Maiko Kawakami

Maiko Kawakami

Born: February 5, 1966
in Stockholm, Sweden
Maiko Kawakami (川上 麻衣子, Kawakami Maiko, born February 5, 1966) is a Swedish-born Japanese actress who has starred in numerous movies and TV serials. She is a graduate of Keio University through distance education.

Movies for Maiko Kawakami...

Title: Kanban Neko
Released: February 22, 2022
Type: TV
Takahashi Koume is a newbie magazine reporter. Takahashi Koume is a newbie reporter for a magazine and is being urged by the editor-in-chief, Sae Niimura, to come up with a plan for a new serial. It's hard to find a plan that will grab the readers' attention. In a hurry, Kome finds a bookstore specializing in cats called "Nyankodo". She goes there to meet a lot of cats and store owners for the series. Kome gradually grows up by listening to the many encounters and kind episodes between the store owners and cats everywhere she goes.
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Title: Keishicho Kyokohan Gakari Higuchi Akira
Released: January 15, 2021
Type: TV
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Labyrinth of Cinema
Title: Labyrinth of Cinema
Character: Aihime / Chinese Woman in the Waterfall
Released: July 31, 2020
Type: Movie
The only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of screenings will be an all-night marathon of Japanese war films. When lightning strikes the theater, three young men in the audience find themselves thrown back in time into the world inside the screen.
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クソみたいな映画
Title: クソみたいな映画
Released: July 3, 2020
Type: Movie
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Night's Tightrope
Title: Night's Tightrope
Released: October 8, 2016
Type: Movie
Yuki is a 2nd year high school student. She volunteers at a paediatrics ward for her summer vacation, because she wants to witness the moment a person dies. She got that thought after feeling envious of a transfer student's story of seeing a friend's dead body. Yuki has friend named Atsuko. She was bullied in the past and has anxiety issues. She volunteers at a nursing home for her summer vacation, hoping that she will gain courage if she sees the moment a person dies.
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Title: 人形佐七捕物帳
Released: October 4, 2016
Type: TV
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Title: New: Love and Hatred
Character: [Takahisa's mother]
Released: November 30, 2015
Type: TV
Botan and Miwako are half sisters. As Miwako comes of age, she is forced by her mother to break up with her boyfriend, who then starts stalking her. Both Miwako and Botan get entangled in the situation and things turn for the worse. This is a story of a turbulent love-hate relationship between the two women.
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Yoko the Cherry Blossom
Title: Yoko the Cherry Blossom
Character: Shizuka
Released: November 21, 2015
Type: Movie
In 1940, Masaaki Takaoka works as a teacher in the agricultural division at a youth training institute. Although Japan’s defeat seems imminent, all of Masaaki’s students are drafted in a futile last-ditch effort. In an attempt to give the young men some hope, he makes everyone promise that they will all meet again under the cherry blossoms upon their safe return. Consumed by sadness over the fate of his students, Masaaki devotes the next 30 years of his life to develop a new species of cherry blossoms that could thrive in any climate in remembrance of his students.
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Terminal Station Series - Umbrella of Goodwill
Title: Terminal Station Series - Umbrella of Goodwill
Character: Chieko Akiba
Released: September 26, 2015
Type: Movie
Masanao Ushio and other detectives from Shinjuku West PD discover the strangled dead body of a woman in an empty building in West Shinjuku in Tokyo. According to her husband Takeshi, the murdered Chieko Akiba was a top salesperson at the insurance company where she worked, but quit her job three months ago and planned to open a beauty salon after buying the building which happens to be the crime scene. The call history on her mobile phone reveals the victim answered a call at 8:16 PM and is presumed to have been murdered immediately afterwards. However, Ushio is surprised to hear who was on the other side of the call: Kyoko Yamano, a woman who accompanied Ushio under an umbrella on a rainy night one year ago and whose husband was killed by someone that very night...
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A Samurai Chronicle
Title: A Samurai Chronicle
Released: October 4, 2014
Type: Movie
A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life.
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Title: Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
Released: October 18, 2012
Type: TV
Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of said program to fill the empty spots at least temporary. However, Michiko doesn’t look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude. In the first episode she raises objections to a certain operation which is planned to be done by the head of a hospital who hasn’t performed an operation for a very long time. This causes Michiko to incur odium at the hospital, however, everyone becomes frozen when Michiko points out the outdated skills of the director. She also holds a scrupulous compliance when it comes to her working hours, never does any unnecessary chores that don’t require a medical license, and couldn’t care less about the power struggles within the hospitals. Nobody knows how she acquired such a top-level skill that allows her to claim exorbitant sums as reward, but her private life is an even greater mystery to everyone around her. Tanaka plays a rookie surgeon, Uchida an anesthetist, Kishibe the head of the placement service, and Ito the head of the surgical department of this institution.
