Fusako Fujima
Fusako Fujima, born Ginko Yanoshima, was a Japanese actress, dancer, and singer. She was with the Imperial Theatre in the 1910s, and appeared in Japanese films in the 1930s and 1940s, including Mikio Naruse's Sincerity and Akira Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth.
Early life and education
Ginko Yanoshima was born in Tokyo, the daughter of a paper merchant. She studied art, music, and dance, and trained for the theatre at the school of Sada Yakko. She began her stage career in the Imperial Theatre.Stage career
Fujima's early career was on the stage. She played Mistress Quickly in The Merry Wives of Windsor in Tokyo in 1912. "The fearlessness and scorn of the samurai mother, played by Miss Fusako Fujima, was a revelation of what the shy, sophisticated Japanese women can do in simulating passion," wrote an American reviewer in 1914, in Overland Monthly. She was described as "the best Japanese dancer among the actresses", in a 1915 report in The Far East, about the Imperial Theatre's "Toy Ballet". She was noted for her "comical" skills, in a 1918 article about fellow actress Ritsuko Mori, and she was described as a singer in a 1926 newspaper photo with Mori and Irish tenor John McCormack.Filmography
Fujima often played older women, wives, mothers, and grandmothers, in Japanese films made in the 1930s and 1940s by directors including Akira Kurosawa, Masahiro Makino, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Mikio Naruse, Osamu Fushimizu, and Torajiro Saito.Hakui no kajin Kokyo Gonzo to Sukejyu Ôma no tsuji Magokoro Nizuma Kagame Shina no yoru Zoku Hebihimesama Kinō kieta otoko Ani no hanayome Waga ai no ki Otoko no hanamichi- Midori no daichi Hanako-san Tokkan ekichō Tokyo gonin otoko Hometown in Green Waga seishun ni kuinashi Waga ai wa yama no kanata ni Ojōsan kampai
- ''Hakuchû no kettō''