Shizuko Kasagi

Shizuko Kasagi was born on Aug 25, 1914 in Japan. Shizuko Kasagi's big-screen debut came with Drunken Angel directed by Akira Kurosawa in 1948. Shizuko Kasagi is known for The Inugami Family directed by Kon Ichikawa, Kôji Ishizaka stars as Kôsuke Kindaichi and Yôko Shimada as Tamayo Nonomiya. The upcoming new movie Shizuko Kasagi plays is Inugami-ke no ichizoku which will be released on Dec 16, 2006.

Japan's "Queen of Boogie" ("Bugi no Jo" - or "Buugi no Jou") in the postwar years. She was born in Kagawa on August 25, 1914, and scored her first success in a girls' opera company before the war. After the war, when American troops filled Japan's cities and their pop culture became the rage, Kasagi began recording jazz and boogie-woogie songs with an American sound but distinct Japanese subject matter. She became an instant star, and many other singers imitated her trademark, a sort of worldless growl/roar at the end of each song.