Serena Motola

Serena Motola

Born: October 9, 1998
in Tokyo, Japan
A Japanese model and actress with a multicultural background, Serena Motola is an only child to her Italian American father and Japanese mother. Serena was scouted while shopping in Harajuku. She has modelled for various brands, with many appearances in editorials, photo-books, and as a subject in a photography exhibition.

Movies for Serena Motola...

Ice Cream Fever
Title: Ice Cream Fever
Character: Saho Hashimoto
Released: July 14, 2023
Type: Movie
Follows the story in which the thoughts and lives of four women in their teens to 30s intersect.
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Title: Gudetama: An Eggcellent Adventure
Character: Suzuki [Assistant director]
Released: December 13, 2022
Type: TV
Gudetama, the lazy egg, reluctantly embarks on an adventure of a lifetime with Shakipiyo, a newly hatched chick, who is determined to find their mother.
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Offbeat Cops
Title: Offbeat Cops
Character: Miyuki Kashiwagi
Released: August 26, 2022
Type: Movie
Tsukasa Naruse works as a detective. He is enthusiastic with his job. To catch criminals, he sometimes breaks rules that detectives should follow. Tsukasa works on a voice phishing case that targets elderly people. He targets a suspect without a warrant. Due to his, Tsukasa gets transferred to the police musical band.
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Haw
Title: Haw
Released: August 19, 2022
Type: Movie
Tamio Akanishi works at a public office in Yokohama. He is going through one of the worst periods of his life, having been left by his fiancée. One day, his boss tells him to take care of a big, white dog, abandoned by its previous owner. Tamio begins to live with the dog, who doesn't bark and only makes a sound that sounds like "haw", and thus he names it Haw. While living together, the connection between the two deepens.
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Title: Chair
Character: Natsuki
Released: May 27, 2022
Type: TV
An omnibus drama depicting the stories of 8 women and 8 unique chairs.
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Title: Chair
Character: Saya
Released: May 27, 2022
Type: TV
An omnibus drama depicting the stories of 8 women and 8 unique chairs.
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xxxHOLiC
Title: xxxHOLiC
Character: Morodashi
Released: April 29, 2022
Type: Movie
To be free of his dark visions, Kimihiro Watanuki will work for Dimensional Witch Yūko, a mystical woman quick to help those in a bind—for a fee.
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Shrieking in the Rain
Title: Shrieking in the Rain
Character: Yoshie
Released: November 12, 2021
Type: Movie
At a movie studio in 1988, rookie director Hanako Hayashi is making her directorial debut, the erotic As Far as Love Will Take Us. She's under pressure from her producer and crew. When she is about to shoot the climax of the film, numerous problems arise. To make matters worse, the set is visited by a censor from the Film Certification Committee, and the key scenes end up being cut out to avoid an R rating. Can Hanako realise her dream?
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Title: Solomon's Perjury
Released: October 3, 2021
Type: TV
On Christmas morning, Fujino Ryoko finds her classmate Kashiwagi Takuya’s dead body at their snow covered school. The police and the school conclude that Kashiwagi Takuya died by suicide. At that time, an anonymous letter is delivered to Fujino Ryoko. The letter states that Kashiwagi Takuya was murdered by a group of students including Ooide Shunji. The media and SNS begin to question whether Kashiwagi Takuya really died by suicide or was he murdered. The school principal tries to take control of the narrative, but this leads to a more chaotic situation. Fujino Ryoko is disturbed by people's reaction to Kashiwagi Takuya’s death. She asks for a trial and an unprecedented school trial begins.
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Memories
Title: Memories
Released: September 8, 2021
Type: Movie
I read a fairy tale called "The Girl Who Destroyed the World." The girl's name is Marin. The word means "sea". Marin was born as the daughter of the king of Aska. She was supposed to live a bright life as a lovely princess, but she soon closed her heart and began to wish for the end of the world.
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Title: FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS
Character: Woman in Love with a Woman
Released: March 29, 2021
Type: TV
Kiyomi Koike is a 16-year-old girl. She has all these different emotions intertwined in her mind. One day, she suddenly blurts out "What is a woman?" She then hears a DJ's voice in her head. The voice states "Women's Songs! Radio FM999 starts." The DJ in Kiyomi Koike’s head proceeds to spin songs that matches her worries. With her eyes closed, Kiyomi Koike meets various women in the world of music and learns from them.
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Our Sweetest Murder Plan
Title: Our Sweetest Murder Plan
Character: Ema
Released: December 11, 2020
Type: Movie
Actress and model Serena Motola joins former idol and current YouTuber Michela Sato, in a short film that depicts them as sisters who plan to kill their beloved father after he says he wants to remarry.
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Title: Tokyo Design Story
Released: December 2, 2020
Type: TV
Mutsumi (Serena Motola) is a rookie designer and she is employed at small design company Lemon Design. She is busy with prep work for magazine shoots, like scouting locations and working with photographers. She has doubts about her work not being that of a designer. Tetsuko (Megumi) senses Mutsumi’s feelings. She tells Mutsumi that she is a salaryman. Mutsumi doesn’t understand why Tetsuko told her that.
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21st Century Girl
Title: 21st Century Girl
Character: (segment "Out of Fashion")
Released: September 3, 2020
Type: Movie
21st Century Girl is an omnibus feature that is of the girls, by the girls and for the girls. The work of 15 women directors under the age of 30, each of whom contributed an 8-minute film, the package highlights a range of genres, visions and thematic concerns.
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To You
Title: To You
Released: July 7, 2020
Type: Movie
Time passes faster here, I just realized I'm in a different world Stars are beautiful tho. What color is your dream?
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Love Dou Hua
Title: Love Dou Hua
Released: February 22, 2020
Type: Movie
Nao, who disagrees with her boyfriend often and tends to skip class, gets offered by her father, Hirokazu, to join Aya, who is about to be his third wife, on a trip to Taiwan for a week. In contrast to Nao who is reluctant, Aya wants to get to know her future step daughter better. Eating, walking, meetng people. Will this experience change Nao?
