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Toshia Mori (born Toshia Ichioka in Kyoto on January 1, 1912).
Toshia moved to the United States when she was ten years old and was working in silent films by the time she was a teenager. She became the only Asian and only non-Caucasian actress to be selected as a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1932.
Toshia Mori, 1932
Kinuyo Tanaka reads.
Kinuyo Tanaka, a Japanese actress and director.
Tanaka was the second Japanese woman who worked as a film director, after Sakane Tazuko (1904‐1975).
Kinuyo Tanaka, 1930s
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Lotus Long (July 18, 1909 - September 14, 1990) in 1935’s Last of the Pagans
Lotus Long by George Hurrell
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Japanese singer 住江みちる (Sumi Michiru) c.1943
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Hisako IchijouShe was just 14 when she debuted in 1918 and she quickly became a star of the Asakusa Opera and a favourite of their most enthusiastic fans known as “Perarogo”. Tragically, however, her career was a short one: she contracted lead poisoning from the white face paint she used during performances and died in 1920 having just turned 17.[picture and text come from here]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvws7nnmUP1r6yt7eo1_500.jpg)
Hisako Ichijou
She was just 14 when she debuted in 1918 and she quickly became a star of the Asakusa Opera and a favourite of their most enthusiastic fans known as “Perarogo”.
Tragically, however, her career was a short one: she contracted lead poisoning from the white face paint she used during performances and died in 1920 having just turned 17.
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The astonishingly gorgeous Aiko Takashima, Japanese actress. Retired from the stage and is thought to have been killed in an air raid in 1945.
