Keiko Awaji

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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 Full list of TV and Movie credits for Keiko Awaji.. Born : 17th-Jul-1933

Movie Credits

An Urban Affair

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.
Released : 13th-Aug-1961

Stray Dog

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.
Released : 17th-Oct-1949

The Undefeated Woman

The Undefeated Woman
Released : 21st-Oct-1958

Hagure kigeki mandara

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 24th-Feb-1962

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.
Released : 1st-Dec-1954

Long Way to Okinawa

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 7th-Mar-1962

Ika naru hoshi no moto ni

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 15th-Apr-1962

Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 15th-Apr-1962

Inugami

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. When he learns of an ancient legend that the family carries the curse of the Inugami, or Dog God, he brushes it off as silly superstition. After a series of mysterious deaths, however, the townspeople begin to grow restless, and Akira must confront the truth about Miki and her family.
Released : 27th-Jan-2001

Secret love

A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of Japanese cinema: Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano and Keiko Awaji.
Released : 18th-Apr-1962

A Japanese Tragedy

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. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
Released : 17th-Jun-1953

Birth of Romance

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. Musical youth comedy with young actors, passion, funny songs and laughter. Hibari Misora appears as herself.
Released : 15th-May-1957

Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn

Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a new identity as Tange Sazen, he searches for a stolen urn which has hidden significance to his clan. But Tange Sazen has his own reasons for seeking the urn.
Released : 25th-May-1966

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 pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wives for a little while. As they travel, they are constantly beset by complications involving women, mistaken identity, and misunderstood events. Another film adaptation of the famous novel Ikku Jippensha Footing It Along the Tokaido (Tokaidochu Hizakurige)
Released : 29th-Apr-1958

Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me

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. Masaaki (Minegishi Toru) is the son of a prominent judge and a Law student at university. Chikage (Nakagawa Yuki) is a teenager from an underprivileged home. Both are desperately looking for an escape from their lives when they meet in Roppongi one night and fall in love. But coming from such different backgrounds, their happiness isn't assured.
Released : 29th-Jan-1963

Hito mo arukeba

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
Released : 9th-Feb-1960

Sincere Heart

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.
Released : 29th-Jan-1953

Hope and Pain

The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.
Released : 6th-Aug-1988

Toilet Manager

The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.
Released : 29th-Aug-1961

Samurai Saga

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. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
Released : 28th-Apr-1959

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

1958 Japanese movie
Released : 7th-Dec-1958

Kigeki ekimae onsen

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 29th-Jul-1962

The Brothers who Protect the Mountain

In the mountainous region of Koshu, Taikahara, there was an intense power struggle between the prominent families, Tamaki and Kakukura. Facing the steward of Kakukura, Kurokawa Senjiro, was Tamaki Daisaburo, who was skilled with a handgun. Daisaburo had granted protection to the charcoal maker, Miyoshi, safeguarding a few mountains passed down from their ancestors. Daisaburo's elder brother, Iori, who had completed his training in Edo, saved Kakukura's only daughter, Koyumi, on his way back home. However, while Daisaburo rushed to Iori's aid after Koyumi was attacked by Kurokawa and his men, their family home was set ablaze.
Released : 27th-Oct-1953

Kigeki ekimae bentô

Third film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for advice from her childhood friends Kintaro, a textile manufacturer, and Magosaku, an entrepreneur, about a big-shot from Osaka who wants to invest in her shop. However, Kintaro and Magosaku suspect that things are not what they seem...
Released : 24th-Dec-1961

Pretty Woman

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. They have been performing stage plays about issues related to the elderly for a long time.
Released : 9th-May-2003

Travels of Lord Mito Pt.3

Third film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.
Released : 22nd-Dec-1954

Married Executioner R Mission 1: Bloody Mischief

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. One day, newlywed Kaori, who lives next door, commits suicide by jumping from her flat. Reiko sets out to investigate and discovers that boys have been attacking women every day as if it were a game. She also learns that Kahori was raped by these boys, and that they used the photos as material for repeated rapes. Reiko receives an order from the command centre to eliminate the boys and goes to their hideout by herself...
Released : 6th-Dec-2002

