Reisen Ri | |
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Born | 25 March 1942 Tokyo, Japan |
Died | 22 June 2021 Tokyo, Japan | (aged 79)
Nationality | Japanese |
Occupation | actress |
Reisen Ri (李麗仙; 25 March 1942 – 22 June 2021), also credited as Reisen Lee,[3] was a Japanese stage and film actress of Korean descent.[1][4][5]
Born in Tokyo as a third-generation Korean resident[a],[4] she joined Jūrō Kara's "Situation Theatre" in 1963[1] and gave her film debut in Nagisa Ōshima's 1969 Diary of a Shinjuku Thief.[6] In 1972, she starred in Hiroshi Teshigahara's film Summer Soldiers,[6] and in 1985, in Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters.[3] In addition, she appeared on stage in Japan and South Korea.[5]
Ri was married to Kara from 1967 to 1988.[1] In 1975, she acquired Japanese citizenship.[2][4] She died in Tokyo on 22 June 2021, aged 79.[4]
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