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Keiko Awaji

  • ️Mon Jul 17 1933

Keiko Awaji

淡路 恵子

Awaji in 1954

Born (1933-07-17)17 July 1933

Tokyo, Japan

Died 11 January 2014(2014-01-11) (aged 80)

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation Actress
Years active 1949–2014
Spouses
Children Etsuo Shima, Akihiro, Kichinosuke

Keiko Awaji (淡路恵子, Awaji Keiko, 17 July 1933 – 11 January 2014) was a Japanese stage and film actress.[1]

Awaji appeared in films like Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog, Keisuke Kinoshita's A Japanese Tragedy, Mark Robson's The Bridges at Toko-Ri and Mikio Naruse's When a Woman Ascends the Stairs.[2]

She died of esophageal cancer in Tokyo on 11 January 2014, aged 80.[1] She was married twice, to Filipino actor Bimbo Danao and to Japanese actor Yorozuya Kinnosuke.

  1. ^ a b "淡路恵子". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  2. ^ "淡路恵子". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 3 August 2023.