Cast & creator

Yoshiko Yamaguchi

1920-02-12 (died at 94) Fushun, ManchuriaIMDb

Best known for The Ed Sullivan Show, House of Bamboo, Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

Yoshiko Yamaguchi (山口淑子, Yamaguchi Yoshiko, February 12, 1920 – September 7, 2014), also known by her stage names Shirley Yamaguchi and Li Xianglan, is a China-born Japanese actress and singer who made a career in China, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United States. She was elected as a member of the Japanese Parliament in the 1970s and served for 18 years. Early in her career, the Manchukuo Film Association concealed her Japanese origin and she went by the Chinese name Li Hsiang-lan (李香蘭), rendered in Japanese as Ri Kōran. This allowed her to represent China in Japanese propaganda movies. After the war, she appeared in Japanese movies under her real name, as well as in several English language movies under the stage name, Shirley Yamaguchi. After becoming a journalist in the 1950s under the name Yoshiko Ōtaka (大鷹淑子, Ōtaka Yoshiko), she was elected as a member of the Japanese parliament in 1974, and served for 18 years. After retiring from politics, she served as vice president of the Asian Women's Fund. She died at the age of 94 in Tokyo on September 7, 2014.

Also known as: Li Xianglan, Yoshiko Ōtaka, 李香蘭, 李香兰, 大鷹淑子

Movies

film credits

Series

television credits

Career

1938–2019 · acting roles

Credit score

8.1

average across scored titles

Signature credits

Known for

Ordered by popularity

★ 6.8

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self · 1948

★ 6.2

House of Bamboo

Mariko · 1955

★ 5.7

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

(archive footage) · 2019

さよなら李香蘭

Acting · 1989

★ 6.9

Scandal

Miyako Saijo · 1950

Across film & television