Keiko Takahashi

Keiko Takahashi was born January 22, 1955, in Shibecha, Hokkaido, and debuted in the 1970 film High School Student Blues while still a teenager. Her second picture, Osana-zuma, brought her the Golden Arrow Award for Newcomer of the Year, and the Elan d'or Newcomer Award followed in 1972. She worked then under her birth name, Keiko Sekine, taking her present name after marrying the director Banmei Takahashi in 1982. What impresses me is not the speed of the start but the fact that she survived it. Japanese cinema of that era made stars of very young women in ways that consumed most of them within a few years, and the standard ending is disappearance. Takahashi instead kept working, and in 2010 received the Kinuyo Tanaka Award, an honor that only reaches performers who have sustained a serious body of work over decades. She spent fifty years converting adolescent notoriety into a genuine acting career. That conversion is the achievement.

Name (English)

Keiko Takahashi

Name (Japanese)

高橋惠子

Reading

たかはし けいこ

Born

January 22, 1955 (age 71)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Goat

Origin

Shibecha, Hokkaidō, Japan

Height

162 cm

Occupation

actor / erotic photography model / nude model / pornographic actor

Awards & achievements

• 1972 Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year
• 2010 Kinuyo Tanaka Award
• Golden Arrow Award

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiko%20Takahashi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AB%98%E6%A9%8B%E6%83%A0%E5%AD%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3544206

Tags

• Hokkaidō
• actor
• erotic photography model
• nude model

Last updated

2026-08-07

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