Yōko Yaguchi

ChildrenKazuko Kurosawa
Hisao Kurosawa

Yōko Yaguchi (矢口 陽子, Yaguchi Yōko, born Kiyo Katō, 27 August 1921 in British Hong Kong^[1] – 1 February 1985 in Fukuoka) was a Japanese actress, and the wife of Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa for 39 years. She had two children with Kurosawa: a son named Hisao and a daughter named Kazuko.^[2]

Personal life

While working on Akira Kurosawa's second film, The Most Beautiful, Yaguchi clashed over the alleged ways the director treated the actors. However, the pair found a connection, despite these clashes, and married in 1945.^[3] Their son Hisao was born that same year.

Partial filmography

• Renga joko (1940)
• Enoken no songokū: songokū zenko-hen (Enoken's Sun Wukong) (1940)
• Jogakusei-ki (1941)
• The Most Beautiful (1944)

References

External links

• Yōko Yaguchi at IMDb
• New York Times