Actress and singer -- via The international News. AKA Yoshiko Otaka, Li Xianglan, Ri Koran. Born in Manchuria to Japanese parents, she began her career performing in Japanese propaganda films during World War II, posing as a native Chinese. Eventually, she entered the pantheon as one of the "seven great singing stars" of China in the 1940s. For her propaganda work, she was arrested and tried after the war as a collaborator, until she revealed her nationality. She escaped execution, but her work was subsequently banned in China. She went on to make films for such directors as Kurosawa ("Scandal," 1949 --
my analysis from Senses of Cinema here) and Fuller's "House of Bamboo" in 1955.
