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Maiko Kawakami is a Actor Japonaise born on 5 february 1966

Maiko Kawakami

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Nationality Japon
Birth 5 february 1966 (58 years)

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.

Usually with

Kon Ichikawa
Kon Ichikawa
(1 films)
Noboru Iguchi
Noboru Iguchi
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Maiko Kawakami (11 films)

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Actress

A Samurai Chronicle, 2h9
Directed by Takashi Koizumi
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Samurai films
Actors Kōji Yakusho, Junichi Okada, Maki Horikita, Mieko Harada, Maiko Kawakami, Kenjirō Ishimaru
Rating66% 3.3243753.3243753.3243753.3243753.324375
A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life. A squire is sent by the prime minister of Japan to keep watch over him.
Tomie: Unlimited
Directed by Noboru Iguchi
Genres Horror
Actors Miu Nakamura, Maiko Kawakami
Roles Kimiko Izumikawa
Rating47% 2.36112.36112.36112.36112.3611
Tsukiko (Moe Arai) is a member of the photography club in high school. On her way home with friend Yoshie (Aika Ota), Tsukiko runs into older sister Tomie (Miu Nakamura) who goes to the same high school. Tomie is also with Toshio (Kensuke Owada) - a guy Tsukiko has a secret crush on. Tsukiko is consumed with fierce jealousy over her sister, but at the same time is intoxicated with Tomie's beauty. Tsukiko keeps pressing the trigger on her camera. At that time Tomie tells her sister that she knows what she is feeling. When Tsukiko stops taking pictures, Tomie is crushed by a steel cross that falls from a building under construction. One year later, Tsukiko still suffers nightmares over her sister's death. Slowly, her daily life returns to some sense of normalcy. On Tomie's 18th birthday, her parents and Tsukiko stand around a birthday cake in her honor. At that time someone knocks on their door. Tomie stands in the doorway with her beauty shining even more brightly. Her parents are delighted to see Tomie and welcomes her back with tears pouring out. Meanwhile, Tsukiko stands there unable to believe what is transpiring.
Postcard
Postcard (2010)
, 1h54
Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Actors Etsushi Toyokawa, Shinobu Ōtake, Akira Emoto, Mitsuko Baishō, Ren Osugi, Maiko Kawakami
Rating70% 3.5099553.5099553.5099553.5099553.509955
Near the end of the Second World War, Sadazo Morikawa (Naomasa Musaka) is one of a group of 100 overaged conscripts for the Japanese navy assigned to cleaning duty. Once the cleaning duty has finished, the members are chosen by lottery for various duties. Sadazo is assigned to serve in the Philippines. He thinks he will not survive, and asks a comrade, Matsuyama (Etsushi Toyokawa) to return a postcard to his wife, Tomoko (Shinobu Otake), and tell her that he received it before he died.
Catharisis
Catharisis (2003)

Actors Rikiya Otaka, Hiroyuki Onoue, Miyako Yamaguchi, Maiko Kawakami
Rating68% 3.424223.424223.424223.424223.42422
Naoki Ono, a 14-year-old boy murders a young girl in the suburbs of Tokyo. As a result, the large family change their names and live apart, while Naoki goes to a reformatory. Towako, his mother, stays away with her youngest son and youngest daughter, while her husband lives with other family. Three years later, Towako requests that the families reunites and go the island of her birth to be with her dying mother. Thus, the family are back together. But things aren't so simple. Katsumi, Naoki's sister hasn't been able to speak since her brother murdered the girl. Little Subaru (Otaka) has also suffered from the selfishness of his brother. And what of their uncle Satoshi and his family, his own son was killed. The family have never been a 'family' before.
Gonin
Gonin (1995)
, 1h49
Directed by Takashi Ishii
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Yakuza films, Heist films, Gangster films
Actors Takeshi Kitano, Koichi Sato, Naoto Takenaka, Masahiro Motoki, Jinpachi Nezu, Chiaki Kuriyama
Roles Hostess at Pinky
Rating66% 3.3468953.3468953.3468953.3468953.346895
Cinq hommes, tous victimes du meme gang de yakuzas, decident de s'unir pour attaquer leur persecuteur. Mais les yakuzas ne l'entendent pas de cette oreille et engagent un redoutable tueur.
Violent Cop, 1h43
Directed by Takeshi Kitano
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Films about drugs, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Takeshi Kitano, Maiko Kawakami, Shirō Sano, Hakuryu, Ittoku Kishibe, Nobuyuki Katsube
Roles Akari Ryosuke
Rating71% 3.5505353.5505353.5505353.5505353.550535
Kitano plays detective Azuma, a Dirty Harry-type who uses violent methods when confronting criminals. After the suicide of his friend and colleague Iwaki (a vice cop who was involved with drugs), and the kidnapping of his sister by yakuza gangsters, Azuma breaks all the rules of ethical conduct. He responds to every situation with violence, and resorts to unethical methods if they produce results.
Big Bird in Japan, 1h
Directed by Jon Stone
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Actors Caroll Spinney, Maiko Kawakami, Pat Morita
Roles Kaguya-Hime
Rating70% 3.5294553.5294553.5294553.5294553.529455
Separated from their guided tour group while in Japan, Big Bird and Barkley find help from a friendly young woman who is planning to leave Japan at the same time they will be, and from the same town, Kyoto. She offers to take the pair to Kyoto as she says good-bye to family and friends along the way.
Black Board
Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Genres Drama
Actors Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Hisashi Igawa, Maiko Kawakami
Roles Keiko Aizawa
Rating65% 3.2504853.2504853.2504853.2504853.250485
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.