Yoko Maki

Yoko Maki

Nacimiento : 1982-10-15, Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Historia

Maki Yoko, born October 15, 1982 in Inzai, Chiba, Japan, is a Japanese actress. Maki has appeared in several films including 2003 film Infection and the 2004 American remake The Grudge. Maki made her film debut at the age of 19 in 2001 film Drug. Her film career sprung when receiving a role as Aya in the highly modernized remake of the Japanese vengeance film Lady Snowblood (later re-titled as The Princess Blade). Maki later began performing on stage in the 2002 play Cross. In November 2008, Maki announced that she had married a 26-year old man not in the Japanese entertainment industry.

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Yoko Maki
Yoko Maki
Yoko Maki

Películas

Undercurrent
Kanae Sekiguchi
Kanae's husband disappeared without a trace while on a union trip. Though usually headstrong and independent, the woman becomes plagued with worry over what happened to him, and is unable to move on with her life. Thus, Kanae decides to hire a private investigator, and keeps running the public bathhouse to the best of her abilities. As he tries to figure out the truth about her husband, Kanae must deal with the stress from a work-intensive job, meddlesome neighbors, and recurring nightmares in which she is drowning.
A Man
After divorcing, Rie has found happiness with her second husband Daisuke and formed a new family. But when Daisuke dies in a tragic accident, she discovers her new husband was not the man she thought he was. Rie calls on the attorney Kido to help her find the truth about the identity of the man she loved. A quest that will open larger questions about the nature of identity itself, and what makes a person real at all.
The Confidence Man JP - Episode of the Hero -
Dako, Boku-chan and Richard commit their next con on Malta Island.
The Cursed Sanctuary X
Hoshino
Kaname Azuma is sick of her marriage life with her husband and she decides to divorce him. She leaves Japan and travels to South Korea. There, she visits her brother Teruo's villa. Teruo is surprised by Kaname's sudden visit, but after he hears of her marriage life, he lets her to stay with him. Somehow, Teruo and Kaname happen to enter The Cursed Sanctuary X.
Namonaihi: A Day with No Name
A human drama about the strange fate of the three brothers, played by Masatoshi Nagase, Joe Odagiri, and Nobuaki Kaneko, set in Nagoya.
Contigo a muerte
Mika Oe
Su esposo abusivo ha muerto a manos de una amiga lesbiana que haría cualquier cosa por ella. Ahora huyen para ponerse a salvo.
Hakutaka Shirataka Amane no Investigation File
Shirataka Amane
A corpse of a clown is found in a park. Detective Shirataka Amane of Musashino Higashi Police Station begins investigating with rookie detective Uzuka Shinsaku. They find a picture of the victim holding a balloon with the number 1 and the letters TTX on social media which indicates pufferfish poisoning. Shirataka intuitively suspects that this is an incriminating statement done by a serial killer, but Chief Investigator Fukukawa Saeko denies her. Detective Kusano Seiya and other personnel of MPD First Investigative Division join the investigation, then a second murder occurs. Shirataka recalls an unsolved kidnapping and murder case from two years ago that she still regrets.
First Love
Yuki Makabe
A university student kills her father with no apparent motive. But is her claim that she is a liar simply another lie? A psychologist burdened with her own scars seeks to uncover the truth. There, she discovers a fabricated past and the screams of a soul violated by those she loved. Based on the novel by Shimamoto Rio.
Yakiniku Dragon
Jung Hwa (Shizuka)
Set in the 1970's in the Kansai region of Japan.. Yong-Gil is Korean, but he moved to Japan and settled down. He runs a small restaurant named Yakiniku Dragon. He is married and has three daughters: oldest daughter Jung-Hwa, middle daughter Yi-Hwa and youngest daughter Mi-Hwa. Oldest daughter Jung-Hwa is dating Tetsuo, but they break up. Middle daughter Yi-Hwa loves Tetsuo and marries him, but Tetsuo still loves her older sister and they divorce. Youngest daughter Mi-Hwa wants to become a singer, but she is in love with a married man.
