Yoko Maki
Acting
Biography
Maki Yoko is a Japanese actress. Maki has appeared in several films including 2003 film Infection and the 2004 American remake The Grudge. Maki made her film debut at the age of 19 in 2001 film Drug. Her film career sprung when receiving a role as Aya in the highly modernized remake of the Japanese vengeance film Lady Snowblood (later re-titled as The Princess Blade). Maki later began performing on stage in the 2002 play Cross. In November 2008, Maki announced that she had married a 26-year old man not in the Japanese entertainment industry.
Born: October 15, 1982
Place of Birth: Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Known For
Renai Shousetsu
A love story starring Tamaki Hiroshi, Konishi Manami, Ikeuchi Hiroyuki, Hirayama Aya and Kamiki Ryunosuke. Hiroyuki, a fourth-year law student who has just broken up with his girlfriend Miwa, is approached by Satoshi, a student at the same university, on his way home from school and asked to do something strange. He wants to make a will for himself. Satoshi, who calls himself the "God of Death," begins to tell him about his mysterious past. He wants to get close to people but cannot. He says that everyone he was close to would die. So he has lived his life without befriending or loving anyone since he was a child. But when Satoshi meets a woman named Mizuki, he unexpectedly falls in love with her. And that was the beginning of a very sad love story...
Flying Rabbits
Yukari always wanted to become a flight attendant and has just been hired by Japan Airlines. However, due to an unexpected mistake, she has also been recruited to the company's basketball team (the JAL "Rabbits") despite being a lousy at basketball. Forced to divide her time between job training and playing basketball, Yukari makes an increasing amount of mistakes in both areas. Frustrated, she nearly gives up on her dream career, but somehow finds the strength to keep trying both in the skies and on the court.
Ryōmaden
Ryōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanning 48 episodes. The story centers on the life of 19th-century Japanese historical figures Iwasaki Yatarō and Sakamoto Ryōma. It has been announced that the series will be aired in several other countries, for example Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.
MOZU
An explosion take place in a street of Tokyo. Many people were killed or seriously injured. One casualty is Chihiro, the wife of Public Security chief inspector Kuraki Naotake. While trying to find why his wife was being implicated in the explosion case, Kuraki comes into contact with Public Security sergeant Akeboshi Miki and Metropolitan Police Department inspector Osugi Ryota who are also investigating this case.
The Cursed Sanctuary X
Kaname Azuma is sick of her marriage life with her husband and she decides to divorce him. She leaves Japan and travels to South Korea. There, she visits her brother Teruo's villa. Teruo is surprised by Kaname's sudden visit, but after he hears of her marriage life, he lets her to stay with him. Somehow, Teruo and Kaname happen to enter The Cursed Sanctuary X.
Security Police
SP, also known as Security Police is a Japanese television drama based on the real life security police unit of Japan which is responsible for protecting domestic and foreign VIPs. The series script was written by famed GO author Kazuki Kaneshiro and marks his first time writing for a television drama. The drama centers on a newly recruited SP officer named Kaoru Inoue, who is the only SP officer known in the force to have sharp senses that enables him to conduct his duties by using this ESP sense to take down the threat before it appears to threaten the VIP and the civilians who are caught in the middle. The franchise consists of the TV series, two film adaptations of the series released in 2010 and 2011 with an ongoing manga adaptation.
Undercurrent
Kanae's husband disappeared without a trace while on a union trip. Though usually headstrong and independent, the woman becomes plagued with worry over what happened to him, and is unable to move on with her life. Thus, Kanae decides to hire a private investigator, and keeps running the public bathhouse to the best of her abilities. As he tries to figure out the truth about her husband, Kanae must deal with the stress from a work-intensive job, meddlesome neighbors, and recurring nightmares in which she is drowning.
SP: The Motion Picture
At an event hall in Roppongi Hills, there is a charity event for landmine eradication. Kaoru does security with Security Police officers Soichiro Ogata, Eri Sasamoto, Takahumi Yamamoto and Mitsuo Ishida. Kaoru Inoue senses a threatening existence and starts to suffer a severe headache and becomes dizzy. When Kaoru was young, his parents were killed by terrorists and that incident has had an traumatic effect on Kaoru since.
SP: The Motion Picture II
After the attack on the Chief Cabinet Secretary, the next duty of the fourth office will be to guard the National Assembly building. In the midst of security, Ogata keeps Inoue away from the main conference hall and puts his well-thought-out plan into action, and the parliament building is controlled by SPs and terrorists who support the revolution. Inoue notices something strange and starts to fight against the terrorists to stop Ogata.
Kaneko's Commissary
Kaneko, imprisoned for violence, was a man who would get angry even at his wife if she came to visit. It was the power of family - his wife, child, and uncle - that led this good-for-nothing to start a new life. Kaneko now runs a commissary that provides items to people imprisoned like he once was and visits them on behalf of their families. However, the peace is shattered when a young girl, his son’s friend, is found dead.
Filmography
as Yuki
as Adele
as Kanae Sekiguchi
as Kanda Nagisa
as Kaori Kido
as Herself
as Kaneshima Yoko
as Hoshino
as Mika Oe
as Shirataka Amane
as Ryoko Asamura
as Yuki Makabe
as 森美也子
as Hikari Tachibana
as Jung Hwa (Shizuka)
as Rikako Takagi
as Hanako Tomita
as Nao Miyaji
as Eri Inaba
as Kyoko Shiraishi
as Yuriko Tamura
as Shihana
as Miki Akeboshi
as Ichiko Sakurai
as Takako Akishima
as Tamako Tanaka
as Asako Kashiwagi
as Miki Akeboshi
as Prince Ruri (voice)
as Miyuki
as Yukari Saiki
as Kanako
as Mai-Chan
as Momoko Ikeda
as 上原灯里
as Kahori Nikaido
as Akiko Miki
as Fujitsubo
as Wakako Suzuki
as Haruko Inuyama
as Motoko
as Eri Sasamoto
as Eri Sasamoto
as Eri Sasamoto
as Shizuka
as Michiko Malandro (voice)
as Harada Mio
as Chinatsu Kakiuchi
as Horiike Kiyomi
as Eri Sasamoto
as Saki Oshiro
as Ryoko Fujiki
as Chieko Kawabata
as Woman at Boswell's Apt.
as Ritsuko Tachibana
as Towa
as Yui Ito
as Ryoko Fujiki（藤木 涼子）
as Gang-ja Chun
as Yoko Sekine
as Nurse
as Furuya Meiko
as Akemi's Classmate (segment "Spiderwoman")
as Baby's Staff
as Maki Souda
as Sae Takeuchi（竹内 さえ）
as Aya