Serena Motola
Birthday: Born in 1998-10-09 in Tokyo, Japan
Deathday: Alive
A Japanese model, actress, and singer with a multicultural background, Serena Motola is an only child to her Italian American father and Japanese mother. Serena was scouted while shopping in Harajuku. She has modelled for various brands, with many appearances in editorials, photo-books, and as a subject in a photography exhibition. She has been signed with the agency, Box Corporation, since she was 16.
TV Credits
FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS
Character: Woman in Love with a Woman
Kiyomi Koike is a 16-year-old girl. She has all these different emotions intertwined in her mind. One day, she suddenly blurts out "What is a woman?" She then hears a DJ's voice in her head. The voice states "Women's Songs! Radio FM999 starts." The DJ in Kiyomi Koike’s head proceeds to spin songs that matches her worries. With her eyes closed, Kiyomi Koike meets various women in the world of music and learns from them....
ソロモンの偽証
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On Christmas morning, Fujino Ryoko finds her classmate Kashiwagi Takuya’s dead body at their snow covered school. The police and the school conclude that Kashiwagi Takuya died by suicide. At that time, an anonymous letter is delivered to Fujino Ryoko. The letter states that Kashiwagi Takuya was murdered by a group of students including Ooide Shunji. The media and SNS begin to question whether Kashiwagi Takuya really died by suicide or was he murdered. The school principal tries to take control o...
ブラック校則
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Sōra is a 2nd-grade high school student, but he is virtually invisible at school. He is friends with Chūya. Chūya's personality is completely different from Sōra. Chūya does unpredictable things and that surprises those around him. Sōra and Chūya both have feelings for the same girl at their school. The girl refuses to attend school, because she doesn't want to change her brown hair to black. Their school has unreasonable rules, including requiring all students to have black hair. For the girl t...
椅子
Character: Natsuki
An omnibus drama depicting the stories of 8 women and 8 unique chairs....
椅子
Character: Saya
An omnibus drama depicting the stories of 8 women and 8 unique chairs....
ぐでたま 〜母をたずねてどんくらい〜
Character: Suzuki [Assistant director]
Gudetama, the lazy egg, reluctantly embarks on an adventure of a lifetime with Shakipiyo, a newly hatched chick, who is determined to find their mother....
透明なゆりかご
Character: Harumi Miura
17-year-old Aoi came to Yui Obstetrics and Gynecology clinic as a part-time nurse apprentice in Summer 1997. Right after her entry, she is shocked after witnessing an abortion surgery. However, she also met staff members like Yui, the head of the clinic who is careful about everything, Sayako, a reliable and experienced nurse, and Sakaki, the gentle head nurse, who face each pregnant patient and support them after surgeries. Fumika, Aoi's mother, is worried about her clumsy nature and poor commu...
東京デザインが生まれる日
Character:
Mutsumi (Serena Motola) is a rookie designer and she is employed at small design company Lemon Design. She is busy with prep work for magazine shoots, like scouting locations and working with photographers. She has doubts about her work not being that of a designer. Tetsuko (Megumi) senses Mutsumi’s feelings. She tells Mutsumi that she is a salaryman. Mutsumi doesn’t understand why Tetsuko told her that....
Movie Credits
Our Sweetest Murder Plan
Character: Ema
Actress and model Serena Motola joins former idol and current YouTuber Michela Sato, in a short film that depicts them as sisters who plan to kill their beloved father after he says he wants to remarry....
To You
Character:
Time passes faster here, I just realized I'm in a different world Stars are beautiful tho. What color is your dream?...
Shrieking in the Rain
Character: Yoshie
At a movie studio in 1988, rookie director Hanako Hayashi is making her directorial debut, the erotic As Far as Love Will Take Us. She's under pressure from her producer and crew. When she is about to shoot the climax of the film, numerous problems arise. To make matters worse, the set is visited by a censor from the Film Certification Committee, and the key scenes end up being cut out to avoid an R rating. Can Hanako realise her dream?...
xxxHOLiC
Character: Morodashi
To be free of his dark visions, Kimihiro Watanuki will work for Dimensional Witch Yūko, a mystical woman quick to help those in a bind—for a fee....
