was a Japanese actress, and the wife of Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa for 39 years. She had two children with Kurosawa: a son named Hisao and a daughter named Kazuko. Personal life While working on Akira Kurosawa's second film, The Most Beautiful, Yaguchi clashed over the alleged ways the director treated the actors. However, the pair found a connection, despite these clashes, and married in 1945. Their son Hisao was born that same year. Partial filmography Renga joko (1940) Enoken no songokū: songokū zenko-hen (Enoken's Sun Wukong) (1940) Jogakusei-ki (1941) The Most Beautiful (1944) References External links New York Times 1921 births 1985 deaths 20th-century Japanese actresses Akira Kurosawa