#Shirley Yamaguchi

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2022: Marsha Hunt, Marsha Virginia Hunt, attrice statunitense, attiva sul piccolo e grande schermo fin dal 1935 – una carriera che dura da quasi 80 anni apparendo un numerosi film. Marsha sposò il regista Jerry Hopper nel 1938. Divorziarono nel 1943. Sposò il suo secondo marito, lo sceneggiatore e regista radiofonico Robert Presnell Jr. nel 1946. Hunt era incinta e molto malata durante le riprese…

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Yoshiko "Shirley" Yamaguchi, 1952.

(📸- Ken Domon)

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I heard it on the radio (a long long time ago)

As per that playlist. (Site link is here: https://8tracks.com//unkindnessofravens/i-heard-it-on-the-radio-a-long-long-time-ago

but some songs had to be replaced/may no longer work given the split from soundcloud ages ago.)

Yesterday Once More by Carpenters

Will You Love Me Tomorrow by Carole King, James Taylor

Yesterday When I Was Young by Shirley Bassey

The House of the Rising Sun by The Animals

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Peter Paul and Mary

Ban Jin Ba Liang 半斤八两 by 许冠杰

Carry On Till Tomorrow by Badfinger

Good Old Rock & Roll by 谭咏麟 (Alan Tam)

Somewhere Out There by Linda Ronstadt, James Ingram

Sad Movies (Make Me Cry) by Sue Thompson

One Way Ticket by Eruption

Cosmos by Momoe Yamaguchi

(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window by Lita Roza

Nights in White Satin by The Moody Blues

"Silly Man" 傻癡癡 by Leon Lai

Zhui (Chase) by Leslie Chang

Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce

Michael, Row The Boat Ashore by The Highwaymen

Misty by Johnny Mathis

新上海灘 Shang Hai Bund by 葉麗儀

Be Silent by Momoe Yamaguchi

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down by The Band

Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver

How Deep Is Your Love? by BeeGees

Lemon Tree by Peter, Paul and Mary

El Cóndor Pasa by Simon & Garfunkel

Midnight In Moscow by Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen

Daydream Believer by The Monkees

Baby Elephant Walk by Pat Boone

Desperado by Eagles

Famous Blue Raincoat by Joan Baez

Tennessee Waltz by Anne Murray

Travellin' Light by Cliff Richard

You're So Vain by Carly Simon - Official

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@hotvintagepoll yoshiko yamaguchi propaganda (she was credited as shirley yamaguchi in her english-language movies)

Shirley Yamaguchi in House of Bamboo (1955)

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Day Six- Film: Japanese War Bride 

Release date: Jan 29th, 1952 

Studio: 20th Century Fox 

Genre: drama 

Director: King Vidor 

Producer: Joseph Bernhard, Anson Bond 

Actors: Shirley Yamaguchi, Don Taylor 

Plot Summary: Jim, an American soldier, meets Tae, a Japanese nurse, while recovering from injuries on the battlefield in Korea. They fall in love, marry, and move to the U.S. Both Jim’s family and the entire community have a hard time accepting Tae. Racism and the wounds of WWII loom over everything. 

My Rating (out of five stars): *** 

The message of this movie would get more stars than three, but the quality of the actual film knocks it down a few. It’s obvious the filmmakers meant well, but ultimately it is pretty ham-fisted.

The good:  

It does TRY to offer some moral complexity. There are American characters, native Japanese characters, and even a local Californian Japanese American family. All have their very real scars from the war that complicate their interactions.  

It TRIES to avoid simple stereotypes of Japanese people and at least ATTEMPT to flesh out characters 

The actors playing Japanese characters were actually Japanese 

The actress playing Tae was wonderful and very sympathetic 

The character Jim was actually a sweet guy. He did sometimes treat her like a child, but honestly, it wasn’t too different than how he would have treated an American woman at the time. 

The bad: 

Lots of use of the word “J-p,” although it always came out of the mouths of racist characters. It was just startling, for example, to hear things like, “Oh, look at the little J-p baby. I must say, they are really cute.” 

Some infantilizing of Tae.  

The film acts like Jim is somehow emancipating her because he doesn't make her bow for him anymore.

Fran! Fran the sister-in-law! She was not only racist but just a horrible jealous person. I started making a running joke of yelling “Fran, you’re a cow!” whenever she spoke so I wouldn’t get so angry at her. 

For me, this ultimately ended up being a very fascinating time capsule of the early post WWII years in America, even if it wasn't a great film. It was also apparently regarded as positive and helpful for Japanese “war brides” of the time, so big props for that! 

