Keiko Kitagawa
Acting
Biography
Keiko Kitagawa (北川 景子 Kitagawa Keiko, born August 22, 1986) is a Japanese actress and former model. She was an exclusive model for the Japanese Seventeen magazine from late 2003 to mid-2006, and quit modeling when she left the magazine. Her first acting role was Sailor Mars in the Sailor Moon live action show Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (2003-2004), and after her role in the film Mamiya Kyōdai, she left modeling to concentrate on acting. She has appeared in several films, including The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) and Handsome Suit (2008), and has played leading roles in the TV Dramas Mop Girl (2007), Homeroom on the Beachside (2008), Buzzer Beat (2009), Lady Saigo no Hanzai Profile (2011),and Akumu-chan (2012). Description above from the Wikipedia article Keiko Kitagawa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: August 22, 1986
Place of Birth: Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Known For
Something Like, Something Like It
Master Shinkome asks Shinden to find a former disciple, Shintoto, from his rakugoka (comic storytelling) family. Shinden visits ex-disciples in his search for Shintoto.
Since I Took You Away
This is the story of Chuuetsu Hirokai, a mother who lost her three-year-old child in a food safety incident ten years ago. The accident was caused by a delicatessen owned by Asahi Yuuki, who became the target of her revenge. By a twist of fate, Hirokai ends up kidnapping Yuuki’s three-year-old younger daughter, hoping to carry out her long-held vengeance...
The Ghost Writer's Wife
In Meiji-era Matsue, a fallen samurai’s daughter and a lonely foreign teacher connect through ghost stories and an unlikely friendship.
LADY - The Last Criminal Profile
Rookie investigator Shoko Kazuki has just returned from the U.S. after being trained by the FBI in the art of criminal profiling. Recruited by a newly-formed Crime Profiling Support unit (CPS) within the Metropolitan Police Department, Shoko gets to work cracking the department’s most frustrating cases which offer only scanty clues and no apparent motives. Still, she must apply all the behavioral and analytical tools of her trade to painstakingly build the criminal profiles that will lead her and her team on the right trail. A realistic depiction of the profiling process and forensic analysis, LADY exposes the sinister underbelly of society and sheds light on the murky landscape of the criminal mind. -- TBS
The Pearls of the Stone Man
Atsushi and Ryoko are a married coupled. They decide they want to live around nature and move to Biei in Hokkaido, Japan. Atsushi isn't sure what to do with his free time, so Ryoko asks him build a stone wall around their house. Atsushi experiences tragedy, but later gets closer to his estranged daughter, Satoko. Atsushi continues building the stone wall.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Special Act: We're Getting Married!！
A sequel to the series, set four years later, that portrays the wedding of Mamoru and Usagi. Before their nuptials they must do battle with Mio Kuroki who has been resurrected and claims to be the new queen of the Dark Kingdom. She kidnaps Mamoru and Usagi and intends to force Mamoru to marry her. However, the Shitennou are revived and help their master to defeat Mio's youma, Sword and Shield. Meanwhile, the Sailor Senshi, minus Sailor Mars who is hospitalized with injuries from battling Mio while in her civilian state, use the Moon Sword provided by Queen Serenity to restore their power, enabling them to transform and face Mio.
Moon Lovers
Rensuke Hazuki, the president of Regolith, a rapidly growing interior manufacturer in Japan, is planning to expand into China. Rensuke boarded the bustling city of Shanghai . What awaits Rensuke there is an encounter with Maemi Ninomiya, an interior designer who has worked with him, Yuzuki Onuki, a popular model who is the daughter of a wealthy family, and Ryu, a Chinese woman who has a girlfriend Shuumei. The meeting with these three women brings a turning point in Rensuke's life.
Detective versus Detectives
Kitagawa Keiko plays Sasaki Rena, a detective who risks her life investigating detectives for her dead sister. Beautiful, intelligent, and with a great memory, the talented woman judges situations and chooses the most appropriate course of action. Her brutal past surrounding her sister's death inspires her to learn everything she can about detectives, leading her to visit the Suma Research Company. As the sole member of the Anti-Detective Department responsible for investigating and pursuing unethical detectives, she is a solitary lady detective.
Segodon
Saigo Takamori, the hero of the Meiji Restoration, was born to a poor, low-ranking samurai family in the Satsuma domain (present day Kagoshima Prefecture). His simple honesty caught the attention of its charismatic feudal lord of Satsuma, Shimazu Nariakira. Nariakira’s assertion that the love of people is what will enrich and strengthen the nation captivated Saigo who took on Nariakira’s secret mission and eventually became a key person for Satsuma. Not a portrait of him survives today and much of his life is a mystery. He is a man who was twice exiled and thrice married. He overthrew the Tokugawa Shogunate with exceptional bravery and action. Although he accomplished the restoration, he lost his life in a fight with the new Meiji government.
Devoted Cookbook
The film is set in Edo period. As an orphan child Mio starts working at a restaurant in Osaka where she learns how to cook. When she turns 18, she moves to Edo (today's Tokyo) where she opens her own restaurant.
Filmography
as Natsuki Nagashima
as Ushimizu Tae
as Hiromi Nakagoshi
as Hasebe Kaori
as Sailor Cosmos (voice)
as Hiiragi Shizuku
as Oichi
as Dolorin (voice)
as Sonoko Katsura
as Saki Mizuguchi
as Yuki Makabe
as Isabella
as Asuka Takachiho
as Asami Inaba
as Sachi
as Asami Inaba
as Shinonome Itsuki
as Yui Hitotsugi
as Fumi Hanai
as Passer-by
as Ron
as Atsu-hime (Oichi)
as Mari
as Kyoko Takimoto
as Yuki Watanabe
as Nanami Tsushima
as Makoto Tsugano
as Machi Sangenya
as Shoko Kasahara
as Chika Asagi / 麻木千佳
as Rena Sasaki
as Satoko Kobayashi
as Ayami Mutoi
as Tsukasa Yamamoto
as Hikari Ota
as Harumi Hagiwara
as Reiko Hosho
as Yuki Haruno
as Mutoi Ayami
as Jack
as Reiko Hosho
as Hojo Suzu
as Yukari 'Caroline' Hayasaka
as Shoko Kazuki
as Mikayo Matsumoto
as Izumi Sonoda
as Ōnuki Yuzuki
as Itô
as Rie Saito
as Reporter
as Riko Shirakawa
as Shiduko Arisawa / Izumi Kuramoto
as Hiroko Hoshino
as Wakaba Enokido
as Momoko Hasegawa
as Yoko Uehara
as Nao
as Momoka Katsuragi
as Rina
as Rikka Mizuchi
as Yumi Honma
as Rei Hino / Sailor Mars
as Chika Asagi / 麻木千佳
as Fumino Saeki