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Voices in the Wind
Title: Voices in the Wind
Character: Haru
Released: January 24, 2020
Type: Movie
In her search for answers, 17-year-old Haru sets out on a long journey across the country to the town where, in 2011, the devastating tsunami swept away her brother and parents. This road trip takes the young woman, who is still haunted by her loss, from Hiroshima to Tokyo and Fukushima and all the way to Ōtsuchi, where her family home once stood. On the way she encounters other people, other stories, other lives and other losses. Landscapes and faces. The journey ends in the middle of a garden in full bloom among the scarred surroundings of her coastal hometown.. In it stands a telephone box which, even though it is no longer connected, is used to speak to those who cannot be reached any other way.
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Cat's Home
Title: Cat's Home
Character: Rina
Released: January 18, 2020
Type: Movie
Annoying, such a cat hair allergy - the cat has to go! Hiroshi's ex-girlfriend Rina wants to take her in, but besides allergens there are also a lot of memories flying through the air.
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Life: Untitled
Title: Life: Untitled
Released: November 2, 2019
Type: Movie
Follows a group of female escorts who are living life as best they can.
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Black School Rules
Title: Black School Rules
Character: Kio Machida
Released: November 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Sōra is a high school student who is basically invisible at school. He is friends with Chūya, who is an unpredictable character that often surprises those around him. Sōra and Chūya both have feelings for the same classmate, Kio Machida. The Machida girl refuses to come to class, because she doesn't want to dye her naturally brown hair black. Their school has unreasonable school rules, especially about uniforms, which include requiring all students to have black hair. Sōra and Chūya decide to stand up to change their school's black school rules so that Machida won’t have to repeat a year of school from missing too many classes.
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Title: Black School Rules
Released: October 15, 2019
Type: TV
Sōra is a 2nd-grade high school student, but he is virtually invisible at school. He is friends with Chūya. Chūya's personality is completely different from Sōra. Chūya does unpredictable things and that surprises those around him. Sōra and Chūya both have feelings for the same girl at their school. The girl refuses to attend school, because she doesn't want to change her brown hair to black. Their school has unreasonable rules, including requiring all students to have black hair. For the girl that Sōra and Chūya like, they stand up to change their school's black school rules.
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My Father, the Bride
Title: My Father, the Bride
Character: Daria
Released: May 3, 2019
Type: Movie
Toka returns to the island she grew up to attend her mother's second memorial service. She finds out that her father Seiji is wearing her mother's clothes. As if that doesn't come as enough of a shock, Seiji even tells Toka that he is getting married again to a man named Kazuo. The film explores the particular incident and the life of the island people with a humorous touch.
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After School Soda Weather Special Edition
Title: After School Soda Weather Special Edition
Released: April 22, 2019
Type: Movie
Right before summer vacation, classmates Sana, Momo, and Muuko talked for the first time. With just one coin in hand (500 yen), the three tired from school girls found the world's most delicious drink: "Cream Soda". This is a precious time they don't want to forget. How can they make sure to remember it? Photos, videos, and 140 characters loosen in SNS seem somewhat wrong. With plus 200 yen, a 17-year-old can extend it a little, in this summer, after school.
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Les Misérables
Title: Les Misérables
Released: January 6, 2019
Type: Movie
This feature drama, produced to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Fuji TV, is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic masterpiece Les Miserables set in the 1990s in Japan. In Kobe in 1993, Jun Baba gets taken to a juvenile prison due to a killing of a man who cheated his mother out of all her money in self-defense. One day, he hears that his younger brother, who has been desperately ill, is in a critical condition and breaks out. However, he finds out his brother is already dead. In the depth of despair, he tries to kill himself but is saved by a man who runs a self-support facility. He begins to live at the place, and befriends with Takumi Watanabe aspiring to be a lawyer. In 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake hits and their friendship comes to an end. Crushed under the debris, Takumi persuades Jun to live his life instead. Jun swears to live on assuming Takumi's identity.
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Souvenir
Title: Souvenir
Character: Self
Released: November 20, 2018
Type: Movie
With the short film series, the director reimagines what a "souvenir" can be in a world of rapid-fire technology – not inanimate objects, but meaningful moments – and rescues the almost forgotten feeling of receiving an analog personal delivery.
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Title: An Invisible Cradle
Character: Harumi Miura
Released: July 20, 2018
Type: TV
17-year-old Aoi came to Yui Obstetrics and Gynecology clinic as a part-time nurse apprentice in Summer 1997. Right after her entry, she is shocked after witnessing an abortion surgery. However, she also met staff members like Yui, the head of the clinic who is careful about everything, Sayako, a reliable and experienced nurse, and Sakaki, the gentle head nurse, who face each pregnant patient and support them after surgeries. Fumika, Aoi's mother, is worried about her clumsy nature and poor communication skills, but Aoi's unique compassion and kindness draws patients' hearts. "I wonder what's life..." Aoi matures while looking at the newborn babies' overwhelming life and asking herself that question.
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Girls' Encounter
Title: Girls' Encounter
Character: Tsumugi Tomita
Released: June 30, 2018
Type: Movie
School girl Miyuri Obara is bullied mercilessly but finds relief in an unexpected friendship with Tsumugi. Yet even as Miyuri's life turns around there's a lingering suggestion that something is not quite right.
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Crying Bitch
Title: Crying Bitch
Released: May 25, 2018
Type: Movie
An unfaithful husband discovers a dark side to his wife that proves to be very frightening.