Jitsuko Yoshimura
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Emerging from post-war Japan's cinema scene, she was spotted by director Shōhei Imamura and given her first role in the 1961 film Pigs and Battleships, launching a brief but impactful early career. She quickly became associated with auteur projects, appearing in Imamura's The Insect Woman, starring in Kaneto Shindō's acclaimed horror Onibaba-performance that earned her the Blue Ribbon Award for Be…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
