Momoko Tanabe

Momoko Tanabe

Born: August 4, 1999
in Kanagawa, Japan
Momoko Tanabe is a Japanese actress and model from Kanagawa. She is mostly known for her first main role as in Konna Mirai wa Kiitenai (aka Southern Beach Love Story; 2018), but has had a variety of supporting roles mostly in TV dramas and movies. She also had a support role as Higashino Natsuki in Girl Gun Lady alongside Laid-Back Camp live-action TV drama co-star Yuno Ohara and Season 2 co-star Anna Ishii (portrayed Ayano Toki). She started acting before middle school.

She portrays Chiaki Oogaki in the Laid-Back Camp live-action TV drama and it's her second main role.

Movies for Momoko Tanabe...

Sensei's Pious Lie
Title: Sensei's Pious Lie
Released: July 5, 2024
Type: Movie
Misuzu Hara (Nao) works as a high school teacher and prefers to keep a distance from her students. In her past, she was raped by her best friend’s boyfriend Hayafuji after he found out she liked him. She didn't report the crime to the police and she didn't tell anyone else what happened. She still suffers from the trauma from what happened, but she continues to have a forceful relationship with Hayafuji who is now her best friend’s fiancee. One day, a rumor spreads that her student Yuki Niizuma is in a secret affair. Misuzu Hara, as his teacher, has a meeting with him to provide counseling.
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Title: Omukae Shibuya-kun
Character: Aota Aika
Released: April 2, 2024
Type: TV
Shibuya Taikai is a popular young actor with excellent acting skills and a charming smile. Women are crazy about him, but Taikai has never been in love in his life. He has a 4-year-old sister named Rizumu, who attends nursery school. One day, Rizumu comes back home with a scratch from the nursery school. Taikai is concerned enough that he passes up on a drama series acting offer and decides to take Rizumu to school and pick her up after school. At his sister's school, Taikai Shibuya meets Rizumu's teacher, Aota Aika. He gets attracted to her. Meanwhile, Aika is a devoted nursery school teacher who likes children. She has a warm heart and cares about other people.
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Title: Tokyo Poverty Girl
Character: Hirota Yuka
Released: November 17, 2023
Type: TV
After her divorce, Kariya Mako returned to work as a contract editor for an economics magazine. There, she is ordered to be in charge of a serialization based on the theme of women in poverty. She interviews people living in various difficult situations, and it gradually makes her realize that this is a widespread problem that she herself is not entirely impervious to, as she is also someone dealing with employment instability while struggling to raise her children.
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Title: My Beloved Flower
Character: Shiraishi Mineko
Released: October 12, 2023
Type: TV
The story revolves around the love, friendship and relationships between four characters who meet by chance.
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The Girls
Title: The Girls
Released: September 10, 2023
Type: Movie
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Title: The Neighbor of Healing Has a Secret
Released: July 8, 2023
Type: TV
Yomogida Fujiko is an office worker with an academic complex. She works hard and becomes a full-time employee at an insurance company, but because of her diligence, she is unable to refuse the work she is asked to do and accepts it with a smile on her face. One day, an elite company employee, Nishina Soma, moves into the room next door. Fujiko is soothed by the time she spends with her very kind and gentlemanly neighbor. But why did Nishina, a supposedly elite man, move into this shabby apartment, and why is he so kind to Fujiko...? It seems that Nishina, who does not speak much, is a stranger to Fujiko...?
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Title: Sweet Moratorium
Character: Kamijo Sayo
Released: May 24, 2023
Type: TV
Kashiwagi Kokoro is a university student. He enjoys his campus life and has begun dating Kamijo Sayo. One day, his ex-girlfriend Omori Ringo, who is the one that decided to end their relationship, visits his home and begins to live there. Kashiwagi Kokoro doesn't tell his new girlfriend Kamijo Sayo about Omori Ringo moving in with him. (Source: AsianWiki) ~~ Adapted from the manga series "Sweet Moratorium" (スイートモラトリアム) by Tama Izumi (たまいずみ).
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Title: Hold My Hand at Twilight
Character: Kanno Seira
Released: January 17, 2023
Type: TV
Having spent her entire life in the remote Japanese countryside, Asagi Soramame takes a giant leap of faith when she decides to follow her childhood friend and fiancé to Tokyo. But life in the big city quickly proves to be nothing as she imagined. Struggling to find her place in this big new world, Asagi’s life takes an interesting detour when she meets an aspiring musician, Oto Umino.
