Momoko Kōchi
Momoko Kochi (born Momoko Okouchi March 7, 1932 - November 5, 1998) was a Japanese actress. She is best known for her roles in the original Godzilla, playing the character of Emiko Yamane. Kochi later played the same role in Godzilla vs. Destoroyah in 1995. She starred in The Mysterians, playing Hiroko Iwamoto.
Kochi was discovered in 1953 in Toho's New Face Contest. By the late 1950s she found herself typecast into science fiction and horror movies. She decided to pursue formal acting. In the 1960s she was on stage doing Shakespeare. She also did occasional television commercials. She didn't act in movies again until 1995. Kochi died at age 66 in Tokyo Japan on November 5, 1998 from intestinal cancer.
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1932 births
1998 deaths
Actors from Tokyo
Japanese movie actors