The Blood of Wolves
Rikako Takagi
Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case involving a financial company employee. Conflicts between opposing yakuza groups become more serious.
Mixed Doubles
Hanako Tomita
To get revenge on her ex-boyfriend and to help revive her late mother's tennis table club, a table tennis prodigy decides to take part in a mixed doubles table tennis tournament.
My Uncle
Eri Inaba
Yukio Haruyama (Riku Ohnishi) is an elementary school student. He has an uncle (Ryuhei Matsuda) that teaches philosophy part-time at an university. His uncle leeches off his family. The uncle then goes on a blind date and falls in love with beautiful Eri Inaba. She is a fourth generation Japanese living in Hawaii. Sometime later, Eri goes back to Hawaii to take over a coffee farm left behind by her recently deceased grandmother. Yukio and his uncle travel to Hawaii to see Eri.
Después de la tormenta
Kyoko Shiraishi
A pesar de haber empezado una prometedora carrera de escritor, Ryota va de desilusión en desilusión. Se ha divorciado de Kyoko y gasta todo el dinero que gana como detective privado apostando en las carreras, por lo que finalmente no puede pagar la pensión alimentaria de su hijo de 11 años, Shingo. Ahora Ryota intenta ganarse nuevamente la confianza de sus seres queridos y formar parte de la vida de su hijo. La situación no parece fácil, pero un día un tifón obliga a toda la familia a pasar una noche juntos.
Bitter Honey
Yuriko Tamura
Akako, a shape-shifting goldfish in the form of a coquettish nymphet clad in diaphanous red dresses, naively plays the role of erotic muse and adoring pet for an aging writer seeking greatness. Things quickly get complicated for the odd couple, however, when the writer's deceased former student/lover enters the picture as a ghost and helps Akako realize her own desires, activating her agency and frustrating the one-sided male fantasy the writer is so keen to continue.
Mozu The Movie
Miki Akeboshi
Lone wolf detective with an enormous personal grievance seeks to connect the mysterious death of his daughter to an urban legend of a villain who terrorizes Japan by insinuating himself into people's dreams and the collective psyche of the Japanese people.
Poison Berry in my Brain
Ichiko Sakurai
Ichiko is a 30-year-old unemployed woman. She meets Ryoichi at a drinking establishment. Even though he is a lot younger than her, she can't forget him. Meanwhile, Ichiko has 5 different characters in her brain that governs her actions. The 5 characters are Yoshida, Ishibashi, Ikeda, Hatoko and Kishi. These 5 character then have a fierce meeting. Yoshida presides over the meeting as the chairman. Ishibashi is the optimist. Ikeda is the pessimist. Hatoko is the character that lives in the moment and Kishi thinks about the past.
El león parado en el viento
Takako Akishima
Koichiro Shimada es enviado a un centro de investigación en Kenia por el hospital en el que trabaja en Japón. Al ver la situación desesperada en la que se encuentran allí, decide trabajar como médico tratando a los heridos en los frecuentes enfrentamientos que se producen en el país, no sin que tener que enfrentarse a sus colegas debido a ello. Un día, Koichiro trata a un niño soldado cuyas heridas mentales son mucho más profundas que las físicas. Ese encuentro cambiará el destino del médico
Disconcerto
柏木亚沙子
Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. His assistant is his former high school classmate Haruhiko Gyoten. A big crisis then occurs for them.
Buda 2: Camino a la iluminación
Prince Ruri
Hace 2500 años, Siddharta nació en el Reino de Shakya de la India, pero renuncia a su posición como Príncipe heredero para poder descubrir el mundo por sí mismo. En esta nueva etapa de su viaje hacia la iluminación conocerá a nuevos compañeros, como Assaji, un extraño muchacho que puede predecir el futuro, o Depa, un monje con un solo ojo. Abrumado por todo el sufrimiento que le rodea, Siddharta no es consciente que mientras él continúa su viaje, el Reino de Kosala, liderado por el Príncipe Ruri, se prepara para llevar a cabo el ataque definitivo contra Shakya. Secuela de "Buda: El gran viaje" (2011).
