Etsuko Shihomi

Etsuko Shihomi was born on Oct 29, 1956 in Japan. Etsuko Shihomi's big-screen debut came with Bodyguard Kiba directed by Ryûichi Takamori in 1973. Etsuko Shihomi is known for Yagyu Clan Conspiracy directed by Kinji Fukasaku, Kinnosuke Nakamura stars as Yagyu Tajima-no-Kami Munenori and Shin'ichi Chiba as Yagyû Jûbê. Etsuko Shihomi has got 1 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Etsuko Shihomi achieved is Yokohama Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Etsuko Shihomi plays is Otoko wa tsurai yo: Shiawase no aoi tori which will be released on Jun 01, 1987.

Shihomi Etsuko was born in the western city of Okayama in Japan. Her father worked at Japan's Mint responsible for manufacturing money. She has a younger brother. She is athletic since childhood and at junior high school was part of the track and field club. She was second in her prefecture in the Hurdle. Growing up she enjoyed the TV serial Kii Hantâ (featuring Chiba Shin'ichi) and aspired to similar feats. She would appear in several action and fantasy movies as a participant in Chiba Shinichi's Japan Action Enterprise agency alongside said actor. She had joined the club in 1972. She debuted in 1973. Her first main role came in the serial Onna Hissatsu Ken ('Sister Street Fighter') in 1974, which made her popular in her home country. She was also a singer in the seventies and eighties and the subject of several books and multiple magazine articles. She became an agent in 1985 by establishing a company called Hundred. She met Japanese singer-songwriter, and human rights' activist, Nagabuchi Tsuyoshi on the set of the comedy Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy (1986). He married her a year later. This lead her to retire so she can take care of the house and her family. Their daughter is actress Nagabuchi Ayane who was born in 1988. She has a son who is a rapper and another son who is a racing driver. Her husband was arrested for drug possession in 1995. Beginning 2001 she began participating in marathons and began writing about it a year later. She is often credited as being the first Japanese actress who performed dangerous stunts and actions in a movie.