Eiko Minami

Eiko Minami
File:Eiko Minami 1931 1.jpg Autographed photo, 1931
Born	Sakae Gosha (1909-02-20)February 20, 1909 Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Died	Unknown
Occupation	Dancer, actress

Eiko Minami (南 栄子, Minami Eiko, February 20, 1909 - date of death unknown) was a Japanese dancer.

Biography

Eiko Minami was born Sakae Gosha (五社 栄, Gosha Sakae) in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture. She joined the Shōchiku Gakugekibu theater revue in Asakusa shortly after its founding in 1922 as one of its first dancers. While at Shōchiku she studied dance under the famous Russian ballerina Xenia Makletzova. Throughout her career she was active mainly on stage, performing dance recitals in many venues around Japan, 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 A Page of Madness. 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). In 1934, she opened the Minami Buyō Kenkyūsho, her own dance school where she taught students. In 1939, she changed her stage name to Reiko Gosha (五社玲子) while continuing to teach dance throughout wartime.

Filmography

• A Page of Madness (1926) - Dancer
• Tabigeinin (1927)

Gallery

• 南栄子 Eiko Minami 1930s signed postcard.jpg
• Eiko Minami.jpg
• Eiko Minami 1931 2.jpg
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• Eiko Minami circa 1930.jpg
• Eiko Minami Shukan Asahi 1933.jpg

External links

• Eiko Minami at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)
• Eiko Minami at the Internet Movie Database