Acting
Akemi Negishi
Birth Date
March 26, 1934
Death Date
March 11, 2008
(passed away at 73)
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
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Biography
Akemi Negishi (根岸明美 Negishi Akemi, b. 26 March 1934, Tokyo, Japan - died 11 March 2008 (73), Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan) was a Japanese actress. In 1953, when Josef von Sternberg made a film adaptation of the Queen of Anatahan incident, she was discovered at an audition and made her debut in the lead role in Anatahan. Since then, she has been active mainly in film and television. She gained popularity as an actress with a bewitching charm who "could act as well." Ishirō Honda said that Negishi's unique aura suited his films. She died of ovarian cancer at a hospital in Kawasaki City on March 11, 2008. She was 73 years old.
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Red Beard
Okuni
1965
Lady Karuizawa
Yôko Ayukawa
1982
Sex and Fury
Ogin Shitateya
1973
Female Yakuza Tale
Osada
1973
King Kong vs. Godzilla
Chikiro's Mother (Dancing Girl) (uncredited)
1963
Dodes'ka-den
Good-Looking Housewife
1970
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
Otsuka
1972
Lady Snowblood
Tajire no Okiku
1973
King Kong vs. Godzilla
Chikiro's Mother
1962
Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song
Prison Guard Minamimura
1973
Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly
Mineko Taguchi
1979
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
The Mountain Girl
1957
I Live in Fear
Asako Kuribayashi
1955
The Makioka Sisters
Mrs. Shimozuma
1983
The Lower Depths
Osen the Prostitute
1957
Anatahan
Keiko Kusakabe
1953
Distant Thunder
Mother of Hirotsugu
1981
The Strangling
1979
The Setting Sun
Yamashita's wife
1992
Beast Man Snow Man
Chika
1955