Akiko Monou

Akiko Monou

Born: April 2, 1976
in Kanagawa, Japan
Akiko Monō ( Monō Akiko, born 2 April 1976 in Kanagawa, Japan) is a Japanese actress and model.

Monō did spots for, amongst others, Nike, before Hiroyuki Nakano caught sight of her in a video clip and cast her in Samurai Fiction, her film debut. She has since worked with Nakano in his Stereo Future and the short film Slow is Beautiful.

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Ugly
Title: Ugly
Released: December 10, 2011
Type: Movie
Kazuya is an aimless photographer in Paris who attempts suicide while visiting the city. He goes to see his half-brother Satoshi who lives there, but finds his two roommates instead and they seem to be hiding something.
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Dusk Dahlia
Title: Dusk Dahlia
Character: 由起子
Released: November 26, 2011
Type: Movie
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Zero nendai zenkei
Title: Zero nendai zenkei
Released: December 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Kumiko Hoshizaki’s “Akane Sasu Heya” is the story of Maki, a 20-something temp who is sick of her boring job and life in general. The rather bizarre solution she comes up with is to conceive a child behind her boyfriend’s back. Makoto Nagahisa offers the much more impressionistic “Frog.” The story meanders around a bunch of unrelated characters, using experimental techniques like repeated scenes, hallucinatory visuals, blurred shots and disconnected sounds. Lastly, we have “Bouquet Garni,” a much more conventional work from director Junpei Hatano. The plot is centered on a reporter, the relative of a kidnapping victim, and a woman who is obsessed with the case.
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Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
Title: Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
Character: Yuriko
Released: September 5, 2009
Type: Movie
When the son of an American man and a Japanese women is killed, the man transforms into Tetsuo.
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A Story of Anna
Title: A Story of Anna
Released: December 10, 2008
Type: Movie
A young woman escapes from a city in the near future, where people's anger is medically controlled, and drifts away to a lonely island. It is the developer of the emotion-controlling medicine who finds her and marries her. Her memory is erased and she starts an entirely new quiet life as a different person. But an unexpected incident happens; many people get hurt; the truth is revealed; then she falls in love... And this is a comedy after all!
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After School
Title: After School
Released: May 24, 2008
Type: Movie
A middle school teacher, Jinno, is friends with a young couple that is about to have a baby. But on the eve of the birth, the father, Kimura, disappears. Then, a hired private detective appears and ask Jinno's help to find Kimura.
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The Ramen Girl
Title: The Ramen Girl
Released: February 8, 2008
Type: Movie
An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.
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Konna otona no onnanoko
Title: Konna otona no onnanoko
Character: Masami Ihara
Released: November 10, 2007
Type: Movie
Based on the comic book by Marie Abiko.
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Baumkuchen
Title: Baumkuchen
Released: September 27, 2007
Type: Movie
Four different worlds are connected through the "Baumkuchen Seeds of Happiness." The World of the Kawanobe's - Three brothers, Taro (Mame Yamada), Jiro (Hiroshi Yamamoto), and Hiroto (Shoichi Honda) who is a so-called NEET (short for "Not in Employment, Education, or Training) make up the Kawanobe household. The World of a Bar - Two men (Mame Yamada and Hiroshi Yamamoto) sits in a bar and discusses the Kawanobe brothers' love story. The World of Yumi - Yumi is reading a novel about the characters in the bar. The World of a Novelist - Novelist Masatoshi (Shoichi Honda) is writing a novel about Yumi. In their own worlds, in their own way, each character will find a way to arrive at their happiness.
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United Red Army
Title: United Red Army
Released: August 26, 2007
Type: Movie
The film is told in three acts, beginning with a historical background of Japan's student movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, mostly using archive footage and a narrator. The second act follows the formation of the group to their mountain training camps in the southern Japanese Alps. It emphasizes the dogmatic (and eventually hypocritical) bullying of the group by Mori and Nagata, with 12 members being killed for infractions as small as improperly cleaning a gun, wearing make-up, and kissing. The third act shows the splitting up of the group after two members run off. It follows one group of five members to Karuizawa and a hostage-taking and police standoff known as the Asama-Sansō incident.
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Woman Transformation
Title: Woman Transformation
Released: January 13, 2007
Type: Movie
Kamei mixes humour, drama and, in this occasion, bits of horror to visualize the physical transformation in yôkai that the three main actresses undergo. Mihiro Iwasaki (Anri Ban) is a model extremely preoccupied by how others look at and think of her. Then, her nails start growing disproportionately until they become killing weapons. Michiko Yamane (Mariko Miyamitsu) is an unsociable university student and part-time worker in her early twenties only crazy for a hobby. At night she becomes a rokurokubi (female yokai with an extremely long and flexible neck). Finally, Mana Saeki (Haruki Ichikawa) is a last year junior high school student with a very bad character and very distrustful of all her friends, who metamorphoses into a nopperabo (yokai without face).
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Colors
Title: Colors
Released: July 15, 2006
Type: Movie
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No-Pants Girls: Movie Box-ing2
Title: No-Pants Girls: Movie Box-ing2
Released: June 4, 2004
Type: Movie
No Pants Girls is a 3 segment film directed by Sono Sion, Shô Tsukikawa and Reiko Saito. They deal with girls discovering sexuality, through their innocent eyes. The actors and actresses are the same in the three films.
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Lost in Translation
Title: Lost in Translation
Character: P Chan
Released: September 18, 2003
Type: Movie
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
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Kakuto
Title: Kakuto
Released: July 26, 2003
Type: Movie
A very energetic, fresh and skilful début in DV from young Tokyo actor and model. Hanging out, clubbing and drugging, a young band of friends get way in over their heads when they inadvertently lose a stash of drugs they're meant to deal to their friends.
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SHORT FILMS
Title: SHORT FILMS
Released: March 8, 2003
Type: Movie
Omnibus of six short films: Return; Ken-do star; Hana to oji-san; Adagietto Sehr, langsam; Nakayoki koto wa yoki koto ka na; Slow is Beautiful. Third installment of "SF" series produced by Hiroyuki Nakano.
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Stereo Future
Title: Stereo Future
Character: Eri Momozaki
Released: June 5, 2001
Type: Movie
Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a director who has nothing but scorn for him, but who continually fawns over the film’s obnoxious ham of a star.
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Samurai Fiction
Title: Samurai Fiction
Character: Ninja Akakage
Released: October 27, 1998
Type: Movie
A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.
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聖夜の奇跡 あなたの好きな愛はどれ?
Title: 聖夜の奇跡 あなたの好きな愛はどれ?
Released: December 23, 1995
Type: Movie
A foreign student from Taiwan, Mr. Bell, attends language school in Japan and meets Miss Sato there. He falls in love with her, but doesn't dare to open his heart to her. Nevertheless, on Christmas night miracles do happen.