Keiko Awaji died.
Movie network news Keiko Awaji, a veteran Japanese actress who appeared in classic works such as Kurosawa and series, died of esophageal cancer on January 11th at the age of 80. On the 12th, according to Awaji’s doctor’s advice, her ashes were placed in Kamakura Cemetery in Kanagawa Prefecture, which is the place where Awaji’s late ex-husband Yorozuya Kinnosuke died in 1997. Although her husband had divorced her because of an affair before her death, she still loved her husband. She had bought a cemetery before her death and buried it with her ex-husband.
Keiko Awaji family relationship diagram
According to Hideo Nagano of Awaji, the cemetery is my mother’s will "I don’t want to be lonely", so I chose to put the ashes with my ex-husband. Awaji’s marriage with her ex-husband Kinnosuke lasted for 22 years. In 1982, Kinnosuke fell ill after being declared bankrupt due to debts of 600 million yen, and Awaji shouldered the heavy responsibility of paying off her husband’s debts, but Kinnosuke had an affair during this period, and the two divorced in 1987.
Hideo Nagano, Keiko Awaji
They carried out Keiko Awaji’s coffin.
Awaji had two marriages, but both ended in failure. Not only did her marriage fail, but her two sons also died one after another, and life was very bumpy. The third son of Awaji and his ex-husband Kinnosuke, Ogawa Hiroshi, died in a traffic accident in 1990 at the age of 22. The fourth son, Yoshimitsu Wanwu (real name: Tetsushi Jingtian), committed suicide in 2010 at the age of 36.
Awaji’s family will hold an all-night wake for him on January 21st, 2014, and hold a funeral farewell ceremony on the 22nd.