Aki Takejô
Birth Name: Aki Takejo
Birth Date: 1947-04-04
Birth Place: Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
Details
Alternate Names: Aki Takejo, あき たけじょう, あき竹城, Akiko Takeda
Physical Characteristics: N/A
Career
First Appearances: - Beauty Wandering Story (1977) as
Most Important Roles: - The Ballad of Narayama (1983) as Tamayan
- Mr. Hacchaki's Tokyo Game (1987) as
- The Fighting Rascal (1979) as
- Demon (1985) as Tora
- The Great Department Store Robbery (1987) as
- Children on the Island (1987) as Shopkeep
- Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio (2004) as
- Iden & Tity (2003) as
- Kewaishi (2002) as
- Beauty Wandering Story (1977) as
Career Highlights: - The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
- Mr. Hacchaki's Tokyo Game (1987)
- The Fighting Rascal (1979)
- Demon (1985)
- The Great Department Store Robbery (1987)
- Children on the Island (1987)
- Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio (2004)
- Iden & Tity (2003)
- Kewaishi (2002)
- Beauty Wandering Story (1977)
Full Biography
Aki Takejô, born Takeda Shinji on August 13, 1929 in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, was a Japanese actor known for his role as Old Orin in the 1983 film 'Narayama bushikô'. The movie, based on a novel by Furukawa Taimei, follows a traditional rural practice where villagers over the age of 70 must ascend a mountain to await death. Takejô's character, Orin, is an elderly woman who is preparing for her turn to follow this custom.
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