Miki Maya
Acting
Biography
Miki Maya is a Japanese actress and former top star of the Takarazuka Revue. Her real name is Miki Sato (佐藤美季, Satō Miki). She joined the Takarazuka Revue in 1981. Her debut performance was "Takarazuka Haru no Odori" and she became the top star of the Flower Troupe for her role in East Of Eden in 1995. She retired in 1998 after her last show 'Speakeasy', based on the 17 John Gay ballad opera The Beggar's Opera, in which she sang the theme song Kaze no machi no junjō na akutō tachi (風の街の純情な男たち).
Born: January 31, 1964
Place of Birth: Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
Known For
MIOKA –MY LAST DAYS WITH YOU–
One day, Taichi, an ordinary university student, meets Mioka, a girl who is like a storm. Taichi finds himself drawn to Mioka, who lives freely as she wishes without holding back, and they eventually fall in love. However, Mioka tells Taichi of her shocking truth. She has an incurable brain disease, with no medicine or treatment that can help her.
Solitary Gourmet
Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.
Galileo Zero
The special is set 3 years prior to the drama series, with the story being related to a murder case that was partly referenced in the original show. Detective Kusanagi is looking to solve a murder mystery, and he gets back in touch with his former badminton teammate, the brilliant professor Yukawa Manabu.
Galileo
Narrates the events and cases encountered by Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie detective, and Manabu Yukawa, a university associate professor, while the two pair up to solve many mysterious cases.
Truth of Zero
Maou Matsumoto is a new forensic medical examiner who returns in Japan after studying in USA. Mao only interest is her work and the autopsies she performs.
Giwaku
90 Years Old – So What?
Aiko Satō, who has won many literary awards, retired from her life as a writer and had no guests. She spent a gloomy time, but then a middle-aged editor named Tachibana came with a commission for a story. The story begins with a series of essays that are initially unpleasant, writing out her anger towards society. Aiko's life will undergo significant changes by the time she is 90 years old.
Nameless Poison
Saburo Sugimura works for the PR department of a company which his father-in-law Yoshichika Imada runs. One day, Yoshichika Imada tasks Saburo Sugimura with work regarding a man named Nobuo Kajita. A complicated story unfolds from the request.
Shitamachi Rocket
Tsukuda Kohei was once a researcher with the Aerospace and Science Exploration Agency and now runs Tsukuda Industries, a small factory which was left by his father. Although his relationship with his teenage daughter Rina is somewhat strained, business at Tsukuda Industries has gradually started to improve. But Tsukuda puts too much effort into his dream of developing a rocket engine and business declines little by little. One day, a major client suddenly declares that it is dropping Tsukuda Industries. Then, Tsukuda Industries gets sued by a big rival company, Nakashima Industries, for patent infringement. Tsukuda Industries’ reputation is hurt and financing from banks is also in a desperate situation. In the midst of this, Teikoku Heavy Industries, one of Japan’s leading corporations, offers to buy a patent which Tsukuda Industries possesses for 2 billion yen
Tokyo Vice
A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.
Filmography
as Kaoru Igarashi
as Sugiyama Kyoko [Aiko's daughter]
as Ran Tachibana
as Akiko's Mother
as Isabella
as Tomoe
as Shoko Nagata
as Reiko Sakuraba（桜庭 麗子）
as Visceral Jewel Woman
as Satoko Handa
as Bureizu
as Sakura Tsukumo
as Eiko Iwamura
as Saya Izumi
as 竹内 美晴
as Kyoko Inden
as Akiko Furuya
as Kirisawa Izumi
as Hitomi Okita
as Shinko
as Minoshima Sawako
as Minegishi Kaori
as Yoshie Watsuji
as Yoshie Tajima
as Makiko Kamiya
as Junko Tanaka
as Yoshiko Kawashim
as Sonobe Yuki
as Sakurako Jonouchi
as Sakurako Shironouchi
as Sakura Chiba
as Fujiko Wakabayashi
as Tanimura Sato
as Sakurako Jonouchi
as Fumiko Shiiba
as Ryoko Kawamura
as Hitomi Okita
as Tamaki Mikami
as Kanzaki Yuko
as 沖田 仁美
as Yuko Kanzaki
as Anna
as Hitomi Okita
as Shizue Matsuno
as Kinuyo Nishine
as Reiko Teraoka
as Hayashi Kana, wife
as Alex
as Arthur Cochran
as J. Pierrepont Finch
as Ricardo Romero
as Self
as Leonard
as Savinius
as Oscar
as James