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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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Tomie: Unlimited
Title: Tomie: Unlimited
Character: Kimiko Izumikawa
Released: May 14, 2011
Type: Movie
Tsukiko is part of the photography club at school, but has always felt less than her sister Tomie. She's cute and very popular among boys. However, one day, Tomie dies in a horrible accident, triggering endless nightmares for Tsukiko. One year later, right when Tomie was supposed to turn 18, someone knocks on the door. Tomie is back.
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Title: The Best Skilled Surgeon
Released: January 10, 2011
Type: TV
A young genius surgeon named Mikoto Saijou was born with a serious heart disease. While he was a little boy he got surgery of the leading Japanese heart surgeon Mamoru Shindo and his life was miraculously saved. Mikoto was inspired by the magnificent skill of Dr. Shindo and later he became a world leading pediatric surgeon. With his miracle skill and technique, he challenges difficult surgery and makes them to succeed one after another. Save the lives of children will make the future, Mikoto believes.
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Partners
Title: Partners
Released: November 6, 2010
Type: Movie
19-year-old freeter (a Japanese expression for people between the ages of 15 and 34 who lack full time employment or are unemployed, excluding housewives and students.) Tsuyoshi Osanai enters a school for guide dog trainers. After 2 years of training, Tsuyoshi becomes an assistant trainer. His first dog to train is Chie.
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Postcard
Title: Postcard
Released: October 27, 2010
Type: Movie
Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war ends, Keita visits his comrade's wife Yuko and bears witness to the tragic life she has led.
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I am.
Title: I am.
Released: January 23, 2010
Type: Movie
Miki, a nursing care robot, is popular among some medical staff and patients for her dainty and efficient work, but others are more skeptical. One day, Miki malfunctions and begins to see and hear fragmented images and voices.
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Teacher and Three Children
Title: Teacher and Three Children
Character: Michiko Ichikawa
Released: September 27, 2008
Type: Movie
The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.
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Road 88: Deaiji shikoku e
Title: Road 88: Deaiji shikoku e
Released: November 6, 2004
Type: Movie
A young girl with leukemia travels a pilgrimage by skateboard.
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Title: Botan to Bara
Released: January 5, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: Love and Hatred
Character: Uemura Kyoko
Released: January 5, 2004
Type: TV
Kyoko is a nurse who is betrayed by her husband, Toyoki. She is so furious that she kidnaps Mayo, the baby born between Toyoki and his girlfriend Tokiko. Kyoko decides to call the baby Botan and starts raising her in secrecy. The couple is broken-hearted, but the following year, Tokiko gives birth to a baby girl whom they name Kayo. They devote themselves to loving the child and try hard to forget their sad past. Consequently, Mayo and Kayo grow up not knowing about each other.
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Title: 20時18分の死神 小樽発・殺意の旅路
Released: October 19, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: 警視庁・樋口警部補
Character: 樋口恵子
Released: August 20, 2003
Type: TV
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The Breed
Title: The Breed
Released: October 2, 2000
Type: Movie
Children born with special power. They seek blood for eternal life. And tonight, the victims ...!
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Title: 臨床心理士
Character: Chihiro Shimazaki
Released: May 2, 2000
Type: TV
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Title: Shimura-X
Released: October 9, 1996
Type: TV
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Apron Stage
Title: Apron Stage
Released: February 10, 1996
Type: Movie
About a group of itinerant actors.
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Gonin
Title: Gonin
Character: Hostess at Pinky
Released: September 23, 1995
Type: Movie
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.
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Title: If love happens a second time
Released: January 11, 1995
Type: TV
Kosuke Mikami, the head office manager of a convenience store, takes a mistress named Komachi, a Kyoto beauty, while he is working alone in Osaka. After he returns to Tokyo, his wife finds out about this and ends up divorcing him... "Koimo Nidome Nara" is a Japanese TV drama that was broadcast on the Nippon Television Network's Wednesday Drama slot from January 11, 1995 to March 15, 1995. Starring Sanma Akashiya.
