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Yoko Tani
Acting

Yoko Tani
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1928-08-02,Paris, France
Gender
Female
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.

Filmography

F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck

6

F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
1964-06-29

6.8

My Geisha
1962-03-09

The Silent Star

4.902

The Silent Star
1960-02-26

The Wind Cannot Read

6.423

The Wind Cannot Read
1958-06-10

Mannequins of Paris

9

Mannequins of Paris
1956-09-19

The Quiet American

5.824

The Quiet American
1958-02-08

The Savage Innocents

6.833

The Savage Innocents
1960-03-20

4.5

Marco Polo
1962-04-13

Seven Golden Chinese

8

Seven Golden Chinese
1967-12-12

Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World

6.278

Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World
1961-10-31

The Spy Who Loved Flowers

5.056

The Spy Who Loved Flowers
1966-08-12

6.1

Invasion
1965-10-01

Piccadilly Third Stop

6.65

Piccadilly Third Stop
1960-09-05

The Babes Make the Law

6.25

The Babes Make the Law
1955-03-29

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

6.063

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
1963-12-25

The Golden Lotus

0

The Golden Lotus
1991-01-01

Yoko Tani in London

0

Yoko Tani in London
1959-04-02

OSS 77 - Operation Lotus Flower

7

OSS 77 - Operation Lotus Flower
1965-08-26

Pleasures and Vices

5.667

Pleasures and Vices
1955-09-02

Nights of Shame

5.5

Nights of Shame
1954-08-04

In the Manner of Sherlock Holmes

7.5

In the Manner of Sherlock Holmes
1956-06-05

To Chase A Million

7

To Chase A Million
1967-01-01

8

Koroshi
1968-11-28

Love on Rainbow Island

8

Love on Rainbow Island
1956-10-16

Fire in the Flesh

5

Fire in the Flesh
1958-01-17

Suicide Mission to Singapore

9

Suicide Mission to Singapore
1966-06-02

Ursus and the Tartar Princess

5.5

Ursus and the Tartar Princess
1961-12-30

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

6.167

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
1964-09-17

6.875

Vice Dolls
1954-10-18

The Ostrich Has Two Eggs

5.6

The Ostrich Has Two Eggs
1957-08-29

Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa

4

Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa
1964-12-29

Women in Prison

4

Women in Prison
1956-09-11

10

Maid in Paris
1956-01-20

Desperate Mission

7

Desperate Mission
1965-11-13

House on the Waterfront

7.143

House on the Waterfront
1955-04-15

6

The Partner
1963-01-01

The Sweet and the Bitter

7

The Sweet and the Bitter
1967-06-23

Shirley's World

6

Shirley's World
1972-04-07

5.867

Ben Casey
1961-10-02

Les Dossiers de l'Agence O

10

Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
1968-03-11

Man in a Suitcase

7.222

Man in a Suitcase
1967-09-27

8.667

Cinépanorama
1956-02-04

Softly from Paris

5.625

Softly from Paris
1986-11-08

0

Drama 61-67
1961-03-19

Armchair Theatre

6

Armchair Theatre
1956-07-08