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Kazuo Hasegawa and Li Xianglan (Yoshiko Yamaguchi) in Song of the White Orchid (白蘭の歌, 1939)

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look it guts me to vote against Lana but Yoshiko Yamaguchi! aka Li Xiang Lan (李香蘭) aka Pan Shu Hua aka Shirley Yamaguchi aka Yoshiko Otaka - one of the Seven Great Singing Stars of 1930s Shanghai, most known for The Evening Primrose (夜來香) but my absolute favourite song by her is If Only I Had Met You Before I Was Married (恨不相逢未嫁時). She was, as OP has said, a coloratura soprano; the first note she hits in this song is insane.

She also had an incredibly dramatic and scandalous life: she was born to Japanese parents in China, but passed herself off as Chinese for much of the 1930s and 1940s. She starred in some very controversial films decried by the Chinese as being Japanese propaganda, yet was criticised when she toured in Japan for wearing Chinese qipao and speaking with a Mandarin accent.

After World War II, she was arrested in Shanghai and sentenced to death for treason and collaborating with the Japanese, and was only saved from execution at the eleventh hour by her parents having her childhood friend smuggle her birth certificate into Shanghai inside the head of a geisha doll, thus proving she was Japanese to begin with.

Despite her acquittal, her reputation in China was in tatters and she subsequently moved to Japan, reinventing herself as Yoshiko Yamaguchi. She went on to be a TV news anchor, an activist for pro-Palestinian causes and a Member of Parliament, serving for 18 years. She's absolutely fascinating, and I could listen to her sing forever (I have listened to her for a lot of my life already).

Propaganda

Lana Turner (Ziegfeld Girl, The Postman Always Rings Twice)— A serial monogamist who was married 8 times, "Sweater Girl" Lana was a gorgeous and respected actress with a shitshow of a personal life. Just look at her. Fuck it, I'd marry her too.

Yoshiko Yamaguchi (Scandal, Sayon's Bell, House of Bamboo)—Coluratura soprano, actress, journalist, and politician! She plays opposite Hot Vintage Man Winner Toshiro Mifune in the movie Scandal and is so gorgeous and talented.

This is round 3 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Lana Turner:

I've had a soft spot for her ever since a very ancient man in a pub told me I looked "like a young Lana Turner"

She's an icon!

Messy as fuck personal life, including her daughter killing Lana’s abusive boyfriend, but a real movie star.

Yoshiko Yamaguchi:

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25. O Escândalo (醜聞, 1950), dir. Akira Kurosawa

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House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller, 1955), cinematography by Joseph MacDonald

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Shirley Yamaguchi (1920-2014) AKA Yamaguchi Yoshiko 山口 淑子 AKA Li Hsiang-lan 李香兰 AKA Ri Kōran - 18 years old - China - 1938

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ty for the tag!!! (my ass is not doing the formatting I'm too tired to care)

weirdest dream: hmmm. I once dreamt I was the gay child from haunting of hill house and my sister, Shirley from the show, was trying to slit my thoart w a kitchen knife. i watched myself fight her back in the 3rd person. I also have apocalypse dreams all the time.

snack I love: chips and salsa! carrots are also good w salsa.

last movie watched: this random aussie Xmas movie w my mom. was better than I expected 7/10.

fav fictional characters: beth greene, ellie williams, shauna shipman, lottie matthews, ekko from arcane, jinx, will byers, yamaguchi tadashi, emily from class of 09, haley from sdv, lisa frankenstein

vanilla or chocolate: chocolate.

tag: anyone who wants to!! I meant it go for it

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౨ৎ weirdest dream you can remember:

i was in a tim burton movie and got kidnapped by a vampire which was my bsf, then had to marry him bc i had wings and he liked them, then ate gum and died bc it was poisoned (there were def weirder ones but i can't recall them rn)

౨ৎ random snack you love:

joghurt with banana, peanut butter and chocolate omggg and watermelon with chips i swear it's really good !!

౨ৎ last movie you watched + rating:

juno: 9.5 out of 10 i loved ittt !! >ᴗ<

౨ৎ fav fictional character(s):

atm im especially obsessed with cassie ainsworth and pearl although there are a looot more !!

౨ৎ vanilla or chocolate?

i can't decideee myself ahhh

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李香蘭 私の半生　山口淑子・藤原作弥 新潮社

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Shirley Yamaguchi and Toshirō Mifune in Hoyo (The Last Embrace) 1953

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Robert Stack and Shirley Yamaguchi in House of Bamboo (1955)