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Title: Koi mo ni Dome Nara
Released: January 11, 1995
Type: TV
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Angel Guts: Red Flash
Title: Angel Guts: Red Flash
Character: Nami
Released: September 10, 1994
Type: Movie
Nami is a photographer on the set of a porn film. When photographing a rape scene between a teacher and a schoolgirl, she becomes uncomfortable, having remembered a similar incident in her own past.
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The Wicked Reporter
Title: The Wicked Reporter
Released: July 19, 1993
Type: Movie
More than his indie debut Skinless Night, this was the film that launched Mochizuki on his distinctive trajectory through the crime and yakuza genres. Matsuzaki (Eiji Okuda) is a racing tipster for a sports paper, a lowlife who spends half his time drunk, hangs out with yakuza and other riff-raff and complicates his sex life by succumbing to advances from his girlfriend's sister. As played by Okuda, he's also a figure of considerable hangdog charm. Less a plot-based movie than a guide to the several forms of high stakes gambling in Japan, this centres on his attempt to help a friend swindled in a bent mahjong game. Hakuryu appears (memorably) as an inscrutable yakuza in a black leather jacket. The film's success led to two sequels.
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Curse, Death & Spirit
Title: Curse, Death & Spirit
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
This is a series of three short supernatural-themed movies. The first tells the story of a teen girl who dreams of haunted doll. In the second movie, a widowed mother brings her children to a house in the woods to help them forget the death of their father. While in the woods one of the children meets a ghost that wants more than just to be friends. The last movie tells the story of three teen-aged girls who go on vacation, only to find themselves at a haunted inn.
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Network Baby
Title: Network Baby
Released: May 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A grieving young mother employed at a video game company is recruited to test and train a new virtual world. She finds a character in this world of fantasy who becomes her new albeit virtual daughter.
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Violent Cop
Title: Violent Cop
Character: Akari Ryosuke
Released: August 12, 1989
Type: Movie
A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.
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Big Bird in Japan
Title: Big Bird in Japan
Character: Kaguya-Hime
Released: October 1, 1988
Type: Movie
While visiting Japan, Big Bird wanders off from a guided tour bus in Tokyo, and is lost until a Japanese woman helps him get to where he needs to go. The woman, however, is hiding a secret.
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A Tale of Happiness
Title: A Tale of Happiness
Character: Chako
Released: March 19, 1988
Type: Movie
A department manager at his company, buys a one-room apartment to have some space to himself. He signs an agreement with a young woman and has an affair with her once a week at the apartment.
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Black Board
Title: Black Board
Character: Keiko Aizawa
Released: September 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns out to have been murdered by two of his schoolmates, who he had been bullying.
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The Horizon
Title: The Horizon
Character: Ayame
Released: February 11, 1984
Type: Movie
Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises 4 children. After Pearl Harbor is attacked, they are interned with other Japanese immigrants in a camp, losing both their land and their assets.
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Mitsugetsu
Title: Mitsugetsu
Character: Tetsuaki's sister
Released: January 28, 1984
Type: Movie
Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been forced upon her unwillingly; the two individuals run away to share their grief.
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Title: 青が散る
Character: 星野祐子→結城祐子
Released: October 21, 1983
Type: TV
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The Crimes of Kiyoshi Ōkubo
Title: The Crimes of Kiyoshi Ōkubo
Released: August 29, 1983
Type: Movie
Arrested and interrogated by the police for a murder, Kiyoshi Ōkubo remembers his past and ends up confessing to several murders. Inspired by the true story of the serial killer who raped and killed eight women in Japan in 1971. The case moved the whole country.
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Title: 古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ
Character: Yukari Hōgen / Koyuki Yamauchi
Released: February 19, 1983
Type: TV
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Lonely Heart
Title: Lonely Heart
Released: October 10, 1981
Type: Movie
A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.
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Title: Mr. Kinpachi in Class 3B
Released: October 26, 1979
Type: TV
A legendary television series and cultural asset, Mr. Kinpachi in Class 3B is famous for putting many social issues on the front burner of the public conscious over its long run, as filtered through the emotionally volatile lives of third year middle school students. The heartfelt relations between a devoted schoolteacher, Kinpachi Sakamoto, and his unique students have won the show high praise for several decades. Whether due to the pressures of exams, family relations, teachers and friends, graduating middle school students navigate a turbulent hormonal sea of “hope” and “frustration”, constantly shaped by the social environment of the times. Standing as a beacon in the storm and emitting messages of hope for each generation is one Japanese teacher, Kinpachi Sakamoto, who has come to be adored and admired by a nation through the adventures of Class 3B.