Reisen Ri
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25 March 1942
Reisen Ri | |
|---|---|
| Born | Lee Cho-ja 25 March 1942 Tokyo, Japan |
| Died | 22 June 2021 (aged 79) Tokyo, Japan |
| Other names | Hatsuko Otsuru |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Movement | Angura |
| Spouse | |
| Japanese name | |
| Kanji | 李麗仙 |
| Hiragana | り れいせん |
| Katakana | リ レイセン |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 이여선 |
| Hanja | 李麗仙 |
| RR | I Yeoseon |
| MR | I Yŏsŏn |
| Alternate name | |
| Hangul | 이초자 |
| RR | I Choja |
| MR | I Ch'oja |
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.
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]
