Biography: Aki Takejô

Birth Name: 竹田明子

Birth Date: April 4, 1947

Birth Place: Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

Aki Takejô, born Takeda Shinji on August 13, 1929 in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, was a Japanese actor known for his role as Old Orin in the 1983 film 'Narayama bushikô'. The movie, based on a novel by Furukawa Taimei, follows a traditional rural practice where villagers over the age of 70 must ascend...