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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.
Jul 15, 2012 · Isuzu Yamada, a towering star of the Japanese screen and stage best known in the West for her chilling portrayal of the Lady Macbeth role in Akira Kurosawa’s Shakespeare adaptation “Throne of...
Aug 17, 2012 · The great actress Isuzu Yamada has died at the age of 95. Richly talented and totally dedicated to her craft, her long career in film, stage and television won her the highest awards...
Isuzu Yamada was born on 5 February 1917 in Osaka, Japan. She was an actress, known for Throne of Blood (1957), Yojimbo (1961) and A Cat and Two Women (1956). She was married to Tsutomu Shimomoto, Yoshi Katô, Kazuo Takimura, Ichirô Tsukida and Teinosuke Kinugasa.
Jul 9, 2012 · 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. Yamada was born in Osaka as Mitsu Yamada, the daughter of Kusudu Yamada, a shinpa actor specialising in onnagata roles, and Ritsu, a geisha.
Jul 12, 2012 · Isuzu Yamada, who became one of Japan’s most formidable and revered actresses and is perhaps best remembered as the treacherous wife of a warlord in “Throne of Blood,” director Akira ...
Nov 21, 2022 · Yamada as Lady Asaji Washizu in Throne of Blood. Kurosawa’s 1957 film is a heady meditation on greed, ambition and manipulation. Often, and rightly, regarded as one of the finest Shakespeare adaptations. Kurosawa lifts Macbeth from the Bard and makes it his own by placing the drama in feudal Japan with Mifune and Yamada in the lead roles.
Nov 21, 2012 · Isuzu Yamada, who was known as one of the most versatile actresses in the history of Japanese cinema, died this July at the age of 95. Now, Jimbocho Theater (1-23 Kanda Jimbocho, Chiyoda-ku; http://jinbocho-theater.jp ) is paying tribute to the legendary performer with a film retrospective that runs November 24-December 28.
Jul 17, 2012 · Isuzu Yamada, who has died aged 95, was a leading Japanese actress whose work was something of a bellwether of attitudes to women in 20th-century Japan.
Yamada Isuzu, star of Kurosawa's THRONE OF BLOOD, among many other classics, has died at age 95
