Keiko Awaji
Born: 1933-07-17 in Tokyo, Japan
Died: 2014-01-11
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2013
- Mourning Recipe as Tamako
2009
2007
2005
- Veronika Decides to Die as Beniko
2003
- Pretty Woman as Aoi Morishita
2001
1995
- A Brief Message from the Heart as Fusae
1990
- She-Shogun as Katsuyama
- Hong Kong Paradise
1989
- Tora-san Goes to Vienna as Madam
1988
1987
- Tora-san Goes North as Etsuko
1983
1967
- Green Light to Joy as Takeko
1966
1965
- Hoodlum Soldier as Otomaru
- Illusion of Blood as Omaki
- The Flower and the Dragon
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: University as Mitsui Fujiko
1964
- Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
- Youth Season Continued as Keiko Tanao (President of "Printemps Cosmetics")
- Legend of the Irresponsible Hero
- Misandry
1963
- A Woman's Life as Tamae Misawa
- Japan's No. 1 Playboy as Michie Higurashi
- Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong
- The Maid Story
- Travel Stories of a Company President Part II as Renko (Madam of Club Marilyn)
- Crazy Operation: First Move
- Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me
- For Love and Money
- Travel Stories of a Company President
- Crazy Operation: Drop Dead! Irresponsibility
- Devices Stronger Than Women as Yoshiko Kakegawa (Taichi’s wife)
1962
1961
- Toilet Manager
- Playboy President: Part II as Madame Emiko
- The Other Woman as Fukuko
- Acchan no bebi gyangu
- Playboy President as Madame Emiko
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
- The Age of Lawless Moneymaking
- 3 Dolls and Baby Gang
- Kill the Killer! as Toshiko (madam at bar “Fancy”)
- An Urban Affair as Kimie
1960
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs as Yuri
- Hito mo arukeba as Sumire Sakura
- The Curio Master
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother as Mie Sakanishi
- Scarred Yosaburo
- The Blue Beast
- The Twilight Story
- Showdown on Pier No.3 as Kaoru
- Jiyūgaoka fujin
- The Husband Was a Baby
- Older Wife, Younger Husband
1959
- Samurai Saga as Nanae
- Temptation on Glamour Island as Yoshiko Kosaka
- The Lord Pretends as Kosei
- Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II
- Samurai in the Office
- The Lord and the Gambler
- Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
- Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
- The Adventures of Kantaro
- The Forgotten Waterfront
- Bringing Up Husbands
1958
- Holiday in Tokyo
- The Undefeated Woman
- The Third President
- He's the Killer
- Yaji and Kita on the Road as Oimo / Osatsu
- Executive Chair as Kimiko Wada
- The Princess of Badger Palace as Spider Queen of the Forest
- Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
- The Hotelman's Holiday as Okiku
- The Capital of Love as Eriko
- Blackmail
- Go and Get It as Mrs. Matsumoto, His Wife
1957
- Hadaka no Machi
- Black River as Okada's Wife (uncredited)
- Forgotten Flower Petal: Conclusion
- The Shadow Daughter as Masayo
- The Luckiest Dai
- Downtown
- The Blue Mountains as Umetarō (Geisha)
- Price of Beauty as Yuki Kawabe
- Geisha in the Old City as Kimiko
- Talkative Company President as Eiko
- The Blue Mountains Part 2 as Umetarō (Geisha)
- Skin-Colored Moon as Kimiyo
- Birth of Romance as Sayoko Uemura
- The 36 Passengers
1956
- Women in Prison as Keiko Nomi, prisoner
- While the Demon Steps Out
- Gendai no yokubô
- Morishige, where are you going? as Keiko
- The Mandarin Room as Choko
1955
- 元祿美少年記 as きぬ
- House of Many Pleasures as Eiko
1954
1953
- A Japanese Tragedy as Wakamaru, a geisha
- Always in My Heart Part 2
- Always in My Heart
- Yasugorō shusse
- New Tokyo March
- Sincere Heart as Midori
- The Brothers who Protect the Mountain as Sayumi Sumikura
- Sisters
- Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
1949
- Stray Dog as Harumi Namiki