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Yukari Oshima
Japanese actress (born 1963) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yukari Ōshima (大島 ゆかり, Ōshima Yukari; born December 31, 1963) is a Japanese actress and martial artist. She gained prominence in Hong Kong and became popular in the Philippines as Cynthia Luster. Due to Philippine interest in Jackie Chan, she became Chan's pseudo-female equivalent.[1]
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Yukari Tsumura (津村 ゆかり, Tsumura Yukari) was born in Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan, to a Japanese businessman and fashion designer and a Chinese mother. She began studying Gōjū-ryū Seigokan karate at Ennouji Dojo in junior high school. She was one of Japan's brightest female martial artists during the 1980s and a leading figure in the girls with guns fad of Hong Kong action cinema.[citation needed] Oshima portrayed "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: The Story of Ricky. After her Hong Kong career dried up, she moved to the Philippines in the 1990s and performed under the stage name Cynthia Luster.
Oshima now resides in Fukuoka, Japan,[1] where she has promoted tourism in the city. She is commonly known to Western audiences as the actress in the Marlboro Lite commercials of the late 1990s.
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