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Kyōko Enami
Born: 15th Oct 1942 Tokyo, Japan - Died 27th Oct 2018
Dept: Acting
Kyōko Enami (江波 杏子, Enami Kyōko) was a Japanese film and television actress. Enami was the daughter of the actress Kazuko Enami. She joined the Daiei Film studio in 1959 and made her screen debut in 1960 with Ashita kara otona da. Her first starring role as Noboriryū no Ogin in Onna no toba (1966) was a major hit, and developed into the Woman Gambler series that totaled 17 films. She also had serious roles, and won the best actress award from Kinema Junpo for Tsugaru Jongarabushi (1973). She died rather suddenly at a Tokyo hospital on 27 October 2018 of pulmonary emphysema, having performed on a radio drama only five days before.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 150
Film: 126 (84%)
Television: 24 (16%)
Remaining genres not in graph: War, Adventure, Documentary, TV Movie, Action & Adventure, Music
Filmography
Jun 2018 (first aired)
There was a time when Japan’s housing projects, or “danchi,” were the dream homes of the masses. They produced a culture of residency unique to ... view
Character:
Kayoko Azuma (8 ep.)
Original title: 娼年
2018
Ryo Morinaka is a university student and works part-time at a bar. He is bored with his daily life and exists in a state of torpor. One day, his frien ... view
Character:
Old Woman
Oct 2016 (first aired)
Yuri Ishikawa and her team try to crack unresolved cold cases in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: ドクター彦次郎２～塀の中から来た名医！
2016
One day, Hikojiro goes to visit Sayo Kujo, an old lady who has been hospitalized. Sayo has been told that she has a year to live by assistant professo ... view
Character:
Sayo Kujo
Feb 2016 (first aired)
Mai Yururi decides to get rid of her old books, memorabilia, furniture and clothes. Everything around her room, except the basic necessities. Her frie ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (6 ep.)
Original title: 検事の死命
2016
Hirotoshi Honda, a teacher of a prestigious private girl’s high school, is arrested on suspicion of violating the nuisance prevention ordinance for ... view
Character:
Original title: スペシャリスト4
2015
Yoshito (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) becomes famous in Kyoto because of his ability to solve cases. The special investigation unit receives a request to invest ... view
Character:
Sae Anekoji
Original title: スペシャリスト3
2015
Shu Kubota is killed by someone with a baseball bat. A metal bat and an old toy are found at the crime scene. Detective Yoshito (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) w ... view
Character:
Sae Anekoji
Jan 2015 (first aired)
The series depicts "Kyoto as Kyoto people love it" in dramas and documentaries. ... view
Character:
松陰タエ (3 ep.)
Original title: ぶどうのなみだ
2014
Two brothers work at a small winery in Hokkaido in northern Japan. The older brother is picky and strives for the highest quality to make the best win ... view
Character:
Erika's Mother
Original title: スペシャリスト2
2014
A mysterious code written with letters and numbers is found on a street in Kyoto. Yoshito Takuma (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and Chinami Anekoji (Kaho Minami) ... view
Character:
Sae Anekoji
Original title: 地獄でなぜ悪い
2013
In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie. ... view
Character:
Mrs. Ootani
Original title: スペシャリスト
2013
Kusanagi plays a police detective who gets framed for a crime he didn't commit and had to spend the last 10 years in prison. However, he regains his j ... view
Character:
Sae Anekoji
Original title: 桜、ふたたびの加奈子
2013
Although the situation is universal, Japanese mourning rituals are given solid coverage. The 49th day after death is considered crucial, as the date a ... view
Character:
Jan 2013 (first aired)
Hako was senteced to 7 years in prison on a robbery charge for the host she loved. Ayaka killed her husband to protect their son from domestic violenc ... view
Character:
Sachiko Iikura (10 ep.)
