ACTOR

Miiko Taka

1925 - 2023

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Miiko Taka (高美以子, Taka Miiko) (born Miiko Shikata July 24, 1925 – January 4, 2023) was an American actress, popular for her film and television roles from the late 1950s until the early 1980s. Her best known role was as an elegant Japanese dancer starring with Marlon Brando in the drama Sayonara. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miiko Taka has received more than 361,697 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Miiko Taka is the 5,930th most popular actor, the 8,708th most popular biography from United States and the 2,711th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 360k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Miiko Taka ranks 5,930 out of 13,578. Before her are Evan Handler, Armin Shimerman, Tony Dalton, Jessica Capshaw, Rae Dawn Chong, and Judith Barsi. After her are Patricia Tallman, Bernard Le Coq, Terry Moore, Hilarie Burton, Alice Davenport, and Tom Tryon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Miiko Taka ranks 431. Before her are Fulvio Nesti, Antonio José González Zumárraga, Ruth First, Stepas Butautas, Marty Robbins, and Yuriy Lituyev. After her are Aleksei Paramonov, Bruno Pesaola, Raja Ramanna, Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, Georges Stuber, and Barbara Bates. Among people deceased in 2023, Miiko Taka ranks 502. Before her are Steve Harwell, Hossein Shahabi, Christian Dalger, Owen Roizman, Lualhati Bautista, and Jan Mrvík. After her are James McCaffrey, Max Hardcore, Evelyn Boyd Granville, Abderrahim Ouakili, Per Røntved, and Patricia Janečková.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Miiko Taka ranks 8,708 out of 20,380. Before her are Ivan Brown (1908), Guinn Smith (1920), Carly Fiorina (1954), Jessica Capshaw (1976), Earl Derr Biggers (1884), and Judith Barsi (1978). After her are Patricia Tallman (1957), Sereno Watson (1826), Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902), Terry Moore (1929), M. King Hubbert (1903), and Machito (1912).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Miiko Taka ranks 2,711. Before her are Tully Marshall (1864), Evan Handler (1961), Armin Shimerman (1949), Tony Dalton (1975), Jessica Capshaw (1976), and Judith Barsi (1978). After her are Patricia Tallman (1957), Terry Moore (1929), Hilarie Burton (1982), Alice Davenport (1864), Tom Tryon (1926), and Katherine Moennig (1977).

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Television and Movie Roles

Sayonara
Hana-ogi
Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
Dec 25o 19576.6 / 10
Shōgun
Kiri
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
7.642 / 10
Walk Don't Run
Aiko Kurawa
During the housing shortage of the Summer Olympic Games in 1964, two men and a woman share a small apartment in Tokyo, and the older man soon starts playing Cupid to the younger pair.
Jun 29o 19666.304 / 10