Memories
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I read a fairy tale called "The Girl Who Destroyed the World." The girl's name is Marin. The word means "sea". Marin was born as the daughter of the king of Aska. She was supposed to live a bright life as a lovely princess, but she soon closed her heart and began to wish for the end of the world....
Offbeat Cops
Character: Miyuki Kashiwagi
Tsukasa Naruse works as a detective. He is enthusiastic with his job. To catch criminals, he sometimes breaks rules that detectives should follow. Tsukasa works on a voice phishing case that targets elderly people. He targets a suspect without a warrant. Due to his, Tsukasa gets transferred to the police musical band....
Souvenir
Character: Self
With the short film series, the director reimagines what a "souvenir" can be in a world of rapid-fire technology – not inanimate objects, but meaningful moments – and rescues the almost forgotten feeling of receiving an analog personal delivery....
Haw
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Tamio Akanishi works at a public office in Yokohama. He is going through one of the worst periods of his life, having been left by his fiancée. One day, his boss tells him to take care of a big, white dog, abandoned by its previous owner. Tamio begins to live with the dog, who doesn't bark and only makes a sound that sounds like "haw", and thus he names it Haw. While living together, the connection between the two deepens....
Les Misérables
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This feature drama, produced to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Fuji TV, is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic masterpiece Les Miserables set in the 1990s in Japan. In Kobe in 1993, Jun Baba gets taken to a juvenile prison due to a killing of a man who cheated his mother out of all her money in self-defense. One day, he hears that his younger brother, who has been desperately ill, is in a critical condition and breaks out. However, he finds out his brother is already dead. In the depth of...
After School Soda Weather Special Edition
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As summer nears, tired students Sana, Momo, and Muuko bond over a single coin and the bliss of cream soda. They cherish their fleeting moments together and seek creative ways to capture memories beyond social media, savoring the joy of childhood friendship....
Ice Cream Fever
Character: Saho Hashimoto
Four women of different ages work at or frequent an ice cream shop, each dealing with dreams, timidity, inexperience with love, and personal pain, their lives intersecting at the shop....
Girls' Encounter
Character: Tsumugi Tomita
School girl Miyuri Obara is bullied mercilessly but finds relief in an unexpected friendship with Tsumugi. Yet even as Miyuri's life turns around there's a lingering suggestion that something is not quite right....
Crying Bitch
Character:
An unfaithful husband discovers a dark side to his wife that proves to be very frightening....
21st Century Girl
Character: (segment "Out of Fashion")
21st Century Girl is an omnibus feature that is of the girls, by the girls and for the girls. The work of 15 women directors under the age of 30, each of whom contributed an 8-minute film, the package highlights a range of genres, visions and thematic concerns....
My Father, the Bride
Character: Daria
Toka returns to the island she grew up to attend her mother's second memorial service. She finds out that her father Seiji is wearing her mother's clothes. As if that doesn't come as enough of a shock, Seiji even tells Toka that he is getting married again to a man named Kazuo. The film explores the particular incident and the life of the island people with a humorous touch....
Voices in the Wind
Character: Haru
Eight years after the devastating tsunami, the wounds it left in Japan have still not healed. In her touching search for answers, Haru sets out on a long, eventful journey to her home town, where she lost her family in the flood....
Life: Untitled
Character:
Follows a group of female escorts who are living life as best they can....
Cat's Home
Character: Rina
Annoying, such a cat hair allergy - the cat has to go! Hiroshi's ex-girlfriend Rina wants to take her in, but besides allergens there are also a lot of memories flying through the air....
Black School Rules
Character: Kio Machida
Sōra is a high school student who is basically invisible at school. He is friends with Chūya, who is an unpredictable character that often surprises those around him. Sōra and Chūya both have feelings for the same classmate, Kio Machida. The Machida girl refuses to come to class, because she doesn't want to dye her naturally brown hair black. Their school has unreasonable school rules, especially about uniforms, which include requiring all students to have black hair. Sōra and Chūya decide to st...
Love Dou Hua
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Nao, who disagrees with her boyfriend often and tends to skip class, gets offered by her father, Hirokazu, to join Aya, who is about to be his third wife, on a trip to Taiwan for a week. In contrast to Nao who is reluctant, Aya wants to get to know her future step daughter better. Eating, walking, meetng people. Will this experience change Nao?...