Yuko Asano
Birthday: Born in 1960-07-09 in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Deathday: Alive
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大奥
Character: Takiyama
The mini-series revolves around the harem of a shogun in the Edo Period in Japan. The women jostle and compete with one another and with their lord and on occasion even wield more power than their master....
雨よりも優しく
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抱きしめたい！
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Asako Ikeuchi and Natsuko Hayakawa have been close friends for more than 25 years. Natsuko's husband Keisuke had affairs, so she asks Asako to let her stay at her house. Keisuke was once Asako's boyfriend. They will soon be 30 years old. There are other nice guys around Asako. It's a drama about their love and friendship....
私を旅館に連れてって
Character: Fumiko Teshigawara
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SMAP×SMAP
Character: Bistro Guest
SMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the members of SMAP. The show began on April 15, 1996 and it aired from 22:00 to 22:54 every Monday. The show's usual ratings were higher than 20%, which is considered high since most variety shows range from 10-20%. Each episode begins a variety of skits, comedic performances, and/or games. These are followed by Bistro SMAP, in which the SMAP members compete against each other to impress celebrity judges w...
てるてる家族
Character: Teruko
The 69th NHK Asadora Drama, based on Rei Nakanishi's novel, is about the Iwata family living in Ikeda, Osaka City between 1950s and 1960s. The story is told through the eyes of the youngest daughter, Fuyuko. The family runs a bakery. The mother, Teruko, is a very energetic woman who is determined to make her dreams come true. Responding to Teruko's expectations, the eldest daughter becomes a figure skater and the second daughter becomes a very famous professional singer. In contrast, Fuyuko find...
長男の嫁
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氷点2001
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集団左遷!!
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Hiroshi Kataoka works at a bank. He receives a promotion to manager of the Kamata branch. He is also informed that the Kamata branch will be shut down and he does not have to work hard. After the branch's shutdown, he will work again at the bank's headquarters. Hiroshi Kataoka is embarrassed by the situation. He sees the branch employees work hard and they do not know the branch will close. Hiroshi Kataoka is conflicted between his job and his employees....
愛と復讐の海
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ザ・クイズショウ
Character: Nokko Yuutenji
The Quiz Show features tormented characters in twelve episodes, with one common thread – the mysterious relationship between the deviant Producer and enigmatic Host of The Quiz Show....
めだか
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Takako Meguro, a typical office worker known to her friends as Medaka, starts a new career as a night school teacher when her company restructures. At first, she's not so crazy about her new job and gets by with a minimum of effort. But as she continues, she finds out it's quite a challenge after all. Her students range from a high school dropout to a salaried worker, and also include a self-employed fellow, and a cabaret hostess, in short, a motley crew! What's more, half of them are older than...
魔法のリノベ
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Thirty-year-old Koume Shingyouji leaves her job at a major building firm to join family-run Marufuku Builders. There she teams up with Gennosuke, the Fukuyama family’s eldest son, and starts working on renovations. Koume and Gennosuke start their renovations by taking the measure not of rooms, but the thoughts and feelings of their clients: What does home mean to them? How do they want to live? What do they value? The team’s empathetic connection is what makes their work, work....
君の瞳をタイホする!
Character: 佐藤真冬
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特上カバチ!!
Character: Kyoko Kebisawa
The story centers around the employees of a legal document firm. Tamura Katsuhiro is a young man with a strong sense of justice. Although he believes that the law isn't always right, he becomes an administrative scrivener with the goal of manipulating the law in order to protect the weak. On the other hand, Sumiyoshi Misuzu, a former delinquent who hates to lose and who is now a capable scrivener. Katsuhiro and Misuzu are always at odds, but they gradually come to understand each other. --Tokyog...
アンタッチャブル
Character: Sumire Arisugawa
When reporter Narumi Ryoko loses her job at a first-rate publisher and ends up at a trashy tabloid called "Shukan Untouchable." She now chases celebrity scandals and sensational stories, but she hasn't lost her sense of duty or her persistence. While investigating her stories, she tends to notice details that imply some hidden truth beneath the surface, leading her to probe deeper into dangerous secrets. --Tokyograph...
