Kyôko Chigusa

Born in Nagoya in 1900. While studying the Toma style of Japanese dancing and nagauta music, she became a geisha who worked under the name of Kodama. In 1923, she joined the Nikkatsu Mukojima Studios, where she was selected to star as the heroine in Niku no Eiko, the film version of a popular novel of the period. After a dazzling debut performance...