was a

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dancer.

Biography

Eiko Minami was born in Hiroshima Prefecture. She joined the

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Gakugekibu theater revue shortly after its founding in 1922 as one of its first dancers. While at Shōchiku she studied dance under the famous Russian ballerina

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. Throughout her career she was active mainly on stage, though she made 2 film appearances in her life. Her best known role was that of a dancer in a mental hospital in

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's 1926

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classic '' A Page of Madness''. Her second and final film appearance was in the 1927 film ''Tabigeinin'', directed by

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and Yasunaga Higashibōjō. ''Tabigeinin'' is now

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and it is unknown what role she played in the film. After her film career, Minami taught and choreographed dancers for movies at the

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film studios and also taught dance at Nihon Eiga Haiyū Gakkō, a pre-war acting school founded in 1923 by theater director Biyō Minaguchi (水口薇陽). Minami later opened the Minami Buyō Kenkyūsho, her own dance school where she taught students.

Filmography

* '' A Page of Madness'' (1926) - Dancer * ''Tabigeinin'' (1927)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Minami, Eiko 1909 births Year of death unknown Japanese female dancers Japanese choreographers Actors from Hiroshima Prefecture 20th-century Japanese actresses Japanese silent film actresses