Saikō no Rikon: Special
灯里
Genome Hazard
Miyuki
Ishigami llega a casa del trabajo y descubre a su esposa muerta. Justo en ese momento, él recibe una llamada telefónica de su esposa y cae en la más absoluta confusión. Ishigami lucha por encontrar a su esposa. Poco a poco, se da cuenta de todos sus recuerdos se han ido y se encuentra actuando como otra persona. ¿Cuál es su verdadera identidad?
The Ravine of Goodbye
Kanako
In a valley, with a dense growth of trees, a baby is killed. The baby's mother Satomi is arrested as the prime suspect. The police also learn that Satomi is involved in a romantic relationship with her next door neighbor Ozaki. The information was provided by the neighbor's lover Kanako.
De tal padre, tal hijo
Yukari Saiki
Ryoata, un arquitecto obsesionado por el éxito profesional, forma con su joven esposa y su hijo de 6 años una familia ideal. Todas sus referencias se esfuman cuando la maternidad del hospital donde nació su hijo les informa que dos bebes fueron cambiados: el niño que crió no es el suyo y su hijo biológico ha crecido en un medio más modesto...
Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship
Mai-Chan
Su-chan, Mai-chan, Sawako-san follows the lives of three women who are former co-workers. 34-year-old Su-chan works at a coffee shop and has feelings for the manager there. 34-year-old Mai-chan works at an OA machine maker. She is in a relationship with a married man. 39-year-old Sawako works as a web designer and also takes care of her grandmother. -san and her mother take care of her grandmother.
Before the Vigil
Momoko Ikeda
Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves her and is a devoted husband. Tsuya is then diagnosed with a cancer and later goes into a coma. Matsuoi then thinks of his wife's lovers. Matsui goes to those men and informs them of Tatsuya's condition. The other women in the lives of those men are shocked and begin to re-examine their views of their men.
Black Dawn
Kaori Okuda
In 2011, top-secret data on nuclear power is stolen from a university facility. At the same time, leaked information comes in about enriched uranium from the Korean peninsula. Sumimoto of the external affairs fourth division suspects that a conspiracy has been hatched to rock Japan-Korean relations.
The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma
Fujitsubo
"Genji Monogatari" focuses on the love and hate relationships surrounding Genji Hakaru. Lady Fujitsubo is Genji's first love. Ryokuzono Miyasutokoro is obsessed with Genji and eventually becomes a spirit. Yu Kao, who is from the lower class, give comfort to Genji's emotional wounds. Writer Murasaki Shikibu is jealous of Genji and is eventually ordered by Seime Abe to write a work ...
Looking for a True Fiancée
Wakako Suzuki
A three-timing 29 year-old man loses part of his memory after taking a nasty fall at a skating rink. The man, who works as pharmaceutical salesman, then discovers an engagement ring in his briefcase. Later, he comes across three different women who all claim to be his girlfriend. To figure out which of the women he planned to marry, he sets up dates with each of them.
Hard Romanticker
Writer-director Gu Su-yeon's new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean (Japanese-born, but of Korean ancestry) in the seaside city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a working-class hellhole overflowing with sex and fury. Day after day, (fictional) Gu finds fresh foes and makes the local hoodlums want to kick his ass. While working multiple dead-end part-time jobs, he cruises around town on his scooter in search of gangland trouble: leaping across rooftops with irate hordes of punks in hot pursuit, running off with a fetching belle in a sailor suit, rescuing a schoolgirl from being gang-raped at a glue-sniffing orgy…
Love Strikes!
