Isuzu Yamada

Isuzu Yamada was a Japanese actress whose career on stage and screen spanned eight decades.

Yamada was born in Osaka as Mitsu Yamada. Her father, Kusuo Yamada, was a shinpa stage actor specializing in onnagata roles and her mother, Ritsu, was a geisha. Her family was poor, but under her mothers influence, she began learning nagauta and Japanese traditional dance from the age of six.

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