Ri Kôran

Ri Kôran

🎞️ Movie JP
โ˜… 7.2 /10 2007

Tells the story of Yamaguchi Yoshiko, a Japanese woman born and raised in China during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. She debuts as the Chinese singer and actress Li Xianglan (Ri Kouran in Japanese), in the hopes that her efforts will work towards the benefit of both Japan and China. Hiding her true nationality, however, she slowly discovers herself becoming a puppet of the Japanese military's propaganda efforts in Manchuria, starring in "national policy" films that humiliate the Chinese people. But billed as the "star of Greater East Asia," her popularity soars across borders to Japan, where she holds a concert that draws thousands to the Nihon Gekijou Theatre and leads to a riot that injures several people. Based on her autobiography, this is the story of her personal struggle amidst military strife between her two homelands.

Cast

Aya Ueto
Aya Ueto
Ri Kôran aka Yoshiko Yamaguchi
Isao Hashizume
Isao Hashizume
Fumio Yamaguchi, Yoshiko's father
Yûko Natori
Yûko Natori
Ai Yamaguchi, Yoshiko's mother
Rei Kikukawa
Rei Kikukawa
Yoshiko Kawashima
Shidô Nakamura
Shidô Nakamura
Masahiko Amakasu
Ikki Sawamura
Ikki Sawamura
Nagamasa Kawakita
Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Hidemi Kodama
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Takehiko Ono
๐Ÿ‘ค
Fukusuke Nakamura
Kazuo Hasegawa
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Akio Kaneda