Kazuko Yoshiyuki (吉行和子, Yoshiyuki Kazuko; 9 August 1935 – 2 September 2025) was a Japanese actress, voice actress, and essayist. Her career flourished as she grew up with burgeoning Japanese film and TV industry during post-war period, bridging traditional storytelling with modern cinematic expressions, making her a quintessential figure of that transformative era in Japanese entertainment. She made her debut on the screen in 1955, and has appeared in more than 60 films, and as well as appeared in more than a few hundreds of different Japanese television dramas. Over the spanning seven decades, she won a Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actress Award in 1959, and then a Japan Academy Film & TV Prize for Best Actress as a her role in 1978 film Empire of Passion. (Via Wikipedia)