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Isuzu Yamada
Japanese actress
Isuzu Yamada Junior Third Rank | |
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Isuzu Yamada in 1937 | |
| Born | Mitsu Yamada (1917-02-05)5 February 1917 Osaka, Japan |
| Died | 9 July 2012(2012-07-09) (aged 95) Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1930–2002 |
Isuzu Yamada (山田 五十鈴, Yamada Isuzu, 5 February 1917 – 9 July 2012) was a Japanese stage and screen actress whose career spanned seven decades.[1][2]
Biography
Yamada was born in Osaka as Mitsu Yamada, the daughter of Kusudu Yamada,[1] a shinpa actor specialising in onnagata roles,[3] and Ritsu, a geisha.[2][4] Under her mother's influence, she began learning nagauta and Japanese traditional dance from the age of six.[2][4]
Yamada debuted as a film actress in 1930 at age twelve, appearing in the Nikkatsu film Tsurugi wo koete opposite Denjirō Ōkōchi.[3] She soon became one of Nikkatsu's top actresse