Motoko
Set one year after the drama series "Moteki." 31-year-old Yukiyo Fujimoto (Mirai Moriyama) doesn't have money, dreams or a girlfriend. He has left his job at a staffing firm and is attempting to start a new life by working as a writer for a news site. Suddenly, Yukiyo experiences "moteki" - a period when a man becomes suddenly popular with woman. Cute magazine editor Miyuki (Masami Nagasawa), pure and naive office worker Rumiko (Kumiko Aso), beautiful shop assistant Ai (Riisa Naka) and beautiful, but tough co-worker named Motoko (Yoko Maki) all become interested in Yukiyo. He tries to calm down, but is shaken by the interests of these women.
SP: The Motion Picture II
Eri Sasamoto
After the attack on the Chief Cabinet Secretary, the next duty of the fourth office will be to guard the National Assembly building. In the midst of security, Ogata keeps Inoue away from the main conference hall and puts his well-thought-out plan into action, and the parliament building is controlled by SPs and terrorists who support the revolution. Inoue notices something strange and starts to fight against the terrorists to stop Ogata.
SP: The Motion Picture
Eri Sasamoto
At an event hall in Roppongi Hills, there is a charity event for landmine eradication. Kaoru does security with Security Police officers Soichiro Ogata, Eri Sasamoto, Takahumi Yamamoto and Mitsuo Ishida. Kaoru Inoue senses a threatening existence and starts to suffer a severe headache and becomes dizzy. When Kaoru was young, his parents were killed by terrorists and that incident has had an traumatic effect on Kaoru since.
Dumbeast
Shizuka
How hard is it to kill an idiot? Just ask Kudo Kankuro! The acclaimed screenwriter brings his 2004 Kunio Kishida-winning stage play Donju (a.k.a. Dumb Animal) to the big screen in all its wacky tragicomedic glory. The one and only Asano Tadanobu sports a seriously nerdy bowl haircut to play the leading role of simple-minded novelist Dekogawa who has mysteriously disappeared. Dekogawa wrote an autobiography about his youth that reveals not only his past, but also some of his childhood friends’ best-forgotten secrets. In order to keep the skeletons in the closet, these buddies of yesteryear try to silence him permanently. But no matter how hard they try to kill Dekogawa, he just keeps coming back – because he’s simply too thickheaded to die!
You'll Die Six Hours Later
Harada Mio
"You will die six hours later." Keishi, a youth who proclaims himself a seer, suddenly says this to Mio, who is walking along the streets of Shibuya. At first, Mio scoffs at it as nonsense but ever since her acquaintance was murdered a few days ago, she realises that she has also become a victim of a stalker. Half believing it, she decides to hang around with Keishi. Later, with the help of Sawaki, a detective she knows, the stalker is identified. She thinks the case is closed but a totally unexpected person attacks her...
Flying Rabbits
Chinatsu Kakiuchi
Yukari always wanted to become a flight attendant and has just been hired by Japan Airlines. However, due to an unexpected mistake, she has also been recruited to the company's basketball team (the JAL "Rabbits") despite being a lousy at basketball. Forced to divide her time between job training and playing basketball, Yukari makes an increasing amount of mistakes in both areas. Frustrated, she nearly gives up on her dream career, but somehow finds the strength to keep trying both in the skies and on the court.
Udon
Kosuke is 31, and tired of his hometown where nothing happens. On a whim, he departs for New York with dreams of making it big. 6 months later, he straggles home... defeated, and saddled with debt. Awaiting him are his old friends, a caring sister, a disgruntled father ...and a bowl of noodles. Namely, "udon" noodles. The town is built around udon, sustained by udon, nationally famous for udon.
Tokyo Friends: The Movie
Ryoko Fujiki
Rei Iwatsuki moved from her hometown Kōchi to Tokyo to pursue her dreams. On arrival, she found a job as a waitress in a restaurant and met guitarist Ryuuji Shintani. Ryuuji liked her voice and invited her to join his band as the vocalist, The Survival Company (also known as Sabakan). The two started a relationship but then broke off when Rei wanted to write her own songs. Rei met other girls also working in the restaurant, Hirono, Ryoko and Maki, all in pursuit of their own dreams, and became good friends with all of them. One day, Rei receives news that Takashi was seen in New York and she decides to go look for him...
