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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1933-07-17 (91 years old)

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Japan

Keiko Awaji

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

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Known For

Acting

2013

Mourning Recipe as Tamako

2011

2010

2007

2005

2003

Pretty Woman as Aoi Morishita

2002

2001

Inugami as Katsuko Doi

1997

1995

1990

1989

1988

1987

1983

1967

1966

1965

1963

1962

1961

1960

1959

1958

1957

Birth of Romance as Sayoko Uemura
Black River as Okada's Wife (uncredited)
Price of Beauty as Yuki Kawabe

1956

Women in Prison as Keiko Nomi, prisoner

1955

1954

1953

1949

Stray Dog as Harumi Namiki