Reisen Ri

Reisen Ri
Born
李 初子 (Japanese)[1]
이여선 (Korean)[2]

(1942-03-25)25 March 1942
Tokyo, Japan
Died22 June 2021(2021-06-22) (aged 79)
Tokyo, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Occupationactress

Reisen Ri (李麗仙; 25 March 1942 – 22 June 2021), also credited as Reisen Lee,[3] was a Japanese stage and film actress of Korean descent.[1][4][5]

Born in Tokyo as a third-generation Korean resident[a],[4] she joined Jūrō Kara's "Situation Theatre" in 1963[1] and gave her film debut in Nagisa Ōshima's 1969 Diary of a Shinjuku Thief.[6] In 1972, she starred in Hiroshi Teshigahara's film Summer Soldiers,[6] and in 1985, in Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters.[3] In addition, she appeared on stage in Japan and South Korea.[5]

Ri was married to Kara from 1967 to 1988.[1] In 1975, she acquired Japanese citizenship.[2][4] She died in Tokyo on 22 June 2021, aged 79.[4]

Selected filmography

Notes

  1. ^ Her Korean name was Lee Yeo-seok or 이여선 in Korean language.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "女優の李麗仙さんが死去、79歳 元夫は唐十郎、大鶴義丹は実の息子". Nikkan Sports (in Japanese). 25 June 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  2. ^ a b "李麗仙". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  3. ^ a b Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (DVD). The Criterion Collection. 2008.
  4. ^ a b c d "李麗仙さん日本国籍取得秘話 愛息・大鶴義丹のために…金大中事件とブラックリスト". Tokyo Sports Press (in Japanese). 26 June 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  5. ^ a b "女優人生50年、李麗仙さんが韓国名にこだわったワケ". Chosun Online (in Japanese). 23 October 2013. Archived from the original on 24 October 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  6. ^ a b "李麗仙 (Reisen Ri)" (in Japanese). Kinenote. Retrieved 16 October 2021.


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