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Ranko Hanai

{{short description|Japanese actress}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}}

{{Infobox person

| image = Hanai Ranko.JPG

| caption = Ranko Hanai (date unknown)

| name = Ranko Hanai

| other_names = Reiko Shimizu

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1918|7|15}}

| birth_place = Osaka, Japan

| birth_name = Yoshiko Shimizu

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1961|5|21|1918|7|15}}

| death_place =

| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1929-1961

}}

{{Nihongo|Ranko Hanai|花井蘭子|Hanai Ranko|15 July 1918 – 21 May 1961}} was a Japanese actress{{cite web|url=http://www.citwf.com/person206978.htm |title=花井蘭子 |access-date=20 August 2023 |website=Kotobank |language=ja}} who appeared in about 200 films between 1929 and 1961.{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0216610.htm |title=清水玲子 |access-date=20 August 2023 |website=Japanese Movie Database |language=ja}}{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0059000.htm |title=花井蘭子 |access-date=20 August 2023 |website=Japanese Movie Database |language=ja}}

Biography

Hanai was born Yoshiko Shimizu in Osaka, Japan. As a child, she acted with the theatre troupes of Takeo Kawai and Rokurō Kitamura,{{cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E8%8A%B1%E4%BA%95%20%E8%98%AD%E5%AD%90-1652682 |title=花井 蘭子 |access-date=20 August 2023 |website=Kotobank |language=ja}} and gave her screen debut under the name of Reiko Shimizu in 1929. She entered the Nikkatsu film studio in 1931 and moved to J. O. Sutajio (later Toho) in 1937. In 1946, in opposition to the union strike at Toho, Yamada sided with the anti-unionist group "Jū hito no hata no kai" ("Society of the Flag of Ten"), which consisted of Setsuko Hara, Hideko Takamine, Isuzu Yamada and others,{{cite book |last=Hirano |first=Kyoko |date=1992 |title=Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation, 1945–1952 |location=Washington and London |publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press |isbn=1-56098-157-1}} and joined the Shintoho studio. During the 1950s, she also occasionally worked for Toho and other production companies, appearing in films of Mikio Naruse, Heinosuke Gosho, Kinuyo Tanaka and Kaneto Shindō. She died in 1961 at the age of 42.

Selected filmography

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb name|0359248}}

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Category:1918 births

Category:1961 deaths

Category:Japanese film actresses

Category:Actors from Osaka

Category:20th-century Japanese actresses

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