Yoko Tani

Yoko Tani

Yoko Tani (谷洋子, Tani Yōko, 2 August 1928 – 19 April 1999) was a French-born Japanese actress and nightclub entertainer. Tani was born in Paris. Her birth name was Itani Yōko (猪谷洋子). She has occasionally been described as 'Eurasian', 'half French', 'half Japanese' and even, in one source, 'Italian Japanese', all of which are incorrect. French records (1958) show that her father and mother—both Japanese—were attached to the Japanese embassy in Paris, with Tani herself conceived en route during a shipboard passage from Japan to Europe in 1927 and subsequently born in Paris the following year, hence given the name Yōko (洋子), one reading of which can mean "ocean-child.". Tani would later play a diplomat's daughter in Piccadilly Third Stop. According to Japanese sources, the family returned to Japan in 1930, when Yoko would still have been a toddler, and she did not return to France until 1950 when her schooling was completed. Given that there were severe restrictions on Japanese travelling outside Japan directly after World War II, this would have been an unusual event; however, it is known that Itani had attended an elite girls' school in Tokyo (Tokyo Women's Higher Normal School, currently Ochanomizu University Senior High School), and then graduated from Tsuda University. She subsequently secured a Catholic scholarship to study aesthetics at the University of Paris (Sorbonne) under Étienne Souriau. Once back in Paris, Tani found little interest in attending university (although by her own account she persevered for two years despite understanding hardly anything that was being said). Instead, she developed a more compelling attraction to the cabaret, the nightclub, and the variety music-hall, where, setting herself up as an exotic oriental beauty, she quickly established a reputation for her provocative "geisha" dances, which generally ended with her slipping out of her kimono. It was here she was spotted by Marcel Carné, who took her into his circle of director and actor-friends, including Roland Lesaffre, whom she was later to marry. As a result, she began to get bit parts in films—starting as (perhaps predictably) a Japanese dancer, in Gréville's Le port du désir (1953–1954, released 1955)—and on the stage, with a role as Lotus Bleu in la Petite Maison de Thé (French adaptation of The Teahouse of the August Moon) at the Théâtre Montparnasse, 1954–1955 season. ... Source: Article "Yoko Tani" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Yoko Tani
  • Popularity: 3.03
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1928-08-02
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France
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  • Also Known As: Yôko Tani, 谷洋子, Itani Yōko, 猪谷洋子
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Yoko Tani Movies

  • 1964
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    F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck

    F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck

    5 1964 HD

    An Interpol agent is tasked with investigating the deaths of several other agents.

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  • 1962
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    My Geisha

    My Geisha

    6.5 1962 HD

    Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a...

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  • 1960
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    First Spaceship on Venus

    First Spaceship on Venus

    4.7 1960 HD

    A mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated from Venus. A rocket expedition to Venus is launched...

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  • 1958
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    The Wind Cannot Read

    The Wind Cannot Read

    6.3 1958 HD

    A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy...

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  • 1956
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    Mannequins of Paris

    Mannequins of Paris

    1 1956 HD

    Véronique Lanier runs one of the most highly rated haute couture houses in Paris. Her first partner is her husband Pierre, who has left aside...

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  • 1958
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    The Quiet American

    The Quiet American

    5.855 1958 HD

    Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for...

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  • 1960
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    The Savage Innocents

    The Savage Innocents

    6.7 1960 HD

    An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued...

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  • 1962
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    Marco Polo

    Marco Polo

    4.2 1962 HD

    Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.

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  • 1967
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    Seven Golden Chinese

    Seven Golden Chinese

    1 1967 HD

    Knockoff of the 7 Golden Men with Yoko Tani.

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  • 1961
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    Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World

    Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World

    5.8 1961 HD

    Samson must rescue a beautiful Chinese princess from a marauding horde of warriors.

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  • 1966
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    The Spy Who Loved Flowers

    The Spy Who Loved Flowers

    5.2 1966 HD

    Three enemy agents lead a government security man on a perilous trail as the hunter becomes the hunted.

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  • 1965
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    Invasion

    Invasion

    5.8 1965 HD

    Routine tests on a traffic accident victim lead to shocking discoveries when the man's blood is found to be unidentifiable and x-rays reveal a disc...

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  • 1960
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    Piccadilly Third Stop

    Piccadilly Third Stop

    6.5 1960 HD

    A playboy tries to recruit a gang, who include an American who needs cash to satisfy his wife's expensive tastes, and an old time expert cracksman,...

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  • 1955
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    The Babes Make the Law

    The Babes Make the Law

    5.3 1955 HD

    When Nathalie, a shoe seller, is abducted, her mother Flora wastes no time taking matters into her own hands. Reluctant to call in the police, she...

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  • 1963
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    Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

    Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

    5.786 1963 HD

    TV star Jason Steel reluctantly becomes the sounding board for his best friends' bored wives, and must fend off their advances while managing his own...

