Keiko Awaji
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.
Known for
- Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series (1983)
- The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
- Moshichi (2001)
- Chûshingura (1962)
- Stray Dog (1949)
- On a Better Night than Usual (2010)
- While the Demon Steps Out (1956)
- Thief on the Run (1964)
- Masseur War Story (1965)
- Finances in Front of the Train Station (1965)
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
- The Age of Lawless Moneymaking (1961)
- A Monk in the Big City of Edo (1965)
- Easy-Going Married Couple (1956)
- The Curio Master (1960)
- Inugami (2001)
- Raccoon Dog Leader (1965)
- New Marital Relations (1963)
- 元祿美少年記 (1955)
- Go to Hell! Company Men (1964)