Celebrity Biographies
Kaoru Yachigusa
She was the female lead in “Samurai,” which won an Honorary Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1956. Actress Kaoru Yachigusa died at the age of 88, on October 24, 2019, in a Tokyo hospital, as a result of breast cancer. pancreas.
Born on January 6, 1931 in Osaka, Yachigusa began her career in the Takarazuka Revue women’s drama troupe. She made her film debut in 1951 as a minor in the forgotten drama Takarazuka fujin . The big break in her career came when she was cast to lead the cast of Samurai, opposite Toshiro Mifune , who played legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. She kicked off a trilogy from director Hiroshi Inagaki.
The following year, Kaoru Yachigusa married Senkichi Taniguchi , who was by her side until she died in 2007 at age 95. Taniguchi was a screenwriter and director, and also a friend and frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa , the most renowned director of Japanese cinema.
The actress continued shooting throughout her life at the rate of at least one feature film a year, although most of them hardly had an impact outside of her country. She never retired, because until she was diagnosed with her illness, a year before her death, she was part of the cast of Butler Saionji’s Great Reasoning, a successful television series.