is a Japanese actress best known for playing Hotaru Kuroita in the long-running television drama Kita no Kuni kara ("From a Northern Country"). She won the award for best supporting actress at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival for Tugumi.

Filmography Films Tokei – Adieu l'hiver (1986) Tugumi (1990) Chizuko's Younger Sister (1991) Dance till Tomorrow (1991) Parasite Eve (1997) Give It All (1998) The Crossing (2000) The Taste of Tea (2004) Tokyo Family (2013) What a Wonderful Family! (2016), Shigeko Kanai What a Wonderful Family! 2 (2017), Shigeko Kanai A Beautiful Star (2017) What a Wonderful Family! 3: My Wife, My Life (2018), Shigeko Kanai One Day, You Will Reach the Sea (2022) Till We Meet Again on the Lily Hill (2023) Yakushima's Illusion (2026) Till We Meet Again on the Starry Hill (2026)

Television Kita no Kuni kara (1981–2002), Hotaru Kuroita MPD Psycho (2006), Machi Isono Atsuhime (2008), Shigeno

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