Keiko Awaji

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.

Filmografi

Stray Dog1949 · Harumi NamikiForgotten Flower Petal: Conclusion1957 · Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: Onibi tōrō1958 · Go to Hell! Company Men1964 · A Monk in the Big City of Edo1965 · Chûshingura1962 · Youth Season Continued1964 · Keiko Tanao (President of "Printemps Cosmetics")The Curio Master1960 · Blackmail1958 · The Bridges at Toko-Ri1954 · KimikoMasseur War Story1965 · Raccoon Dog Leader1965 · Gendai no yokubô1956 · Finances in Front of the Train Station1965 · New Marital Relations1963 · Easy-Going Married Couple1956 · While the Demon Steps Out1956 · New Tokyo March1953 · The Age of Lawless Moneymaking1961 · Hadaka no Machi1957 · Mumu Dance1964 · The Luckiest Dai1957 · Quick Change Tanuki Palace1954 · Women in Prison1956 · Keiko Nomi, prisoner