Date of birth: 1955-01-22
Place of birth: Shibecha, Hokkaidō, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Keiko Sekine, 関根恵子, 高橋恵子, Keiko Takahashi

Born in Hokkaido, 1955. In 1970, she made her acting debut in "Kōkōsei Burusu" in her original stage name Keiko Sekine. Since then, she has appeared in numerous films over a 50 year career in television, film, stage and commercials. Her hit films include "Tattoo Ari" (1982), "Hana monogatari" (1989) and "Fumiko no Umi" (2007). She has received awards including the 3rd Asahi Performing Arts Award, the Akiyama Matsushiyo Award (2004), the 62nd Mainichi Film Competition, Supporting Actress Award (2008), and the 64th Mainichi Film Competition Tanaka Kinuyo Award (2010).

2005-02-05
Set in the traditional city of Kyoto, Japan, this deeply poetic TV movie revolves around Chieko who

2000-02-11
The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.

1983-04-07
Genshiro is a famous Kenkaya of Edo. He turns up in incidents to get interfering fees but gets invol

1997-11-22
A drama about a father and his son centered around the Great Hanshin earthquake.

1971-05-05

1971-05-05

1987-04-15
A high school girl is the best in her judo club until a girl from a rival academy arrives and takes

2018-05-12
27-year-old Hatsumi Takimoto is a former teacher and now waitress. She holds a secret. Three years a

1982-06-05
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, pla

2004-02-07
Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in man

1970-12-15

1995-09-02
Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II

1973-10-27
Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoil

1989-05-11
Japanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years.

1981-05-23
A former retainer to a noble family kills his wife's father when he tries to expose his past crimes.

2007-06-23
A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a

2023-10-06
Satoru Mizushima is a designer, who prefers traditional things like handmade items and handwritten w

2013-06-15
Ippei Akabane (Takaya Kamikawa) is an unpopular novelist. He barely makes ends meet writing serials

2009-08-22
The Saigo no Kotoba book follows Kawashima's life after her mother's death, and her pursuit of her s

2009-06-01
Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must co

2009-01-10
In the early 1200s, Dogen brought Chinese Zen philosophy to Japan, and established the Japanese Zen

2007-05-12
"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku"

1993-09-11
A man fed up with city life moves to a village in the mountains

2013-05-24
Hitoshi Nagano, who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer an

1997-10-08
A hard-boiled man who lived in the world of the Yakuza, leaves everything behind in search of reveng

2023-06-21
Before going to Tokyo from her hometown of Mishima, Fukushima Prefecture, Kyoko stopped by at Tsuchi

1960-07-20
G-men of Japan fifth installment. A young detective, questioning a double suicide involving his pol

2015-08-28
Shuji Tokita (Eiji Okuda) is a film director and a professor at a university. He goes through a diff

1982-08-07
Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the

1982-04-09
Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their

1988-05-14
Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takut

1974-04-06
Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a

1975-09-06
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart a

1971-09-04
A 16-year-old girl works in a factory to pay her late father’s debt. When she makes up her mind to b

1970-12-25
Yumi Ishikawa (Mari Atsumi) is nineteen and a popular geisha. Orphaned when a child, Yumi she was ra

1998-10-17

1985-10-05
A drama depicting the conflict between a man that ran to an old lover suffering from advanced leukem

1981-08-07
Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. She waits patiently for him a

1970-08-22

1971-10-10

1970-11-12

1982-11-20
A serial rapist's violent daily routine is disrupted when a disaffected young woman who shares his p

1996-05-11

1975-02-15
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens

1982-09-11
A free-spirited girl living in a Japanese province spends her time working in a brothel and running

2011-05-21
A film about an orphan kid in Japan in 1943

1987-12-19
Comedy film.

1991-04-25
Ai is a call girl that makes good money for what she does but there’s always at risk no matter how g

2012-11-10
A woman run a store in a tiny seaside hamlet near the cliffs where people come to commit suicide.

1987-07-04
Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children.

1996-02-03
Directed by Banmei Takahashi of "New Love in Tokyo." A drama centered around identity, with a half K

1990-02-03
An old man falls into a coma and dreams about his childhood during WWII.

1981-03-28
1984-07-12
Junko's only son dies in an accident. Junko is exhausted by despair and grief, and her husband, who

2007-06-02
1996-11-15
When an explosion occurs, alcoholic bartender Kikuchi, who was wanted for a bombing 20 years ago, is

2025-07-04
On January 25th, 2024, Hiroshi Uchida, a 70-year-old man with terminal cancer made a deathbed confes

1975-07-12
Part of the Young Guy [若大将] series.

2007-10-13
A blind girl of around ten years old is not having a pleasant upbringing. She is poor, neglected, sh

2005-05-20
What would you do on the last day of your life? A nurse knows she's dying of cancer, but she hides t

1976-05-29
Shōzō, heir to a tonkatsu shop and ice hockey star, faces a series of challenges when his team’s fun