Yukari Oshima
Actor, Film actor
1963 –
Who is Yukari Oshima?
Yukari Ōshima is a Japanese actress and martial artist. Born Tsumura Yukari in Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan, to a successful Japanese businessman and fashion designer and to a Chinese woman. Yukari began studying Gōjū-ryū Karate in junior high.
She was one of Japan's brightest female martial artists during the 1980s and one of the leading ladies of the babes and bullets fad of Hong Kong action cinema. She's known as the role "Farrah Cat" in Bioman, which aired not only in Japan originally but also worldwide. She is best known to Western audiences as Yomi in Riki-Oh. After her Hong Kong career dried up, she left for the Philippines in the 1990s and used the stage name Cynthia Luster.
Oshima resides in Fukuoka, Japan, where she's promoted tourism in the city. She is commonly known to Western audiences as the actress in the Marlboro Lite commercials.
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- Born
- Dec 31, 1963
Nishi-ku, Fukuoka - Also known as
- Dai Do
- Cynthia Luster
- Oshima Yukari
- Yukari Tsunara
- Ōshima Yukari
- Yukari Ōshima
- Tsumura Yukari
- Yukari Tsumura
- Oshima
- Spouses
- Mark Cheng
(1991 - 1995) - Phillip Ko
- Mark Cheng
- Nationality
- Japan
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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