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Onoe Shōroku II

Japanese actor
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Yutaka Fujima
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March 28, 1913, Tokyo, Japan
Died:
June 25, 1989, Tokyo (aged 76)
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Onoe Shōroku II, (born March 28, 1913, Tokyo, Japan—died June 25, 1989, Tokyo) was a Japanese kabuki actor, one of the foremost interpreters of the classical kabuki plays, who specialized in female roles (all kabuki players are male). Yutaka Fujima made his debut at the age of five as Ushiwakamaru at the Teikoku Theatre in the kabuki drama Shusse Kagekiyo, about the 12th-century hero Taira no Kagekiyo. After starring in Neiboku sendai hagi (“The Disputed Succession”), he adopted the dynastic name of his teacher, Kikugorō Onoe VI. He later performed in such kabuki productions as Yoshitsune Sembonzakura (“The Thousand Cherry ...(100 of 137 words)

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