Native name 淡路 恵子 Name Keiko Awaji Height 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | Years active 1949–2014 Occupation Actress Role Film actress | |
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Born 17 July 1933 ( 1933-07-17 ) Tokyo, Japan Died January 11, 2014, Minato, Tokyo City, Tokyo, Japan Spouse Yorozuya Kinnosuke (m. 1966–1987), Bimbo Danao (m. 1953–1965) Children Etsuo Shima, Kichinosuke Yorozuya, Akihiro Ogawa Nominations Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Movies Stray Dog, The Bridges at Toko‑Ri, When a Woman Ascends t, Hard Romanticker, Veronika Decides To Die Similar People Yorozuya Kinnosuke, Ineko Arima, Mikio Naruse, Yoji Yamada, Kazuo Miyagawa | ||
Keiko Awaji (淡路 恵子, Awaji Keiko, 17 July 1933 – 11 January 2014) was a Japanese film actress.
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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, in which 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, for which he served six months in prison. On 16 June 2010, Kichinosuke committed suicide by jumping off her apartment in Shinjuku.
She died of esophageal cancer in Tokyo on 11 January 2014, aged 80.
Partial filmography
She has appeared in more than 160 movies since 1949:
Filmography
Actress
2013
Mourning Recipe
2011
Hard Romanticker
2010
Divorced Under One Roof (TV Series)(2010)
2008
Ginza kôkyû kurabu mama Aoyama Miyuki 3: Akai bara no satsujin yokoku (TV Movie)
2007
Taxi Driver no Suiri Nisshi 23 (TV Movie)
2007
Yajikita dôchû Teresuko
2005
Veronika wa shinu koto ni shita as
Beniko
2004
Yudan taiteki
2004
Kaseifu wa mita! 22 (TV Movie) as
Kaneko Sugimura
2003
Musashi (TV Series) as
Myoshu
- Revisited: Musashi's Battles (2003) - Myoshu
- My Own Path (2003) - Myoshu
- Voice of the Flute (2003) - Myoshu
- A Thing of Beauty (2003) - Myoshu
- Battle at Ichijoji (2003) - Myoshu
- I Won't Die (2003) - Myoshu
- The Road to Carnage! (2003) - Myoshu
2003
Pretty Woman as
Aoi Morishita
2001
Hitozuma shokei hito R - Mission 2: Yogosa reta kizuna (Video)
2001
Hitozuma shokei hito R - Mission 1: Chinura reta misao (Video)
2001
Inugami as
Katsuko Doi
1996
Haruchan (TV Series)
1995
A Brief Message from the Heart
1993
Tôhôkenbunroku
1992
Pachinko Graffiti
1990
Hong Kong Paradise as
Mrs. Yang
1989
Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro kokoro no tabiji as
Madame
1988
Hope and Pain as
Coffee shop's madame
1987
Tora-san Goes North as
Etsuko
1986
Keshin as
Hisako Akiba
1967
Green Light to Joy
1966
Hana To Ryu: Do Kâiwan No Kêtto
1966
Tange Sazen: Hien iaigiri as
Fuji
1966
Kigeki ekimae manga as
Fujiko Banno
1966
Kigeki ekimae benten
1965
Hana to ryu
1965
Kigeki ekimae daigaku
1965
Tale of a Carpenter
1965
Hana no o-Edo no hôkaibô as
Ogin
1965
Illusion of Blood as
Omaki
1965
Tameki no taisho as
Nami
1965
Kigeki ekimae kinyû
1965
Hoodlum Soldier as
Otomaru
1964
Tensai sagishi monogatari: Tanuki no hanamichi as
Teruko Senda
1964
Zoku wakai kisetsu
1964
Misuta jaiantsu
1964
Otoko girai as
Ikuko Takamura
1964
Kigeki ekimae okami as
Fujiko Adachi
1963
Iroboke yokuboke monogatari
1963
Honkon kurêjî sakusen as
Mami Ane
1963
A Woman's Life as
Miss Misawa
1963
Kureji sakusen: Kudabare! Musekinin
1963
Shin meoto zenzai as
Ofumi
1963
Kigeki ekimae chagama
1963
Nippon ichi no iro otoko
1963
The Maid Story
1963
Crazy Operation
1963
Shachô gaiyûki
1963
Zoku shachô manyûki
1963
Roppongi no yoru: aishite aishite as
Keiko Akutagawa
1963
Onna ni tsuyoku naru kufû no kazukazu as
Ryôko Kakegawa
1963
Shachô manyûki
1962
Kigeki ekimae hanten
1962
Chushingura as
Otoki
1962
Wakai kisetsu
1962
Nagadosu chûshingura
1962
Kigeki ekimae onsen as
Emiko Niki
1962
Ika naru hoshi no moto ni as
Ayuko
1962
Kurêjî no hanayome to shichinin no nakama
1962
Long Way to Okinawa
1962
Hagure kigeki mandara
