<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">Sorry for the delay, but it was announced a few days ago that the great actor Yoshiyuki Kazuko died on September 2 at the age of 90. Trained at Gekidan Mingei, she first came to prominence playing Anne Frank on stage. Initially signing with Nikkatsu before going freelance, she appeared in films by Imamura Shohei (My Second Brother), Oshima Nagisa (Empire of Passion), Yamada Yoji, and others, winning many awards. She also appeared in over 100 TV dramas, including the <span class="html-span xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs"><a tabindex="-1" class="html-a xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs"></a></span>Asadora Aguri, which was about her mother, a famed beautician who was married to the novelist Yoshiyuki Eisuke and mother to the writers Yoshiyuki Junnosuke and Yoshiyuki Rie.</span><div><br><div><a href="https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20250909/k10014917261000.html">https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20250909/k10014917261000.html</a></div><div><br><br><div>
<meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Aaron Gerow<br>Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies<br>Yale University</div><div>On leave AY 2025-2026<br>320 York Street, Room 108<br>PO Box 208201<br>New Haven, CT 06520-8201<br>USA<br>Phone: 1-203-432-7082<br>Fax: 1-203-432-6729<br>e-mail: aaron.gerow@yale.edu<br>website: www.aarongerow.com</div></div></div>
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