Kaoru Yachigusa
Acting • Born 1931-01-06 – Died 2019-10-24
Biography
Kaoru Yachigusa (八千草 薫, Yachigusa Kaoru, January 6, 1931 – October 24, 2019) was a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture. From 1947 to 1957, she was a member of the Takarazuka Revue. After leaving the revue, she was active in film, television, and narration. She has gotten some Japanese awards and honours such as; Medal with Purple Ribbon (1997), Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2003), and Mainichi Film Awards: Tanaka Kinuyo Prize (2004) Yachigusa died on October 24, 2019, at a Tokyo hospital from pancreatic cancer, aged 88.
Filmography
104 credits
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Movie • 1954
Otsu
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Movie • 1955
Otsu
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Movie • 1956
Otsu
Hachiko
Movie • 1987
Shizuko Ueno
The Betrayal
Movie • 1966
Namie
The Tale of Genji
Movie • 1981
Satsujin Kou Oku no Hosomichi
Movie • 1983
芦名隆子
Sometime, Somewhere
Movie • 1992
Chairman's wife
The President Talks Bank
Movie • 1956
Samurai Assassin
Movie • 1965
Mitsu
Morning Fog
Movie • 1971
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
Movie • 1974
Married woman
The Great Passage
Movie • 2013
Chie Matsumoto
Kidnap Tour
Movie • 2016
Kiyoe
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
Movie • 1958
The Life and Love of Kenji Miyazawa
Movie • 1996
Iti Miyazawa
With Beauty and Sorrow
Movie • 1965
Otoko Ueno
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
Movie • 1972
Chiyo
The Human Vapor
Movie • 1960
Fujichiyo Kasuga
Inu to Asachan
Movie • 1969
Until the Break of Dawn
Movie • 2012
Tsuru Hatada
Settlement of Love
Movie • 1956
Asako
Toad's Oil
Movie • 2009
Hikari's Grandmother
Dear Doctor
Movie • 2009
Kaduko Torikai
The President's Boss
Movie • 1956
Epic Crash
Movie • 1958
The Living Koheiji
Movie • 1957
Ochika
Talk, Talk, Talk
Movie • 2007
Haruko Toyama
A Pierrot Praying for the Moon
Movie • 2014
Sakura Tamai
Flavor of Happiness
Movie • 2008
Yuriko Nagata
Giovanni's Island
Movie • 2014
Older Sawako (voice)
Listen to My Heart
Movie • 2009
Akiko Matsuda
実録・小野田少尉 遅すぎた帰還
Movie • 2005
Gaku
Movie • 2012
Kazama Kaya
Satsujin Kou Oku no Hosomichi
Movie • 1983
Blood Type: Blue
Movie • 1978
The Legend of the White Serpent
Movie • 1956
Xiaoqing
Mifune: The Last Samurai
Movie • 2016
Self - Actress
Mr. Pu
Movie • 1953
Stray Sheep
Movie • 1955
Mineko
Madame Butterfly
Movie • 1954
Cio-Cio-San
Temptation on Glamour Island
Movie • 1959
Tomiko
Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
Movie • 1965
Hello, Baby
Movie • 1964
Fujiko Tachikawa
Snow Country
Movie • 1957
Yôko
Don't Lose Heart
Movie • 2013
Toyo Shibata
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Movie • 1989
Taka Suzuki
The Sisters and I
Movie • 1967
Shima
The Maiden Courtesan
Movie • 1956
The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung
Movie • 1959
Tsui Lan, the maiden in distress
Only You Can Hear Me
Movie • 2007
Sachi Nozaki
Tokyo Phoenix
Movie • 2017
(voice)
Three Moons
Movie • 2015
Aya Kosaka
Before The Leaves Fall
Movie • 2015
Ichiko Ogawa
A Samurai's Sorrow
Movie • 1993
The Domain: The Naniwa Story
Movie • 1965
The Princess Sen
Movie • 1954
Dancing waiting-girl
Nuregami kenpo
Movie • 1958
Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker
Movie • 1953
Ohikari
Princess Finds Her Prince
Movie • 1953
Like Asura
Movie • 2003
Takezawa Fuji
The Last Game
Movie • 1979
Traveling with Breeze
Movie • 1953
Bad Reputation: Invincible Notorious Men
Movie • 1965
A Bird of Africa
Movie • 1975
Negotiator
Movie • 2005
Tabi sugata nezumi kozō
Movie • 1958
Saiyūki
Movie • 1993
观世音菩萨
Atarashii Sebiro
Movie • 1957
Holiday in Tokyo
Movie • 1958
The Corporation
Movie • 1976
Housing Estates: The Seven Deadly Sins
Movie • 1964
6th Sin & 7th Sin
Waga koi waga uta
Movie • 1969
Life of a Flower
TV • 1963
Masako no Kata
Antique: Western Antique Cake Shop
TV • 2001
Fukiko Shirai
Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple
TV • 2004
Miss Marple (voice)
Time for Love
TV • 2005
Kyoko Kitami
Into the White Night
TV • 2006
Karasawa Reiko
Toshiie and Matsu
TV • 2002
Tae
おかしな二人～のほほん奥様とお気楽弁護士
TV • 2000
Dear Father
TV • 2007
Sakashita Yumeko
Matrimonial Chaos
TV • 2013
滨崎亚以子
To the One I Love
TV • 2004
Yoshie Azumi
Red Suspicion
TV • 1975
Love That Makes You Cry
TV • 2016
Shizue Sendo
Yasuragi no Sato
TV • 2017
Ordinary Miracles
TV • 2009
Shizue Nakazo
Candy House
TV • 2015
Sakurai Akiko
Miyamoto Musashi
TV • 2014
さよなら李香蘭
TV • 1989
The Album on the Shore
TV • 1977
Yanchakure
TV • 1998
水嶋ハル
Oretachi no Tabi
TV • 1975
恋人はスナイパー
TV • 2001
Juken no Kamisama
TV • 2007
Nobuko Umezawa
Yasuragi no Toki: Michi
TV • 2019
Ashura no Gotoku
TV • 1979
Big Money
TV • 2002
Teruko Hatano
Food Fight
TV • 2000
Miyoshi Yuuko
Butler Saionji’s Great Reasoning
TV • 2018
The Tempest
TV • 2011
King's mother
The Tailor-Made Shirt
TV • 1986
Mother and Son
TV • 2013
俺たちの祭
TV