Eiko Ando (born May 8 1934; first name pronounced Ay – eeko) was a Japanese actress best known for appearing opposite John Wayne in The Barbarian and the Geisha in 1958.Ando was born in Harbin in the Heilongjiang Province of Northeast China to a Japanese industrialist. When the Communists took over the family fled back to Japan. After her father died in 1953 she went to work as a singer and then as a burlesque dancer.
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