As per our current Database, Yôko Tani has been died on 3 July, 1999 at Paris, France.
When Yôko Tani die, Yôko Tani was 71 years old.
| Popular As | Yôko Tani |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Age | 71 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | August 2, 1928 (Paris, France) |
| Birthday | August 2 |
| Town/City | Paris, France |
| Nationality | France |
Yôko Tani’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Yôko Tani was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
Diminutive, graceful, porcelain pretty Japanese actress Yoko Tani was born and raised in France and was making a living as a Parisienne dancer when opportunities for film came her way in the mid-1950s.
Appearing in a number of minor Eurasian parts in such French films as Marchandes d'illusions (1954) [Nights of Shame], Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1954) [Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves], and Mannequins de Paris (1956) [Mannequins of Paris], she was also featured in a couple of Japanese productions before branching out internationally.
The cameras displayed a lovely, 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 British POW in a Japanese camp who flees in order to locate his ill wife [Ms.
Tani] who initially was his language teacher. She also was quite appealing in another film that dealt with turbulent ethnic themes. The Italian/French/British co-production of The Savage Innocents (1960) co-starred Tani as the wife of Eskimo Anthony Quinn in a culture clash between Eskimos and Canadians that leads to murder.
While fetching to the eye, the actress was rather modest in talent and was soon relegated to "B" and "C" level movies. In the 1960s she became a customary player of meek princess-in-distress types in such costumed adventures as Marco Polo (1962), Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World (1961) [Maciste at the Court of the Great Khan] and Tartar Invasion (1961) [The Tartar Invasion], which co-starred her one-time husband, French actor Roland Lesaffre.
She was under-utilized in Hollywood as well in her few attempts. Minor supporting roles in My Geisha (1962) and Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963) left her deep in the shadows of leading ladies Shirley MacLaine and Elizabeth Montgomery, respectively.
Left to playing a dribbling of femme leads in such lowgrade spy intrigue and sci-fi, she was little seen after the late 1960s. In later years she enjoyed painting and was devoted to her religion and her dog that she named "Toto".
Yoko Tani died in her native Paris of cancer at the age of 67.
