Biography
Meiko Kaji is a Japanese actress and singer. With over 100 film and television credits since the 1960s, her most prolific period was the 1970s, when she achieved fame for her starring roles as outlaws and vengeful women in the film series Stray Cat Rock, Wandering Ginza Butterfly, Female Prisoner Scorpion and Lady Snowblood. Kaji also performed as a singer, releasing records concurrently with her film career and beyond, often performing the theme songs for the films in which she starred.
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Awards & recognition
- Blue Ribbon Awards — Best Actress · 1979
- Mainichi Film Award — Best Actress
Filmography21 titles
Romantics Anonymous
Jeans Blues: No Future
Under the Open Sky
Lady Snowblood
Yu Yu Hakusho
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
Hiroshima Death Match
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
Modern Love Tokyo
Lone Wolf & Child: Assassin on the Road to Hell
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
Wandering Ginza Butterfly
Yakuza Graveyard
Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal
Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song
Retaliation
Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo
Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71