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  • 1991
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    The Golden Lotus

    The Golden Lotus

    1 1991 HD

    Ximen Qing, a rich mandarin, deserts his wives to play with the courtesans. One of his young spouses, tired of languishing, consoles herself with a...

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  • 1959
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    Yoko Tani in London

    Yoko Tani in London

    1 1959 HD

    A fun tour of 1950s West End with international film star Yoko Tani.

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  • 1965
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    OSS 77 - Operazione fior di loto

    OSS 77 - Operazione fior di loto

    4 1965 HD

    A Chinese scientist takes a plane to the United States of America to warn that China has the atomic bomb. On the way, however, the plane is...

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  • 1955
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    Pleasures and Vices

    Pleasures and Vices

    4 1955 HD

    He was nicknamed Gueule d'ange (Angel's Face) because of his good looks, which enabled him to make a certain amount of money from wealthy ladies....

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  • 1954
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    Nights of Shame

    Nights of Shame

    4.7 1954 HD

    Marie-Thérèse is firmly involved in a charity dedicated to the rehabilitation of prostitutes. She approaches Marcelle who, for the love...

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  • 1956
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    In the Manner of Sherlock Holmes

    In the Manner of Sherlock Holmes

    7.429 1956 HD

    A horrific and, on the face of it, incomprehensible murder has just been committed on the unsympathetic person of a loan shark. The victim's body is...

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  • 1967
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    To Chase A Million

    To Chase A Million

    1 1967 HD

    When former Russian spy Max Stein is murdered, private investigator McGill inherits a key to a safe deposit box in a Lisbon bank – a box that...

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  • 1968
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    Koroshi

    Koroshi

    1 1968 HD

    Secret agent John Drake (aka Danger Man) goes to Japan to infiltrate a secret society that specializes in murder. - This film was originally...

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  • 1956
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    裸足の青春

    裸足の青春

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1958
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    Fire in the Flesh

    Fire in the Flesh

    4 1958 HD

    Physicist Theodore Heldt, his young daughter Fern and his assistant Larry Gordon, on board a ship for a scientific expedition, are shipwrecked in the...

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  • 1966
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    Suicide Mission to Singapore

    Suicide Mission to Singapore

    10 1966 HD

    A secret agent travels to Singapore in search of a secret formula. Just about everyone he trusts ends up betraying him.

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  • 1961
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    Ursus and the Tartar Princess

    Ursus and the Tartar Princess

    4 1961 HD

    Peplum movie from 1961

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  • 1964
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    The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

    The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

    5.8 1964 HD

    The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.

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  • 1954
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    Vice Dolls

    Vice Dolls

    7 1954 HD

    In this French crime drama, a young man gets revenge upon the criminals who caused his grandfather to kill himself. Unfortunately, the fellow doesn't...

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  • 1957
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    The Ostrich Has Two Eggs

    The Ostrich Has Two Eggs

    5.8 1957 HD

    A father discovers one day that one of his sons is a homosexual and the other, is the "gigolo" of a Japanese countess. He is first horrified, but...

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  • 1964
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    Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa

    Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa

    1 1964 HD

    A whimsical commedia all'italiana divided into four episodes.

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  • 1956
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    Women in Prison

    Women in Prison

    1 1956 HD

    The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...

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  • 1956
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    Maid in Paris

    Maid in Paris

    1 1956 HD

    Penelope Benson, known as Penny, is both romantic and determined. Put in a select boarding school by her mother, she takes advantage of a trip to...

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  • 1965
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    Desperate Mission

    Desperate Mission

    7 1965 HD

    A nuclear scientist is kidnapped by Chinese communists in Hong Kong. A Japanese group of judo experts kidnaps him from the kidnappers, but before...

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  • 1955
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    House on the Waterfront

    House on the Waterfront

    6.7 1955 HD

    Martine is searching for her sister that disappeared mysteriously. Lequévic agrees to help her.

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  • 1972
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    Shirley's World

    Shirley's World

    5 1972 HD

    Shirley's World is a television series aired first by American Broadcasting Company during the U.S. 1971-72 television season. The sitcom was...

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  • 1961
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    Ben Casey

    Ben Casey

    5.7 1961 HD

    Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a...

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  • 1968
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    Les Dossiers de l'Agence O

    Les Dossiers de l'Agence O

    10 1968 HD

    L’Agence O is a famous Parisian private detective firm. Its premises are located in the Passage Choiseul. In front, Torrence leads the shop. In...

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  • 1967
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    Man in a Suitcase

    Man in a Suitcase

    7 1967 HD

    Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches...

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  • 1956
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    Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

    8 1956 HD

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  • 1986
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    Softly from Paris

    Softly from Paris

    5.8 1986 HD

    An anthology of erotic stories by famous writers like Guy de Maupassant, Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne, Marquis de Sade, Giovanni Boccaccio,...

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