Li Xianglan

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Li Xianglan 李香蘭 (real name: 大鷹 淑子, Ōtaka Yoshiko) is a Chinese-born Japanese actress and singer who is famous, some might say notorious, for appearing in Japanese wartime propaganda films aimed at wooing the Chinese and promoting the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere ideology. She was regarded as one of the seven great singing stars. One film, 'Chinese Nights' (支那の夜) a.k.a 'Shanghai Nights' (上海の夜), is especially controversial because of a scene in which Li Xianglan (who is playing a young Chinese woman) reac...read more

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