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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
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21 May 1960
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy.
28 April 1959
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady.
06 August 1988
The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.
29 April 1953
Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko Tsushima), the second was Tsugumi (Keiko Awaji), and the third was Mihato (Hibari Misora).
13 January 1966
The sequel to "Flowers and Dragons". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unites people with his courage, and revolts against the entrepreneur Oki Nakashi, who is teeming with vices.
12 October 2005
Towa lives in a peculiar sanatorium after committing suicide. Convalescing in sanatorium, she is informed that she has only 7 days to live.
29 October 1957
A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of her missing husband.
17 June 1953
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home.
25 May 1966
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan.
29 January 1963
Director Iwauchi Katsumi adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks set against the backdrop of the Roppongi district in Tokyo.
23 October 1957
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.
14 January 1962
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
18 March 1965
A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.
11 September 1956
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had an affair.
13 October 1957
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and resilience.
23 November 1995
A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.
09 May 2003
Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Based on the actual amateur theater company "Theatrical Company Hono" in Fujieda City, Shizuoka Prefecture, where the presiding officers and performers are composed of elderly women.
22 December 1963
Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer.
29 July 1962
1962 Japanese movie
16 June 1963
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men.
15 August 1987
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secretly interested.
21 April 1997
Kyuketsu Onsen e Yokoso (吸血温泉へようこそ kyuuketsu onsen e youkoso, translated as Welcome to the blood-sucking hot spring) alternatively known as Kyuketsu Onsen ni Yokoso (吸血温泉にようこそ kyuuketsu onsen ni youkoso) is a Japanese direct-to-video horror-erotic film released in 1997 by the Japanese studio known as Museum.
17 October 1949
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus.
12 November 2011
Writer-director Gu Su-yeon's new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean (Japanese-born, but of Korean ancestry) in the seaside city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a working-class hellhole overflowing with sex and fury.
28 August 1960
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother.
13 July 1963
The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was fired but became star.
01 December 1953
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
15 April 1962
1962 Japanese movie
01 April 1953
Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant owner—but whose romantic lives intersect.
06 December 1967
Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.
09 February 1960
A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
05 August 1989
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.
15 September 1953
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945.
03 November 1962
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
24 February 1962
1962 Japanese movie
22 December 1954
Third film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.
20 November 1965
A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love and struggle.
20 October 1962
1962 Japanese movie
20 January 1990
The rise to power of the famed Lady Kasuga no Tsubone, who established the 'Ooku' (the women's quarters at Edo castle) and acted as nursemaid to Tokugawa Iemitsu, the future 3rd Shogun is chronicled in this historical drama.
15 May 1957
The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks singer Hibari Misora to perform.
13 March 1957
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
13 August 1961
Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.
26 June 1960
Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses anyone he can to further his career in this moral drama.
29 December 1954
This is a paradise of dream and illusion, a country of Raccoon Dogs. The Bat Tribe lives in a neighboring country took a young prince of Raccoon Dogs as a hostage, and try to take a Buddhist saint from the temple by force.
14 June 1956
A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married.
07 March 1962
1962 Japanese movie
29 April 1958
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wives for a little while.
01 August 1959
Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his step-brother's castle, when the ruler of the Takatori Clan suddenly dies leaving no heir and despite the protest from Minister Horio, it is decided that young Chonosuke is to succeed as ruler of the clan.
27 January 2001
Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family.
30 May 1961
In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Ginza aunt is really their mother.
03 February 1954
1954 Japanese movie
06 December 2002
Akikawa Reiko has been married for three years, has a banker husband and a seemingly happy married life, but has a secret side: she is a state secret agent.
15 March 1959
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
29 August 1961
The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.
21 October 1958
The Undefeated Woman