ひまわり
Character: Hitomi Kasuga
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親愛なる者へ
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世にも奇妙な物語
Character: Fujiko (segment "Choice of Happiness")
Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple works with Tamori as the storyteller and actors as the main characters. While horror and supernatural themes are predominant, a variety of genres like comedy and drama are also produced. Most episodes, however, have a bad ending....
必殺仕事人2009
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Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. The franchise came back in 2007 with a one-shot special, but this is its first full season since 1992. Makoto Fujita returns as the protagonist Nakamura Mondo, one of the "shigotonin," a team of hired assassins....
ママチャリ刑事
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This comical suspense drama centers around Kaoru, a divorced female detective, and Hinako, a housewife married to a detective. Hinako can't keep her curious nature bottled and is constantly trying solve the cases her husband talks about at the dinner table. Kaoru inevitably sees what she is up to and tries to keep her from getting in the way, but sometimes the determined housewife suprises everyone with her simple observations!...
OLにっぽん
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俺はご先祖さま
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" I Am Your Ancestor " (Ore wa Gosenzosama) is a 14-episode television drama produced by Office Henmi and broadcast on the Nippon Television Network every Sunday from 20:00 to 20:54 ( JST ) from December 6 , 1981 to March 14, 1982 ....
東京大空襲
Character: Nakamura Sadako
When Sakuragi Haruko's father's factory is bombed, Oba Hiroto stops Haruko when she tries to rescue her father from the fire. They meet again a few years later when Haruko is working as a nurse and Hiroto is brought in as a patient with a heart condition. The second couple is a Korean man, Boku Hitoshi, and another nurse, Yamada Kazue...
ほっとけない魔女たち
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Movie Credits
Ōoku
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The Legend of Kentauros
Character: Lady (voice)
The Centaurs are a racing team of 93 bikers from the port city of Yokohama who are named after the legendary Greek horse/men. Arthur and Ken fall out over their love for the same lady deciding to settle their competition with a race....
Goryokaku
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After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the north where they actually started a sovereign nation that was recognized by more than one European country. Survivors of the Shinsengumi were among the followers of Enomoto Takeaki who took them to the northernmost island of Ezo where they fought their final battle at the star shaped fort, Goryokaku. The Japanese Civil Wars fought in the name of th...
My Sister, My Love
Character: Saki Yuki
It is a taboo story about love and incest between twins. It's not about sex, it's about the feelings the two have for one another and how society views them....
cf Girl
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The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Takashi Kitajima....
Tōchō suru onna
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海の斜光
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For Business
Character: Tsukimaru
Two TV salarymen uphold their duty by taking on a rival talent agency during the late-'80s bubble economy....
The War in Space
Character: Jun Takigawa
The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the sudden arrival of a strange army of aliens and their fleet of unstoppable warships....
Fusa
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Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory....
Dora-heita
Character: Yuko Kosei
A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corruption....
Run Ichiro Run
Character: Suzuko Ichikawa
Various individuals named Ichiro undergo life-changing events while being inspired by the baseball player Ichiro. A heartwarming movie about the people who root for the baseball player Ichiro, and their struggles to make their own dreams come true....
The 8-Tomb Village
Character: Miyako Mori
A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later....
Kura
Character: Saho Sano
In spite of a longstanding tradition forbidding women from working in a sake brewery, Retsu, a young blind woman, challenges herself to overcome her disability in order to save her family's sake business....
Botchan
Character: Madonna’s mother
Botchan (Kazunari Ninomiya) has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching job at a middle in a small village far away from his hometown of Tokyo. Botchan accepts the position and begins to work as a math teacher. The assistant principle there wields absolute power. Botchan has a hard time dealing with his fellow teachers and the students....
SPEC: Close~Incarnation
Character: Madame Yo
Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie "SPEC: Heaven"....
