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Japanese actress Shirley Yamaguchi dies at 94日本女演員雪莉·山口去世，享年94

AFP
September 15, 2014, 12:00 am TWN

TOKYO -- Japanese actress and singer Yoshiko “Shirley” Yamaguchi, who was nearly executed in China at the end of World War II, has died at the age of 94 after a life as dramatic as any of her films.

Yamaguchi, who was born to Japanese parents in pre-war Manchuria, where her father worked for the railway, entertained Chinese and Japanese audiences posing as a Chinese under her assumed identity Li Xianglan (李香蘭), or 'Rikoran' in Japanese.

The actress, who formally went by the surname of her late husband and diplomat Hiroshi Otaka, succumbed to heart failure at her home in Tokyo on Sept. 7, her family said Sunday.

“She always stayed home in recent years because of her old age but led a normal life,” a family member told AFP by telephone. “She watched various DVDs including movies and documentaries from other countries like China and the United States.”

Yamaguchi was long regarded as Chinese after making her debut in the 1938 movie “Honeymoon Express” by Manchuria Film Productions.

Some of her movies at this time were seen as pro-Japanese propaganda, including “China Nights (1940),” in which she starred with Japanese heartthrob Kazuo Hasegawa, and she later expressed regret over them.

Arrested after the war as a collaborator, she narrowly avoided execution for treason by revealing her Japanese identity to the Chinese court.

Her hit songs included “Fragrance of the Night (夜來香)” and “Suzhou Serenade (蘇州夜曲),” which was banned in mainland China after the war.

Following her deportation from China in 1946, she relaunched her career in Japan under her birth name, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, and went on to star in Akira Kurosawa's “Scandal” and other films.

War and Suffering

She also played a leading role in U.S. movies and musicals in the 1950s as Shirley Yamaguchi, including Samuel Fuller's “A House of Bamboo” (1955).

She married Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi in 1951 but their marriage lasted just four years.

Yamaguchi later tied the knot with Japanese diplomat Hiroshi Otaka in 1958 and retired from show business. Her husband died in 2001.

In 1969, she returned to the limelight as hostess for a popular afternoon television show and covered the final phase of the Vietnam War and Middle East conflicts.

From 1974 to 1992, she served as a member of the upper house of parliament for the ruling conservative Liberal Democratic Party.

She was active in promoting relations with China and other Asian countries. One of her concerns was Japanese “comfort women” military brothels, an issue that still strains ties between Japan and its neighbors.

In her 1987 autobiography, Yamaguchi wrote she was shell-shocked when she watched “China Nights” to prepare the book.

“Why did I have to appear in such a movie and perform as 'Chinese actress Ri Koran (Li Xianglan)'? I felt miserable realizing this at this advanced age and I had sleepless nights for months.”

However, according to some Japanese bloggers, the movie was not widely taken as a pure propaganda film but was appreciated by many people in both Japan and China.

“I think song is something that helps shrink boundaries and distances,” Yamaguchi told public broadcaster NHK in 1985. “I myself suffered much as I was trapped in a war between two countries as long as I remember. Therefore I am determined not to tolerate any war.”

日本女演員雪莉·山口去世，享年94

法新社
2014年9月15日，上午12:00 TWN

東京 - 日本女演員和歌手歡子“雪莉”山口，誰是近在二戰結束時執行在中國，曾在94歲人生的戲劇性任何她的電影後死亡。

山口，誰是出生於日本的父母在戰前滿洲，她的父親工作過的鐵路，受理中國和日本的觀眾冒充中國人在她的假身份李香蘭（李香蘭），或“Rikoran”在日本。

這位女演員，誰正式走到她已故的丈夫和外交家浩Otaka的姓，死於心臟衰竭在她的家在東京9月7日，她的家人說，星期天。

“她總是呆在因為她晚年的家在最近幾年卻過著正常的生活，”家庭成員告訴法新社記者通過電話。“她看著各種各樣的DVD，包括來自其他國家，如中國和美國的電影和紀錄片。”

山口使她首次在1938年的電影“蜜月快車”由東北電影製作後，長期被視為中國人。

她的一些電影在這個時候被視為親日的宣傳，包括“中國之夜（1940年），”中她出演了日本萬人迷長谷川一夫，她後來表示遺憾他們。

戰爭為合作者被捕後，她勉強通過揭示她的日本身份向中國法院執行避免因叛國罪。

她的熱門歌曲包括和“蘇州小夜曲（蘇州夜曲）”，這是戰後被禁止在中國大陸的“夜（夜來香）的香水”。

繼中國驅逐出境，1946年，她重新推出她的事業在日本的在她出生時的名字，山口淑子，並繼續在黑澤明的“醜聞”等影片的明星。

戰爭和苦難

她還打了美國電影和音樂劇的主要角色，在20世紀50年代的雪莉山口，包括塞繆爾·富勒的“一個家竹”（1955年）。

她在1951年嫁給美籍日裔雕塑家野口勇，但他們的婚姻只持續了四年。

山口後綁日本外交官弘Otaka結於1958年，並從演藝界退休。她的丈夫於2001年去世。

1969年，她回到了風頭的女主人對流行的下午的電視節目，並覆蓋越南戰爭和中東衝突的最後階段。

從1974年到1992年，她擔任國會的保守派執政的自民黨上院的一員。

她積極推動與中國和其他亞洲國家的關係。她的一個擔憂是日本“慰安婦”軍妓院，一個問題仍然株日本與鄰國之間的關係。

在她1987自傳，山口寫道，她是見慣不驚，當她看到“中國之夜”準備的書。

“為什麼我一定要出現在這樣一部電影，並執行為”中國女演員日蘭（李香蘭）“？我覺得很慘，在這個年紀實現這一點，我經常失眠了好幾個月。“

然而，據一些日本博客，電影並沒有被廣泛視為一個純粹的宣傳影片，但被感謝許多人在日本和中國。

“我覺得歌是什麼，有助於收縮邊界和距離，”山口告訴NHK電視台在1985年“我自己遭遇就像我被困在兩個國家之間的戰爭，只要我還記得。因此，我堅決不容忍任何戰爭。“