Keiko Awaji
Acting • Born 1933-07-17 – Died 2014-01-11
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
128 credits
An Urban Affair
Movie • 1961
Kimie
Stray Dog
Movie • 1949
Harumi Namiki
The Undefeated Woman
Movie • 1958
Hagure kigeki mandara
Movie • 1962
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Movie • 1954
Kimiko
Long Way to Okinawa
Movie • 1962
Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
Movie • 1962
Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama
Movie • 1962
Inugami
Movie • 2001
Katsuko Doi
Secret Love
Movie • 1962
A Japanese Tragedy
Movie • 1953
Wakamaru, a geisha
Birth of Romance
Movie • 1957
Sayoko Uemura
Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
Movie • 1966
Fuji
Yaji and Kita on the Road
Movie • 1958
Oimo / Osatsu
Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me
Movie • 1963
Hito mo arukeba
Movie • 1960
Sumire Sakura
Sincere Heart
Movie • 1953
Midori
Downtown Heroes
Movie • 1988
Toilet Manager
Movie • 1961
Samurai Saga
Movie • 1959
Nanae
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
Movie • 1958
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
Movie • 1962
The Brothers who Protect the Mountain
Movie • 1953
Sayumi Sumikura
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
Movie • 1961
Pretty Woman
Movie • 2003
Aoi Morishita
Travels of Lord Mito Pt.3
Movie • 1954
Married Executioner R: MISSION 1 - Bloody Mischief
Movie • 2001
Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
Movie • 1959
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant
Movie • 1962
Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong
Movie • 1963
元祿美少年記
Movie • 1955
きぬ
Sisters
Movie • 1953
Youth Season
Movie • 1962
Hadaka no Machi
Movie • 1957
House of Many Pleasures
Movie • 1955
Eiko
Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
Movie • 1953
New Tokyo March
Movie • 1953
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Movie • 1960
Mie Sakanishi
Geisha in the Old City
Movie • 1957
Kimiko
Black River
Movie • 1957
Okada's Wife (uncredited)
Kyūkon sannin musume
Movie • 1954
Veronika Decides to Die
Movie • 2005
Beniko
Always in My Heart Part 2
Movie • 1953
Always in My Heart
Movie • 1953
Illusion of Blood
Movie • 1965
Omaki
For Love and Money
Movie • 1963
The Twilight Story
Movie • 1960
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Movie • 1960
Yuri
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Movie • 1989
Madam
A Woman's Life
Movie • 1963
The Other Woman
Movie • 1961
Fukuko
The Wiser Age
Movie • 1962
Michiko
Green Light to Joy
Movie • 1967
Takeko
Mourning Recipe
Movie • 2013
Tamako
Temptation on Glamour Island
Movie • 1959
Yoshiko Kosaka
A Brief Message from the Heart
Movie • 1995
Fusae
The Blue Beast
Movie • 1960
Welcome to the Vampire Onsen
Movie • 1997
Acchan no bebi gyangu
Movie • 1961
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog'
Movie • 2002
Self
The Princess of Badger Palace
Movie • 1958
Spider Queen of the Forest
Hoodlum Soldier
Movie • 1965
Otomaru
The Lord Pretends
Movie • 1959
Kosei
Price of Beauty
Movie • 1957
Yuki Kawabe
The Maid Story
Movie • 1963
Quick Change Tanuki Palace
Movie • 1954
Hong Kong Paradise
Movie • 1990
Japan's No. 1 Playboy
Movie • 1963
Michie Higurashi
The Hotelman's Holiday
Movie • 1958
Okiku
Down Town
Movie • 1957
The Capital of Love
Movie • 1958
Eriko
A Comedy in Front of the Station: University
Movie • 1965
Mitsui Fujiko
Hard Romanticker
Movie • 2011
Chûshingura
Movie • 1962
Three for the Road
Movie • 2007
Women in Prison
Movie • 1956
Keiko Nomi, prisoner
The Flower and the Dragon
Movie • 1965
She-Shogun
Movie • 1990
Katsuyama
Yasugorō shusse
Movie • 1953
Tora-san Goes North
Movie • 1987
Etsuko
Flower and Dragon: Duel of the Sea Caves
Movie • 1966
The Lord and the Gambler
Movie • 1959
Scarred Yosaburo
Movie • 1960
The Adventures of Kantaro
Movie • 1959
Crazy Operation: Drop Dead! Irresponsibility
Movie • 1963
Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
Movie • 1959
Sequel- Three Generations of Company Presidents
Movie • 1959
The Third President
Movie • 1958
On a Better Night than Usual
Movie • 2010
Morishige, where are you going?
Movie • 1956
Keiko
Crazy Operation: First Move
Movie • 1963
Jiyūgaoka fujin
Movie • 1960
誰よりも君を愛す！
Movie • 2011
Executive Chair
Movie • 1958
Kimiko Wada
Travel Stories of a Company President
Movie • 1963
Talkative Company President
Movie • 1957
Eiko
Playboy President
Movie • 1961
Madame Emiko
Playboy President: Part II
Movie • 1961
Madame Emiko
Travel Stories of a Company President Part II
Movie • 1963
Renko (Madam of Club Marilyn)
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Manga
Movie • 1966
Fujiko Tomono
Me and Me
Movie • 1962
The Mandarin Room
Movie • 1956
Skin-Colored Moon
Movie • 1957
Kimiyo
Go and Get It
Movie • 1958
Mrs. Matsumoto, His Wife
千年の松 完結編
Movie • 2009
Married Executioner R: MISSION 2 - Tainted Bonds
Movie • 2001
Misandry
Movie • 1964
Kill the Killer!
Movie • 1961
Toshiko (madam at bar “Fancy”)
Sanjûrokunin no jôkyaku
Movie • 1957
Devices Stronger Than Women
Movie • 1963
Yoshiko Kakegawa (Taichi’s wife)
Bringing Up Husbands
Movie • 1959
Holiday in Tokyo
Movie • 1958
The Blue Mountains
Movie • 1957
Umetarō (Geisha)
The Blue Mountains Part 2
Movie • 1957
Umetarō (Geisha)
Showdown on Pier No.3
Movie • 1960
Kaoru
Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
Movie • 1964
Legend of the Irresponsible Hero
Movie • 1964
Youth Season Continued
Movie • 1964
Keiko Tanao (President of "Printemps Cosmetics")
Gendai no yokubô
Movie • 1956
He's the Killer
Movie • 1958
Blackmail
Movie • 1958
The Forgotten Waterfront
Movie • 1959
3 Dolls and Baby Gang
Movie • 1961
Older Wife, Younger Husband
Movie • 1960
The Husband Was a Baby
Movie • 1960
Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series
TV • 1983
Oyanagi
Moshichi
TV • 2001
茂七の事件簿・新ふしぎ草紙
TV