Josee

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## Biographical Information

### Kanji

ジョゼ
山村 久美子 (Real Name)

### Rōmaji

*Joze
Yamamura Kumiko (Real Name)*

## Status

### Relatives

Chizu Yamamura (Grandmother)
Tsuneo Suzukawa (Lover)

## Portrayal

### Portrayed By

Chizuru Ikewaki (Japanese)
Han Ji-Min (Korean)

### Voiced By

Kaya Kiyohara (Japanese)
Suzie Yeung (English)

**Josee** (ジョゼ), real name **Kumiko Yamamura** (山村 久美子, *Yamamura Kumiko*), is the titular protagonist in Josee, the Tiger and the Fish.

## Appearance

Josee is a fair-skinned girl with wavy shoulder-length light-brown hair that is usually seen loose, but she sometimes has a different style such as half of it pulled up with short, squarish bangs hanging above her eyebrows, her eyes are large and their irises a pink-purple, with rather thick upper eyelashes; three more prominent ones protruding slightly to either side, some blush on her cheeks and she has a slender figure.

Josee is seen wearing a variety of outfits throughout the movie. These mostly include a variety of long dresses. In a dream her legs turn what look like a mermaid tail which is the same color as her long teal skirt.

## Personality

Josee appears to have a very stuck-up, mean and defensive demeanor, even towards people she loves, as seen through her treatment of Tsuneo Suzukawa, as a means to not show any signs of further vulnerability, more than she already has as a disabled person, implying that she had to adapt to the harsh treatment of the society towards her disposition as a paraplegic, growing up. Despite the cold, ruthless front she puts up, she is actually a young woman exploding with dreams and strong emotions of love and empathy inside, which she decides to hold back from acting on, as she used to think her condition would not allow her to be able to fulfill any of her desires, such as experiencing the outside world.

## Etymology

* The name **Josee** means "God will add/G-d shall add (another son), Jehovah increases" in Hebrew.

### Real Name

* The name **Kumiko** means "long time" (久) (**ku**), "beautiful" (美) (**mi**) and "child" (子) (**ko**).
* Kumiko's surname **Yamamura** means "mountain, hill" (山) (**yama**) and "town, village" (村) (**mura**).

## Trivia

* Josee is played by Chizuru Ikewaki in the live-action movie.
* Josee, self-admittedly, is a 'terrible' storyteller, as seen in her storytelling session with children at the library, stemming from her lifelong social anxiety and fear of strangers who she visualized as 'tigers' in her head. However, she improves a lot in her second attempt.
* Josee claimed to Tsuneo that she had dated five boys at the same time, however, Tsuneo was able to immediately realize, much to his amusement, that she had no experience whatsoever in love (let alone with normal friendships, given that she found it hard even talking to girls such as Kana Kishimoto the librarian when she first met her), and was simply lying out of embarrassment, as she felt quite bashful conversing so nonchalantly with him in one of their daily trips outside, implying that she had felt like the atmosphere felt like they were lovers on a date, thus making her make a bold, flamboyant statement to exert fake confidence in order to suppress her growing feelings towards him.
* The name she commonly goes by, Josee, is the name of a character from a novel she loves by François Sagan titled *Those Without Shadows*.