Atsuko Asano

Birthday: March 4, 1961 in Tokyo, Japan

Height: 163 cm

Asano Atsuko, not to be confused by the writer of the same name, was born in Adachi in Northern Tokyo. Her parent ran a soba noodle restaurant. She auditioned for a remake called Eden No Umi at age fi ...Show More

Asano Atsuko, not to be confused by the writer of the same name, was born in Adachi in Northern Tokyo. Her parent ran a soba noodle restaurant. She auditioned for a remake called Eden No Umi at age fifteen and obtained a minor role. She had a credited role for the movie Fumiko To Hatsu the next year where she appeared nude. She delighted the male audience by also being naked in Play it, Boogie-Woogie. She quickly began acting in feature films and by 1983 had won a Best Supporting Actress Award from the Japan Academy Prize for Yokiroh. The 101st Proposal was a 1991 romantic serial, which was popular and may have heralded her peak fame. This side of the century, and since 2003, she began book reading and narrating Japanese folklore ('Kojiki' - oldest surviving chronicle in Japan) at various shrines and became an honourary professor at Tokyo's Kokugakuin University. She married writer Uozumi Tsutomu in 1983 and gave birth to a son in 1984. The son, Ouzumi Yu, is an NHK announcer. Like all Japanese celebrities she has endorsed a dozen corporate products. She is represented by Ikushima Kikaku Shitsu. Hide