Momoko Kochi
	Date of Birth: 3/7/1932 - Tokyo, Japan Date of Death: 11/5/1998 - Tokyo, Japan
	Filmography A Woman's Hart Released (1953) Godzilla: King of the Monsters (1954) - Emiko Yamane Saturday Angel (1954) Beast Man Show Man (1955) The Mysterians (1957) - Hiroko Half Human (1958) - Shinsuke Takeno Godzilla vs. Destroyah (1995) - Emiko Yamane PLUS MANY MORE
Mini Biography
Born in Tokyo on March 7, 1932, Momoko Kochi was discovered in a 1953 talent contest run by Toho Studios and signed to a contract with the studio along with her future Godzilla co-star Akira Takarada. Kochi's first film, "A Woman's Heart Released", was released later that year and she then went onto work in her next film directed by Kajiro Yamamoto, one of Toho Studios' veteran filmmakers. Impressed by Ms. Kochi's work in Yamamoto's film, the veteran director's protégé, Ishiro Honda, chose her to play a main character, Emiko Yamane, in a science fiction film he was directing dubbed "Gojira", otherwise known as "Godzilla: King of the Monsters". Kochi did a fantastic job as Emiko Yamane and thanks to the film's wide distribution and popularity when it was released in the United States in 1956, Momoko Kochi's face became one of the best known of any Japanese actress outside of Japan. After the success of Godzilla, Momoko Kochi worked mainly in kaiju and science fiction movies like The Mysterians and Half Human. However, in 1959, Ms. Kochi decided to take classes in acting so that she could improve herself, being that she really had no previous acting experience when Toho hired her. For the next few decades after her acting classes, she primarily worked in the Japanese theater with occasional appearances in TV commercials. Then, in 1995, she was offered the chance to reprise her role as Emiko Yamane in the film "Godzilla vs. Destroyah", which was to be the final Godzilla film (at the time) in which Godzilla dies. Once again she did a spectacular performance as Emiko, but tragically, this was to be Momoko Kochi's final role. Ms. Kochi died of cancer three years later on November 5, 1998.