Recent Obituaries, Classic Films Only

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13. Actress Isuzu Yamada, 95.

[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/isuzu-yamada-95-acclaimed-japanese-actress/2012/07/12/gJQAjTc5fW_story.html[/url]

Isuzu Yamada, who became one of Japan’s most formidable and revered actresses and is perhaps best remembered as the treacherous wife of a warlord in “Throne of Blood,” director Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy “Macbeth,” died July 9 at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 95.

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A second-generation actor, Ms. Yamada appeared in more than 120 film and television roles in addition to her extensive theater career. She rose to movie stardom in the mid-1930s playing a series of “fallen women” — sometimes tragically sympathetic, sometimes tragically opportunistic —under the director Kenji Mizoguchi, whose films explored societal hypocrisies toward women.