Emerging from Fukuoka Prefecture and honing her craft on Tokyo stages-first as Polly in a 1999 production of Annie and then as a regular on TV Tokyo’s Oha Suta-she entered film with Shunji Iwai’s All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001). Subsequent collaborations with Iwai, notably Hana & Alice (2004), earned her a Best Actress prize at the Japanese Professional Movie Awards, while her lead in Letters from… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for Space Pirate Captain Harlock 2013 Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins 2012 Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno 2014 Redline 2009 ★ 7.7 Rurouni Kenshin: The Final 2021
Megumi Takani ★ 7.5 All About Lily Chou-Chou 2001
Shiori Tsuda ★ 7.3 The Case of Hana & Alice 2015
Tetsuko "Alice" Arisugawa (voice) ★ 7.2 Penguin Highway 2018
Onē-san (voice) ★ 7.3 Tokyo Family 2013
Noriko Mamiya ★ 7.5 Rainbow Song 2006
Kana Sato ★ 7.2 One Million Yen Girl 2008
Suzuko Sato ★ 7.3 What a Wonderful Family! 2016
Noriko Mamiya ★ 7.4 Nodame Cantabile: The Movie II 2010
Jadwiga (voice) ★ 7.1 Killing 2018
Yu ★ 7.1 Romance Doll 2020
Sonoko Kitamura ★ 7.1 Penance 2013
Sae Kikuchi ★ 7 Tokyo Ghoul 2017
Rize Kamishiro ★ 7 What a Wonderful Family! 2 2017
Noriko Mamiya ★ 7 Hana & Alice 2004
Tetsuko Arisugawa (Alice) ★ 6.9 Miyori's Forest 2009
Miyori (voice) ★ 6.8 Welcome to the Quiet Room 2007
Miki ★ 6.8 Harmful Insect 2002
Natsuko Yamaoka ★ 6.5 Over the Fence 2016
Satoshi Tamura ★ 6.8 Hula Girls 2006
Kimiko Tanikawa ★ 6.7 Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers 2005
Kujaku Ogitani ★ 6.5 Haruko Azumi Is Missing 2016
Haruko Azumi ★ 6.6 Mixed Doubles 2017
Yo ★ 6.4 Honey and Clover 2006
Hagu ★ 6.7 Wife of a Spy 2020
Satoko Fukuhara ★ 6.2 Birds Without Names 2017
Towako Kitahara ★ 6.5 Journey to the Shore 2015
Tomoko ★ 5.7 Sex Is No Laughing Matter 2008
En ★ 6 Mushi-Shi: The Movie 2007
Tanyu ★ 6 Vampire 2011
Mina ★ 5.5 Yamato 2005
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