Eijirō Yanagi

Eijirō Yanagi (柳永二郎, Yanagi Eijirō) (16 September 1895 – 24 April 1984) was a Japanese stage and film actor.

A graduate of Ikubunkan Junior High School, Tokyo, Yanagi gave his stage debut at the Yutakuza theatre in 1913.

[3] After working with the troupes of Masao Inoue and Hanabishi Kawamura, and moving from shingeki to shinpa theatre,[3] he formed the Shinsei Shinpa theatre company with Shōtaro Hanayagi and others in 1938,[4] in which he was active for the next ten years.

[3] Yanagi was also a busy supporting actor in films in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing in works of directors such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Akira Kurosawa and Heinosuke Gosho.

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