Bunjaku Han

Bunjaku Han (范文雀, Han Bunjaku) (Chinese: Fàn Wénquè) was a Japanese-speaking Taiwanese actress who lived and worked in Japan.^[1]

She was mostly known as a character actress.^[2] She became famous playing an unfortunate half-Japanese, half African-American volleyball player called Jun Sanders in a 1969 volleyball drama called Sain wa V .^[2] She went on to appear in films such as Alleycat Rock: Female Boss and the Playgirl TV detective series. In her later career, she provided the Japanese voice-over for the lead character in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and appeared as the mother of Itsuki Fujii in Love Letter . She was also active in stage acting in the later part of her career, and was due to appear in a new production at the time of her unexpected death.^[2]

She had a brief career as a singer, releasing three singles in the 1970s.

She was a Taiwanese citizen, but did not speak Chinese.

She married Akira Terao in 1973 and retired, but they divorced in 1974.^[3]

She died of complications of cancer. Her grave is at Miura Reien on the Miura Peninsula.^[4] On the grave, her name is spelt in roman letters "Fuan Bunjaku". Ironically her most famous acting role, Jun Sanders, was of a girl who died prematurely due to cancer.^[2]

• Alleycat Rock: Female Boss (1970)
• Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (1970)
• Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo (1970)
• Lill, My Darling Witch - original title Kawaii Akujo (可愛い悪女, "The pretty bitch") (1971)
• Kawaii Akujo: Koroshi no Mae ni Kuchizuke o (可愛い悪女 殺しの前にくちづけを, "The pretty bitch: kiss then kill") (1972)
• Proof of the Man (1977) - Naomi, the car accident victim
• White Love (1979) - Taeko Nogawa
• New Female Convict: Scorpion - original title Shin Joshū Sasori 701 Gō (新女囚さそり 701号) (1976) Nami Matsushima (Sasori)'s sister
• Kaseki no Koya (化石の荒野) (1982) Keiko Tayama
• Love Letter (1995)
• Innocent World - original title Innosento wārudo (イノセントワールド) (1998)

• Sain wa V as Jun Sanders
• Playgirl as Yumin Darowa
• Attention Please (1970-1971 version), as Sanae Tamura
• G-Men '82

• G-Men '75
• Tokyo Megure Keishi
• Tantei Monogatari (1979) - episode 14 Fukushū no Merodii (復讐のメロディー) as Akiko Osugi

• Anata ga Nikumenai ("I can't hate you") / Saigo no Ichijikan ("The last hour") released by Warner Brothers Japan on 25 February 1971.
• Sasurai no Barokku / Nichiyō no Asa Ochiba released by Nihon Crown on 20 August 1972
• Kagerō / Kaerimichi released by Nihon Columbia on 1 March 1977

• Han, Bunjaku (January 1992). ドント・タッチ・ミー (Donto Tatchi Mii) [Don't Touch Me]. Nurihiko. ISBN 978-4890540129. - Her memoirs

• Bunjaku Han at IMDb

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• 1948 births
• 2002 deaths
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