Yamaguchi Shirley

Yamaguchi Shirley (山口 淑子) was born on February 12, 1920. Yamaguchi Shirley movies and tv shows: A Holiday in Tokyo 1958 (Japan), Madame White Snake 1956 (Japan), Scandal 1950 (Japan), Escape at Dawn 1950 (Japan), Repatriation 1949 (Japan)...

Yoshiko Yamaguchi (12 February 1920 – 7 September 2014) was a Chinese-born Japanese actress and singer who made a career in China, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United States.

Early in her career, the Manchukuo Film Association concealed her Japanese origin and she went by the Chinese name Li Xianglan, 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.

She was elected as a member of the Japanese parliament in the 1970s and served for 18 years. After retiring from politics, she served as vice president of the Asian Women's Fund.
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