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by yahj-85701 | created - 11 Nov 2020 | updated - 03 Jan 2021 | Public
1. Sadao Abe
Actor | Maiko haaaan!!!
Sadao Abe was born on April 23, 1970 in Chiba, Japan. He is an actor, known for Maiko haaaan!!! (2007), Lesson in Murder (2022) and Kisarazu Cat's Eye: World Series (2006).
2. Teruyuki Kagawa
Actor | Out
Teruyuki Kagawa was born on December 7, 1965 in Tokyo, Japan. He is an actor, known for Out (2002), Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins (2012) and Sway (2006).
3. Yûko Takeuchi
Actress | Saido kâ ni inu
Born in Saitama just north of Tokyo in 1980, Takeuchi Yuko began acting with a role in Fuji TV's Cyborg in 1996. She has been in TV serials and movies without pause ever since and came to most people's attention through NHK's series Asuka serial of 1999. She was recognized by the Japanese Academy ...
4. Yû Aoi
Actress | Hura gâru
Yu Aoi was born as Yu Natsui on August 17, 1985 in Kasuga. She's a Japanese actress, voice actress, model & TV personality who has become a beloved tour de force in Japan. In 1999, she made her stage debut as Polly in the musical production of Annie, where she was picked from among hundreds of ...
5. Minami Hamabe
Actress | Gojira -1.0
Minami Hamabe was born on August 29, 2000 in Ishikawa, Japan. She is an actress, known for Godzilla Minus One (2023), Shin Kamen Rider (2023) and Let Me Eat Your Pancreas (2017).
6. Juri Ueno
Actress | Suwingu gâruzu
The boyish Ueno Juri was born in Kakogawa, Hyogo Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. Her mother died while Juri was at junior high school. She was athletic at elementary school and also had piano lessons. She began wearing contact lenses at junior high school. She applied to become a model ...
7. Yoshino Kimura
Actress | Kokuhaku
Yoshino Kimura was born on April 10, 1976 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Confessions (2010), Blindness (2008) and Lost Paradise (1997). She has been married to Noriyuki Higashiyama since October 23, 2010.
8. Takako Matsu
Actress | Kokuhaku
Born Fujima Takako in Tokyo in 1977, she found herself in a family of actors and actresses including her kabuki artist father, uncle and brother, a sister who would act in movies and would eventually marry a man from the entertainment industry. Her mother Norika is a businesswoman. Her niece is a ...
9. Satomi Kobayashi
Actress | Tenkôsei
Satomi Kobayashi was born on May 24, 1965 in Kyoto, Japan. She is an actress, known for I Are You, You Am Me (1982), Pale Moon (2014) and Riyû (2004). She was previously married to Kôki Mitani.
10. Masako Motai
Actress | Soredemo boku wa yattenai
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 "...
11. Alice Hirose
Actress | Kamen raidâ x Kamen raidâ W & Dikeido Movie taisen 2010
Alice Hirose is known for Kamen Rider Movie War 2010: Kamen Rider vs. Kamen Rider W & Decade (2009), No Dropping Out -Back to School at 35- (2013) and Silent Tokyo (2020).
12. Eiko Koike
Actress | Seppun
Eiko Koike is a Japanese actress and former gravure idol. Her marriage's name is Eiko Sakata and her maiden name is Eiko Koike. She was born in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo. Her husband is Wataru Sakata, a professional wrestler. When Koike was a child, her parents ran a pachinko parlor founded by her ...
13. Kô Shibasaki
Actress | Batoru rowaiaru
Ko Shibasaki was born on August 5, 1981 in Tokyo. Her real name is Yukie Yamamura (Ko Shibasaki is a main character of her favorite manga). She started her career at 14 when her talent was discovered by a star agent. She has worked in many TV shows and commercials, starting to become more famous ...
14. Yûki Amami
Actress | Inugami
Yûki Amami was born on August 8, 1967 in Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Inugami (2001), Sennen no koi - Hikaru Genji monogatari (2001) and Countdown (1996).
15. Masami Nagasawa
Actress | Gintama
She was born in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan on June 3, 1987. Her father Nagasawa Kazuaki was a professional football player and on Japan's national team who later became a coach for Jubilo Iwata. She won the Toho Cinderella contest in 1999 and joined the entertainment business in 2000 with ...
16. Erika Toda
Actress | Death Note - Desu nôto: The Last Name
Toda Erika was born in Kobe in central Japan on August 17th 1988. While her official first acting credit dates back to Audrey (Ôdorî ) in 2000 she truly began her career four years later. She used the intermediate period with gravure adult and other fashion modelling from age thirteen. She has been...
17. Miho Kanno
Actress | Dôruzu
Saitama Prefecture is next door to Tokyo and also is where Kanno Miho was born. The actress attended Shukutoku Daigaku and studied Communications, but did not graduate. When at junior High school in 1992 she auditioned for an idol group on TV, which was her foray to becoming famous. She began ...
18. Suzu Hirose
Actress | Umimachi Diary
Shizuoka City native Hirose Suzu was born four years following her model and actress sister, Alice Hirose. Her real name is Ooishi Suzuka, but she chose her alias to synchronize with her older sister. She played basketball at high school. She was scouted when her mother and she attended an event ...
