Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn was born on Jun 27, 1850 in Greece. Lafcadio Hearn's big-screen debut came with Kwaidan directed by Masaki Kobayashi in 1964. Lafcadio Hearn is known for The Snow Woman directed by Tokuzô Tanaka, Shiho Fujimura stars as Yuki and Akira Ishihama as Yosaku. The upcoming new movie Lafcadio Hearn plays is Yuki onna which will be released on Mar 04, 2016.

At the age of 6, Lafcadio Hearn, who had been born in Leucos in the Greek Ionian Islands to a Greek mother and an Irish father, was made a ward of his Irish great-aunt, who packed him off to Jesuit boarding schools in France and Britain. At the age of 16, he was sent to the US, where he worked as a journalist in Cincinnati, Ohio, and New Orleans, Louisiana. He translated French literature into English and began to develop his own taste, which was for the foreign, the exotic, and--sometimes--the macabre. Hearn's life changed radically when he traveled to Japan in 1890. He fell in love with the place and then with Setsu Koizumi, the daughter of a samurai family whose husband had deserted her and left her penniless. They were married in 1891. Hearn enthusiastically became a Japanese citizen, took the name Yakumo Koizumi, and acquired a teaching position at Imperial University, which he held until 1903. His interpretations of things Japanese--customs, geography, folk tales and literature--were internationally translated, widely admired, and adapted into films such as Kwaidan (1964); any of his works are still in print today. His loyalty and love for his adopted country was unflagging throughout his life. He died at the age of 54.