SPEC: Close~Reincarnation
Character: Madame Yo
Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie "SPEC: Heaven"....
SPEC: Heaven
Character: Madame Yo
Saya Toma is a female detective with an IQ of 201. Takeru Sebumi is a career detective with a distinguished background. They work on cases by postulating the "SPEC" of the unknown criminals and then deduce the criminal's unknown "SPEC" to make arrests. A mystery occurs when bodies are found on a cruiser in the ocean. Saya Toma and Ryo Kase of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department are brought in to solve the case....
Sea of Wandering
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Set in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who returns from evacuation. The film is based on the novel of the same name written by Teru Miyamoto, and the screenplay was written by Eizo Sugawa, who also wrote "Horagawa". The director is Takeichi Saito, who also directed "Kawachi no Osan no Uta: Yokita no Ware". Kozo Okazaki, who worked on "I am a Cat," is in charge of the cinematography....
Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”
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A dying pianist composes one final song for his childhood friend....
Shingo's Ten Duels
Character: Okoma
The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his father Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune seeks to reunite with his lost son. When the secrets of Shingo's birth are revealed to him, it sets off a series of events that bring him to cross swords with members of the shogun's inner circle in a series of duels that could change the destiny of Japan....
Surgical Designs in Flames
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A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures....
The Seven Chefs
Character: Masumi Rindo
Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With the help of his close friend Kinu, Ryuji must complete the training of Wataru — the apprentice chosen by his late teacher to become the next master chef — in the art of culinary excellence and running a successful business....
Nobunaga's Coffin
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Island of Hell
Character: Tsukiyo Kito
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946....
Be-Bop High School 2
Character: Kanae
Teen thugs Hiroshi and Toru get caught in a street war when their prized school trousers are forcefully taken from them by punks from a rival school....
Professor Eiko
Character: Asami Tomura
The body of a professor is discovered at a university lecture hall suspended from the ceiling of the stage, with a series of mysterious numbers written on the curtains nearby. Professor Eiko, a law professor at the university well versed in criminology, is asked to assist police in the investigation, and he uncovers clues that point to him as a suspect. Why is he being set up? As he and his assistant work to decipher the code left on the curtains, another professor at the university is murdere...
Song of Love
Character: Mitsuko Tajima
What happens when young people meet amidst the warmth, soft breezes and gentle waves of Okinawa? This is a romantic love story about a young college student on break from Tokyo who meets a handsome dive employee on the beach. --groink...
You Gotta Chance
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The second of Kazuki Omori's pre-Godzilla idol trilogy starring Koji Kikkawa. Omori's mid-1980s opus is full of excess; a shining example of what Japan was like during the 80s when it was lost in the dream of the bubble economy....
Kanna's Big Success!
Character: Reiko Tachibana
Kanna is extremely beautiful. No one could pass by without having a second look. The truth is, she was so ugly that she spent her entire savings on whole-body plastic surgery. Since she became beautiful, Kanna has been leading the happiest life, until someone shows up to reveal her makeover....
Sky of Love
Character: Yasue Tahara
Mika is a fresh high school student who starts texting a mysterious boy. She is shocked when he reveals who he is - Hiro, a delinquent attending her school. What she doesn't know is that Hiro isn't as bad as he seems....
Tales of the Bizarre: Vol. 1
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Kizu
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Once again, director Shunichi Kajima and star Takanori Jinnai are teaming up to create a new type of yakuza film that stylishly depicts the short but vibrant life of legendary urban yakuza Takashi Hanagata....
Premium Stage "Hamlet"
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This work by British director John Caird is one of the four major tragedy by William Shakespeare. In this performance version, the title role will be played by Uchino, uncle Claudius and father's ghost will be played by Hayashi Kunimura, Ophelia will be played by Shihori Kanjiya, Gertrude will be played by Yuko Asano, and Horatio will be played by Yukiya Kitamura....
Ōoku supesharu ~ mō hitotsu no monogatari ~
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Innocent Musicale
Character: Anne-Marthe
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