Reports: Oscar-winning Japanese Costume Designer Wada Dies

Japanese costume designer Emi Wada speaks in an interview in Tokyo on June 20, 2013. Wada, who won an Oscar for her work in Akira Kurosawa’s “Ran,” has died, Japanese media reports said Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. She was 84.(Kyodo News via AP)

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By Associated Press

November 21, 2021 at 6:44 AM UTC

Updated on

November 21, 2021 at 8:20 AM UTC

Tokyo (AP) -- Emi Wada, the Japanese costume designer who won an Oscar for her work in Akira Kurosawa’s “Ran,” has died, Japanese media reports said Sunday. She was 84.

Wada died Nov. 13, the reports said, citing unidentified family sources and not giving the cause of death.