Keiko Awaji
出生 : 1933-07-17, Tokyo, Japan
死亡 : 2014-01-11
略歴
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Keiko Awaji (1933) is a Japanese film actress.
Notable highlights of her career were an appearance in Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog, and a role as Kimiko in 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 Yorozuya Kinnosuke, but 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.
The actress is apparently a big fan of the Dragon Quest games, even going so far as to say it is her dream to play one last game before she dies.
She died of esophageal cancer in Tokyo on 11 January 2014, aged 80
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Tamako
A widower and his daughter deal with the death of the man's wife.
Writer-director Gu Su-yeon's new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean (Japanese-born, but of Korean ancestry) in the seaside city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a working-class hellhole overflowing with sex and fury. Day after day, (fictional) Gu finds fresh foes and makes the local hoodlums want to kick his ass. While working multiple dead-end part-time jobs, he cruises around town on his scooter in search of gangland trouble: leaping across rooftops with irate hordes of punks in hot pursuit, running off with a fetching belle in a sailor suit, rescuing a schoolgirl from being gang-raped at a glue-sniffing orgy…
泰平の世を謳歌する大坂で「てれすこ」と呼ばれる不思議な魚が捕獲される。なんでもそれは万病に効くらしい。人気の花魁・お喜乃に一緒に足抜けを手伝ってくれと頼まれる弥次さん。芝居中にヘマをやり役者をクビになった喜多さん。ふたりはひょんなことで再会し、これにお喜乃も加わって、3人は江戸を出て旅に出る。
Beniko
平凡で退屈な毎日に嫌気がさしたトワは、ある日薬を大量に飲んで自殺を図るが失敗する。目が覚めるとそこは、社会から完全に隔離された奇妙な病院だった…。
Aoi Morishita
Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Based on the actual amateur theater company "Theatrical Company Hono" in Fujieda City, Shizuoka Prefecture, where the presiding officers and performers are composed of elderly women. They have been performing stage plays about issues related to the elderly for a long time.
Self
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Stray Dog" (1949).
Katsuko Doi
四国の山奥にある小さな村。坊之宮家の女が代々受け継いできた狗神様。この坊之宮家は、“執りつかれると食い殺される”と、村人たちから忌み嫌われる狗神筋の家系でありながらも、村では平穏な日々を過ごしていた。 そんなある日、村に小学校教師として青年、奴田原晃が現れ、坊之宮の女・美希と関係を持ってしまう……。
Kyuketsu Onsen e Yokoso (吸血温泉へようこそ kyuuketsu onsen e youkoso, translated as Welcome to the blood-sucking hot spring) alternatively known as Kyuketsu Onsen ni Yokoso (吸血温泉にようこそ kyuuketsu onsen ni youkoso) is a Japanese direct-to-video horror-erotic film released in 1997 by the Japanese studio known as Museum. It is based in an original story by Go Nagai. A little after the release of the film, a manga version was also released in the magazine Comic Bazooka by Tatsumishuppan, from May 1997 to August 1997, and later released in a single tankōbon in 1997-10-25 by Mediax in the line MD Comics. The manga was later published in the compilation tankōbon Kireta Ito: Nagai Go Jisen Sakuhin shu published by Kadokawa Shoten in 2001. The film features famous Japanese celebrity Aya Sugimoto in the role of the landlady of the onsen and the main vampire woman, ex-idol singer Yuka Onishi of Sukeban Deka III fame, and AV idol Ryo Hitomi.
Fusae
長野県のデザイン会社に勤める前原真紀と弟で大学生の宏は、建設会社勤務の父と共に3人暮らし。母親は18年前、家族を捨てて別の男のもとへ去ったのだった。そんな父は何一つ語らず、突然の心臓発作で亡くなる。真紀は自らの思いをワープロに打ちこんだが、偶然にもこの文章に宏が気づき、真紀に秘密で“日本一短い「母」への手紙”コンテストに応募してみることを思いつく。
Set in decadent, chaotic Hong Kong and Tokyo, the film tells the story of a young woman caught up in a mysterious turn of events. A young tour guide, 23-year-old Mamiko who's had her heart set on Paris, finds herself swept off to booming Hong Kong where she is thrown into the midst of a high-profile burglary case.
