Keiko Sonoi was a Japanese actress, who was a member of the all-female musical-performing Takarazuka Revue during the 1930s and the 1940s, best known for her role as an officer's widow in the wartime film Muhōmatsu no isshō (1943), and for being part of the Sakura-tai or Cherry Blossom Unit of traveling shingeki play...
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Keiko Sonoi with her uncle Tasuke's family in 1931.
![Sonoi is touted for her fine supporting role acting (waki-yaku) in this karuta card mock-up. Takarazuka Graph [ja], December 1937.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Sonoi_keiko_karuta.jpg/330px-Sonoi_keiko_karuta.jpg)
Sonoi is touted for her fine supporting role acting (waki-yaku) in this karuta card mock-up. Takarazuka Graph [ja], December 1937.![Stage scene from Wagaya no kōfuku (1942). Left to right: Taeko Takasugi [ja], Sonoi, Roppa Furukawa.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Wagaya_no_koufuku_1942.jpg/500px-Wagaya_no_koufuku_1942.jpg)
Stage scene from Wagaya no kōfuku (1942). Left to right: Taeko Takasugi [ja], Sonoi, Roppa Furukawa.
Sonoi in a still shot from Muhōmatsu no isshō (1943). With Tsumasaburo Bando as Matsu. The child was played by Hiroyuki Nagato.![Sakura-tai unit (Formally still Kuraku-za's mobile unit). At Fuji Film's Ashikaga Plant where they performed January 1945. Front row, left to right: Tsuyako Shimaki, Keiko Sonoi, Yasushi Nagata, X, Sadao Maruyama [ja], X. Middle row: Midori Naka, Motoo Hatta [ja] (stage director[50]), Jun Tatara, Seiki Iketa [ja]、"}},"i":0}}]}" data-mw-i18n="{"title":{"lang":"x-page","key":"red-link-title","params":["Harue Tone"]}}" id="mwAiA">Harue Tone [ja], Junko[?] Emori. Left row: Shozo Takayama [ja], X, Ichiro Tetsu (acting coach[51]), Yoshio Endo (lighting[50]), Miezō Mizutani (prop manager[52]), Kohei Hijikata (stage effects[50]), X.[k]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Sakura-tai_1945.jpg/500px-Sakura-tai_1945.jpg)
Sakura-tai unit (Formally still Kuraku-za's mobile unit). At Fuji Film's Ashikaga Plant where they performed January 1945. Front row, left to right: Tsuyako Shimaki, Keiko Sonoi, Yasushi Nagata, X, Sadao Maruyama [ja], X. Middle row: Midori Naka, Motoo Hatta [ja] (stage director[50]), Jun Tatara, Seiki Iketa [ja]、"}},"i":0}}]}" data-mw-i18n="{"title":{"lang":"x-page","key":"red-link-title","params":["Harue Tone"]}}" id="mwAiA">Harue Tone [ja], Junko[?] Emori. Left row: Shozo Takayama [ja], X, Ichiro Tetsu (acting coach[51]), Yoshio Endo (lighting[50]), Miezō Mizutani (prop manager[52]), Kohei Hijikata (stage effects[50]), X.[k]Filmography 2
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Keiko Sonoi was a Japanese actress, who was a member of the all-female musical-performing Takarazuka Revue during the 1930s and the 1940s, best known for her role as an officer's widow in the wartime film Muhōmatsu no isshō (1943), and for being part of the Sakura-tai or Cherry Blossom Unit of traveling shingeki play actors who died as a result of the 1945 Hiroshima bombing.
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