Michiko Tanaka

Michiko Tanaka (田中 路子, Tanaka Michiko, July 15, 1909 – May 18, 1988) was a Japanese singer and actress.

Portrait by Leo Perlberger

Biography

Tanaka was born in Tokyo and studied music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

She lived and worked mainly in Europe and US. She married German actor and singer Viktor de Kowa in 1939 and they were together until his death 1973. Tanaka died in Munich in 1988. Tanaka and Victor are buried in Friedhof Heerstraße, in an Ehrengrab donated by the city of Berlin.

Selected filmography

• Dschainah, das Mädchen aus dem Tanzhaus (1935)
• Last Love (1935)
• Yoshiwara (1937)
• Storm Over Asia (1938)
• Scandal at the Embassy (1950)
• Madame Butterfly (1954)
• Girl from Hong Kong (1961)

Bibliography

• Bacher, Lutz (1996). Max Ophuls in the Hollywood Studios. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-2291-3.
• Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.

External links

• Michiko Tanaka at IMDb