Mie Nakao

Mie Nakao

Born: June 6, 1946

Movies for Mie Nakao...

Orange Lamp
Title: Orange Lamp
Released: June 30, 2023
Type: Movie
Tanno Tomofumi, diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer's at the age of 39, Orange Lamp followed a married couple's nine years after realizing that life has no reason to surrender to an disease.
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Title: 3000 Yen: How to Enrich Life
Character: Mikuriya Kotoko
Released: January 7, 2023
Type: TV
This is a story of three generations of women in the Mikuriya family, seriously thinking about "What kind of life do I want to lead?" and overcoming their problems by saving money. Mikuriya Miho is the second daughter of the family and has just started living alone after finding a job with a decent salary. Miho has been dreaming of becoming a working adult with a wonderful boyfriend, but an event causes her to rethink her life.
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Title: Sono Onna, Jiruba
Released: January 9, 2021
Type: TV
40-year-old Usui Arata had worked as a salesperson for her dream company but right before her marriage, she is betrayed by her fiancée. Not only is her engagement broken off, she is demoted to work at the logistics warehouse in the name of restructuring. Arata’s future is bleak. She has no dream, savings or boyfriend and wonders whether her life will end just like this? This day is her 40th birthday but no one celebrates it with her. The only thing she receives are e-mails from online shopping sites. On her way to the workplace from the company dormitory on a typical dull morning, Arata notices an elderly woman crouching by the side of the road. There is no one in this corner of the city to help her. It feels as if she is seeing herself 40 years later and she instinctively extends a hand to the woman.
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Goldfish Princess
Title: Goldfish Princess
Released: March 29, 2020
Type: Movie
One day, Ezawa Jun, who has trouble with work and in love, gets a ryukin from a goldfish scooping game at a festival. However, she is actually a beautiful girl and she suddenly turns into a human form and appears in front of Jun. Called Ryu, she is looking for the legendary black ranchu and asks Jun for his help. The two strangers begin living together and growing closer. Their fate goes in an unexpected direction.
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Title: 新・ミナミの帝王~ニンベンの女~
Released: January 13, 2018
Type: TV
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A Stitch of Life
Title: A Stitch of Life
Character: Teacher Izumi
Released: January 31, 2015
Type: Movie
Ichie is the owner of a dressmaking shop. Her grandmother started the shop and now Ichie runs the business. Her clothes are made with an old sewing machine and are very popular. Following her grandmother’s will, Ichie only makes clothes for individuals and turns down offers to turn her clothing into a brand.
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It's a Beautiful Life - Irodori
Title: It's a Beautiful Life - Irodori
Character: Michiko ozeki
Released: September 15, 2012
Type: Movie
A group of elderly women come together to sell vegetable leaves.
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Title: Solitary Gourmet
Released: January 4, 2012
Type: TV
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.
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Death Trance
Title: Death Trance
Character: Sword-wielding sister (right)
Released: December 9, 2005
Type: Movie
In an unknown place and unknown time, a lone Samurai known only as Grave thirsts for the ultimate battle.
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4Teen
Title: 4Teen
Released: July 25, 2003
Type: Movie
Naoto, the son of a wealthy family, suffers from Werner syndrome, a premature aging condition; Dai is an overweight child troubled by his penniless father's drunken violence; Jun, a gifted student, is the foursome's natural leader; and Tetsuro is average...
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Title: Cross of Roses
Character: Sae Kudo
Released: October 10, 2002
Type: TV
A new kind of melodrama about a man that wants children, but can't have them with his wife; and a single-woman that wants to have a child of her own. It is also about what children mean to both sexes.
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'Hood
Title: 'Hood
Released: August 22, 1998
Type: Movie
Camping on the streets of Tokyo, Michio meets Chihiro, a dancer, whom he makes fun of at first, but later befriends. Together they join a team of aspiring dancers and aim to make their professional debut. Michio and Chihiro gradually develop feelings for each other but, triggered by jealousy, Michio's old friends try to come in between them.
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The Hit-and-Run Family
Title: The Hit-and-Run Family
Released: December 19, 1992
Type: Movie
Set in the 1990s, this film uses black humour to cast a sharp, satirical eye at the problems facing modern Japanese families. Hiroshi accidentally hits a young woman with his car and flees in panic. He confesses to his wife, Yoko, who persuades him to keep quiet as his arrest would mean the end for their already troubled family. Their daughter is having an affair with a married man, their son is being bullied and refusing to go to school and their grandfather is becoming more difficult. Yoko urges the family to move the car into the living room in order to destroy the evidence by taking it apart. Hiroshi finally decides to do the honest thing but a series of bizarre incidents then ensues...
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Via Okinawa
Title: Via Okinawa
Released: June 9, 1989
Type: Movie
During the Vietnam War era, the influx of American soldiers to Okinawa boosted the local economy and introduced many bars and nightclubs. With exhausting displays of energy, Sai presents a whirlwind romance between a local rocker and the daughter of a mixed American-Okinawan marriage.
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Mexican Free-for-All
Title: Mexican Free-for-All
Released: April 27, 1968
Type: Movie
A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.
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Zatoichi Challenged
Title: Zatoichi Challenged
Character: Miyuki
Released: December 30, 1967
Type: Movie
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save tha man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.
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Everybody, Let's Go!
Title: Everybody, Let's Go!
Character: Etsuko Shirasaka
Released: August 5, 1967
Type: Movie
A new stationmaster is appointed to a dilapidated local line. On top of the failing local line feuding for hot spring customers with a bus company looking to start a new route, they even get involved in a disappearance and a murder...
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Till We Meet Again
Title: Till We Meet Again
Released: June 1, 1966
Type: Movie
College life starts off great for Michiko. She and her friend join the Italian Culture Research Club that performs canzone, a genre they are both in love with. The only problem is that the club doesn't have enough money to buy instruments for them to play. One day, the two come across a talent show called the "Mari Sono Look-Alike Contest" that promises the winner a cash prize. And Michiko looks a lot like the star.
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Nippon Ichi no Goma Suri Otoko
Title: Nippon Ichi no Goma Suri Otoko
Released: May 29, 1965
Type: Movie
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You Can Succeed, Too
Title: You Can Succeed, Too
Character: Ryôko Mita
Released: May 30, 1964
Type: Movie
A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.
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Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong
Title: Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong
Released: December 22, 1963
Type: Movie
Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer.
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The Maid Story
Title: The Maid Story
Released: June 16, 1963
Type: Movie
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.
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Crazy Operation
Title: Crazy Operation
Released: March 24, 1963
Type: Movie
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Yume de aimasho
Title: Yume de aimasho
Released: September 15, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Kakkoii wakamono tachi
Title: Kakkoii wakamono tachi
Released: August 12, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Me and Me
Title: Me and Me
Released: August 11, 1962
Type: Movie
Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original released alongside another Toho comedy, King Kong vs. Godzilla.