Keiko Awaji
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Keiko Awaji (1933) is a Japanese film actress. Notable highlights of her career were an appearance in Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog, and a role as Kimiko in The Bridges at Toko-Ri, where she appeared alongside William Holden and Mickey Rooney. Her first husband was Filipino musician and actor Rodrigo "Bimbo" Danao; they had two children together. Their eldest is actor Etsuo Shima. Her second husband was Japanese actor Yorozuya Kinnosuke, but they divorced in 1987. Their eldest son Akihiro died in a car crash in 1990. In 2004, their youngest son Kichinosuke Yorozuya (Satoshi Ida) was arrested for breaking into her home and served six months in prison. On June 16, 2010, Kichinosuke committed suicide by jumping off his apartment in Shinjuku. The actress is apparently a big fan of the Dragon Quest games, even going so far as to say it is her dream to play one last game before she dies. She died of esophageal cancer in Tokyo on 11 January 2014, aged 80 Description above from the Wikipedia article Keiko Awaji, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Stray Dog
as Harumi NamikiA bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot,...
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
as YuriKeiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow....
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri
as KimikoA naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.
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47 Ronin
as uncreditedAfter their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await...
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Inugami
as Katsuko DoiAkira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon...
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Black River
as Okada's Wife (uncredited)A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The...
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A Japanese Tragedy
as Wakamaru, a geishaAt the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up...
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Always in My Heart Part 2
as uncreditedMachiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
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Always in My Heart
as uncreditedMachiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge...
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Tora-san Goes North
as EtsukoWhen his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian...
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The Other Woman
as FukukoIn "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have...
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喜劇 駅前飯店
as uncreditedThe fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Mie SakanishiSanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million...
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Zoku shachōtaiheiki
as uncredited7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
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Tora-san Goes to Vienna
as MadamDuring his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to...
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Hito mo arukeba
as Sumire SakuraA drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
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The Maid Story
as uncreditedNine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like...
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3 Dolls and Baby Gang
as uncreditedBased on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe.
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Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
as FujiLoyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission...
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Hard Romanticker
as uncreditedWriter-director Gu Su-yeon's new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing...
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City of Love
as ErikoAiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and...
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An Urban Affair
as KimieFollow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the...
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Acchan no bebi gyangu
as uncreditedBased on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.
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Kigeki ekimae bentô
as uncreditedThird film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run...
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Hong Kong Paradise
as uncreditedSet in decadent, chaotic Hong Kong and Tokyo, the film tells the story of a young woman caught...
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Married Executioner R Mission 1: Bloody Mischief
as uncreditedAkikawa Reiko has been married for three years, has a banker husband and a seemingly happy...
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She-Shogun
as KatsuyamaThe rise to power of the famed Lady Kasuga no Tsubone, who established the 'Ooku' (the women's...
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The Best Playboy In Japan
as Michie HigurashiThe music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school,...
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Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
as uncreditedBorn to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to...
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The Brothers who Protect the Mountain
as Sayumi SumikuraIn the mountainous region of Koshu, Taikahara, there was an intense power struggle between the...
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Sincere Heart
as MidoriA young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see...
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Samurai Saga
as NanaeEdmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an...
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Welcome to the Vampire Onsen
as uncreditedKyuketsu Onsen e Yokoso (吸血温泉へようこそ kyuuketsu onsen e youkoso, translated as Welcome to the...
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Hope and Pain
as uncreditedThe adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.
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Veronika Decides to Die
as BenikoTowa lives in a peculiar sanatorium after committing suicide. Convalescing in sanatorium, she is...
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Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
as uncreditedKitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The...
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Yaji and Kita on the Road
as Oimo / OsatsuTwo residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a...
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A Woman's Life
as uncreditedA woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
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Temptation on Glamour Island
as Yoshiko KosakaComedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer,...
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Women in Prison
as Keiko Nomi, prisonerThe woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There...
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A Brief Message from the Heart
as FusaeA young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.
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Quick Change Tanuki Palace
as uncreditedThis is a paradise of dream and illusion, a country of Raccoon Dogs. The Bat Tribe lives in a...
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Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong
as uncreditedComedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese...
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Scarred Yosaburo
as uncreditedThe film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with...
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New Tokyo March
as uncreditedFollows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter,...
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Flower and Dragon: Duel of the Sea Caves
as uncreditedThe sequel to "Flowers and Dragons". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He...
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Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me
as uncreditedDirector Iwauchi Katsumi adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about...
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Pretty Woman
as Aoi MorishitaElderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company....
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The Twilight Story
as uncreditedIn this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing...
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Price of Beauty
as Yuki KawabeMelodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
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The Hotelman's Holiday
as OkikuA longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with...
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Down Town
as uncreditedA woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with...
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Illusion of Blood
as OmakiThe ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
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The Flower and the Dragon
as uncreditedA story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman...
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元祿美少年記
as きぬOn February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while...
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The Lord and the Gambler
as uncreditedFate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some...
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Green Light to Joy
as TakekoDrama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to...
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Birth of Romance
as Sayoko UemuraThe cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties,...
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The Princess of Badger Palace
as Spider Queen of the ForestPrincess Kinuta runs away from the palace because she doesn't want a marriage of convenience....
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(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
as EikoYoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is...
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The Wiser Age
as MichikoDrama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
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Mourning Recipe
as TamakoA widower and his daughter deal with the death of the man's wife.
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The Blue Beast
as uncreditedTatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses...
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Hoodlum Soldier
as OtomaruA young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in...
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Toilet Manager
as uncreditedThe life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.
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A Comedy: The University Around the Corner
as Mitsui Fujiko#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: Stray Dog
as SelfDocumentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one...
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The Third President
as uncreditedThe fifth entry in the Company President Series
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Travels of Lord Mito Pt.3
as uncreditedThird film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.
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Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama
as uncredited1962 Japanese movie
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The Adventures of Kantaro
as uncreditedComedy historical film about a wandering warrior, based on the novel by Shin Hasegawa.
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Moshichi
as uncreditedA mysterious humanistic period drama, setting in the Edo Period. As Okappiki, unofficial...
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