Katsuyama
The rise to power of the famed Lady Kasuga no Tsubone, who established the 'Ooku' (the women's quarters at Edo castle) and acted as nursemaid to Tokugawa Iemitsu, the future 3rd Shogun is chronicled in this historical drama. Intrigue and suspicion abound as the two brothers Iemitsu and Tadanaga vie for the post of Shogun, while behind the scenes the remnants of the defeated Toyotomi faction, lead by Lord Ishida Mitsunari attempt to discredit the Tokugawa Shogunate and regain their former position as rulers of the nation. The hidden battles between Shogun Hidetada's wife and mistresses of the 'Ooku' come to light as they force the two brothers into a life or death struggle.
Madam
「男はつらいよ」シリーズ第41作。東北を走るローカル線、栗原電鉄に寅さんが乗っていると、疲れ果てたサラリーマン・坂口兵馬（柄本明）が線路に寝転んで自殺未遂。その夜、旅館で兵馬の胸の内を聞き優しく励ましているうちに、兵馬にウィーン旅行に誘われてしまう。断るつもりが、結局オーストリアに同行してしまった寅さんは、絵画や文化に一切興味を示さない。ところが、現地でガイドをしている久美子（竹下景子）と出会い、さらに金町出身のマダム（淡路恵子）と知り合い、すっかり日本にいる気分。やがて久美子の悩みを聞くうち、寅さんは…
The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.
Etsuko
「男はつらいよ」シリーズ第38作。寅さんは北海道知床で、無骨だが誠実な老獣医・上野順吉（三船敏郎）と出会い、意気投合して居候することになる。やもめ暮らしの順吉の面倒を見ているのが、スナックママ・悦子（淡路恵子）。ある日、順吉のひとり娘、りん子（竹下景子）が、結婚に失敗して東京から帰ってくる。近所の人々との楽しい日々が続くが、不器用な順吉とりん子は、寅さんがいないと上手くコミュニケ−ションがとれない…
Takeko
Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.
Fuji
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a new identity as Tange Sazen, he searches for a stolen urn which has hidden significance to his clan. But Tange Sazen has his own reasons for seeking the urn.
The sequel to "Flowers and Dragons". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unites people with his courage, and revolts against the entrepreneur Oki Nakashi, who is teeming with vices. Kingoro and his family are also forced to fight against the Ezaki-Gumi group, which is opposed by Tomoda Kizo, who is trying to control the port of Wakamatsu.
A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love and struggle.
Mitsui Fujiko
#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to 25 years later, the students have each settled into their careers and cross paths with Professor Sakai's son, a P.E. teacher (also played by Sakai).
Omaki
The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
Otomaru
有馬頼義の原作『貴三郎一代』を、菊島隆三が脚色し増村保造が監督した娯楽映画。本作のヒットによりシリーズ化され、全部で9作が製作された。勝新太郎演じる破天荒な主人公と、田村高廣演じるインテリ上官のコンビが大活躍する。
A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
鶴亀製菓では、石黒専務の発案で、長年研究してきた新しい清涼飲料水、ハッスル・コーラを発売しようとしていた早速、実験というわけで社内で一番無気力な社員田中太郎が試飲することになった。ショボクレタ表情の太郎は飲むうち、次第にポパイの如くハッスルして来た。
Michie Higurashi
The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was fired but became star. First film in popular "Number 1" Series.
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.
The story tells of a group of samurai who were left leaderless (becoming ronin) after their daimyo (feudal lord) was forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official named Kira Yoshinaka, whose title was Kōzuke no suke. The ronin avenged their master's honor after patiently waiting and planning for over a year to kill Kira. In turn, the ronin were themselves forced to commit seppuku for committing the crime of murder.
Michiko
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
Based on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe.
Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.
The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.
Kimie
Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.
Fukuko
In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Ginza aunt is really their mother.
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a woman whose child was fathered by another man, she is crushed. He returns to his wife. The woman becomes more distraught when she learns her uncle has misused the money she has sent. As the final straw, her mother dies, and the girl becomes sick.
The film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress of the gang boss. Despite the physical and emotional scars he now carries with him, Yosaburo falls for a young noblewoman. The rest of the film follows the two as they fend off attacks from gangs and the police.
Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses anyone he can to further his career in this moral drama. When things get too hot, he bails and goes to work for a prominent politician (Koreya Senda). Soon he has impregnated the daughter (Yoko Tsukasa) of his boss, but he figures marriage will solve his current problems. His happiness is short-lived when he is stalked by a union radical he once double-crossed who now seeks vengeance.
Mie Sakanishi
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.
Sumire Sakura
A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
Yuri
夫を亡くした圭子は、外国人マスターが経営する銀座のバー“ライラック”の雇われマダムだった。よく店に来ていた利権屋の美濃部が、かつて圭子の下で働いていたユリに店を持たせ、そちらへ頻繁に出入りしているようだ。マスターからはユリのように体を張って売り上げを回復させろと言われてしまう。ある日、狂言自殺をするつもりだったユリが本当に死亡した。葬儀の席で圭子は美濃部に食ってかかるが、血を吐いて倒れてしまう。酒の飲み過ぎで胃潰瘍にかかっていたのだ。やがて圭子は客に体を許すようになるが、その度に裏切られてしまう。
長谷川伸の股旅小説「勘パの勘ちゃん」の映画化で、「血斗水滸伝 怒涛の対決」の高岩肇が脚色、「愛の鐘」の久松静児が監督した時代喜劇。撮影は「カックン超特急」の杉本正二郎。
Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular. Ocho, a resident of an apartment building, hears about this and secretly plans to follow Otose, the owner of Mizuta-ya, who became famous as Utamaro's model. At this time, the Kano school, headed by Kano Eikawa, which was under the control of the shogunate, is dissatisfied with Utamaro's fame and tries to compromise him…
Kosei
Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his step-brother's castle, when the ruler of the Takatori Clan suddenly dies leaving no heir and despite the protest from Minister Horio, it is decided that young Chonosuke is to succeed as ruler of the clan. Horio determines to murder Chonosuke on his way to Edo so that his own grandchild may rule the Takatori Clan. "Odd" Han, a travelling gambler happens to stop at the inn where Chonosuke's party is staying in secret. The assassins come to attack Chonosuke on the riverbank where he is viewing the fireworks alone but are driven off by Han. Now Chonosuke travels with Han disguised as a gambler during which he begins to learn the hardships of the peasants and is struck with the contrast between the life of a feudal and those whose labour provides his luxurious living.
Nanae
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
Yoshiko Kosaka
Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of World War II.
Fifth entry in the Company President Series.
The Undefeated Woman
Okiku
A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.
Oimo / Osatsu
加東大介と小林桂樹が弥次喜多コンビをユーモラスに演じた喜劇。作品のネタに困った十返舎一九は、栃面屋弥次郎兵衛と喜多利屋喜多八に金を与え二人に旅をさせる。だが二人をつけねらう謎の美男子に旅を邪魔され、弥次さん喜多さんは面白くない。実はこの男、偽小判事件にからみ姿を消した十兵衛の行方を追う幕府の隠密で、一緒に出発した十兵衛の娘お雪とはぐれてしまっていた。旅先で数々の失敗を繰り返す弥次喜多コンビだったが、二人の行動が偽小判事件を解決に導くことになり…。
The fourth entry in the Company President Series
Spider Queen of the Forest
Japanese fantasy film.
Eriko
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the bar hostess.
A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of her missing husband.
Okada's Wife (uncredited)
The story follows a university student who moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.
Sayoko Uemura
The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks singer Hibari Misora to perform. Musical youth comedy with young actors, passion, funny songs and laughter. Hibari Misora appears as herself.
Yuki Kawabe
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
Keiko Nomi, prisoner
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had an affair. She loves the jailed criminals and almost sees them as family. One day at a workshop someone faints while working hard to make money because she has a poor boyfriend. Another inmate is knocked up Another is a mother and has her child with her.
This is a paradise of dream and illusion, a country of Raccoon Dogs. The Bat Tribe lives in a neighboring country took a young prince of Raccoon Dogs as a hostage, and try to take a Buddhist saint from the temple by force.
Kimiko
A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.
Wakamaru, a geisha
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant owner—but whose romantic lives intersect. (MoMA)
Midori
A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.
Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent in Hakodate, Hokkaido, and meets along the way a young bear-hunter with whom she begins an adventure.
Harumi Namiki
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.
