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
- Illusion of Blood as Omaki
- Hoodlum Soldier as Otomaru
- The Flower and the Dragon
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: University as Mitsui Fujiko
1964
- Youth Season Continued as Keiko Tanao (President of "Printemps Cosmetics")
- Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
- Legend of the Irresponsible Hero
- Misandry
1963
- A Woman's Life
- Travel Stories of a Company President Part II as Renko (Madam of Club Marilyn)
- For Love and Money
- Japan's No. 1 Playboy as Michie Higurashi
- Travel Stories of a Company President
- Crazy Operation: First Move
- Crazy Operation: Drop Dead! Irresponsibility
- Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong
- The Maid Story
- Devices Stronger Than Women as Yoshiko Kakegawa (Taichi’s wife)
- Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me
1962
1961
- The Other Woman as Fukuko
- Toilet Manager
- Kill the Killer! as Toshiko (madam at bar “Fancy”)
- Playboy President: Part II as Madame Emiko
- Playboy President as Madame Emiko
- An Urban Affair as Kimie
- 3 Dolls and Baby Gang
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
- Acchan no bebi gyangu
1960
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs as Yuri
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother as Mie Sakanishi
- The Twilight Story
- Hito mo arukeba as Sumire Sakura
- Scarred Yosaburo
- The Blue Beast
- Older Wife, Younger Husband
- The Husband Was a Baby
- Jiyūgaoka fujin
- Showdown on Pier No.3 as Kaoru
1959
- The Lord Pretends as Kosei
- Temptation on Glamour Island as Yoshiko Kosaka
- Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
- Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
- Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II
- The Lord and the Gambler
- Samurai in the Office
- Samurai Saga as Nanae
- The Adventures of Kantaro
- The Forgotten Waterfront
- Bringing Up Husbands
1958
- Holiday in Tokyo
- The Princess of Badger Palace as Spider Queen of the Forest
- He's the Killer
- Blackmail
- The Hotelman's Holiday as Okiku
- The Undefeated Woman
- The Capital of Love as Eriko
- Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
- Executive Chair as Kimiko Wada
- Yaji and Kita on the Road as Oimo / Osatsu
- Go and Get It as Mrs. Matsumoto, His Wife
- The Third President
1957
- The Luckiest Dai
- Hadaka no Machi
- Black River as Okada's Wife (uncredited)
- Forgotten Flower Petal: Conclusion
- Down Town
- Geisha in the Old City as Kimiko
- Talkative Company President as Eiko
- Price of Beauty as Yuki Kawabe
- The Blue Mountains as Umetarō (Geisha)
- The 36 Passengers
- Birth of Romance as Sayoko Uemura
- Skin-Colored Moon as Kimiyo
- The Blue Mountains Part 2 as Umetarō (Geisha)
1956
- Women in Prison as Keiko Nomi, prisoner
- Gendai no yokubô
- Morishige, where are you going? as Keiko
- The Mandarin Room
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
- Always in My Heart Part 2
- Sincere Heart as Midori
- Yasugorō shusse
- Sisters
- New Tokyo March
- The Brothers who Protect the Mountain as Sayumi Sumikura
- Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
1949
- Stray Dog as Harumi Namiki