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Kaori Momoi (桃井 かおり, Momoi Kaori, born 8 April 1951) is a Japanese actress. Life and career. Momoi was born in Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 12, she traveled to London to study dance at the Royal Ballet Academy. After three years, she returned to Tokyo. She graduated from Japan's Bungakuza School of Dramatic Arts.
Kaori Momoi. Actress: Memoirs of a Geisha. This unique actress was born in 1952 in Tokyo. She is the daughter of a professor of international politics and a jewel designer. She began studying ballet at young age and attended the British Royal Academy of Dance for 3 years from the age of 12.
Kaori Momoi first caught the eye of American audiences with her portrayal of the shrewd, calculating geisha-house mother in Rob Marshall’s ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’. For her dry, mischievous portrayal of the geisha matron, Paper magazine dubbed Momoi ‘mother dearest’- alluding to the sheer entertainment value she brought to this character ...
Kaori Momoi (桃井 かおり, Momoi Kaori, born April 8, 1952 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress. Momoi was born in Tokyo, and at the young age of 12 traveled to London to study dance at the Royal Ballet Academy.
Kaori Momoi. Actress: Memoirs of a Geisha. This unique actress was born in 1952 in Tokyo. She is the daughter of a professor of international politics and a jewel designer. She began studying ballet at young age and attended the British Royal Academy of Dance for 3 years from the age of 12.
Who is Kaori Momoi? Actress Kaori Momoi knows how to get under the skin of her characters. In a career spanning four decades, and working with many prestigious Japanese directors from both the old guard (Akira Kurosawa, Kon Ichikawa, Yoji Yamada) and the new (Shunji Iwai, Koki Mitani, Takashi Miike), Momoi has distinguished herself as an ...
Yukie, Koichi and Akira are rogues looking for a place to crash. They move into a house which Etsuko (Kaori Momoi) inherited from her parents. Soon after getting settled, the hippies slip into a communal lifestyle. They eat, have sex, and generally share everything together.
