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Shizuko Kasagi

Shizuko Kasagi

Actor

Born August 25, 1914 in Okawa District, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

Died March 30, 1985

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Biography

Japan's "Queen of Boogie" ("Bugi no Jo" - or "Buugi no Jou") in the postwar years. She was born in Kagawa on August 25, 1914, and scored her first success in a girls' opera company before the war. After the war, when American troops filled Japan's cities and their pop culture became the rage, Kasagi began recording jazz and boogie-woogie songs with an American sound but distinct Japanese subject matter. She became an instant star, and many other singers imitated her trademark, a sort of worldless growl/roar at the end of each song.

Her best-known song outside Japan is probably "Jungle Boogie" ("Jianguru Bugi"), which she sings and Toshiro Mifune dances to in Kurosawa's Drunken Angel (1948). Bigger hits in Japan included "Tokyo Boogie" and "Shopping Boogie" ("Kaimono Bugi"), the latter of which she sang and acted to in a great short film that's easily seen on the web. She was a huge influence on the young Hibari Misora, who was originally billed as "the Baby Shizuko" before going on to become Japan's most popular singer.

Kasagi didn't do as well surviving the end of the "Bugi-Ugi" craze and in 1957 gave up singing to concentrate on acting. She died in 1985, at the age of 70, of ovarian cancer.

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Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishôgai Poster

Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishôgai Feature Film1971Katsu

Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu Poster

Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu Feature Film1971Middle-Aged Woman

Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu Poster

Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu Feature Film1971

Yoru no tehaishi: Suke sennin giri Poster

Yoru no tehaishi: Suke sennin giri Feature Film1971

Zubekô banchô: Zange no neuchi mo nai Poster

Zubekô banchô: Zange no neuchi mo nai Feature Film1971

Thugs of Shinjuku Poster

Thugs of Shinjuku Feature Film1970Seiji's mother

Scrap Collectors Poster

Scrap Collectors Feature Film1968Tomé Okamura

Nihon Kyokaku-den: Shira-ha no Sakazuki Poster

Nihon Kyokaku-den: Shira-ha no Sakazuki Feature Film1967

Ôbantô Kobantô Feature Film1967Satoe Tamaru

Râkugoyarô-Daibakushô Feature Film1967Omitsu

'Kûhaku no kiten' yori: Onna wa fukushû suru Feature Film1966Yuki Yasuda

Ame no naka ni kiete Poster

Ame no naka ni kiete TV Series1966Kimie's aunt

Mother and Her Eleven Children Poster

Mother and Her Eleven Children Feature Film1966Saku

Kawachi zoro: Abaredako Feature Film1965Chiyo Ônishi

Nihon Kyokaku-den: Naniwa-hen Poster

Nihon Kyokaku-den: Naniwa-hen Feature Film1965

Kawachi zoro: Dokechi mushi Poster

Kawachi zoro: Dokechi mushi Feature Film1964Chiyo Ônishi

Kawachi zoro: Kenka shamo Feature Film1964Chiyo Ônishi

The Crest of Man Poster

The Crest of Man Feature Film1964Suma Nakai

Atomic no Obon, onna oyabun taiketsu no maki Feature Film1961

Atomic no obon: Surimasuwayo no maki Poster

Atomic no obon: Surimasuwayo no maki Feature Film1961

Sunday Grand Court TV Series1959

Botchan tengoku Poster

Botchan tengoku Feature Film1958

Endless Desire Poster

Endless Desire Feature Film1958

Bonbon ganbaru TV Series1956

Ôwarai daifukuchô Short Film1956

Nonki saiban Poster

Nonki saiban Feature Film1955

Rakugo series - Dai ichi-wa: Rakugo nagaya wa hanazakari Poster

Rakugo series - Dai ichi-wa: Rakugo nagaya wa hanazakari Feature Film1954Osato

Tôkyô romance: Shigemori kunjô kyôsuru Poster

Tôkyô romance: Shigemori kunjô kyôsuru Feature Film1954

Hanafubuki otoko matsuri Poster

Hanafubuki otoko matsuri Feature Film1952

Ikinokotta benten-sama Feature Film1952

Kessen Takada no baba Feature Film1952

Sekishun Poster

Sekishun Feature Film1952Ranko Kinugasa

Uta matsuri Shimizu Minato Feature Film1952

Uta no sanmyaku Short Film1952

Zeninashi Heita torimonojô Feature Film1952

Momo no hana no saku shita de Poster

Momo no hana no saku shita de Feature Film1951Ayako

Onna Jirochô wakuwaku dôchû Poster

Onna Jirochô wakuwaku dôchû Feature Film1951Oshizu

Utau yakyû kozô Poster

Utau yakyû kozô Feature Film1951

Zakuzaku musume Poster

Zakuzaku musume Feature Film1951

Ginza no odoriko Feature Film1950

Peko-chan to Densuke Poster

Peko-chan to Densuke Feature Film1950

Uta no bakudan: Hit melody Poster

Uta no bakudan: Hit melody Short Film1950

Dassen jônetsu musume Feature Film1949Toshiko

Enoken: Kasagi no gokuraku fûfu Poster

Enoken: Kasagi no gokuraku fûfu Feature Film1949Konami

Ginza kankan musume Poster

Ginza kankan musume Feature Film1949Haru

Kekkon sanjûshi Poster

Kekkon sanjûshi Feature Film1949Yuri

Passion Without End Poster

Passion Without End Feature Film1949Shizuko Kasaoki, Fukuko Amamiya

Drunken Angel Poster

Drunken Angel Feature Film1948Singer

Enoken no bikkuri shakkuri jidai Feature Film1948

Ongaku nijû no tobira Poster

Ongaku nijû no tobira Feature Film1948

Utau Enoken torimonochou Poster

Utau Enoken torimonochou Feature Film1948

Haru no kyôen Feature Film1947Ranko Awashima

Ukiyo mo tengoku Feature Film1947Circus leader

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