Original title: 映画版桜蘭高校ホスト部
2012
Ouran Academy is a prestigious school with most students coming from wealthy families. One of the few students who comes from a modest background is H ... view
Character:
Shizue
Jan 2011 (first aired)
"Fuyu no Sakura" is described as a pure love story with similarities to the popular Korean drama "Winter Sonata" (titled "Fuyu no Sonata" in Japan). K ... view
Character:
Ishikawa Shoko (9 ep.)
Original title: 相棒 -劇場版Ⅱ- 警視庁占拠！特命係の一番長い夜
2010
The kidnapping of some chiefs of police by a rogue ex-policeman is just the beginning for a much much bigger story that it seems at first sight. ... view
Character:
Lee
Original title: 行きずりの街
2010
Former high school teacher Kazuo Hatano (Toru Nakamura) reunites 12 years later with Masako Tezuka (Manami Konishi). Masako Tezuka was his former high ... view
Character:
Eiko Tezuka
Original title: 食堂かたつむり
2010
After a bad breakup, a young woman returns to her hometown and opens a menuless restaurant. A young woman in her mid 20's becomes so heart broken she ... view
Character:
Mistress
Original title: 吉祥天女
2007
A story about Sayoko Kano, a junior high school student, who is believed to be a descendent of an Indian goddess. Sayoko is a kind of femme fatale, wh ... view
Character:
Original title: 大奥
2006
The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is only four years old. The power vacuum this creates h ... view
Character:
Kikuo
Original title: 世にも奇妙な物語 ～2006秋の特別編～
2006
***Kyouko-san (Miss Kyouko)
A young therapist at a hospital investigates when a spirit appears and kills people who say "Kyouko-san, Kyouko-san, plea ... view
Character:
院長（鏡子さん）
Apr 2004 (first aired)
Takako Mamiya is a lawyer who quits her job at a prestigious law firm and establishes her own office. She confidently sets out to build her business, ... view
Character:
Fumiko Kitao (1 ep.)
Nov 2003 (first aired)
Kishida Shinichi, a freelance writer, has an annual income of only 2 million yen. He meets Obayashi Rikako, a fashionable business woman who makes 60 ... view
Character:
Obayashi Rie (16 ep.)
Jul 2003 (first aired)
A high school student’s mother passes away leaving her alone with her grief. The girl, Marimo, discovers the name of a father she never knew. Marimo ... view
Character:
Tamami Terasawa (10 ep.)
2002
This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politician, Kim Dae-Jung. ... view
Character:
Kab-Soos Mutter
Apr 2002 (first aired)
Newly graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko an idealistic teacher who entered Shirokin High to be a math teacher. Having high hopes for her students, her world tu ... view
Character:
Ryoko Akagi (11 ep.)
Original title: 極道の妻たち 地獄の道づれ
2001
When her husband is betrayed by his fellow yakuza and jailed, his wife takes over and fights to prevent his expulsion from the clan. 14th installment ... view
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Oct 2000 (first aired)
Someone has been stealing money within the company and the fingers are pointing to seven beautiful secretaries. Each who look so pure (well some of th ... view
Character:
Shingyoji (11 ep.)
Jan 2000 (first aired)
Imai Miki plays Midori, a fashion industry executive who is dedicated to her job but beginning to wonder if she is not missing something in life. Comp ... view
Character:
Hyuuga Yoko (11 ep.)
Original title: 白痴
1999
In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only building left standing is known as the Media Station, a b ... view
Character:
The Tailor's Wife
Jan 1999 (first aired)
After a car accident kills both her parents, the 16-year-old Ayumi (Fukada) and her brother are adopted by their aunt and uncle respectively. Their ni ... view
Character:
Takahara Chizuko (11 ep.)
