Yoriko Dōguchi is an actor who portrays Kiri No Kata in the FX limited series, Shōgun.
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Born in Tokyo, Yoriko Dōguchi worked as a model for the famous Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama directly after high school. Soon after, she starred in director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s film The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl (1985). Dōguchi has appeared in internationally known films, including Juzo Itami’s Tampopo (1985) and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure (1997).
Additional film credits include Tomoo Haraguchi’s Mikadoroid (1991), Shion Sono’s The Room (1992) and Martin Scorsese’s Silence (2016). She has also appeared in many independent films and welcomes the opportunity to work with young film directors, helping to influence and be a part of their filmmaking.
In 2009, to celebrate 25 years of her film career, the Yoriko Dōguchi Film Festival was held in Tokyo, where 12 films from her filmography were shown for two weeks.
In addition to acting, Dōguchi plays the ukulele and occasionally sings in the band Paititi, which released two CDs. She writes articles and movie reviews for magazines, and in 2007, after her battle against uterine cancer, she wrote the book Shikyu Kaigi (The Womb Conference).
Dōguchi loves films, writing, cats and the sea. Her hobbies are swimming, collecting vinyl records and watching cats and curious things on the streets. She is learning a lot about Okinawa and is greatly interested in the history of Japanese immigrants around the world.
To prepare for the role of “Kiri,” Dōguchi visited William Adams’s grave in Yokosuka and went to Ito, thinking about Japan in the 17th century when Adams lived. It fueled the spark of her imagination and creativity.