Yuki Amami
Acting
Biography
Yuki Amami joined the Takarazuka in 1987 and retired in 1995. After resigning from the company, she continues to work as a TV and movie actress.
Born: August 8, 1967
Place of Birth: Taito, Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Climbing for Life
In 1975, a woman reached the summit of Mount Everest: Junko, the first woman in history to reach the world's highest peak. Junko's unforgettable feat stunned the world, bringing her into the spotlight but casting a huge shadow over her friends and family. Despite being diagnosed with a terminal illness in her final years, Junko continued to challenge the mountains. What was the last thing she saw beyond the summit?
A Wednesday Love Affair
Around 40
Ogata Satoko is a 39 years-old woman. She is happily enjoying the single life. However, things change after an alumni reunion wher she's the last single and a meet with Okamura Keitaro.
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.
Chef: Three Star School Lunch
Hoshino Mitsuko is the talented three-star chef of famous French restaurant, La Cuisine de La reine, in Ginza, Tokyo. She has drawn attention not just from Japan but also the world for the new recipes she continuously conceives with her delicate palate and unrivalled creativity. Gourmands around the world visit the restaurant for her cuisine and there is a three-year wait for reservations. One day, trouble occurs between Mitsuko and the restaurant owner Shinoda Shogo and she is fired. She has difficulty finding a new restaurant due to Shinoda’s interference and her over-inflated pride, and ends up creating school lunches for a popular variety programme by a hotshot producer. It was believed to be something easy for Mitsuko, but she meets many obstacles and keeps failing. Moreover, this is aired on TV and made known to the world. Even so, Mitsuko does not give up and starts to create school lunches in order to hear children say her food is delicious and also regain her lost stars.
The Choice of Hercules
When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.
Siren in the Shadows
Japan, 1590. Following the death of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi's seizure of power, the mysterious warlord Tenmaō and his fierce warriors terrorize the inhabitants of the Kantō Plain.
The Queen's Classroom
The Queen's Classroom is a live-action Japanese television drama about Maya Akutsu, a new teacher at Hanzaki Elementary School who strives for perfection and punishes her students in unorthodox manners. A 12 year old student, Kazumi Kanda, has been able to withstand her strange punishments so far but the other 23 students begin to fold under the pressure. A South Korean remake of the same title starring Go Hyun-jung in the lead role, was produced in 2013.
Princess Hiro
Toshiie and Matsu
The 41st NHK Taiga Drama is Toshiie to Matsu. During the turbulent Warring States Era, one man's life and career intertwined with the three great generals of Japanese history-Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu. With political savvy and the support of his fiercely loyal wife, Maeda Toshiie rose to second in power in the shogunate and built up a fiefdom that encompassed Echizen, Noto and Kaga.
Filmography
as Chifune Yanagisawa (voice)
as Yukiko Makabe
as Etsuko Kitayama
as Reiko Kariyama
as Kamizuru Ryoko
as Omino
as Atsuko Goto
as Yoko Miyama
as Rinko Endo
as Mako Goda
as Kanzaki Kyoko
as Toko Amano
as Madam Mumblechook (voice)
as Saotome Kaoruko
as Mitsuko Hoshino
as Miyoko Miyamoto
as Curaçao (voice)
as Hiro Kamon
as Reiko Miori
as Soma
as Kazue Kawakami
as Yone Suzuki, 'Oiesan'
as Yukiko Makabe
as Edage
as Haruko Kirishima
as Mio Kurasaka
as Misaki
as Yuri Saotome
as Chiaki Onizuka
as Beniko Hamanaka
as Rinko Endo
as Saeko Yagami
as Eriko Osawa
as Lounge Hostess
as Gran Mamare (voice)
as Woman in Mourning Dress
as Satoko Ogata
as Ayane Mashiba
as Sakura Uehara
as Makiko Harada
as Okochi Himawari
as Haruka Tsubaki
as 阿久津 真矢
as Maya Akutsu
as Misaki
as Asuka Hiraki
as Sakutaro's Boss
as Takako Mamiya
as Mamiya Takako
as Kouran Ri
as Nakao Shizue
as Aki Takahata
as Woman with umbrella
as Sachiko Sassa
as Haru
as Hikaru Genji
as Ai Sakura
as Kasumi Moriwake
as Shoko Mitsui
as Sasaki Namiko
as Miki Bonomiya
as Mayo
as Otoyo
as Youko Tachibana
as 오노데라 아사히
as Masako
as Yoko Sugimura
as Richard Collier
as Bill Snibson
as Alex
as Michel Brasseur
as Count Walter Shamrock
as Rhett Butler
as Raffaela Ontonio
as Michael Johnson
as Altoul Santos
as Andre
as Romeo
as Fouqué