[KineJapan] Ichihara Etsuko

[Gerow Aaron]

The actress Ichihara Etsuko has passed away at the age of 82. Starting out at the Haiyuza theater troupe in the late 1950s, she was most famous on TV for such series as "Kaseifu wa mita," but she appeared in many great films including Black Rain, Samurai Rebellion, Face of Another, Man Without a Map, Unagi, Sweet Bean, etc. She was also known for her voice work, performing Hilda in Horus: Prince of the Sun, the narrator in Manga Nihon mukashibanashi, and the grandmother in Your Name.

https://www.sankei.com/life/news/190113/lif1901130044-n1.html


Aaron Gerow
Professor
Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Director of Graduate Studies, Film and Media Studies
Yale University
143 Elm Street, Room 210
PO Box 208324
New Haven, CT 06520-8324
USA
Phone: 1-203-432-7082
Fax: 1-203-432-6729
e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu <mailto:aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
website: www.aarongerow.com

















-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/kinejapan/attachments/20190113/64082f31/attachment-0001.html>