessman and fashion designer and to a Chinese woman. Yukari began studying Gōjū-ryū in junior high. She was one of Japan's brightest female martial artists during the 1980s and one of the leading ladies of the babes and bullets fad of Hong Kong action cinema. She is best known to Western audiences as Yomi in Riki-Oh. After her Hong Kong career dried up, she left for the Philippines in the 1990s and used the stage name Cynthia Luster. She resides in Fukuoka, Japan, where she's done work promoting the city for tourism. She is commonly known in Western audiences as the actress in the Marlboro Lite commercials (in the late 1990s).

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  • Outlaw Brothers (1989)
  • The Avenging Quartet (1992)
  • Kickboxer's Tears 新龙争虎斗 (1992)

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