Masako Motai

Acting

Born October 17, 1952, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Born in Shibuya, Tokyo. A Japanese actress joined in Shasha Co.. Started acting in around 1972, created an acting band called Gekidan Sanjyumaru with Eri Watanabe in 1979. At the time she was directing, yet she began to act later on. In 1984, she played a role of a teacher in a TV drama called "Takeshi's Gakumon no Susume". In 1985, she started appearing in many TV dramas and shows such as "OH! Takeshi" and "Haru no Hato" etc.

Filmography

• Pension Metsä — Forest person
• 2017Hello, Goodbye — Etsuko Kobayashi
• Quartet — Kyoko Maki
• 2016The Mohican Comes Home — Haruko Tamura
• 2015Mountain Days with Tom
• 2015Teacher and Stray Cat — Yayoi Morii
• Bread and Soup and Cat Weather — Mama
• 2012Akko's Secret — Tsuruko Oba
• 2012Always: Sunset on Third Street '64 — Kin Ota
• 2011Tokyo Oasis — Customer at Cinema
• 2010BECK
• 2010Mother Water — Makoto
• The Golden Piggy — Tsueko Tsutsumi
• 2010Toilet — Bachan
• 2009Pool — Kikuko
• 2008Nekonade — Makoto Koike
• One-Pound Gospel — Reverend Mother
• 2007Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 — Kin Ohta
• 2007Glasses — Sakura
• 2007I Just Didn't Do It — Toyoko Kaneko
• The Pride of the Temp — 橋立 くに子
• 2006Hanada Shonenshi the Movie: Spirits and the Secret Tunnel — Granny Yoshikawa
• 2006Kamome Diner — Masako
• 2005Always - Sunset on Third Street — Kin Ota
• Fukigen na Gene
• 2005Love Is Five Seven Five — President
• 2004Yoshino's Barber Shop — Yoshiko
• Beginner — Hiroko Sawaguchi（沢口 裕子）
• 2002The Choice of Hercules
• 1999Gemini — Shige
• 1999Jubaku: Spellbound — Ichijo
• 1999Round About Midnight — Shopkeeper
• 1999The Exam
• Shining Brightly
• 1997Sharan-Q no enka no hanamichi
• 1995Last Friends
• Karin — 池田（黒田）文江
• 1993Many Happy Returns — Masako
• Sakura Momoko Land: Taniguchi Rokuzo Shoten — 谷口ヨシ
• 1992Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
• NonNonBa
• 1990After All, I Love Cats the Three Onda Sisters’ Great Kyoto Troubles — Kayano Onda
• 1989Beijing Watermelon — Michi Horikoshi
• 1989Four Days of Snow and Blood — Saku Akimoto
• 1988Cheek to Cheek at Night ~ A Woman Embracing the Past — Hisako Yamamoto
• 1987Space Girl Morumo 1/10
• 1987Yume Camera 2
• 1987À la carte Company