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Actor Born: March 7, 1932 in Tokyo, Japan Death: November 5, 1998 in Tokyo, Japan Biography:"Momoko Kochi"'s see-saw film career saw her become one of the most visible movie actresses in Japan, only to find herself typecast and her career stalled at the age of 30; yet, thanks to her appearance in "Gojira" and its American-edited version, "Godzilla, King of the Monsters", she was perhaps the Japanese actress best known to audiences around the world.
Born Momoko Okouchi in Tokyo in 1932, she was discovered in a 1953 talent contest run by Toho Films and signed to a contract with the studio. (Her "Gojira" co-star "Akira Takarada" was discovered in the same competition.) Kochi's first film, A Woman's Heart Released, was released that same year, and in 1954 she worked in a movie directed by "Kajiro Yamamoto", one of Toho Studios' veteran filmmakers, but it was her other film that year that defined Kochi's screen career for the rest of her life. Yamamoto's protégé "Ishiro Honda" was making a... Full Biography
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