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Sakuko Yanagi

Nov 03, 1902 (122 years old) in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan

Sakuko Yanagi (November 3, 1902 – March 20, 1963) was the stage name of Japanese actress Kuroyanagi Chiyoko. In the 1920s, she played the heroine of many Shochiku films. Orphaned at five years old, Kuroyanagi was taken in by her aunt and uncle. Although they had very little, they instructed her in the arts from a young age. At the age of ten, Kuroyanagi joined a local theater troupe to provide a source of income for her adoptive family. A shamisen teacher

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