Original title: 集団左遷
1994
In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are ... view
Character:
Fumiyo Takasugi
Original title: ナースコール
1993
Igarashi Kozue, a nurse at a Tokyo university hospital, feels bored with her job despite her experience. Yamazaki Natsumi, a younger nurse, is enthusi ... view
Character:
Matsuko Ogasawara, Head nurse
Original title: 町奉行日記
1992
In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or ... view
Character:
Original title: 豪姫
1992
Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit su ... view
Character:
Towa
Original title: 本当にあった怖い話 呪死霊
1992
This is a series of three short supernatural-themed movies. The first tells the story of a teen girl who dreams of haunted doll. In the second movie, ... view
Character:
Apr 1991 (first aired)
Miyuki works in a bank with Sayuri and Takuya. Sayuri and Takuya plot to get the money each of them needs. Miyuki is violently hurt by their scheme an ... view
Character:
Saijo Yasuyo (12 ep.)
Original title: 利休
1989
Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes ... view
Character:
Original title: 悲しい色やねん
1988
Despite his efforts of living a normal life as a banker, the life of Toru, the only son of the Yubari Family, becomes disrupted by trouble brought on ... view
Character:
Original title: ドグラ・マグラ
1988
A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious d ... view
Character:
Yayoko Kure
Character:
Kiku Akimoto
Character:
Okera no Roku
1985
A man who lost his wife and a woman whose husband died have a fateful meeting in connection with a double suicide and fall madly in love. ... view
Character:
Asami
Original title: すけべ姉妹
1985
Although the two sisters are flesh and blood, they are women after all. This is a film that depicts the woman's conflict between love and sexuality wi ... view
Character:
Original title: 愛しき日々よ
1984
The film depicts the life of a man who works at a crematorium he inherited from his father. An adaptation of Yoshiko Shigekane's novel Smoke of Mounta ... view
Character:
Nui Hiroi
Original title: 二人の女
1983
After Emiko, a bookstore owner, is driven to suicide by loan sharks, her orphaned son Eisuke decides to take his revenge on them. As Eisuke has no rel ... view
Character:
Keiko Yazawa
Original title: おんな牢秘抄
1983
After being falsely charged with murdering her husband, Nao is sent to a prison for women where her fellow inmates try to help her escape. ... view
Character:
Original title: 遠野物語
1982
Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous for ... view
Character:
Original title: 太陽のきずあと
1981
In a night painted with raw, incendiary desire, the story follows Shuhei as he slips from a morbid funeral into a world pulsing with illicit passions. ... view
Character:
Shuhei's Mother
Jan 1981 (first aired)
After 2 years of completely isolation in mountains, Musashi comes back in order to live a normal life. However, after his duel against Kojiro Sasaki h ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Character:
Original title: 日本の黒幕
1979
Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confusion. But he's not going down without a fight. ... view
Character:
Original title: 真田幸村の謀略
1979
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu. ... view
Character:
Original title: 赤穂城断絶
1978
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the reve ... view
Character:
Ukibashi
Original title: 悲愁物語
1977
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity. ... view
Character:
Kayo Senbou
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 横浜暗黒街 マシンガンの竜
1976
Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun and a gang of hoodlums, he must face the yakuza and ... view
Character:
Original title: 再会
1975
Ken's older sister Yoko, who has raised Ken like a mother, decides to move to Brazil with an older man. ... view
Character:
Yoko
Character:
Oshino
Jan 1974 (first aired)
Set in the Edo period, Kanou Toshu studied medicine in Nagasaki and lives on the outskirts of Senju-juku . He is also a master of the Mugai Ryu sword ... view
Character:
稲妻のお蘭 (131 ep.)
