Reisen Ri
Japanese actress (1942–2021)
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Reisen Ri (Japanese: 李麗仙,[1] Korean: 이여선,[2] born Lee Cho-ja [이초자]; 25 March 1942 – 22 June 2021), also credited as Reisen Lee,[3] was a Japanese actress of Zainichi Korean origin.[4][5][6] She was associated with the Angura underground theatre movement, and was the wife of playwright Jūrō Kara.
25 March 1942
Life and career
A third-generation Zainichi Korean,[7] Ri was born Lee Cho-ja in Tokyo in 1942.[5] Her Japanese civil name was Hatsuko Otsuru. She graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Hibiya High School and studied acting in Butai Geijutsu Gakuin, where she met her future husband Jūrō Kara.[8]
She joined Kara's "Situation Theatre" in 1963[1] and gave her film debut in Nagisa Ōshima's 1969 Diary of a Shinjuku Thief.[9] In 1972, she starred in Hiroshi Teshigahara's film Summer Soldiers,[9] and in 1985, in Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters.[10] In addition, she appeared on stage in Japan and South Korea.[11]
Personal life
Selected filmography
- 1969: Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
- 1972: Summer Soldiers
- 1973: Female Convict Scorpion: Beast Stable
- 1976: Ninkyo Gaiden Genkai Nada
- 1985: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters