Tomoko Yamaguchi

Tomoko Yamaguchi

Born: October 20, 1964
in Tochigi, Japan
​Tomoko Yamaguchi (born October 20, 1964) is a Japanese actress and singer from Tochigi. She is the lead actress for the classic j-drama Long Vacation, which features her starring alongside with Takuya Kimura. She has been married to Toshiaki Karasawa since 1995.

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Movies for Tomoko Yamaguchi...

One Last Bloom
Title: One Last Bloom
Character: Reiko Sanada
Released: August 25, 2023
Type: Movie
Forty years after leaving Japan for a boxing career in the U.S. that never panned out, Jin returns to restart his life with his old boxing buddies. When hotheaded young boxer Shogo asks for Jin’s help to get him back into the ring after an unfair loss, the two men decide to seize their final chance at glory. A boxing film so authentic that it inspired co-star Yokohama Ryusei to qualify as a pro boxer, Zeze Takahisa’s boxing drama is one of the veteran director’s most crowd-pleasing films thanks to the touching father-son bond at its core.
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Title: Hello, Detective Hedgehog
Character: Kaoru Kaze
Released: July 14, 2017
Type: TV
Detective Goro Nanase and his colleagues of "Akatsuka Detective Office" are based in Shimo-Akazuka of Itabashi-ku, Tokyo. The detectives take on a string of challenging cases that no one else wants to take on.
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Title: Crazy for Me
Character: Shizuka Kamoda
Released: April 8, 2015
Type: TV
Everyone has a worry or two in life. Not to mention all the anxieties of the modern world that add to our list of worries. Crazy For Me is a romantic comedy centered around 4 melancholy individuals who have all had their fill of failures and agonies in the past. Laugh and cry with them in their journey to overcome their problems in this light, heartwarming comedy.
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Title: Leaders
Released: March 22, 2014
Type: TV
Before World War II, the automobile industry in developed countries in Europe and the United States possessed formidable technological capabilities. A youth who saw this industrial might with his own eyes, returns to Japan fired up with the dream to develop the national automobile industry with his own hands. This young man’s name is Aichi Saichiro and this is the story of Aichi (Toyota) Motor Corporation.
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Title: Going My Home
Character: Sae Tsuboi
Released: October 9, 2012
Type: TV
Ryota, a timid salaryman who has difficulties fitting in at home and work has his average life changed after his estranged father falls ill. Along with his wife Sae and their only child Moe, he travels to his father's country town, where he begins to uncover his father's mysterious past spent searching for a mythical creature.
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Ponyo
Title: Ponyo
Character: Risa (voice)
Released: July 19, 2008
Type: Movie
When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for. Ponyo is a curious, energetic young creature who yearns to be human, but even as she causes chaos around the house, her father, a powerful sorcerer, schemes to return Ponyo to the sea.
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円都 YEN TOWN
Title: 円都 YEN TOWN
Released: October 18, 1996
Type: Movie
Making-of documentary for Swallowtail Butterfly
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Swallowtail Butterfly
Title: Swallowtail Butterfly
Character: Shenmei
Released: September 14, 1996
Type: Movie
An industrial section of Japan got the name of “Yentown” as many immigrants come to make money and hope to go home rich. A small group of people in Yentown try to work together to survive—Ageha, a young girl with no family; Glico, a sex worker; Fei Hong, a poor immigrant from Shanghai; Arrow, an ex-boxer from the US; and Ren, a mysterious guy who seems to know too much about guns. Fortune shines upon them when they find a cassette that will get them rich, but along with money, trouble will always follow.
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Billiken
Title: Billiken
Character: Tsukino
Released: August 3, 1996
Type: Movie
The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. It's a small god with a pointed head, a fat belly and a characteristic smile. When the casket in which the statuette was found is broken, the spirit of Billiken is free. After that he tries to fulfill the wishes of all those who had prayed to him, but it doesn't always works.
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The Trap
Title: The Trap
Character: Mizuki
Released: May 25, 1996
Type: Movie
When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string of bizarre serial murders that have Yokohama's police baffled and the city terrified.
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Title: Long Vacation
Character: Minami Hayama
Released: April 15, 1996
Type: TV
Minami who is dumped by her ex-boyfriend, Asakura, on their wedding day. She later meets Sena, Asakura's ex-roommate and a pianist, and lives with him as she has no other place to stay. What will happen to her during this long vacation?
