Ri Kōran (2000)

Genre

drama television series

Country

Japan

How it feels

This is a two-part film about the life of a famous Chinese-born Japanese singer and actress. It shows how her career was shaped by the wars and political conflicts of the 20th century.

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What happens

Ri Kōran (Japanese: 李香蘭, Hepburn: Ri Kōran) is a 2007 Japanese two-part historical and biographical film portraying the turbulent life and times of legendary singer and actress Yoshiko Yamaguchi, known as Ri Kōran in her prime. A tragic figure pitted into the limelight of fame by the unpredictable forces of history, she was caught between competing nationalisms and political conflicts, her life and career sculpted by the turbulence of war and global power shifts. Loosely based on Yamaguchi's memoir Ri Kōran wo Ikite: Watashi no Rirekisho, the two-episode film production was directed by Tonko Horikawa and starred Aya Ueto as Yamaguchi, first broadcasting in Japan by TV Tokyo on February 11 and 12, 2007. Subtitled versions were subsequently made available online to pan-Asian audiences on major Asian video sharing platforms. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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