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Yoko Tani‌

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Birthday

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Yoko Tani

Paris, France

Yoko Tani

Paris, France

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1928-08-02

Popularity

star3.9

Biography

Yoko Tani (谷洋子, Tani Yōko, 2 August 1928 – 19 April 1999) was a French-born Japanese actress and nightclub entertainer. Tani was born in Paris. Her birth name was Itani Yōko (猪谷洋子). She has occasionally been described as 'Eurasian', 'half French', 'half Japanese' and even, in one source, 'Italian Japanese', all of which are incorrect. French records (1958) show that her father and mother—both Japanese—were attached to the Japanese embassy in Paris, with Tani herself conceived en route during a shipboard passage from Japan to Europe in 1927 and subsequently born in Paris the following year, hence given the name Yōko (洋子), one reading of which can mean "ocean-child.". Tani would later play a diplomat's daughter in Piccadilly Third Stop. According to Japanese sources, the family returned to Japan in 1930, when Yoko would still have been a toddler, and she did not return to France until 1950 when her schooling was completed. Given that there were severe restrictions on Japanese travelling outside Japan directly after World War II, this would have been an unusual event; however, it is known that Itani had attended an elite girls' school in Tokyo (Tokyo Women's Higher Normal School, currently Ochanomizu University Senior High School), and then graduated from Tsuda University. She subsequently secured a Catholic scholarship to study aesthetics at the University of Paris (Sorbonne) under Étienne Souriau. Once back in Paris, Tani found little interest in attending university (although by her own account she persevered for two years despite understanding hardly anything that was being said). Instead, she developed a more compelling attraction to the cabaret, the nightclub, and the variety music-hall, where, setting herself up as an exotic oriental beauty, she quickly established a reputation for her provocative "geisha" dances, which generally ended with her slipping out of her kimono. It was here she was spotted by Marcel Carné, who took her into his circle of director and actor-friends, including Roland Lesaffre, whom she was later to marry. As a result, she began to get bit parts in films—starting as (perhaps predictably) a Japanese dancer, in Gréville's Le port du désir (1953–1954, released 1955)—and on the stage, with a role as Lotus Bleu in la Petite Maison de Thé (French adaptation of The Teahouse of the August Moon) at the Théâtre Montparnasse, 1954–1955 season. ... Source: Article "Yoko Tani" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movie Credits

F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck

F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck‌
star5.0
calendar 1964

My Geisha

My Geisha‌
star6.5
calendar 1962

First Spaceship on Venus

First Spaceship on Venus‌
star4.7
calendar 1960

The Wind Cannot Read

The Wind Cannot Read‌
star6.3
calendar 1958

Mannequins of Paris

Mannequins of Paris‌
star0.0
calendar 1956

The Quiet American

The Quiet American‌
star5.8
calendar 1958

The Savage Innocents

The Savage Innocents‌
star6.7
calendar 1960

Marco Polo

Marco Polo‌
star4.2
calendar 1962

Seven Golden Chinese

Seven Golden Chinese‌
star0.0
calendar 1967

Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World

Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World‌
star5.8
calendar 1961

The Spy Who Loved Flowers

The Spy Who Loved Flowers‌
star5.2
calendar 1966

Invasion

Invasion‌
star5.8
calendar 1965

Piccadilly Third Stop

Piccadilly Third Stop‌
star6.5
calendar 1960

The Babes Make the Law

The Babes Make the Law‌
star5.3
calendar 1955

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?‌
star5.7
calendar 1963

The Golden Lotus

The Golden Lotus‌
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calendar 1991

Yoko Tani in London

Yoko Tani in London‌
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calendar 1959

OSS 77 - Operazione fior di loto

OSS 77 - Operazione fior di loto‌
star4.0
calendar 1965

Pleasures and Vices

Pleasures and Vices‌
star4.0
calendar 1955

Nights of Shame

Nights of Shame‌
star4.7
calendar 1954

In the Manner of Sherlock Holmes

In the Manner of Sherlock Holmes‌
star4.0
calendar 1956

To Chase A Million

To Chase A Million‌
star0.0
calendar 1967

Koroshi

Koroshi‌
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calendar 1968

裸足の青春

裸足の青春‌
star0.0
calendar 1956

Fire in the Flesh

Fire in the Flesh‌
star4.0
calendar 1958

Suicide Mission to Singapore

Suicide Mission to Singapore‌
star10.0
calendar 1966

Ursus and the Tartar Princess

Ursus and the Tartar Princess‌
star4.0
calendar 1961

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse‌
star5.7
calendar 1964

Vice Dolls

Vice Dolls‌
star7.0
calendar 1954

The Ostrich Has Two Eggs

The Ostrich Has Two Eggs‌
star5.8
calendar 1957

Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa

Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa‌
star1.0
calendar 1964

Women in Prison

Women in Prison‌
star1.0
calendar 1956

Maid in Paris

Maid in Paris‌
star0.0
calendar 1956

Desperate Mission

Desperate Mission‌
star7.0
calendar 1965

House on the Waterfront

House on the Waterfront‌
star6.7
calendar 1955

Tv Credits

Shirley's World

Shirley's World‌
star5.0
calendar 1972

Ben Casey

Ben Casey‌
star5.7
calendar 1961

Les Dossiers de l'Agence O

Les Dossiers de l'Agence O‌
star10.0
calendar 1968

Man in a Suitcase

Man in a Suitcase‌
star7.0
calendar 1967

Cinépanorama

Cinépanorama‌
star8.0
calendar 1956

Softly from Paris

Softly from Paris‌
star5.4
calendar 1986