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Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1959-01-16

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Kimiko Ikegami

Biography

Kimiko Ikegami (born January 16, 1959) is a Japanese actress. Born in Manhattan, New York City, she moved to Kyoto at age 3. Kimiko graduated from Horikoshi High School in Nakano, Tokyo and subsequently attended Tamagawa University. She is closely related to the Bandō Mitsugorō kabuki actors: her grandfather was the eighth, her uncle the ninth (later Bandō Minosuke VII), her cousin (Bandō Yasosuke V) the tenth to take that name. With the encouragement of that cousin, Kimiko turned to acting. Ikegami is best known for playing the lead role of Gorgeous in the 1977 film House.

Known for

Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game

Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game

After participating to a previous show where they have to bet or be challenged to any kind of competitions, the losing members of the Gaki no Tsukai are selected to spend 24 hours in a setting which they have no knowledge of the theme nor the course of the events. They are exposed to various absurd and crazy situations nonstop for 24 hours and must refrain from laughing. If they do so, hang-men appear and hit the rule breakers with a weapon (the weapon varies every year).

Takeda Shingen

Takeda Shingen

There was a very turbulent time in the warring period in the history, and Takeda Shingen is consider one of the great warlord among many other.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tokugawa Ieyasu

The story chronicles the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

House

House

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

Mission To Kill

Mission To Kill

Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. The franchise came back in 2007 with a one-shot special, but this is its first full season since 1992. Makoto Fujita returns as the protagonist Nakamura Mondo, one of the "shigotonin," a team of hired assassins.

水曜ドラマ 宮本武蔵

水曜ドラマ 宮本武蔵

Netchū Jidai

Netchū Jidai

This light-hearted comedy tells the story of a young man who chooses to become a teacher and struggles to live and grow in the field of education.

突然の明日

突然の明日

Last Serenade

Last Serenade

This drama is about the lives of the men and the woman for more than fifty years. It shows how people's lives go. The two men love the same woman since they were children. Their love and hate continue till the end of their lives

狩矢警部シリーズ 特別編「京舞妓VS狩矢警部〜乱れ傘の舞殺人事件」

狩矢警部シリーズ 特別編「京舞妓VS狩矢警部〜乱れ傘の舞殺人事件」

新幹線物語'93夏

新幹線物語'93夏

Byakkotai

Byakkotai

Byakkotai was part of Aizu's four-unit military, set up in the domain's drive to finalize its military modernization, in the wake of the Battle of Toba-Fushimi. The other three units were Genbutai, Seiryūtai, and Suzakutai. Each of the four was named after the protecting gods of compass directions. Byakkotai was meant to be a reserve unit, as it was composed of the young teenage 16 to 17 year old sons of Aizu samurai in a group around 350, who fought in the Boshin War (1868–1869)

The Man Who Stole the Sun

The Man Who Stole the Sun

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.

Kumokiri Nizaemon

Kumokiri Nizaemon

A Japanese television jidaigeki that was broadcast in prime-time in 1995 on Fuji TV. It is based on Shōtarō Ikenami's novel of the same title and stars Tsutomu Yamazaki. In the Kyōhō period, there was a group of bandits called Kumokiri from the people of Edo. Tokugawa shogunate appoints Abe Shikibu a head post of the Hitsuke Tōzoku Aratamegata to arrest Kumokiri clan.

The Bride of the Ghost Lake

The Bride of the Ghost Lake

Inspector Uno and college student Yuko Nagai investigate another strange mystery.