19. Mackenyu
Actor | One Piece
Mackenyu was born in Los Angeles, November 16, 1996, and is the son of actor, producer, director, and martial artist Shin'ichi Chiba. Growing up in Los Angeles, he appeared in a few films and TV shows while he was in school and had many interests that included learning to ride horseback, Kyokushin ...
20. Aya Ueto
Actress | Azumi
Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1985, Aya Ueto received her first break in August 1997 when, at the age of 11, she won the Special Jury Prize at the 7th All-Japan Bishoujo Contest. After this initial success, she tried her hand at both acting and singing, appearing in various minor TV drama roles, as well ...
21. Erika Sawajiri
Actress | Shinobi
Born to a Japanese father and an Algerian mother in Tokyo Erika had a well-off upbringing and engaged in dancing, playing piano and horseback riding. Her father owned several race tracks, which ensured her access to horses. However, her father died due to cancer while she was in junior high school,...
22. Marie Iitoyo
Actress | Jûden Sentai Kyôryûjâ tai Gôbasutâzu: Kyôryû Daisakusen! Saraba Eien no Tomo yo
Marie Iitoyo is a Japanese actress, best known for her roles as Kanae Hiiragi in Love You as the World Ends (2021) and Yayoi Ulshade/Kyoryu Violet in Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger (2013), as well as playing the female lead in the Japanese dub of Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019), re-dubbing ...
23. Nana Komatsu
Actress | Silence
Tokyo native Komatsu Nana was born in 1996 and began her career starring in a short film, called Tadaima, before immediately graduating to movies like Close Range Love and The World Of Kanako. Prior to these, however, she was a popular account holder on Instagram and a model. As such, it is no ...
24. Ai Hashimoto
Actress | Kokuhaku
Kumamoto-native Hashimoto Ai debuted in 2008 via an audition at Sony's Newcome that her mother pushed her to attend. Her mother loves celebrities. She has two sisters with her being the middle one. Her mother believed she is the one daughter who could make it in the audition. Immediately after the ...
25. Mayu Matsuoka
Actress | Manbiki kazoku
Mayu Matsuoka was born on February 16, 1995 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Shoplifters (2018), A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016) and Tremble All You Want (2017).
26. Sakura Andô
Actress | Manbiki kazoku
With parents in the show business perhaps it is not surprising that Ando Sakura would become an actress and, moreover, also end up marrying an actor. She was born to actor/director Okuda Eiji and celebrity Kazu Ando on 18.02.1986. Her great grandfather was prime minister Tsuyoshi. Her older sister ...
27. Maki Horikita
Actress | Always san-chôme no yûhi
Horikita Maki (born Marina Hara) was born in Tokyo the eldest of three sisters in 1988. She was a tomboy growing up and by the time of her retirement also had short hair as she was older. In-between she was an attractive actress, model and corporate product endorser with longer hair between 2003 ...
28. Yukie Nakama
Actress | Shinobi
Yukie Nakama was born on October 30, 1979 in Urasoe. She's 1 of the few Japanese celebrities that have been able to break free from their teeny-bopper image & emerge as 1 of the country's most popular as well as respected actresses.
She appeared in small roles until"Love & Pop (1998)." She was a ...
29. Kaho
Actress | Tennen kokekkô
Kaho was born on June 30, 1991 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for A Gentle Breeze in the Village (2007), Tôkyô shôjo (2008) and Utatama (2008).
30. Ryôko Hirosue
Actress | Okuribito
Kochi on the island of Shikoku was bombed from the air and razed to the ground by the USA during 1945, but Kochi castle still stands as a historical point of interest. More recently the city has acted as the birth place of short-haired tomboyish singer and actress Hirosue Ryoko. She signed up for ...
31. Kana Kurashina
Actress | Keiji Shichinin
Kana Kurashina was born on December 23, 1987 in Kumamoto, Japan. She is an actress, known for Cop Seven (2015), Sûpâkabu 2: Gekitou Hen (2008) and Ju-on: Origins (2020).
32. Nanami Sakuraba
Actress | Samâ uôzu
Nanami Sakuraba was born on October 17, 1992 in Izumi, Kagoshima, Japan. She is an actress, known for Summer Wars (2009), The Last Ronin (2010) and Attack on Titan Part 1 (2015).
33. Tilda Swinton
Actress | We Need to Talk About Kevin
The iconoclastic gifts of the highly striking and ferociously talented actress Tilda Swinton have been appreciated by art house crowds and international audiences alike. After her stunning Oscar-winning turn as a high-powered corporate attorney in the George Clooney starring and critically-lauded ...
34. Anya Taylor-Joy
Actress | The Queen's Gambit
Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (born 16 April 1996) is a British-American actress. She is best known for her roles as Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit (2020), Thomasin in the period horror film The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015), as Casey Cooke in the horror-thriller Split (2016), and as ...
35. Shôhei Imamura
Director | Kuroi ame
Shohei Imamura's films dig beneath the surface of Japanese society to reveal a wellspring of sensual, often irrational, energy that lies beneath. Along with his colleagues Nagisa Ôshima and Masahiro Shinoda, Imamura began his serious directorial career as a member of the New Wave movement in Japan....
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