Miiko Taka

Miiko Taka

Birth : 1925-07-24, Seattle, Washington, USA

Death : 2023-01-04

History

Miiko Taka (July 24, 1925 - January 4, 2023) was an American actress.

Profile

Miiko Taka

Movies

The Challenge
Toru Yoshida's Wife
Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between two brothers, one who follows the traditional path of the samurai and the other a businessman. At the behest of the businessman, Rick undertakes samurai training from the other brother, but joins his cause. He also becomes romantically involved with the samurai's daughter.
The Big Fix
Saleswoman
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.
A Family Upside Down
Mrs. Taka
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
Receptionist
A young ghetto kid despairs of ever getting out of that environment and making something of himself, until one day he gets a job as an assistant in a veterinarian's office, and working with all the animals begins to affect his outlook on life.
Paper Tiger
Mme. Kagoyama
A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes.
The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Secretary
A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.
Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders
Jade Mirror
China, 7th century. On their way to a provincial center Judge Dee and his three wives spend the night at a Taoist monastery. Soon the judge discovers that the secluded place holds a secret - the former abbot died of unnatural causes. After a number of mysterious events and more cases of murder Dee tracks down the true villain.
Lost Horizon
Nurse
While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La.
The Power
Mrs. Van Zandt
One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them.
Walk Don't Run
Aiko Kurawa
During the housing shortage of the Summer Olympic Games in 1964, two men and a woman share a small apartment in Tokyo, and the older man soon starts playing Cupid to the younger pair.
The Art of Love
Chou Chou
Struggling artist fakes his own death so his works will increase in value.
A Global Affair
Fumiko
Bob Hope becomes surrogate father to a baby found abandoned at the United Nations. Director Jack Arnold's 1964 comedy also stars Yvonne De Carlo, Robert Sterling, John McGiver and Lilo Pulver.
Operation Bottleneck
Ari, Comfort Girl
WWII Burma...Six paratroopers undertake an extremely dangerous mission against the Japanese. It will ultimately cost them their lives, except for one "lucky" survivor.
Cry for Happy
Chiyoko
Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.
Sayonara
Hana-ogi
Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.