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Fragments of the Last Will
Title: Fragments of the Last Will
Released: December 9, 2022
Type: Movie
Based on a true story - a true love story of a man and his wife who are at the mercy of fate, but wish to be reunited for 11 years. With thoughts of his wife and his fellows, Yamamoto Hatao never gave up hoping that he'd return home despite hopeless circumstances.
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Title: Medium Detective Hisui Jozuka
Character: Yuika Kuramochi
Released: October 16, 2022
Type: TV
Hisui Jozuka can “see” the culprits with her clairvoyance, but this won’t hold up as evidence. Just how will she solve complex cases? “I have the ability to know the truth, but why am I so useless?” Hisui, with her green eyes, is in anguish. As a medium, she can trace down culprits with her special gift of clairvoyance, but this won’t hold up as evidence. What must she do to get the police to investigate? Will they manage to catch the perpetrator? This is a unique detective drama series that features a psychic detective who goes face to face with criminals.
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Title: The Van Gogh Downstairs
Character: Kiiro Natsume
Released: September 21, 2022
Type: TV
Kaburagi Miyako is a 30-year-old "career-oriented" woman working for a major cosmetics company with an annual salary of over 10 million yen. Miyako is suddenly inspired by a painting and aims to study at the Tokyo University of the Arts to fulfill her dream of becoming a painter. Miyako enrolls into an art prep school while balancing her work. There, she meets Taira Shintaro, a talented young man who keeps failing to get into an art college.
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Title: The Wind, The Storm
Released: September 4, 2022
Type: TV
Noe Ito. Women's liberation activist in the Taisho era. 100 years ago, with a stroke of her hand, she challenged the institution of marriage and social morality head-on. She uses her exuberant passion as her sole source of support. Admiration for Raiteu Hiratsuka, who wrote that “in the beginning, women were the sun”, her life with her first husband, Dadaist Jun Tsuji, and Sakae Osugi, the anarchist who became the better half of her life. Meeting with... She lived a wild life in search of freedom, and when she tried to flourish as a writer, unreasonable violence took her life at the age of 28, but her life was a life that boldly confronted social contradictions that are common today, such as poverty and gender disparity. is once again shaking the present filled with a sense of stagnation.
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Title: Lost Man Found
Character: Sugiura
Released: June 26, 2022
Type: TV
Satoru Matsudo moves to Tokyo in hopes of becoming an actor. He has trouble breaking into the industry, but his luck begins to change when he finds an airplane ticket belonging to a talent agency CEO. Time passes, and Satoru makes a name for himself as an actor. He gets a call from America. Hoping it is a Hollywood offer, he instead hears about his estranged older brother.
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Title: OLD ROOKIE
Character: Mai Furukawa
Released: June 26, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: Receptionist Joe
Released: April 26, 2022
Type: TV
Jo Takumi has worked as a salesman for an advertising company for the past 3 years. He seems confident, but he actually tries hard to live up to expectations of those around him. His plan to digitize the reception desk, which he thought wouldn't be approved, is surprisingly greenlit. Jo Takumi is then placed in charge of laying off people who work at the reception desk. He faces strong opposition from the reception desk team. To understand their work better, Jo Takumi begins to work at the reception desk...
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Title: The Files of Young Kindaichi
Released: April 24, 2022
Type: TV
Kindaichi Hajime is a high school student and a private detective with an IQ of 180. He solves murder cases that are riddled with difficult clues. Kindaichi Hajime works with his childhood friend Nanase Miyuki and Kenmochi Isamu. Kenmochi Isamu is now the chief inspector of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
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Shukatsu Time Capsule
Title: Shukatsu Time Capsule
Released: March 27, 2022
Type: Movie
Asai Takuma is a fourth year college student who is having a hard time finding a job and is desperate for the sake of his future with girlfriend, Shintani Risa. One day, he was asked out by his childhood friends Eiichi and Mamiko to dig out a time capsule that was buried 10 years ago. The time capsule contains a letter from Takuma himself in the past. However, Takuma also receives a letter from himself 10 years later with a "shocking future". He decides to collaborate with the future him to change his life.
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Extraneous Matter Complete Edition
Title: Extraneous Matter Complete Edition
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 15, 2022
Type: Movie
Compilation of the four short films in the Extraneous Matter series.
