was a Japanese

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Biography

Eiko Minami was born in

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. She joined the Shōchiku 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 Teinosuke Kinugasa's 1926 avant-garde classic ''

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''. Her second and final film appearance was in the 1927 film ''Tabigeinin'', directed by Yutaka Abe and Yasunaga Higashibōjō. ''Tabigeinin'' is now lost and it is unknown what role she played in the film. After her film career, Minami taught and choreographed dancers for movies at the Nikkatsu 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

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'' (1926) - Dancer * ''Tabigeinin'' (1927)

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* * {{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