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Mar 2020
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Ep. 243 | Kawashima Yoshiko (Part 3)

Laszlo Montgomery
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In this final installment introducing the life and death of Kawashima Yoshiko, we look at the last decade and a half of her strange and tragic life. In the last episode, her star was on the rise. But after 1933 it's one long slow steady decline into madness and despair.

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