Eiko Ando
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Eiko Ando
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Eiko Ando was a Japanese-American actress best known for her role as Okichi opposite John Wayne in The Barbarian and the Geisha in 1958. Ando was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang, in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, to a Japanese industrialist. When the Communists took over the family fled back to Japan. After her father died in 1953, she went to work as a singer and then as a burlesque dancer. When director John Huston was looking for an actress for the part of Okichi, a friend of Ando's who
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Japanese-American actress (1934–2018)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiko_Ando
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2023-05-10T10:49:33Z
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