Wild Child Dies

It was announced this week that former TV personality Hozumi Yukari (35) died of heart failure last month. She was 35. A true wild child, she was best known as a model for the heroine of her father’s semi-autobiographical book “Tsumiki Kuzushi.” The bestselling novel about the internal battles of a family was also a hugely popular TV series in 1983. It was one of the first serious examinations of the problem of teenage drugs and violence. Her father, actor Hozumi Takanobu (72), spoke of the grief following his daughter’s untimely death saying “Her life was too short. I feel as if I killed her myself.”