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Title: Love's in Sight!
Character: Sora Shimura
Released: October 6, 2021
Type: TV
Yukiko Akaza attends a high school for blind. She has amblyopia, which causes her to recognize colors only vaguely and she can recognize large letters with a magnifying glass. When she walks outdoors, she always carries a white cane. Nevertheless, she has a bright personality. One day, Yukiko happens to meet delinquent boy Morio Kurokawa. At first, Yukiko doesn't like him, but she somehow gains an understanding of him. They become attracted to each other.
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Inubu: The Dog Club
Title: Inubu: The Dog Club
Character: Kawase Mika
Released: July 22, 2021
Type: Movie
Hanai Sota is 22-years-old and a university student in the veterinary department. Since he was little, he has always loved animals. His apartment is full of animals that needed help. One day, Hanai Sota saves a dog that was being used in experiments. To save more of the animals, he sets up the "Inubu" club. His friend Shibasaki Ryosuke, among other people, joins the group. Shibasaki Ryosuke also loves dogs and is a student in the same veterinary department as Hanai Sota. They work hard to protect the animals. 16 years later, a report comes out. The report is about Hanai Sota, who was arrested.
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Title: Night Brunch
Released: April 21, 2021
Type: TV
Night version of "King's Brunch". Targeting younger people than the head family, introducing the latest trendy information with a lot of elements of laughter.
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Title: How to Get a Divorce for the Whole Family!
Character: Jun Ichinose
Released: April 16, 2021
Type: TV
Mizuguchi Saki is an outstanding fashion magazine editor who grew up in a modern and liberal family. She meets Obara Koichi who is the ace of the Air Rescue Wing of the Air Self Defence Force. He grew up in a strict military family and is the classic straight-laced guy.
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Title: Girl Gun Lady
Character: Higashino Natsuki
Released: April 5, 2021
Type: TV
Koharu is a dull high school girl who is always alone. Her only hobby is making plastic models. One day, Koharu stops by a mysterious antique shop and purchases a plastic model gun and a toy figure named Alice. After spending the entire night assembling the gun, Koharu wakes up and witnesses bullets flying everywhere in school. She then meets Alice who moves like a human and tells her to get ready for a survival battle called "Girl Gun Fight", where she has to attack her schoolmates with a gun.
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Title: Rika: Reverse
Character: Amamiya Rika
Released: March 20, 2021
Type: TV
Adapted from the novel "Rika", this series depicts the younger days of the lead character Rika from the original drama series in 2019.
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Rolling Marbles
Title: Rolling Marbles
Character: Miki
Released: February 7, 2020
Type: Movie
Shibuya in Tokyo, a city that continues to change due to redevelopment. At a house in the corner of Shibuya, Ai dreaming of a model, Mizuho working for the editorial department of a magazine, and musician Erika live together. This story is about the modest cohabitation of the three.
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さぶ
Title: さぶ
Released: January 11, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: Yuru Camp△
Character: Chiaki Ōgaki
Released: January 9, 2020
Type: TV
This is the story of a winter day. Kagamihara Nadeshiko, a female high school student who moved from Shizuoka to Yamanashi, rode a bicycle to see Mt. Fuji, but unfortunately, the weather was cloudy and Mt. Fuji cannot be seen. Tired, Nadeshiko falls asleep on the spot and wakes up at night. This is her first time going there and she didn't know how to return. Fortunately, Shima Rin, a girl who loves camping, saves her. They lit a bonfire to warm up and the sound of the blazing firewood permeates the silence of the lake.
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Title: GHOSTTOWN
Released: March 22, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: Southern Beach Love Story
Character: Kayo Hanazono
Released: October 12, 2018
Type: TV
Kayo (Momoko Tanabe) is 17-year-old high school student. One day, Kayo (Kayo Noro]) from the future appears in front of 17-year-old Kayo . Kayo from future tells her that she is 30-years-old, single and still a virgin. 17-year-old Kayo is stunned. To change her future, 17-year-old Kayo begins to take action.
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Title: Literary Virgin
Character: Chiyoka Amamura
Released: September 9, 2018
Type: TV
Kanoko Tsukishiro is a 26-year-old woman who doesn't know what love is. She works in the literature editorial department. Saku Kagaya is a popular novelist who can not love. They fall in love with each other.
