Biography
Born in Shibuya, Tokyo. A Japanese actress joined in Shasha Co.. Started acting in around 1972, created an acting band called Gekidan Sanjyumaru with Eri Watanabe in 1979. At the time she was directing, yet she began to act later on. In 1984, she played a role of a teacher in a TV drama called "Takeshi's Gakumon no Susume". In 1985, she started appearing in many TV dramas and shows such as "OH! Takeshi" and "Haru no Hato" etc.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Hello, Goodbye
2017
as Etsuko Kobayashi
Hazuki and Aoi are classmates but their relationship outside class is fraught, and outside school non-existent. But when both girls are drawn to helpi...
The Mohican Comes Home
2016
as Haruko Tamura
Eikichi left his hometown in Hiroshima for Tokyo. He tried to find success with his music band, but failed. Several years later, Eikichi goes home to ...
Mountain Days with Tom
2015
Hana, Toki and Toki’s daughter Toshi begin to live in the countryside. Hana’s nephew Akira, who just graduated from middle school, also lives with the...
Teacher and Stray Cat
2015
as Yayoi Morii
Following the death of his wife professor Kyoichi leads a solitary life by the sea. A stray cat called Mii, who was being fed by his wife, not only co...
Akko's Secret
2012
as Tsuruko Oba
5th-grader Atsuko Kagami, nicknamed Akko, comes into possession of a magical mirror that lets her transform into anything she wishes. Wanting to grow ...
Always: Sunset on Third Street '64
2012
as Kin Ota
The Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to watch the upcoming events. His wife Hiromi is pregnan...
Tokyo Oasis
2011
as Customer at Cinema
In Tokyo, actress Touko leaves the filming set of her latest project and comes across three people by random chance: she gives a ride to a man named N...
Mother Water
2010
as Makoto
Set with three central figures, "Mother Water" describes the daily lives of people near the Kamo River in Kyoto, Japan.
BECK
2010
Yukio is your average high school student who spends his days going to class and avoiding bullies. That is until he meets Ryusuke, a guitar prodigy. T...
Toilet
2010
as Bachan
A 30-something Gundam fan and engineer is forced to live with his recluse brother Maury and younger sister Lisa to take care of their Japanese grandmo...
Pool
2009
as Kikuko
A story of 6 days with 5 people gathered around a small sparkling pool at Chiang Mai in Thailand. 4 years ago, Kyoko started to live in Thailand and h...
Nekonade
2008
as Makoto Koike
The highly disciplined human resources manager Taro Onizuka starts to heal and change as he raises the kitten he found in a park.
Always: Sunset on Third Street 2
2007
as Kin Ohta
Would-be writer Ryunosuke Chagawa is still living across the street from Norifumi Suzuki and his auto repair shop, though now he shares his home with ...
Glasses
2007
as Sakura
An overworked career woman leaves her life in the city for an island vacation only to encounter eccentric local inhabitants.
I Just Didn't Do It
2007
as Toyoko Kaneko
A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all th...
Hanada Shonenshi the Movie: Spirits and the Secret Tunnel
2006
as Granny Yoshikawa
Ichiro Hanada is a mischievous boy who gains the ability to see and talk to ghosts after a near-death experience. (live-action adaptation of the manga...
Kamome Diner
2006
as Masako
On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her fir...
Always - Sunset on Third Street
2005
as Kin Ota
Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's family. Neighbors Hiromi, writer Chagawa with admirer ...
Love Is Five Seven Five
2005
as President
A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku tournament.
Yoshino's Barber Shop
2004
as Yoshiko
In a small town on the countryside, every young boy is forced to have the same bowl-head haircut known as the "Yoshino-gari" hairstyle. Then one day, ...
The Choice of Hercules
2002
When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of ...
Round About Midnight
1999
as Shopkeeper
While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers...
Gemini
1999
as Shige
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.
The Exam
1999
Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grade school entrance examinations, but he becomes job...
Last Friends
1995
Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to benefi...
Many Happy Returns
1993
as Masako
Kazuo encounters a religious group travelling around Japan performing "miracles". He discovers they are fakes, but is intrigued by the showmanship of ...
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
1992
A comedy about a young woman who has terminal cancer.
After All, I Love Cats the Three Onda Sisters’ Great Kyoto Troubles
1990
as Kayano Onda
1990 Original Video
Beijing Watermelon
1989
as Michi Horikoshi
Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change w...
Four Days of Snow and Blood
1989
as Saku Akimoto
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading pol...
À la carte Company
1987
Space Girl Morumo 1/10
1987
Fuji Television film based on the manga of the same name by Hiroshi Aro.
Yume Camera 2
1987
Second part of the Fujiko Fujio omnibus TV drama special production.