Original title: 津軽じょんがら節
1973
A young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother plays a lament on a shamisen. Then the focus changes to ... view
Character:
Isako Nakazato
Sep 1973 (first aired)
Edo wo Kiru (江戸を斬る) was a popular jidaigeki on Japan's TBS. It lasted through eight series, with several casts and settings. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 木枯し紋次郎
1972
Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend committed so that he can stay with his dying mother ... view
Character:
Oyu (Yuu-san)
Original title: 昭和おんな博徒
1972
Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betrayed her, and destroying her family and her life. W ... view
Character:
Original title: 出所祝い
1971
After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with t ... view
Character:
Oyu
Original title: 二人だけの朝
1971
While Keisuke and Jiro were brothers, the characters of the two were opposite. My older brother Keisuke was a sophomore college graduate, a honest and ... view
Character:
Original title: 新女賭博師 壷ぐれ肌
1971
The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law. ... view
Character:
Ogin
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Original title: 女殺し屋 牝犬
1969
A beautiful hostess of a small restaurant moonlights as a well-trained assassin tasked with taking the life of a wealthy businessman... ... view
Character:
Kayo Fukuzawa
Character:
Original title: 女賭博師さいころ化粧
1969
Twelfth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ... view
Character:
Ogin
Original title: 女賭博師みだれ壷
1968
Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ... view
Character:
Ogin
Original title: 女賭博師奥ノ院開帳
1968
Tenth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ... view
Character:
Ogin
Original title: 女賭博師尼寺開帳
1968
Eighth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ... view
Character:
Ogin
Original title: 女賭博師鉄火場破り
1968
Seventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ... view
Character:
Ogin
Original title: 女賭博師絶縁状
1968
Ninth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ... view
Character:
Ogin
Original title: 女賭博師乗り込む
1968
Sixth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ... view
Character:
Ogin
Original title: 関東女賭博師
1968
Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ... view
Character:
Ogin
Original title: 三匹の女賭博師
1967
Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ... view
Character:
Ogin
Original title: 女賭場荒し
1967
Third film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ... view
Character:
Ogin
Original title: 女賭博師
1967
Second film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
In a fierce gam ... view
Character:
Ogin
Original title: 早射ち犬
1967
Quick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the eighth film in the Inu series. ... view
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Original title: 妻二人
1967
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexu ... view
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1967
American re-edit of Gamera vs. Barugon (1966) - Gammera battles for the fate of Japan with the powerful Barugon, a huge lizard-like monster that can ... view
Character:
Karen
Original title: 女の賭場
1966
Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin, ... view
Character:
Ogin
Character:
Carmen Oharu
Original title: 大怪獣決闘 ガメラ対バルゴン
1966
Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discove ... view
Character:
Karen
Original title: 不倫
1965
A young man is determined to have as many affairs as possible but not to get married. One of his conquests is of a different mind however. For she is ... view
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Original title: 帯をとく夏子
1965
"Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the president of a shipbuilding company. When he is about to re-ma ... view
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Character:
Character:
Mayumi Shibata
Original title: 悶え
1964
This unique melodrama depicts the anguish of a new wife whose husband confesses to her his infertility on their wedding night. The virgin wife, who sp ... view
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Original title: 「女の小箱」より夫が見た
1964
Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's hus ... view
Character:
Emi Aoyama
Original title: 犯罪作戦No.1
1963
A detective investigates a criminal organization's involvement in real estate. ... view
Character:
Original title: 黒の商標
1963
Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals tha ... view
Character:
Junko Hamanaka
Original title: 女が愛して憎むとき
1963
Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a sec ... view
Character:
Nobuko
Original title: わたしを深く埋めて
1963
A suspense directed by Umetsugu Inoue, starring Ayako Wakao, depicting the intense lust created by the passion of a writhing woman. ... view
Character:
Megumi Tokumaru
Original title: 嘘
1963
Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (K ... view
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Original title: その夜は忘れない
1962
Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotte ... view
Character:
Original title: 鯨神
1962
A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it. ... view
Character:
Character:
Masumi Domoto
Character:
Naoko Yamamura
Original title: 女は二度生まれる
1961
A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as ... view
Character:
Yamawaki Satoko
Original title: 風と雲と砦
1961
During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Takeda Shingen's forces overran their castle. When th ... view
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Character:
Mikoto Fuji
Original title: 銀座っ子物語
1961
The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met ... view
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Original title: おとうと
1960
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a ... view
Character:
Nurse Miyata
Original title: 顔
1960
A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son. ... view
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Original title: 誰よりも君を愛す
1960
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo. ... view
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Original title: 足にさわった女
1960
Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the story a ... view
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Original title: 街の噂も三十五日
1960
A bride suddenly disappears from the wedding venue, and her boyfriend begins searching for her. Things get hectic around the two of them. ... view
Character:
Lady C
