Masako Motai

Born: 1952-10-17

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.


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Always: Sunset on Third Street '64

as Kin Ota
Released: 2012-01-21

The Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to...

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I Just Didn't Do It

as Toyoko Kaneko
Released: 2007-01-20

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and...

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Gemini

as Shige
Released: 1999-09-15

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a...

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Kamome Diner

as Masako
Released: 2006-06-11

On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she...

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BECK

as uncredited
Released: 2010-09-04

Yukio is your average high school student who spends his days going to class and avoiding...

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Always: Sunset on Third Street 2

as Kin Ohta
Released: 2007-11-03

Would-be writer Ryunosuke Chagawa is still living across the street from Norifumi Suzuki and his...

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Always - Sunset on Third Street

as Kin Ota
Released: 2005-11-11

Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's...

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Glasses

as Sakura
Released: 2007-09-22

An overworked career woman leaves her life in the city for an island vacation only to encounter...

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Akko's Secret

as Tsuruko Oba
Released: 2012-08-31

5th-grader Atsuko Kagami, nicknamed Akko, comes into possession of a magical mirror that lets...

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Yoshino's Barber Shop

as Yoshiko
Released: 2004-04-10

In a small town on the countryside, every young boy is forced to have the same bowl-head haircut...

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Many Happy Returns

as Masako
Released: 1993-11-20

Kazuo encounters a religious group travelling around Japan performing "miracles". He discovers...

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Teacher and Stray Cat

as Yayoi Morii
Released: 2015-01-28

Following the death of his wife professor Kyoichi leads a solitary life by the sea. A stray cat...

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Four Days of Snow and Blood

as Saku Akimoto
Released: 1989-06-17

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical...

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Mother Water

as Makoto
Released: 2010-10-30

Blessed with several large rivers, interconnected streams and springs, Japan's ancient capital,...

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Last Friends

as uncredited
Released: 1995-06-03

Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII....

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Beijing Watermelon

as Michi Horikoshi
Released: 1989-11-18

Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi,...

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The Mohican Comes Home

as Haruko Tamura
Released: 2016-04-09

Eikichi left his hometown in Hiroshima for Tokyo. He tried to find success with his music band,...

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The Choice of Hercules

as uncredited
Released: 2002-05-11

When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano...

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Round About Midnight

as Shopkeeper
Released: 1999-11-06

While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs...

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The Exam

as uncredited
Released: 1999-07-03

Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's...

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Toilet

as Bachan
Released: 2010-08-28

A 30-something Gundam fan and engineer is forced to live with his recluse brother Maury and...

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Tokyo Oasis

as Customer at Cinema
Released: 2011-10-22

In Tokyo, actress Touko leaves the filming set of her latest project and comes across three...

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Hanada Shonenshi the Movie: Spirits and the Secret Tunnel

as Granny Yoshikawa
Released: 2006-08-19

Ichiro Hanada is a mischievous boy who gains the ability to see and talk to ghosts after a...

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Mountain Days with Tom

as uncredited
Released: 2015-12-26

Hana, Toki and Toki’s daughter Toshi begin to live in the countryside. Hana’s nephew Akira, who...

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Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2

as uncredited
Released: 1992-12-19

A comedy about a young woman who has terminal cancer.

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Nekonade

as Makoto Koike
Released: 2008-06-28

The highly disciplined human resources manager Taro Onizuka starts to heal and change as he...

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Pool

as Kikuko
Released: 2009-09-12

A story of 6 days with 5 people gathered around a small sparkling pool at Chiang Mai in...

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Love Is Five Seven Five

as President
Released: 2005-03-26

A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku...

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Hello, Goodbye

as Etsuko Kobayashi
Released: 2017-07-15

Hazuki and Aoi are classmates but their relationship outside class is fraught, and outside...

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After All, I Love Cats the Three Onda Sisters’ Great Kyoto Troubles

as Kayano Onda
Released: 1990-10-21

1990 Original Video

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Space Girl Morumo 1/10

as uncredited
Released: 1987-05-04

Fuji Television film based on the manga of the same name by Hiroshi Aro.

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Karin

as 池田(黒田)文江
First aired: 1993-10-04

A young woman Chiaki whose family runs an old miso company in Nagano Prefecture, the only...

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Quartet

as Kyoko Maki
First aired: 2017-01-17

Maki Maki, Sebuki Suzume, Beppu Tsukasa and Iemori Yutaka happen to meet and form a quartet....

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Haken no Hinkaku

as 橋立 くに子
First aired: 2007-01-10

Oomae Haruko is an A+ Temp worker who never cracks a smile or minces words, and leaves work on...

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Shining Brightly

as uncredited
First aired: 1998-01-13

The job of a medical jurisprudence involves a lot of complicated crimes such as murder and...

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One-Pound Gospel

as Reverend Mother
First aired: 2008-01-12

Hatanaka Kosaku is a talented boxer who turned pro at the age of 19, winning his debut match...

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Beginner

as Hiroko Sawaguchi(沢口 裕子)
First aired: 2003-10-06

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Bread and Soup and Cat Weather

as Mama
First aired: 2013-07-21

Akiko lives with her mother, but suddenly her mother passes away. Since then she quits her...

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Fukigen na Gene

as uncredited
First aired: 2005-01-17

Yoshiko Aoi is a budding researcher in ethology, the study of animal behavior. "Men=male" are...

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Pension Metsä

as Forest person
First aired: 2021-01-15

Tenko runs a pension alone. The pension is located in a forest in Nagano, that is full of the...

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The Golden Piggy

as Tsueko Tsutsumi
First aired: 2010-10-20

Shinko (Ryoko Shinohara) is an accounting auditor who chases after tax evaders and embezzlers...

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Sakura Momoko Land: Taniguchi Rokuzo Shoten

as 谷口ヨシ
First aired: 1993-04-13

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NonNonBa

as uncredited
First aired: 1991-08-19

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