
Acting
Keiko Awaji
Also Known As: Кэйко Авадзи, 淡路恵子
Birth Date
July 17, 1933
Death Date
January 11, 2014
(passed away at 80)
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
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Biography
Keiko Awaji (17 July 1933 – 11 January 2014) was a Japanese actress. Notable highlights of her career include Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog and Mark Robson's 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 Kinnosuke Nakamura (also known as Kinnosuke Yorozuya); 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. She died of esophageal cancer in Tokyo on 11 January 2014, aged 80.
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Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series
Oyanagi
1983 • 1 episode

The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Kimiko
1954

Moshichi
2001 • 25 episodes

Stray Dog
Harumi Namiki
1949

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Yuri
1960

She-Shogun
Katsuyama
1990

Chûshingura
1962

A Monk in the Big City of Edo
1965

On a Better Night than Usual
2010

Finances in Front of the Train Station
1965

Masseur War Story
1965

New Marital Relations
1963

Raccoon Dog Leader
1965

Mumu Dance
1964

Thief on the Run
1964

Inugami
Katsuko Doi
2001

Hard Romanticker
2011

Veronika Decides to Die
Beniko
2005

The Curio Master
1960

Kiss the Moon
1957