Japanese actress. Best known for her collaboration with director Takeshi Kitano. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 23rd Japan Academy Prize for Takeshi Kitano film Kikujiro.

Filmography

• 2026Fujiko — Chiyo Suga
• Reborn — Hideko Murota
• On a Starry Night — Yukimiya Aiko
• The Travel Nurse
• If I'd kissed her — Tae Yuizuki
• The Last Woman
• The Great White Tower — Yoshie Sasaki
• 2019The Mother Returns? AI's Will — Noda Yuri
• Yasuragi no Toki: Michi
• 2018Lying to Mom — Kimiko Suzuki
• 2017Izakaya Moheji 6
• Muyoan Retirement Training
• 2017When Will You Return? — Mami
• 2016Doctor X: Gekai Daimon Michiko Special
• 2016Izakaya Moheji 5
• 2016Teacher Gappa — Noriko Muramoto
• Totto Television — Sadako Sawamura
• 2015Aka Medaka
• 2015Izakaya Moheji 4 — Kawada Mayumi [regular customer]
• Ms. Sadistic Detective
• 2015Teacher and Stray Cat — Yoko Inoue
• おばさん弁護士 町田珠子
• 2014Izakaya Moheji 3 — Kawada Mayumi [regular customer]
• 2014Time Never Stops — Masayo Hamaguchi
• Time Spiral — Yoshimi Aizawa
• 2013Farewell for Today — Yasuko Fujioka
• 2013Izakaya Moheji 2 — Kawada Mayumi [regular customer]
• 2013Oshin — Tsune
• Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon — Nanako Torii（鳥井 七々子）
• 2012Hanayome
• 2012One in a hundred thousand — Keiko Yamauchi
• Jiu: Special Investigation Team — Sakagami
• 2011Star Watching Dog
• Daisuki!! — Miyoko Fukuhara
• 2008Maison Ikkoku Kanketsuhen — Hanae Ichinose
• Dear Father — Sakashita Ritsuko
• 2007Glory to the Filmmaker! — Kumiko
• Hadaka no Taishō
• 2007Maison Ikkoku — Hanae Ichinose
• Maison Ikkoku — Hanae Ichinose
• 復讐するは我にあり 2007
• Freezing Point — 島田辰子
• 2006Princess in an Iron Helmet — Tamako's mother
• 2005Takeshis' — Mahjong Parlor Woman / Audition Producer / Costumer
• クライマーズ・ハイ — 安西小百合
• 2003Karaoke Terror — Midori Hemme
• 2002Dolls — Haruna's Aunt
• 松本清張没後10年特別企画・家紋
• My Husband — Toko Ishihara
• 1999Kikujiro — Kikujiro's Wife
• 1999Le Secret — 杉田直子
• 1999Secret — Naoko Sugita
• 1997Fireworks — Nishi's Wife
• 1997Shin Salaryman Senka
• 1996MOROCCO 2: The Return of the Yokohama Follies
• 1996MOROCCO: The Story of the Yokohama Follies
• 1996O-higara mo yoku, go-shusho sama
• 1995The Woman Who Kept Hiding — Hiroko Nishimura
• 1993Sky Cannot Be This Blue — Sawako
• New York Love Story
• Inochi — Tsuda Seiko
• 1985When Winter Comes
• Daikazoku
• 1981Island of the Evil Spirits — Maho / Kataho
• 1981Tora-san's Promise — 爱子
• A-Un
• Zoku zoku jiken
• 1979Ameyuki-san
• 1979The Rivals
• 1979Vampire Dracula appears in Kobe — Eriko
• Yasei no Shōmei
• Ningen no Shōmei
• The Roads Men Travel — Nobuko Ojima

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2020Citizen Kitano — Self