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倍賞千恵子
(Chieko Baisho)
Chieko Baisho (born June 29, 1941 in Tokyo) is a leading Japanese actress,
singer, and voice actress. She first came to prominence when she joined the
Shochiku Revue, and made her debut in 1961 in a Shochiku film; she starred in
the 1963 film "The Sun of Downtown," for which she won the Japan Record Award
for Best Newcomer. Since then, she has been a regular actress in Yoji Yamada's
films, especially as Kuruma Sakura in the "Otoko wa Tsuraiyo" series, which made
her popular among the public. In 2004, she voiced the heroine in Hayao
Miyazaki's animated film "Howl's Moving Castle,"...
