Ichihara Etsuko was a Japanese actress from Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. After graduating from high school, she entered Waseda University's Second Faculty of Literature, and although she had decided to get a job at Fuji Bank, her thoughts on theater were hard to forget. She joined the Haiyuza Theater Company in 1957 and made her debut with "Rikona Oyome-san". In the same year, she received the New Artist Award from the magazine "New Drama" and the Arts Festival Encouragement Award from "Chidori" in 1959. She also won the Shingeki Theater Award in 1963 and the Golden Arrow Award for Newcomers in 1964, In 1975, she played the main character's housewife who fell in love with a rapist robber in "Akai Satsui", and it scored a high audience rating of 17.5%. In 1990, she won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 13th Japan Academy Awards for her performance in the movie "Black Rain". Her husband is stage director Shiomi Satoshi. On January 12, 2019, at the age of 82, she died of heart failure at a hospital in Tokyo. Watch drama online for free.