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Keiko Awaji

1933 - 2014

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Keiko Awaji (淡路恵子, Awaji Keiko, 17 July 1933 – 11 January 2014) was a Japanese stage and film actress. 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. She died of esophageal cancer in Tokyo on 11 January 2014, aged 80. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Keiko Awaji has received more than 63,740 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Keiko Awaji is the 5,148th most popular actor (down from 4,655th in 2019), the 1,333rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,191st in 2019) and the 100th most popular Japanese Actor.

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  • 46.86

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Keiko Awaji ranks 5,148 out of 13,578. Before her are Verna Felton, Strother Martin, Ryu Seung-ryong, Rosemary Murphy, Monte Blue, and David Jason. After her are Kaori Momoi, Dan Schneider, Julian Richings, Michelle Jenner, Kim Hyun-joong, and Asha Parekh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Keiko Awaji ranks 382. Before her are Antón García Abril, Anatoly Krutikov, Peter Härtling, Alberto Natusch, Maigonis Valdmanis, and Feridun Buğeker. After her are Pedro Cubilla, Svetlana Velmar-Janković, Barbara Feldon, George J. Mitchell, Dumitru Pârvulescu, and Levente Lengyel. Among people deceased in 2014, Keiko Awaji ranks 358. Before her are Feridun Buğeker, Sandro Lopopolo, Jean Vallée, Matthew Cowles, Mel Patton, and Rosemary Murphy. After her are Ralph Giordano, Edmund Szoka, Georgi Slavkov, Svetlana Velmar-Janković, Win Tin, and Levente Lengyel.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Keiko Awaji ranks 1,333 out of 6,245. Before her are Maria Ozawa (1986), Yuichi Nishimura (1972), Jiro Sato (1908), Fumio Gotō (1884), Noboru Terada (1917), and Kazuhiko Nishijima (1926). After her are Kaori Momoi (1951), Yukihiro Matsumoto (1965), Mana (1969), Masaharu Fukuyama (1969), Hiroshi Kaneda (1953), and Takekazu Asaka (1952).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Keiko Awaji ranks 100. Before her are Keiji Fujiwara (1964), Hitoshi Matsumoto (1963), Toshiyuki Morikawa (1967), Ken Uehara (1909), Kenyu Horiuchi (1957), and Hiromi Tsuru (1960). After her are Kaori Momoi (1951), Kikuko Inoue (1964), Shin-ichiro Miki (1968), Rokurō Naya (1932), Yoshiko Tanaka (1956), and Romi Park (1972).

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Television and Movie Roles

Stray Dog
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.
Oct 17th 19497.5 / 10
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Yuri
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 around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
Jan 15th 19608 / 10
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Kimiko
A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.
Dec 1st 19545.9 / 10