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Eiko Ando is a Actor Japonaise born on 8 may 1934 at Harbin (Chine)
Eiko Ando (born May 8, 1934; first name pronounced "Ay - eeko") was a Japanese actress best known for appearing opposite John Wayne in The Barbarian and the Geisha in 1958.
Ando was born in Harbin, in the Heilongjiang Province of Northeast China, 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. At the time of filming for The Barbarian and the Geisha she was 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m) and weighed 115 pounds (52 kg). When director John Huston was looking for an actress for the part of Okichi, a friend of Ando's who worked in the Tokyo office of 20th Century-Fox recommended Ando to Huston. Once Huston saw her, after auditioning 33 other actresses, he and producer Eugene Frenke were done looking, mainly because of her height over the other women.
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Ando was born in Harbin, in the Heilongjiang Province of Northeast China, 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. At the time of filming for The Barbarian and the Geisha she was 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m) and weighed 115 pounds (52 kg). When director John Huston was looking for an actress for the part of Okichi, a friend of Ando's who worked in the Tokyo office of 20th Century-Fox recommended Ando to Huston. Once Huston saw her, after auditioning 33 other actresses, he and producer Eugene Frenke were done looking, mainly because of her height over the other women.
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The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958)
, 1h45Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Children's films
Actors John Wayne, Eiko Ando, Sam Jaffe, Sō Yamamura
Roles Okichi
Rating57%
In 1856, Townsend Harris (John Wayne) is sent by President Pierce to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to Japan, following the treaty written by Commodore Matthew Perry. Accompanied only by his translator-secretary, Huesken (Jaffe), comes ashore at the town of Shimoda, as specified in the treaty as the location for an American consulate.