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Yoshiko Okada | |
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 Yoshika Okada circa 1935 | |
| Born | April 21, 1902 |
| Died | February 10, 1992 (aged 89) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Film actress |
Yoshiko Okada (岡田嘉子, Okada Yoshiko, 21 April 1902 – 10 February 1992) was a Japanese film and stage actress who was also famous for her defection to the Soviet Union.
Early career[edit]
Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Okada studied at. She made her film debut in 1923 at Nikkatsu in Eizō Tanaka's Dokuro no mai.[1]
Defection[edit]
On 3 January 1938, Okada defected to the Soviet Union with her lover Ryōkichi Sugimoto,[2] seeking freedom from Japanese fascism and hoping to study theater with other Japanese in the USSR.[3] Sugimoto, however, was arrested and executed as a spy and Okada spent the next ten years in a prison camp.[2]
Late career[edit]
At the end of her confinement, Okada began to work for Radio Moskow and eventually got to study at the Moskow State Institute of Theater Arts. She helped stage a play and was selected to co-direct the film Ten Thousand Boys with Boris Buneev, a work that has been called "the first Russian film about Japan not intended to be a depiction of the 'vicious Japanese enemy.'"[2]
References[edit]
- ^ "Okada Yoshiko". Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus. Kōdansha. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
- ^ a b c Melnikova, Irina (2002). "Representation of Soviet-Japanese Encounters in Co-production Feature Films Part 1. The Musical Harmony". Doshisha Studies in Language and Culture. 5 (1): 51–74.
- ^ Kato, Tetsuro (2000). "The Japanese Victims of Stalinist Terror in the USSR". Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Studies. 32 (1): 1–13.