Keiko Takahashi

Keiko Takahashi

Birthday: 1955-01-22

Place of Birth: Shibecha, Hokkaidō, Japan

Biography: Born in Hokkaido, 1955. In 1970, she made her acting debut in "Kōkōsei Burusu" in her original stage name Keiko Sekine. Since then, she has appeared in numerous films over a 50 year career in television, film, stage and commercials. Her hit films include "Tattoo Ari" (1982), "Hana monogatari" (1989) and "Fumiko no Umi" (2007). She has received awards including the 3rd Asahi Performing Arts Award, the Akiyama Matsushiyo Award (2004), the 62nd Mainichi Film Competition, Supporting Actress Award (2008), and the 64th Mainichi Film Competition Tanaka Kinuyo Award (2010).

Movies

Koto
Koto

Set in the traditional city of Kyoto, Japan, this deeply poetic TV movie revolves around Chieko who ...

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Uzumaki
Uzumaki

The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals....

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Curse of the Seven flutes
Curse of the Seven flutes

Genshiro is a famous Kenkaya of Edo. He turns up in incidents to get interfering fees but gets invol...

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Magnitude: Bridge to Tomorrow
Magnitude: Bridge to Tomorrow

A drama about a father and his son centered around the Great Hanshin earthquake....

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Love for Eternity
Love for Eternity

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Snow Country Elegy
Snow Country Elegy

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Newaza Gal: Straight From Behind
Newaza Gal: Straight From Behind

A high school girl is the best in her judo club until a girl from a rival academy arrives and takes ...

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Summer Blooms
Summer Blooms

27-year-old Hatsumi Takimoto is a former teacher and now waitress. She holds a secret. Three years a...

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Tattoo
Tattoo

An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, pla...

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Tracing Jake
Tracing Jake

Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in man...

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The Forbidden Fruit
The Forbidden Fruit

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Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident

Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II...

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Rise, Fair Sun
Rise, Fair Sun

Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoil...

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War and Flowers
War and Flowers

Japanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years....

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Summer of Demon
Summer of Demon

A former retainer to a noble family kills his wife's father when he tries to expose his past crimes....

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The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia

A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a ...

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Analog
Analog

Satoru Mizushima is a designer, who prefers traditional things like handmade items and handwritten w...

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The Serialist
The Serialist

Ippei Akabane (Takaya Kamikawa) is an unpopular novelist. He barely makes ends meet writing serials ...

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Symphony in August: Shibuya 2002-2003
Symphony in August: Shibuya 2002-2003

The Saigo no Kotoba book follows Kawashima's life after her mother's death, and her pursuit of her s...

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Be Sure to Share
Be Sure to Share

Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must co...

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Zen
Zen

In the early 1200s, Dogen brought Chinese Zen philosophy to Japan, and established the Japanese Zen ...

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Tokyo Rhapsody
Tokyo Rhapsody

"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku"...

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I Can Hear the Duck Singing
I Can Hear the Duck Singing

A man fed up with city life moves to a village in the mountains...

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It's Me It's Me
It's Me It's Me

Hitoshi Nagano, who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer an...

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A Story of Modern Chivalry
A Story of Modern Chivalry

A hard-boiled man who lived in the world of the Yakuza, leaves everything behind in search of reveng...

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The Old Woman Skin
The Old Woman Skin

Before going to Tokyo from her hometown of Mishima, Fukushima Prefecture, Kyoko stopped by at Tsuchi...

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G-men of Japan 5: Skyscraper Wolves
G-men of Japan 5: Skyscraper Wolves

G-men of Japan fifth installment. A young detective, questioning a double suicide involving his pol...

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Red Ball
Red Ball

Shuji Tokita (Eiji Okuda) is a film director and a professor at a university. He goes through a diff...

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The Imperial Japanese Empire
The Imperial Japanese Empire

Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the...

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Burst City
Burst City

Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their ...

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Door
Door

Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takut...

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Kandagawa
Kandagawa

Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a ...

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Main Line to Terror
Main Line to Terror

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart a...

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Games
Games

A 16-year-old girl works in a factory to pay her late father’s debt. When she makes up her mind to b...

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Just for You
Just for You

Yumi Ishikawa (Mari Atsumi) is nineteen and a popular geisha. Orphaned when a child, Yumi she was ra...

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The Driverless Hearse
The Driverless Hearse

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Love Letter
Love Letter

A drama depicting the conflict between a man that ran to an old lover suffering from advanced leukem...

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Love Letter
Love Letter

Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. She waits patiently for him a...

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High School Affair
High School Affair

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The Awakening
The Awakening

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Child Bride
Child Bride

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Wolf: Running Is Sex
Wolf: Running Is Sex

A serial rapist's violent daily routine is disrupted when a disaffected young woman who shares his p...

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The Man with Two Hearts
The Man with Two Hearts

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The Gate of Youth
The Gate of Youth

Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens...

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Lake of Illusions
Lake of Illusions

A free-spirited girl living in a Japanese province spends her time working in a brothel and running ...

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Eclair
Eclair

A film about an orphan kid in Japan in 1943...

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Golf Before Dawn
Golf Before Dawn

Comedy film....

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Door II: Tokyo Diary
Door II: Tokyo Diary

Ai is a call girl that makes good money for what she does but there’s always at risk no matter how g...

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Kamihate Store
Kamihate Store

A woman run a store in a tiny seaside hamlet near the cliffs where people come to commit suicide....

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The Story of Jiro
The Story of Jiro

Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children....

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Seraphim Night
Seraphim Night

Directed by Banmei Takahashi of "New Love in Tokyo." A drama centered around identity, with a half K...

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Hoshi wo tsugu mono
Hoshi wo tsugu mono

An old man falls into a coma and dreams about his childhood during WWII....

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Asshii-tachi no machi
Asshii-tachi no machi

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不倫 この愛が裁けますか
不倫 この愛が裁けますか

Junko's only son dies in an accident. Junko is exhausted by despair and grief, and her husband, who ...

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テレサ・テン物語~私の家は山の向こう
テレサ・テン物語~私の家は山の向こう

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The Terrorist’s Parasol
The Terrorist’s Parasol

When an explosion occurs, alcoholic bartender Kikuchi, who was wanted for a bombing 20 years ago, is...

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I Am Kirishima
I Am Kirishima

On January 25th, 2024, Hiroshi Uchida, a 70-year-old man with terminal cancer made a deathbed confes...

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Greatest Game Ever
Greatest Game Ever

Part of the Young Guy [若大将] series....

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Fumiko no umi
Fumiko no umi

A blind girl of around ten years old is not having a pleasant upbringing. She is poor, neglected, sh...

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〜A calendar to heaven〜
〜A calendar to heaven〜

What would you do on the last day of your life? A nurse knows she's dying of cancer, but she hides t...

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Greatest Game Ever Part II
Greatest Game Ever Part II

Shōzō, heir to a tonkatsu shop and ice hockey star, faces a series of challenges when his team’s fun...

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