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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	Bimbo Danao Yorozuya Kinnosuke
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.

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. She was married twice, to Filipino actor Bimbo Danao and to Japanese actor Yorozuya Kinnosuke.

Selected filmography

References

1. ^ "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.

External links

• Keiko Awaji at IMDb
• AllCinema database (in Japanese)
• Yahoo talent profile (in Japanese)

• Japanese film actresses
• 1933 births
• 2014 deaths
• Deaths from esophageal cancer in Japan
• Actresses from Tokyo
• 20th-century Japanese actresses
• 21st-century Japanese actresses