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Momoe Yamaguchi

1959 - Today

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Momoe Miura (Japanese: 三浦 百恵, Hepburn: Miura Momoe, born 17 January 1959), known by her maiden name Momoe Yamaguchi (Japanese: 山口 百恵, Hepburn: Yamaguchi Momoe), is a Japanese former singer, actress, and idol whose career lasted from 1972 to 1980. Often simply referred to by her given name "Momoe", Yamaguchi is one of the most successful singers in Japanese music, releasing 32 singles, including three number one hits, and 21 studio albums. She also starred in 15 feature films and several television serial dramas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Momoe Yamaguchi has received more than 433,091 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Momoe Yamaguchi is the 4,275th most popular actor (down from 3,632nd in 2019), the 1,212th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,070th in 2019) and the 81st most popular Japanese Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Momoe Yamaguchi ranks 4,275 out of 13,578. Before her are Arturo de Córdova, Andrei Smirnov, László Szabó, Harrison Young, Rand Brooks, and Priscilla Pointer. After her are Michael Wilding, Justin Chambers, Sanjay Dutt, Kim Nam-gil, Jason Connery, and Taina Elg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Momoe Yamaguchi ranks 228. Before her are Thomas Quasthoff, Robert Greene, Raf, Ricardo Gallego, Sting, and Stephen Roche. After her are Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Sanjay Dutt, Steven Erikson, Erwin Olaf, Glenn Hysén, and Dominique Dunne.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Momoe Yamaguchi ranks 1,212 out of 6,245. Before her are Shuntarō Tanikawa (1931), Hiroshi Kamiya (1975), Tetsuo Sugamata (1957), Hōchū Ōtsuka (1954), Kenji Miyamoto (1908), and Seigō Nakano (1886). After her are Naoemon Shimizu (null), Koji Suzuki (1957), Daisuke Gōri (1952), Hashimoto Gahō (1835), Masaaki Yuasa (1965), and Shinobu Sekine (1943).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Momoe Yamaguchi ranks 81. Before her are Banjō Ginga (1948), Tura Satana (1938), Minami Takayama (1964), Kenichi Ogata (1942), Hiroshi Kamiya (1975), and Hōchū Ōtsuka (1954). After her are Daisuke Gōri (1952), Yoshiko Kuga (1931), Kazuya Nakai (1967), Kazuo Hasegawa (1908), Rinko Kikuchi (1981), and Ichikawa Raizō VIII (1931).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Izu Dancer
Kahoru
While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by Kaoru, a pretty young dancer in a troupe of travelling performers, and he tags along with them on their journeys.
Dec 28o 19748 / 10
Sweet Revenge
Kiriko Yanagida
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.
Dec 17o 19776.6 / 10
Temptation of Angel
Keiko Sano
A story of the everyday life of a couple living together, ordinary but full of warmth and love. Starring Miura and Yamaguchi's first movie since making public of their romance--their real-life story on the screen.
Dec 22o 19795.3 / 10