Keiko Awaji
Birthday: 1933-07-17
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
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.
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An Urban Affair
Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawar...
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Stray Dog
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded...
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri
A U.S. Navy pilot and his squad are assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges deep behind...
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Inugami
Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after...
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Secret Love
A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of Jap...
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A Japanese Tragedy
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her un...
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Birth of Romance
The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and M...
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Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for ...
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Yaji and Kita on the Road
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious ...
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Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me
Director Iwauchi Katsuki adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two y...
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Sincere Heart
A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from ...
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Downtown Heroes
The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War....
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Samurai Saga
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized no...
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn....
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The Brothers who Protect the Mountain
In the mountainous region of Koshu, Taikahara, there was an intense power struggle between the promi...
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother J...
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Pretty Woman
Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Ba...
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Married Executioner R: MISSION 1 - Bloody Mischief
Reiko Akigawa has been married for three years, has a banker husband and a seemingly happy married l...
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Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesa...
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant
The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown....
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Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong
Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese deve...
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元祿美少年記
On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting h...
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Sisters
Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko T...
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(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is tak...
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Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spen...
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New Tokyo March
Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engin...
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen in...
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Geisha in the Old City
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a mov...
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Black River
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The land...
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Veronika Decides to Die
Towa lives in a peculiar sanatorium after committing suicide. Convalescing in sanatorium, she is inf...
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Always in My Heart Part 2
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again....
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Always in My Heart
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during th...
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The Twilight Story
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing ...
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...
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Tora-san Goes to Vienna
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vie...
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A Woman's Life
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son....
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The Other Woman
In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to...
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The Wiser Age
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner....
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Green Light to Joy
Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to ent...
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Temptation on Glamour Island
Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all ...
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A Brief Message from the Heart
A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man....
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The Blue Beast
Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses any...
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Welcome to the Vampire Onsen
Kyuketsu Onsen e Yokoso (吸血温泉へようこそ kyuuketsu onsen e youkoso, translated as Welcome to the blood-suc...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses ...
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The Princess of Badger Palace
Princess Kinuta runs away from the palace because she doesn't want a marriage of convenience. Prince...
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Hoodlum Soldier
A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. ...
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Price of Beauty
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity"....
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The Maid Story
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters...
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Quick Change Tanuki Palace
This is a paradise of dream and illusion, a country of Raccoon Dogs. The Bat Tribe lives in a neighb...
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Hong Kong Paradise
Set in decadent, chaotic Hong Kong and Tokyo, the film tells the story of a young woman caught up in...
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Japan's No. 1 Playboy
The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was ...
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The Hotelman's Holiday
Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his...
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Down Town
A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a k...
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City of Love
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose f...
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: University
#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai...
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Hard Romanticker
Writer-director Gu Su-yeon's new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as...
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Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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Women in Prison
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is ...
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The Flower and the Dragon
A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing ...
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She-Shogun
The rise to power of the famed Lady Kasuga no Tsubone, who established the 'Ooku' (the women's quart...
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Tora-san Goes North
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune)...
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Flower and Dragon: Duel of the Sea Caves
The sequel of "Flower and Dragon". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unite...
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The Lord and the Gambler
Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twen...
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Scarred Yosaburo
The film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress o...
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The Adventures of Kantaro
Comedy historical film about a wandering warrior, based on the novel by Shin Hasegawa....
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Crazy Operation: Drop Dead! Irresponsibility
Seven employees rise up in rebellion against an irresponsible company....
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Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
Sixth entry in the Company President Series....
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Sequel- Three Generations of Company Presidents
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color....
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On a Better Night than Usual
Shinji (Kawaguchi Takahiro), who wanted to be a writer, impersonates a depraved man by the name of T...
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Morishige, where are you going?
A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets ...
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Crazy Operation: First Move
After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various f...
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Executive Chair
In post-war Japan, The Second Drawer follows Funada, a devoted company man whose planned family trip...
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Travel Stories of a Company President
It is the 16th series of the call series with the highest masterpiece among the "President" series. ...
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Talkative Company President
A former company man turned drifter is pulled back to lead a struggling toy company, enforcing bold ...
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Playboy President
A straight-laced employee is tasked with supervising his impulsive CEO during a business trip intend...
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Playboy President: Part II
After a promotion brings new professional challenges, a diligent employee is pulled into corporate m...
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Travel Stories of a Company President Part II
While on a business trip to Kyushu, a paint company president competes with a rival firm for a key o...
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: Manga
15th entry in the Ekimae series, surrounding the then-insanely popular Weekly Shounen Sunday series ...
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Me and Me
Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original r...
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The Mandarin Room
After running away from her mother, Ashiko works as a maid at an inn and changes her name, but she f...
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Skin-Colored Moon
After the heartbreak of losing a close colleague, a television star vanishes, presumed to have drown...
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Go and Get It
Matsuki, a former war photojournalist, returns home and starts a modest life with his wife, Komiko. ...
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千年の松 完結編
Makino Kuniyasu is consulted about the succession issue of the Joshu Okubo family. At that time, Mak...
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Married Executioner R: MISSION 2 - Tainted Bonds
Reiko Akigawa, married for three years to her husband, a bank employee, lives a seemingly ordinary m...
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Kill the Killer!
JA woman is witness to a murder but flees the scene, leaving behind only a handkerchief with her nam...
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Sanjûrokunin no jôkyaku
A suspense drama about a thief who sneaks onto a late-night ski bus heading from Tokyo to Joshinetsu...
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Devices Stronger Than Women
An ad campaign for a TV show called the “Male Training Contest” stirs chaos at a major electronics c...
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Bringing Up Husbands
Three wives launch a sex strike to put their domineering husbands in their place!...
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Holiday in Tokyo
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, s...
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The Blue Mountains
About schoolgirls in a rural town, and a love letter which has the entire community in an uproar....
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The Blue Mountains Part 2
At Kaikō Girls’ School, a fake love letter sparks a heated PTA debate. Teacher Shimazaki wins the vo...
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Showdown on Pier No.3
Crime thriller about the investigation of a man murdered at a Tokyo race track. Clues lead Detective...
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Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
Apparently a baseball drama starring real-life stars Nagashima (The Babe Ruth of Japanese Baseball) ...
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Legend of the Irresponsible Hero
The members of Crazy Cats play employees of a trading company. Ueda Hitoshi of Awa Shoji, a lucky ma...
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