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Title: 王様のレストラン
Character: Isono Shizuka
Released: April 19, 1995
Type: TV
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Broken Heart
Title: Broken Heart
Character: Mayumi
Released: January 21, 1995
Type: Movie
Eight love stories start and end in an amusement park.
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Ghost Pub
Title: Ghost Pub
Character: Satoko
Released: October 29, 1994
Type: Movie
One night, as pub owner Sotaro is caring for his sick wife, Shizuko, she asks him to promise that if she dies, he will never remarry. Thinking she is just being dramatic, he promises and tells her to go to sleep. When he wakes the next morning, however, Shizuko is dead. Sotaro keeps his promise, until one day he meets Satoko. The two quickly fall in love, and agree to get married. Their first night together, however, is interrupted by Shizuko, who is angry over her husband's broken promise. Sotaro and Satoko must find some way of appeasing the spirit before she drives them from their home.
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Title: 29-sai no Christmas
Released: October 20, 1994
Type: TV
Noriko is approaching 30 and is still unmarried. She is a fashion designer, dreaming of success and a Paris Collection. On her 29th birthday her world falls apart. Her boss transfers her from design to managing a bar. Her boyfriend betrays her for another woman. Shocked, Noriko decides to leave home and to move in with her best friend, Aya. The story of one woman's struggle to find happiness and love.
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Undo
Title: Undo
Character: Moemi
Released: October 7, 1994
Type: Movie
Moemi is not overly pleased when Yukio brings home a couple of turtles to keep her company. Although Yukio works at home as a writer, Moemi feels neglected and desired a dog or a cat, but neither is allowed in their apartment.
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Title: Furuhata Ninzaburo
Released: April 13, 1994
Type: TV
Furuhata Ninzaburō is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from 1994 until its final episodes in 2006. It was written by Japanese playwright Kōki Mitani and is often referred to as the Japanese version of Columbo. The series is a police detective drama starring actor Masakazu Tamura as Furuhata Ninzaburo and Masahiko Nishimura as his stereotypically bumbling sidekick, Shintaro Imaizumi. The program aired weekly and featured a guest villain each time, usually a famous talent in Japan. Pop-stars like SMAP, television hosts like Sanma Akashiya and even sports figures like Ichiro Suzuki have been featured on this program. It was one of the most popular television dramas in the history of Japanese television, having spawned several seasons and TV specials.
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Title: Sweet Home
Character: Inoue Wakaba
Released: January 9, 1994
Type: TV
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Coo of The Far Seas
Title: Coo of The Far Seas
Character: Cathy Nozaki (voice)
Released: December 19, 1993
Type: Movie
After a storm hits their island, Yusuke (driving his jet-ski) finds a baby dinosaur. He show it to his dad, they keep it and call it Coo. But there are other parties interested in a 65 million year old creature...
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Title: ダブル・キッチン
Released: April 16, 1993
Type: TV
A heartwarming situation comedy about a newlywed couple sharing a house with the husband's parents in a suburb of Tokyo. Ordinary situations become hilarious cross-generational battlegrounds, as the wife and her mother-in-law pursue vastly different images of the ideal family. --TBS
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Shichi-nin no otaku: Cult seven
Title: Shichi-nin no otaku: Cult seven
Released: December 18, 1992
Type: Movie
Several otaku band together to save the baby of a Filipina mother.
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Title: I Won't Love Anyone Anymore
Character: 田代 美幸(たしろ みゆき)
Released: April 11, 1991
Type: TV
Miyuki works in a bank with Sayuri and Takuya. Sayuri and Takuya plot to get the money each of them needs. Miyuki is violently hurt by their scheme and her relationship with her fiance is affected. When Miyuki discovers the people responsible for all that has happened to her, she plans her revenge.
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Title: Last Serenade
Character: Kaido Chiaki
Released: October 19, 1989
Type: TV
This drama is about the lives of the men and the woman for more than fifty years. It shows how people's lives go. The two men love the same woman since they were children. Their love and hate continue till the end of their lives
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Title: Dokyuusei
Released: July 3, 1989
Type: TV
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Title: Jun-chan's Cheering Song
Character: Ono Junko
Released: October 4, 1988
Type: TV
The year is 1947, August. Ono Junko's family is being evacuated to Wakayama and the father is going to war. A few years later, the father has returned from Manchuria but he also brought a boy that had been abandoned by his mother. The boy is Yuta and the family will adopt him.