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Sunny: Our Hearts Beat Together
Title: Sunny: Our Hearts Beat Together
Character: Young Kokoro
Released: August 31, 2018
Type: Movie
A group of friends from high school days reunite for once more time before one of them dies from cancer.
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Love and Lies
Title: Love and Lies
Character: Akiho
Released: October 14, 2017
Type: Movie
The Japanese government carries out a program to increase the birth rate in the country. Their program analyzes gene information from its residents and selects a marriage partner for them. Aoi Nisaka is a high school student. She is in a love triangle with childhood friend Yuto Shiba and Sosuke Takachiho. Sosuke Takachiho is appointed by the government to become her husband.
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Innocent Curse
Title: Innocent Curse
Released: June 17, 2017
Type: Movie
A suburban town is faced with a series of bizarre incidents in which children disappear and three days later an adult in their life dies. A mysterious "child whisperer" phantom appears before journalist Shunya, who is investigating the incidents, and his girlfriend Naomi.
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Bōkyō
Title: Bōkyō
Character: (segment "Mikan no hana")
Released: September 28, 2016
Type: Movie
Three stories from Shiratsuna Island: "Mikan no hana" Shiratsuna Island is the only remaining island city in Japan, but it is being merged with a city on the opposite shore. Housewife Misato Tomita lives on the island. "Umi no hoshi" Yōhei Hamasaki, who was born on Shiratsuna Island, lives in an apartment in the outskirts of Tokyo with his wife, Tomomi, and their son, Taichi. "Kumo no ito" Popular artist Hirotaka Kurosaki, who is a native of Shiratsuna Island, goes back to his hometown after seven years.
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Sinbad - Night at High Noon and the Wonder Gate
Title: Sinbad - Night at High Noon and the Wonder Gate
Character: Sana (voice)
Released: May 14, 2016
Type: Movie
The search for Sana’s comrades continues. Sara who opens up her heart to Sinbad reveals her horrible story of how her father’s apprentice Galip destroyed the peaceful kingdom and her family by using the wizardly power. Suddenly the Magic Lamp shows the passage “to the Wonder Gate to the land of ancestors that appears in the Night at High Noon,” but Galip’s solders block their path.
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Sinbad - The Magical Lamp and the Moving Island
Title: Sinbad - The Magical Lamp and the Moving Island
Character: Sana (voice)
Released: January 16, 2016
Type: Movie
Sinbad and his friends run afoul of a storm while riding on the ship Bahal. Ali sights an island, which the ship heads toward to make repairs. Sinbad and Sana board a dinghy and land on the island. Sana sees a vision of a magical lamp, and Sinbad and the others set out to find it.
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Half & Half
Title: Half & Half
Released: November 7, 2015
Type: Movie
A lonely young girl who has lost her mother wears a blindfold all day and believes she has only half the world. Until one day she meets a middle-aged man who also claims to have only half the world in the graffiti world of her desk ......
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Sinbad - The Flying Princess and the Secret Island
Title: Sinbad - The Flying Princess and the Secret Island
Character: Sana (voice)
Released: July 4, 2015
Type: Movie
Sinbad: Sora Tobu Hime to Himitsu no Shima is an upcoming Japanese animated family adventure film inspired by Arabian Nights. The film is produced by Nippon Animation and Shirogumi, directed by Shinpei Miyashita and written by Kaeko Hayafune.
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Nobody's Perfect
Title: Nobody's Perfect
Released: March 23, 2013
Type: Movie
"Daijobu 3 Kumi" depicts the interactions between new teacher Shinnosuke Akao, who was born without arms and legs, and the 28 students in his 5th grade class, told from the vantage point of school board member Yusaku Shiraishi
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Tormented
Title: Tormented
Released: August 16, 2011
Type: Movie
To his mute sister's dismay, a young boy puts a dying rabbit out of its misery with a brick -- and soon the siblings end up in a world of nightmares.
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Sazae-san 3
Title: Sazae-san 3
Released: January 2, 2011
Type: Movie
A TV special movie aired in Japan.
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28½
Title: 28½
Character: Shotaro
Released: July 31, 2010
Type: Movie
Crew and actors prepare for Mamoru Oshii's stage version of Tetsujin 28.
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Title: Moyashimon
Released: July 8, 2010
Type: TV
The story follows a college student who discovers that he can see and communicate with the germs all around him — germs that appear as super-deformed characters.