Kiyoko Tange
Birthday: 1920-01-02 Place of Birth:
Synopsis
Kiyoko Tange (丹下キヨ子) was born on January 2, 1920 in Tokyo, Japan as Kiyoko Koyama. She was an actress, known for Shiosai (1975), Musume jûroku jazz matsuri (1954) and Gyûnyû ya Furankî (1956). She died on May 7, 1998.
Acting
Dodes'ka-den
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by working with a group of itinerant camellia oil peddlers. While she is In Izu selling camellia oil, she meets a young student, Katō Yutaka, who asks her to let him take her picture. The peddlers also meet a jazz band, and when Midori sings a song, teased by the band's star singer Nanjō Haruo, the band members are enraptured by her beautiful voice. She eventually joins the band and quickly becomes a popular jazz singer.
