Yôko Tani

Yôko Tani was a Japanese actress and cabaret performer, born in Paris in 1928, whose screen career spanned Japanese and European cinema in the 1950s and 1960s. After studying aesthetics at the Sorbonne, she turned to cabaret, where her geisha dances brought her to the attention of Marcel Carné. Early French film roles cast her as exotic stereotypes, but her English-language breakthrough came in The Wind Cannot Read (1958). She went on to appear in The Quiet American (1958), The Savage Innocents (1960), which was nominated for the Palme d'Or, First Spaceship on Venus (1960), My Geisha (1962), Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963), and Last Plane to Baalbek (1964). Later she worked in Italian costume adventures and played femme fatale roles in British television, including Danger Man and Man in a Suitcase, and also acted on the stage.