Yôko Tani Net Worth is
$1.6 Million

Mini Biography

Diminutive, elegant, porcelain very Japanese actress Yoko Tani was created and raised in France and was earning money being a Parisienne dancer when opportunities for film came her way in the middle-1950s. Appearing in several minimal Eurasian parts in such French movies as Marchandes d’illusions (1954) [Evenings of Pity], Ali Baba as well as the 40 Thieves (1954) [Ali Baba as well as the 40 Thieves], and Mannequins de Paris (1956) [Mannequins of Paris], she was also highlighted in several Japanese productions before branching out internationally. The cameras displayed a pleasant, quiet beauty in the 1950s and she was absolutely beguiling opposite Dirk Bogarde in the “Sayonara”-like WW2 film The Wind Cannot Read (1958) with Bogarde portraying a Uk POW within a Japanese camp who flees to be able to locate his ill wife [Ms. Tani] who originally was his vocabulary instructor. She also was quite interesting in another film that handled turbulent ethnic designs. The Italian/French/United kingdom co-production from the Savage Innocents (1960) co-starred Tani as the wife of Eskimo Anthony Quinn within a lifestyle clash between Eskimos and Canadians leading to murder. While fetching to the attention, the celebrity was rather humble in skill and was shortly relegated to “B” and “C” level films. In the 1960s she became a customary participant of meek princess-in-distress types in such costumed travels as Marco Polo (1962), Samson as well as the 7 Wonders of the Globe (1961) [Maciste on the Courtroom of the fantastic Khan] and Tartar Invasion (1961) [The Tartar Invasion], which co-starred her one-time hubby, French professional Roland Lesaffre. She was under-utilized in Hollywood aswell in her few attempts. Small supporting roles in my own Geisha (1962) and Who’s Been Sleeping in my own Bed? (1963) still left her deep in the shadows of leading females Shirley MacLaine and Elizabeth Montgomery, respectively. Still left to playing a dribbling of femme network marketing leads in such lowgrade spy intrigue and sci-fi, she was small seen following the past due 1960s. In old age she appreciated painting and was specialized in her religious beliefs and her pup that she called “Toto”. Yoko Tani passed away in her indigenous Paris of tumor at age 67.

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