Momoko Kôchi

Momoko Kôchi

Birth : 1932-03-07, Tokyo, Japan

Death : 1998-11-05

History

Played the role of Emiko Yamane in Inoshiro Honda's "Gojira" (1954) and she replayed Emiko in her last film Godzilla vs. Destoroyah in 1995.

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Momoko Kôchi

Movies

Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
Emiko Yamane
A burning Godzilla, on the verge of meltdown, emerges to lay siege to Hong Kong. At the same time horrifying new organisms are discovered in Japan. These crustacean-like beings are seemingly born of the Oxygen Destroyer, the weapon that killed the original Godzilla.
Crimson Lotus
Sakura and Kenzo are married. Both think they can live a happy marriage, despite the fact that she cannot have children and he does not want to give up her relationship with her lover Yoko.
Kyukei no Koya
Based on novel 1962 "Kyukei no Koya" by Seicho Matsumoto. A serial murder occurs around the heroine Kumiko because she finds evidence that her father, who should have died, was "alive." Set in 1945, near the end of WW II, Kenichiro Nogami is reported to have died in a Swiss hospital. In fact, he is working behind the scenes to save Japan from destruction. For this cause, Kenichiro Nogami has left behind his wife and nation to work in hiding.
Tora-san Plays Daddy
Kimiko
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the boy’s mother, Tora-san meets a cosmetics saleslady and the three become a surrogate family, with Tora-san as “daddy”.
Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion
Kane
A young girl gets adopted by a family that holds her like a slave and is later freed by a young man working for the family's company. 10 years later, she gets involved in the murder of one of her step-sisters.
Honeymoon
Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been forced upon her unwillingly; the two individuals run away to share their grief.
Konnichiwa Hânesu
Itami Natsu
A female college student who aims to become a pianist meets a boy who raises a guide dog.
Godzilla
Emiko
A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. version Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956), plus WWII newsreel footage and clips from other monster 1950's movies. The re-edited film was then colorized via a process called Spectrorama 70 consisting of applying various colored gels to the black and white footage. The film's opening and ending also features new music composed by musician Vince Tempera (under the pseudonym Magnetic System).
The Sisters and I
Madame at Étoire
A Japanese film
Happiness of Us Alone
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
The Girl
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote tribe as a god, and how it was discovered by modern man after it raided a ski-ers' shelter following an avalanche, killing all inside. This is an adaptation of the Japanese film Ju Jin Yuki Otoko with added American-made footage, narration and music track.
The Princess of Badger Palace
Singing woman
Japanese fantasy film.
The Mysterians
Hiroko Iwamoto
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a small patch of land on Earth and the right to marry earthling women, claiming to be pacifists. Mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
Ikuko Aso
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Emiko Yamane (as Momoko Kochi)
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'. The only hope for both Japan and the world lies on a secret weapon, which may prove more destructive than the monster itself.
Half Human
Machiko Takeno
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.
No Response from Car 33
Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Godzilla
Emiko Yamane
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.