Keiko Awaji
Popularity:0.178
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1933-07-17
Place of Birth:Tokyo, Japan
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Also Known As:Кэйко Авадзи, 淡路恵子

An Urban Affair (1961)
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...

Stray Dog (1949)
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...

The Undefeated Woman (1958)
The Undefeated Woman

Hagure kigeki mandara (1962)
1962 Japanese movie

The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.

Long Way to Okinawa (1962)
1962 Japanese movie

Ika naru hoshi no moto ni (1962)
1962 Japanese movie

Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama (1962)
1962 Japanese movie

Inugami (2001)
Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for,...

Secret Love (1962)
A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of Japanese cinema: Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano and Keiko...

A Japanese Tragedy (1953)
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...

Birth of Romance (1957)
The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks...

Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn (1966)
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...

Yaji and Kita on the Road (1958)
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...

Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me (1963)
Director Iwauchi Katsumi adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks...

Hito mo arukeba (1960)
A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

Sincere Heart (1953)
A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

Downtown Heroes (1988)
The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.

Toilet Manager (1961)
The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.

Samurai Saga (1959)
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...

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku (1958)
1958 Japanese movie

Kigeki ekimae onsen (1962)
1962 Japanese movie

The Brothers who Protect the Mountain (1953)
In the mountainous region of Koshu, Taikahara, there was an intense power struggle between the prominent families, Tamaki and Kakukura. Facing the...

Kigeki ekimae bentô (1961)
Third film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for...

Pretty Woman (2003)
Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Based on the actual amateur theater company...

Travels of Lord Mito Pt.3 (1954)
Third film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.

Married Executioner R Mission 1: Bloody Mischief (2002)
Akikawa Reiko has been married for three years, has a banker husband and a seemingly happy married life, but has a secret side: she is a state secret...

Utamaro, Painter of the Woman (1959)
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....

喜劇 駅前飯店 (1962)
The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.

Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong (1963)
Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer.

元祿美少年記 (1955)
On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for seppuku at the Mizuno residence....

Sisters (1953)
Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko Tsushima), the second was Tsugumi (Keiko Awaji),...

(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home (1955)
Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes...

Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido (1953)
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...

New Tokyo March (1953)
Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant...

Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960)
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

Geisha in the Old City (1957)
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

Black River (1957)
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell...

Kyūkon sannin musume (1954)
1954 Japanese movie

Veronika Decides to Die (2005)
Towa lives in a peculiar sanatorium after committing suicide. Convalescing in sanatorium, she is informed that she has only 7 days to live. Isolated...

Always in My Heart (1953)
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....

Always in My Heart Part 2 (1953)
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

Illusion of Blood (1965)
The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

The Twilight Story (1960)
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...

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...

Tora-san Goes to Vienna (1989)
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.

A Woman's Life (1963)
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

The Wiser Age (1962)
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

The Other Woman (1961)
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...

Green Light to Joy (1967)
Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.

Mourning Recipe (2013)
A widower and his daughter deal with the death of the man's wife.

Temptation on Glamour Island (1959)
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...

A Brief Message from the Heart (1995)
A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.

The Blue Beast (1960)
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...

Welcome to the Vampire Onsen (1997)
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...

Acchan no bebi gyangu (1961)
Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.

3 Dolls and Baby Gang (1961)
Based on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe.

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Stray Dog" (1949).

The Princess of Badger Palace (1958)
Princess Kinuta runs away from the palace because she doesn't want a marriage of convenience. Princess Kinuta, who has never left the palace, didn't...

Hoodlum Soldier (1965)
A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an...

Price of Beauty (1957)
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".

The Maid Story (1963)
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...

Quick Change Tanuki Palace (1954)
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...

Hong Kong Paradise (1990)
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,...

The Best Playboy In Japan (1963)
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...

The Hotelman's Holiday (1958)
A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.

Down Town (1957)
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...

City of Love (1958)
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...

A Comedy: The University Around the Corner (1965)
#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...

Hard Romanticker (2011)
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...

Chûshingura (1962)
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

Women in Prison (1956)
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...

The Flower and the Dragon (1965)
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...

She-Shogun (1990)
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...

Tora-san Goes North (1987)
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged...

Flower and Dragon: Duel of the Sea Caves (1966)
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 Lord and the Gambler (1959)
Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his...

Scarred Yosaburo (1960)
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...

The Adventures of Kantaro (1959)
Comedy historical film about a wandering warrior, based on the novel by Shin Hasegawa.

The Third President (1958)
The fifth entry in the Company President Series

社長太平記 (1959)
Sixth entry in the Company President Series.

Zoku shachōtaiheiki (1959)
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.

More wonderful night than usual (2010)
An entry in a series focused on "love" and "erotica," in which six creators from multiple fields - from film and TV to direct-to-video and manga -...

Morishige, where are you going? (1956)
A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow,...

Moshichi (2001)
A mysterious humanistic period drama, setting in the Edo Period. As Okappiki, unofficial collaborators who played a marginal role in police...