1962
A Woman's Place as
Hashimoto Michiko
1961
Kigeki ekimae bentô
1961
Bebî gyangu to oneechan as
Yumeyo
1961
Acchan no bebi gyangu
1961
Toilet buchô as
Tomoko Kasajima
1961
Toiretto shacho
1961
An Urban Affair
1961
Dangai no ketto
1961
Playboy President as
Madame Mieko
1961
Poignant Story as
Fukuko, Miho no yuujin
1961
Zoku shachô dochuki: onna oyabun taiketsu no maki as
Madame Mieko
1960
The Twilight Story as
Ofusa
1960
The Blue Beast as
Yoshie
1960
Daughters, Wives and a Mother as
MIe Tani
1960
Dâisan hâtobanô kêtto as
Kaori
1960
Chinpindô shujin
1960
Hito mo arukeba as
Sumire Sakura
1960
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs as
Yuri
1959
Tobitchô kantarô
1959
Utamaro wo meguru gonin no onna
1959
Machibugyô nikki: Tekka botan as
Kosei
1959
Nuregami sandogasa as
Otsuta
1959
Sarariman shussetai koki daiyonbu
1959
Bringing Up Husbands
1959
Samurai Saga as
Nanae
1959
Zoku shachô taiheiki
1959
Gurama-to no yuwaku as
Yoshiko Kosaka
1959
Shachô taiheiki as
Kumako
1958
Yajikita dôchû sugoroku as
Oimo
1958
Kyôkatsu as
Etusko, his mistress
1958
The Country Boss
1958
Yatsu ga satsujinsha da
1958
Kigeki ekimae ryokan as
Okiku
1958
Buttsuke homban as
Mrs. Matsumoto, his wife
1958
Yajikita dôchûki as
Oimo / Osatsu
1958
Tôkyô no kyûjitsu as
Bus Guide
1958
Zoku shachô sandaiki
1958
The Princess of Badger Palace
1958
Kuchi kara demakase
1958
Aijô no miyako as
Eriko, Murata's mistress
1957
Zoku aoi sanmyaku Yukiko no maki
1957
Downtown
1957
Aoi sanmyaku Shinko no maki
1957
Black River as
Okada's Wife
1957
Hadairo no tsuki as
Kimiyo
1957
Kottaisan yori: Nyotai wa kanashiku as
Kimiko
1957
Tsuki to seppun as
Chieko
1957
Bôkyaku no hanabira: Kanketsuhen
1957
Romance tanjô as
Sayoko Uemura
1957
Sanjûrokunin no jôkyaku as
Mitsuko Yanagisawa
1957
Taian kichijitsu
1957
Bôkyaku no hanabira
1956
Oshidori no mon
1956
Kono yo no hana kanketsu-hen daikyubu: Ai no sabaki daijubu: Suna no hoyo
1956
Nonki fufu
1956
Jôshû to tomo ni as
Keiko Nomi, prisoner
1956
Gendai no yokubô as
Misako
1956
Zoku kono yo no hana daihachibu: Sasurai no hamabe (Short)
1956
Morishige yo doko e yuku as
Keiko
1956
Oni no inu ma
1956
Onna no ashi ato
1956
Ashi no aru yûrei (Short)
1956
Zoku kono yo no hana dairokubu: Tsuki no shirakaba dainanabu: Wakare no yomichi
1955
Genroku bishônen-ki as
Kimi
1955
Kao no nai otoko
1955
Zoku kono yo no hana daiyonbu: Omoide no hana daigobu: Naniwa noame
1955
Kari some no kuchibiru
1955
The Merry Flutist
1955
House of Many Pleasures as
Eiko
1955
Boku wa yokochô no ninki-sha: Dainibu fû-chan no komori-uta
1955
Boku wa yokochô no ninki-sha: Dai ichibu: Yôkina Gonhei-san
1955
Aishu nikki as
Kyoko
1955
Kono yo no hana: Dainibu hiren no maki
1955
Kono yo no hana: daisanbu kaika no maki
1955
Kono yo no hana: Daichibu bojo no maki
1954
The Bridges at Toko-Ri as
Kimiko
1954
Mitokômon manyûki: Tenbare ukiyo dôchû
1954
Jigoku e no fukushû
1954
Okei-chan no chakkari fujin
1954
Wakadanna to odoriko
1954
Hi wa shizumazu
1954
Koshinuke kyôsô kyoku
1954
Waka danna buyûden
1954
Kyûkon sannin musume as
Tatsuko Miyamoto
1954
Ban kara shain
1953
What Is Your Name? Part II
1953
Yama o mamoru kyodai as
Sayumi Sumikura
1953
What Is Your Name?
1953
Jogakusei no techô: Otome no mezame
1953
Bibô to tsumi
1953
A Japanese Tragedy as
Wakamaru, a Geisha
1953
Shinju haha
1953
Kyôdai as
Tsugumi Inukai
1953
Yasugorô shusse
1953
Shin Tokyo koshin-kyoku as
Miyoko Suda
1953
Sincere Heart as
Midori
1953
Natsuko's Adventure in Hokkaido as
Akiko
1950
Jogakusei-gun
1949
Stray Dog as
Harumi Namaki
Self
2013
Uchi kuru!? (TV Series) as
Self
- Keiko Awaji (2013) - Self
2002
Kurosawa Akira: Tsukuru to iu koto wa subarashii (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Stray Dog (2002) - Self
References
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