WASHINGTON — Isuzu Yamada — who became one of Japan’s most formidable and revered actresses and is perhaps best remembered as the treacherous wife of a warlord in ‘‘Throne of Blood,’’ director Akira ...

TOKYO — Isuzu Yamada, the thesp who debuted in Japan’s silent era and worked with the greatest directors of Japanese cinema’s Golden Age, died Monday at age 95 after a long illness. Born in 1917 in ...

Isuzu Yamada (山田 五十鈴, Yamada Isuzu, 5 February 1917 – 9 July 2012) was a Japanese stage and screen actress whose career spanned seven decades. Yamada was born in Osaka as Mitsu Yamada, the daughter of ...