Utamaro, Painter of the Woman

Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular. Ocho, a resident of an apartment building, hears about this and secretly plans to follow Otose, the owner of Mizuta-ya, who became famous as Utamaro's model. At this time, the Kano school, headed by Kano Eikawa, which was under the control of the shogunate, is dissatisfied with Utamaro's fame and tries to compromise him…
Released : 11th-Oct-1959

喜劇駅前飯店

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.
Released : 23rd-Dec-1962

Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong

Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer.
Released : 22nd-Dec-1963

元祿美少年記

On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for seppuku at the Mizuno residence. When news of his lord, Asano Naganori, attacking Kira Yoshinaka in the palace reached Akō, Uemon no Shichi was sixteen. The family elder, Ōishi Kuranosuke, determined to avenge, gathered allies, but Uemon no Shichi's father, Chōsuke, being sickly and considered too young, was not included. Chōsuke committed suicide.
Released : 21st-Dec-1955

Sisters

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). Mihato was still a pretty seventeen-year-old girl, but she considered herself as mature as her older sisters. Mihato knows that Tsugumi is friends with Ippei Yaguchi (Masao Wakahara) and acts as a love messenger between them, but she didn't know that Takako is also in love with Ippei...
Released : 29th-Apr-1953

Wakai kisetsu

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 20th-Oct-1962

Hadaka no Machi

Released : 23rd-Jul-1957

(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 taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the owner of "Fujimura" in the town of Hato. Eiko is a timid woman who hates Terada, a watchmaker who is obsessed with her; Tamie is a hard worker who asks for money from customers to support her mother and daughter Teruko; Tane, who dreams of the day they can be together, gives money to her lover Takeda; Machiko, an apres girl, is selective about her customers in the name of romance. They are women working in the red light district at "Fujimura."
Released : 21st-Jun-1955

Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido

Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent in Hakodate, Hokkaido, and meets along the way a young bear-hunter with whom she begins an adventure.
Released : 14th-Jan-1953

New Tokyo March

Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant owner—but whose romantic lives intersect. (MoMA)
Released : 1st-Apr-1953

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.
Released : 21st-May-1960

Geisha in the Old City

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.
Released : 13th-Oct-1957

Black River

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.
Released : 23rd-Oct-1957

Kyūkon sannin musume

1954 Japanese movie
Released : 3rd-Feb-1954

Veronika Decides to Die

Towa lives in a peculiar sanatorium after committing suicide. Convalescing in sanatorium, she is informed that she has only 7 days to live. Isolated within their worlds, strange people live in this sanatorium and try to avoid making any contact with her. However, Kuroda a man who lost his power of speech feels sympathetic towards her and their every lovable things give true colors to the life and inspire Towa’s honest desire for the life…
Released : 12th-Oct-2005

Always in My Heart

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. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.
Released : 15th-Sep-1953

Always in My Heart Part 2

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
Released : 1st-Dec-1953

Illusion of Blood

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
Released : 25th-Jul-1965

For Love and Money

Released : 24th-Dec-1963

The Twilight Story

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a woman whose child was fathered by another man, she is crushed. He returns to his wife. The woman becomes more distraught when she learns her uncle has misused the money she has sent. As the final straw, her mother dies, and the girl becomes sick.
Released : 28th-Aug-1960

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 describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
Released : 15th-Jan-1960

Tora-san Goes to Vienna

During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.
Released : 5th-Aug-1989

A Woman's Life

A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
Released : 16th-Nov-1963

The Wiser Age

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
Released : 14th-Jan-1962

TV Credits

古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ

Oyanagi -
Released : 19th-Feb-1983

茂七の事件簿ふしぎ草紙

- A mysterious humanistic period drama, setting in the Edo Period. As Okappiki, unofficial collaborators who played a marginal role in police functions, Moshichi (Takahashi Hideki) solves a number of mysterious incidents that occur in downtown Edo.
Released : 29th-Jun-2001

