Kaoru Yachigusa

Yachigusa Kaoru (八千草 薫, Yachigusa Kaoru, born January 6, 1931) is a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture. From 1947 to 1957 she was a member of the Takarazuka Revue. Since leaving the Revue, she has been active in film, television, and narration.

She famously quit part way through the filming of the television series Akai Giwaku outraged at being forced to work at times dictated by idol Momoe Yamaguchi's schedule.

Her husband, director Senkichi Taniguchi, died on October 29, 2007 in Tokyo, Japan. The couple had been married since 1957.^[1]

Awards

• Medal with Purple Ribbon (1997)
• Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2003)
• Mainichi Cinema Concours: Tanaka Kinuyo Prize (2004)
• Japanese Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ashura no Gotoku (2004)

Filmography

Film

(incomplete)

• Madama Butterfly as Cio Cio San (1954)
• Samurai Trilogy as Otsu (1954–1956)
  • Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (続宮本武蔵　一乗寺の決闘 Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijōji no kettō) (1955)
• Utsukushisa to kanashimi to as Ueno Otoko (1955)
• Rangiku monogatari (乱菊物語) (1956)
• Nuregami kenpo (1958)
• The Human Vapor (Toho, 1960)
• With Beauty and Sorrow , (1965)
• Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajirō no Yumemakura as the "Madonna" (1972)
• Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)
• Hachiko Monogatari (1987)
• The Great Passage (2013)
• Giovanni's Island (2014)^[2]

Television

• Zenigata Heiji as Oshizu (the leading lady) (Fuji Television 1966)
• Akai Giwaku (episodes 1-6)
• Ashura no Gotoku (NHK 1979)
• The Tale of Genji (television drama) as both Kiritsubo and Fujitsubo (Tokyo Broadcasting System 1980)
• Dokuganryū Masamune (Taiga drama) as Nene (the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi) (NHK 1987)
• Yanchakure (morning drama) (NHK 1998)
• Tokyo Story (Fuji Television 2002)

Anime

• Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple as Miss Marple (NHK 2004)

References

External links

• Kaoru Yachigusa at the Internet Movie Database