Kimiko Ikegami - Filmography

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.

Filmography

Kumokiri Nizaemon 1995

Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict 1993

Nemuri Kyôshirô 2: Conspiracy in Edo Castle 1993

Takeda Shingen 1991

The Great Shogunate Battle 1991

Takeda Shingen 1988

Byakkotai 1986

Danjoshichi Natsu Monogatari 1986

Dangerous Women 1985

Make-Up 1984

Tokugawa Ieyasu 1983

The Geisha 1983

Rennyo and His Mother 1981

The Man Who Stole the Sun 1979

Winter's Flower 1978

House 1977

Brother and Sister 1976

Let's Go, Grandma! 1975

Hadashi no seishun 1975