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Kaoru Yachigusa

Kaoru Yachigusa (八千草薫, Yachigusa Kaoru, January 6, 1931 – October 24, 2019) was a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture. From 1947 to 1957, she was a member of the Takarazuka Revue. After leaving the revue, she was active in film, television, and narration. She has gotten some Japanese awards and honours such as; Medal with Purple Ribbon (1997), Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2003), and Mainichi Film Awards: Tanaka Kinuyo Prize (2004) Yachigusa died on October 24, 2019, at a Tokyo hospital from pancreatic cancer, aged 88.

Known For: Acting

Born: Osaka Prefecture, Japan, 1931-01-06

Died: 2019-10-24

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	Mr. Pu		65
2	1953	Traveling with Breeze		0
3	1953	Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker	Ohikari	0
4	1953	Princess Finds Her Prince		0
5	1954	Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto	Otsu	72
6	1954	The Princess Sen	Dancing waiting-girl	50
7	1954	Madame Butterfly	Cio-Cio-San	0
8	1955	Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple	Otsu	72
9	1955	Stray Sheep	Mineko	0
10	1956	Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island	Otsu	72
11	1956	The President's Boss		0
12	1956	The Maiden Courtesan		0
13	1956	The President Talks Bank		0
14	1956	Settlement of Love	Asako	0
15	1956	The Legend of the White Serpent	Xiaoqing	56
16	1957	Snow Country	Yôko	67
17	1957	The Living Koheiji	Ochika	0
18	1958	Tabi sugata nezumi kozō		0
19	1958	Epic Crash		0
20	1958	Nuregami kenpo		0
21	1958	Yajikita dōchū sugoroku		0
22	1959	Temptation on Glamour Island	Tomiko	60
23	1959	The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung	Tsui Lan, the maiden in distress	0
24	1960	The Human Vapor	Fujichiyo Kasuga	66
25	1964	こんにちは赤ちゃん	Fujiko Tachikawa	100
26	1965	Samurai Assassin	Mitsu	74
27	1965	The Domain: The Naniwa Story		32
28	1965	With Beauty and Sorrow	Otoko Ueno	57
29	1965	Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy		62
30	1965	Bad Reputation: Invincible Notorious Men		0
31	1966	The Betrayal	Namie	63
32	1967	The Sisters and I	Shima	0
33	1969	Inu to Asachan		0
34	1971	Morning Fog		0
35	1972	Tora-san's Dream-Come-True	Chiyo	76
36	1974	Pastoral: To Die in the Country	Married woman	75
37	1975	A Bird of Africa		0
38	1978	Blood Type: Blue		55
39	1979	The Last Game		0
40	1981	The Tale of Genji		0
41	1983	Satsujin Kou Oku no Hosomichi	芦名隆子	0
42	1983	Satsujin Kou Oku no Hosomichi		0
43	1987	Hachiko	Shizuko Ueno	77
44	1989	Four Days of Snow and Blood	Taka Suzuki	69
45	1992	Sometime, Somewhere	Chairman's wife	0
46	1993	Saiyūki	观世音菩萨	0
47	1993	A Samurai's Sorrow		0
48	1996	The Life and Love of Kenji Miyazawa	Iti Miyazawa	0
49	2003	Like Asura	Takezawa Fuji	69
50	2005	Negotiator		60
51	2005	実録・小野田少尉遅すぎた帰還		0
52	2007	Talk, Talk, Talk	Haruko Toyama	59
53	2007	Only You Can Hear Me	Sachi Nozaki	64
54	2008	Flavor of Happiness	Yuriko Nagata	63
55	2009	Toad's Oil	Hikari's Grandmother	70
56	2009	Dear Doctor	Kaduko Torikai	64
57	2009	Listen to My Heart	Akiko Matsuda	0
58	2012	Gaku	Kazama Kaya	0
59	2012	Until the Break of Dawn	Tsuru Hatada	70
60	2013	The Great Passage	Chie Matsumoto	72
61	2013	The Pierrot Prays to the Moon		0
62	2013	Don't Lose Heart	Toyo Shibata	80
63	2014	Giovanni's Island	Older Sawako (voice)	75
64	2015	Before The Leaves Fall	Ichiko Ogawa	0
65	2015	Three Moons	Kosaka Aya	0
66	2016	Kidnap Tour	Kiyoe	68
67	2016	Mifune: The Last Samurai	Self - Actress	71
68	2017	Tokyo Phoenix	(voice)	75

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1963	Life of a Flower	Masako no Kata	70
2	1975	Red Suspicion		83
3	1975	Oretachi no Tabi		0
4	1977	The Album on the Shore		10
5	1979	Ashura no Gotoku		50
6	1986	The Tailor-Made Shirt		0
7	1989	さよなら李香蘭		0
8	1998	Yanchakure	水嶋ハル	0
9	2000	おかしな二人～のほほん奥様とお気楽弁護士		0
10	2000	Food Fight	Miyoshi Yuuko	80
11	2001	Antique: Western Antique Cake Shop	Fukiko Shirai	68
12	2001	恋人はスナイパー		50
13	2002	Toshiie and Matsu	Tae	80
14	2002	Big Money	Teruko Hatano	60
15	2004	To the One I Love	Yoshie Azumi	80
16	2004	Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple	Miss Marple (voice)	70
17	2005	Time for Love	Kyoko Kitami	0
18	2006	Into the White Night	Karasawa Reiko	73
19	2007	Dear Father	Sakashita Yumeko	83
20	2007	Juken no Kamisama	Nobuko Umezawa	70
21	2009	Ordinary Miracles	Shizue Nakazo	77
22	2011	The Tempest	King's mother	55
23	2013	Matrimonial Chaos	滨崎亚以子	77
24	2013	Mother and Son		0
25	2013	Pierrot Praying to the Moon	Sakura Tamai	80
26	2014	Miyamoto Musashi		76
27	2015	Candy House	Sakurai Akiko	80
28	2016	Love That Makes You Cry	Shizue Sendo	81
29	2017	Yasuragi no Sato A Peaceful Place		90
30	2018	Butler Saionji’s Great Reasoning		78
31	2019	Yasuragi no Toki: Michi		80
32		俺たちの祭		0