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Sumiko Fuji
12/01/1945 (78 years old) | Gobo, Japan | Female
Sumiko Fuji (?? ?? Fuji Sumiko, born 1 December 1945) is a Japanese actress. The daughter of a producer at the Toei studios, she originally began acting under the name Junko Fuji (? ??), becoming famous as the female lead in yakuza films against such stars as Ken Takakura and Koji Tsuruta. She even starred in her own series as the knife-wielding gambler Red Peony (the Hibotan Bakuto or Red Peony Gambler series). Initially retiring in 1972 after getting married, she began appearing on TV in 1974 using the name Sumiko Fuji. She later returned to films and expanded her acting repertoire. She won a Blue Ribbon Award for best supporting actress in 1999 and 2006. She is married to the kabuki actor Onoe Kikugoro VII and is the mother of the actress Shinobu Terajima and the kabuki actor Onoe Kikunosuke V.Description above from the Wikipedia article Sumiko Fuji , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
