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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 6, 1931
Died
October 24, 2019
Place of Birth
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Also Known As
- 谷口瞳
- Hitomi Taniguchi
- 松田瞳
- Hitomi Matsuda
- Каору Ятигуса
Kaoru Yachigusa
0.8 Popularity
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.
Known For
8.0
Yasuragi no Toki: Michi
2019
7.8
Butler Saionji’s Great Reasoning
2018
7.5
(voice)
Tokyo Phoenix
2017
9.0
Yasuragi no Sato
2017
7.2
Self - Actress
Mifune: The Last Samurai
2016
6.8
Kiyoe
Kidnap Tour
2016
8.1
Shizue Sendo
Love That Makes You Cry
2016
8.0
Sakurai Akiko
Candy House
2015
0.0
Aya Kosaka
Three Moons
2015
0.0
Ichiko Ogawa
Before The Leaves Fall
2015
Credits
Yasuragi no Toki: Michi
2019
8.0
Butler Saionji’s Great Reasoning
2018
7.8
Tokyo Phoenix
as (voice)
2017
7.5
Yasuragi no Sato
2017
9.0
Mifune: The Last Samurai
as Self - Actress
2016
7.2
Kidnap Tour
as Kiyoe
2016
6.8
Love That Makes You Cry
as Shizue Sendo
2016
8.1
Candy House
as Sakurai Akiko
2015
8.0
Three Moons
as Aya Kosaka
2015
0.0
Before The Leaves Fall
as Ichiko Ogawa
2015
0.0
A Pierrot Praying for the Moon
as Sakura Tamai
2014
0.0
Miyamoto Musashi
2014
7.3
Giovanni's Island
as Older Sawako (voice)
2014
7.5
Don't Lose Heart
as Toyo Shibata
2013
8.0
The Great Passage
as Chie Matsumoto
2013
7.3
Mother and Son
2013
0.0
Matrimonial Chaos
as 滨崎亚以子
2013
7.7
Until the Break of Dawn
as Tsuru Hatada
2012
6.7
Gaku
as Kazama Kaya
2012
0.0
The Tempest
as King's mother
2011
5.5
Listen to My Heart
as Akiko Matsuda
2009
0.0
Dear Doctor
as Kaduko Torikai
2009
6.4
Toad's Oil
as Hikari's Grandmother
2009
7.0
Ordinary Miracles
as Shizue Nakazo
2009
7.7
Flavor of Happiness
as Yuriko Nagata
2008
6.3
Only You Can Hear Me
as Sachi Nozaki
2007
6.4
Juken no Kamisama
as Nobuko Umezawa
2007
7.0
Talk, Talk, Talk
as Haruko Toyama
2007
5.9
Dear Father
as Sakashita Yumeko
2007
8.3
Into the White Night
as Karasawa Reiko
2006
7.4
Time for Love
as Kyoko Kitami
2005
0.0
🎬
実録・小野田少尉 遅すぎた帰還
2005
0.0
Negotiator
2005
6.7
Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple
as Miss Marple (voice)
2004
6.7
To the One I Love
as Yoshie Azumi
2004
8.0
Like Asura
as Takezawa Fuji
2003
6.5
Big Money
as Teruko Hatano
2002
6.0
Toshiie and Matsu
as Tae
2002
8.0
🎬
恋人はスナイパー
2001
5.0
Antique: Western Antique Cake Shop
as Fukiko Shirai
2001
6.8
Food Fight
as Miyoshi Yuuko
2000
7.3
🎬
おかしな二人～のほほん奥様とお気楽弁護士
2000
0.0
Yanchakure
as 水嶋ハル
1998
0.0
The Life and Love of Kenji Miyazawa
as Iti Miyazawa
1996
0.0
A Samurai's Sorrow
1993
0.0
Saiyūki
as 观世音菩萨
1993
0.0
Sometime, Somewhere
as Chairman's wife
1992
0.0
さよなら李香蘭
1989
0.0
Four Days of Snow and Blood
as Taka Suzuki
1989
6.8
Hachiko
as Shizuko Ueno
1987
7.8
The Tailor-Made Shirt
1986
0.0
🎬
Satsujin Kou Oku no Hosomichi
as 芦名隆子
1983
0.0
🎬
Satsujin Kou Oku no Hosomichi
1983
0.0
The Tale of Genji
1981
0.0
The Last Game
1979
0.0
Ashura no Gotoku
1979
3.7
Blood Type: Blue
1978
5.5
The Album on the Shore
1977
1.0
The Corporation
1976
1.0
Oretachi no Tabi
1975
0.0
Red Suspicion
1975
8.3
A Bird of Africa
1975
0.0
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
as Married woman
1974
7.4
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
as Chiyo
1972
7.6
Morning Fog
1971
0.0
🎬
Inu to Asachan
1969
0.0
The Sisters and I
as Shima
1967
0.0
The Betrayal
as Namie
1966
6.3
Bad Reputation: Invincible Notorious Men
1965
0.0
Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
1965
6.3
With Beauty and Sorrow
as Otoko Ueno
1965
5.4
The Domain: The Naniwa Story
1965
3.2
Samurai Assassin
as Mitsu
1965
7.3
Hello, Baby
as Fujiko Tachikawa
1964
10.0
Life of a Flower
as Masako no Kata
1963
7.0
The Human Vapor
as Fujichiyo Kasuga
1960
6.6
The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung
as Tsui Lan, the maiden in distress
1959
0.0
Temptation on Glamour Island
as Tomiko
1959
6.0
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
1958
0.0
Nuregami kenpo
1958
0.0
Epic Crash
1958
0.0
Tabi sugata nezumi kozō
1958
0.0
Holiday in Tokyo
1958
0.0
Atarashii Sebiro
1957
0.0
The Living Koheiji
as Ochika
1957
0.0
Snow Country
as Yôko
1957
6.7
The Legend of the White Serpent
as Xiaoqing
1956
5.6
Settlement of Love
as Asako
1956
0.0
The President Talks Bank
1956
0.0
The Maiden Courtesan
1956
0.0
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
as Otsu
1956
7.2
The President's Boss
1956
0.0
🎬
Stray Sheep
as Mineko
1955
0.0
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
as Otsu
1955
7.2
Madame Butterfly
as Cio-Cio-San
1954
0.0
The Princess Sen
as Dancing waiting-girl
1954
5.0
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
as Otsu
1954
7.2
Princess Finds Her Prince
1953
0.0
Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker
as Ohikari
1953
0.0
Traveling with Breeze
1953
0.0
Mr. Pu
1953
6.5
🎬
俺たちの祭
N/A
0.0