Fujima and longtime partner (and eventual husband) Ennosuke Ichikawa, a star of Kabuki theater, became a prominent couple in Japan’s arts community.

[3] In the 1990s Fujima portrayed China’s Empress Dowager Cixi to acclaim in a grand stage production.

[4] Fujima is known to Western audiences for her supporting roles in such films as Keisuke Kinoshita’s 1959 melodramas Thus Another Day and Farewell to Spring and Mikio Naruse’s The Approach of Autumn (1960) and As a Wife, As a Woman/Poignant Story (1961).

[5] Following a 12-year absence from cinema screens, Fujima played a leading role in Hideo Gosha’s popular 1986 movie The Yakuza Wives, receiving a “special appearance” credit.

[6] Fujima penned a memoir, Shura no hazama de onna no jijoden (Autobiography of a Woman At The End of Her Struggle), in 1992.