Akemi Negishi
Acting Born Mar 26, 1934 Tokyo, Japan 24 credits
Biography
Akemi Negishi (根岸明美 Negishi Akemi, b. 26 March 1934, Tokyo, Japan - died 11 March 2008 (73), Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan) was a Japanese actress.
In 1953, when Josef von Sternberg made a film adaptation of the Queen of Anatahan incident, she was discovered at an audition and made her debut in the lead role in Anatahan. Since then, she has been active mainly in film and television. She gained popularity as an actress with a bewitching charm who "could act as well." Ishirō Honda said that Negishi's unique aura suited his films.
She died of ovarian cancer at a hospital in Kawasaki City on March 11, 2008. She was 73 years old.
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Full filmography
- Lady Karuizawa (1982) as Yôko Ayukawa
- Female Yakuza Tale (1973) as Osada
- Sex and Fury (1973) as Ogin Shitateya
- Red Beard (1965) as Okuni
- King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) as Chikiro's Mother
- Lady Snowblood (1973) as Tajire no Okiku
- Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972) as Otsuka
- King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963) as Chikiro's Mother (Dancing Girl) (uncredited)
- Distant Thunder (1981) as Mother of Hirotsugu
- Dodes'ka-den (1970) as Good-Looking Housewife
- Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song (1973) as Prison Guard Minamimura
- Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly (1979)
- The Makioka Sisters (1983) as Mrs. Shimozuma
- The Lower Depths (1957) as Osen the Prostitute
- I Live in Fear (1955) as Asako Kuribayashi
- Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman (1957) as The Mountain Girl
- Beast Man Snow Man (1955) as Chika
- A Wife's Heart (1956) as Sumiko
- The Strangling (1979)
- No More Easy Life (1979) as Mariko's Mother
- Anatahan (1953) as Keiko Kusakabe
- Sudden Rain (1956) as Hinako (Nenkichi's wife)
- Snake Woman's Curse (1968) as Masae Ônuma , Landlord's Wife
- Play It Cool (1970) as Tomi