Yōko Yaguchi

Yōko Yaguchi (矢口 陽子, Yaguchi Yōko, 27 August 1921 - 1 February 1985) is a Japanese actress and the wife of film director Akria Kurosawa. She had two children with Kurosawa: a son named Hisao and a daughter named Kazuko. Upon her death in 1985, she was survived by her husband, two children and four grandchildren, three from son Hisao's marriage to Hiroko Hayashi and one from daughter Kazuko Karosawa.
== Biography == 
Born in Hong Kong in 1921. In the 1930s, Yaguchi dropped out of Showa High School (currently Showa High School attached to Showa Women's University). In 1937, she joined the Shochiku Shoujo Opera Company under her stage name, Terumi Wakazono (若園照美,Wakazono Terumi). Yaguchi would latter left the company and joined Toho in 1940. In 1944, he appeared in Akira Kurosawa's second film, "The Most Beautiful." In 1945, he married Kurosawa (the wedding was at Meiji Jingu, and the mediator was Kajiro Yamamoto) and retired as an actress. After retiring, she entered the family and demonstrated her internal assistance so that Kurosawa could make a movie comfortably. Kurosawa came to his wife from an actress, but he thought that if he couldn't cook, the director's wife wouldn't work, so he studied cooking, prepared for a banquet, and made lunch boxes for the staff as well as Kurosawa. 
Nicknamed "Godmother" by the people around her that according to daughter Kazuko, Kurosawa was the only person who couldn't get his head up. There are various theories about how she married Kurosawa, but according to Yaguchi, Kurosawa was more active and received many letters and was persuaded. 
After getting married, when Kurosawa bought clothes for Yaguchi as a souvenir from a foreign country that it was too big for a her, saying that, "I've lived with him for decades, but my size too. Don't know," he lamented, but it was an event that Kurosawa had only a movie in his mind at that time.
== Filmography ==
*Totsugu hi made (1940) 
*Kingorô no Aa mujô (1940) 
*Shûtome musume no gaikâ (1940)
*Renga jokô (1940)
*Jogakusei-ki (1941)
*Waga ai no ki (1941)
*Otoko no hanamichi (1941)
*The Sky of Hope (1942)
*Seishun no kiryû (1942)
*Mother Never Dies (1942) 
*Wakaki hi no yorokobi (1943)
*The Most Beautiful (1944)
*The Brick Factory Girl (1946)