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Keiko Awaji

Movie Credits

An Urban Affair

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.Released : 13th-Aug-1961

Stray Dog

The Undefeated Woman

The Undefeated WomanReleased : 21st-Oct-1958

Hagure kigeki mandara

1962 Japanese movieReleased : 24th-Feb-1962

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.Released : 1st-Dec-1954

Long Way to Okinawa

1962 Japanese movieReleased : 7th-Mar-1962

Ika naru hoshi no moto ni

1962 Japanese movieReleased : 15th-Apr-1962

Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama

1962 Japanese movieReleased : 15th-Apr-1962

Inugami

Secret love

A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of Japanese cinema: Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano and Keiko Awaji.Released : 18th-Apr-1962

A Japanese Tragedy

Birth of Romance

Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn

Yaji and Kita on the Road

Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me

Hito mo arukeba

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.Released : 9th-Feb-1960

Sincere Heart

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.Released : 29th-Jan-1953

Hope and Pain

The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.Released : 6th-Aug-1988

Toilet Manager

The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.Released : 29th-Aug-1961

Samurai Saga

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. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.Released : 28th-Apr-1959

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

1958 Japanese movieReleased : 7th-Dec-1958

Kigeki ekimae onsen

1962 Japanese movieReleased : 29th-Jul-1962

The Brothers who Protect the Mountain

Kigeki ekimae bentô

Pretty Woman

Travels of Lord Mito Pt.3

Third film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.Released : 22nd-Dec-1954

Married Executioner R Mission 1: Bloody Mischief

Utamaro, Painter of the Woman

喜劇 駅前飯店

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.Released : 23rd-Dec-1962

Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong

Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer.Released : 22nd-Dec-1963

元祿美少年記

Sisters

Wakai kisetsu

1962 Japanese movieReleased : 20th-Oct-1962

Hadaka no Machi

Released : 23rd-Jul-1957

(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home

Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido

Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent in Hakodate, Hokkaido, and meets along the way a young bear-hunter with whom she begins an adventure.Released : 14th-Jan-1953

New Tokyo March

Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant owner—but whose romantic lives intersect. (MoMA)Released : 1st-Apr-1953

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.Released : 21st-May-1960

Geisha in the Old City

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.Released : 13th-Oct-1957

Black River

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.Released : 23rd-Oct-1957

Kyūkon sannin musume

1954 Japanese movieReleased : 3rd-Feb-1954

Veronika Decides to Die

Always in My Heart

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. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.Released : 15th-Sep-1953

Always in My Heart Part 2

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.Released : 1st-Dec-1953

Illusion of Blood

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.Released : 25th-Jul-1965

For Love and Money

Released : 24th-Dec-1963

The Twilight Story

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.
Released : 13th-Aug-1961

The Undefeated Woman
Released : 21st-Oct-1958

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 24th-Feb-1962

A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.
Released : 1st-Dec-1954

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 7th-Mar-1962

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 15th-Apr-1962

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 15th-Apr-1962

A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of Japanese cinema: Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano and Keiko Awaji.
Released : 18th-Apr-1962

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
Released : 9th-Feb-1960

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.
Released : 29th-Jan-1953

The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.
Released : 6th-Aug-1988

The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.
Released : 29th-Aug-1961

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. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
Released : 28th-Apr-1959

1958 Japanese movie
Released : 7th-Dec-1958

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 29th-Jul-1962

Third film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.
Released : 22nd-Dec-1954

喜劇駅前飯店

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.
Released : 23rd-Dec-1962

Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer.
Released : 22nd-Dec-1963

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 20th-Oct-1962

Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent in Hakodate, Hokkaido, and meets along the way a young bear-hunter with whom she begins an adventure.
Released : 14th-Jan-1953

Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant owner—but whose romantic lives intersect. (MoMA)
Released : 1st-Apr-1953

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.
Released : 21st-May-1960

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.
Released : 13th-Oct-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.
Released : 23rd-Oct-1957

1954 Japanese movie
Released : 3rd-Feb-1954

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. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.
Released : 15th-Sep-1953

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
Released : 1st-Dec-1953

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
Released : 25th-Jul-1965

During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.
Released : 5th-Aug-1989