Sway
Chieko Kawabata
A psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to decorum and pride.
A todo gas: Tokyo Race
Woman at Boswell's Apt.
Shaun Boswell es un chico que no acaba de encajar en ningún grupo. Su única conexión con el mundo de indiferencia que le rodea es a través de las carreras ilegales, lo que no le ha convertido en el chico favorito de la policía. Cuando amenazan con encarcelarle, le mandan fuera del país a pasar una temporada con su tío, un militar destinado en Japón. En el país donde nacieron la mayoría de los coches modificados, las simples carreras en la calle principal han sido sustituidas por el último reto automovilístico que desafía la gravedad, las carreras de "drift" (arrastre), una peligrosa mezcla de velocidad en pistas con curvas muy cerradas y en zigzag. En su primera incursión en el salvaje mundo de las carreras de "drift", Shaun acepta ingenuamente conducir un D.K, el Rey del Drift, que pertenece a los Yakuza, la mafia japonesa. Para pagar su deuda, no tiene más remedio que codearse con el hampa de Tokio y jugarse la vida.
The Vanished
A young reporter is covering the mysterious case of a child found dead with missing internal organs.
Veronika Decides to Die
Towa
Towa lives in a peculiar sanatorium after committing suicide. Convalescing in sanatorium, she is informed that she has only 7 days to live. Isolated within their worlds, strange people live in this sanatorium and try to avoid making any contact with her. However, Kuroda a man who lost his power of speech feels sympathetic towards her and their every lovable things give true colors to the life and inspire Towa’s honest desire for the life…
Summer Time Machine Blues
Yui Ito
Llega el verano y al club de Ciencia Ficción se le estropea el aire acondicionado. Al día siguiente, sin saber muy bien como, una máquina del tiempo aparece en su salón y deciden retroceder un día para intentar solucionar el problema con el aire acondicionado.
In the Pool
A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress.
Pacchigi!
Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama, is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent type, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a rampaging crowd of Korean boys, outraged by insults perpetrated by several of his idiotic class-mates on two Korean girls. He makes a narrow escape, but soon after, he and his best bud Yoshio are sent by their home-room teacher to invite the Korean students to a friendly soccer game as a way of restoring the peace.
Pacchigi!
Gang-ja Chun
Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama, is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent type, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a rampaging crowd of Korean boys, outraged by insults perpetrated by several of his idiotic class-mates on two Korean girls. He makes a narrow escape, but soon after, he and his best bud Yoshio are sent by their home-room teacher to invite the Korean students to a friendly soccer game as a way of restoring the peace.
A Perfect Day for Love Letters
El grito
Yoko Sekine
La aparente normalidad de la fachada de una modesta casa de Tokio oculta el horror que se encuentra en su interior. La vivienda está poseída por una violenta plaga que destruye las vidas de todos los que entran en ella.
Infection
Nurse
Un error médico provoca la muerte de un paciente en un oscuro y solitario hospital. Doctores y enfermeras, lejos de responsabilizarse, intentarán ocultarlo, aunque no tardarán en descubrir que su error tendrá unas terribles consecuencias. Diferentes pacientes morirán en extrañas circunstancias, con unos síntomas que desafían cualquier explicación médica.
Dark Tales of Japan
Akemi's classmate (story "Spiderwoman")
Película formada por diferentes historias: 1) La mujer-araña 2) Grietas 3) El Sacrificio 4) Kaidan rubio 5) El Presentimiento
Renai Shousetsu
A love story starring Tamaki Hiroshi, Konishi Manami, Ikeuchi Hiroyuki, Hirayama Aya and Kamiki Ryunosuke. Hiroyuki, a fourth-year law student who has just broken up with his girlfriend Miwa, is approached by Satoshi, a student at the same university, on his way home from school and asked to do something strange. He wants to make a will for himself. Satoshi, who calls himself the "God of Death," begins to tell him about his mysterious past. He wants to get close to people but cannot. He says that everyone he was close to would die. So he has lived his life without befriending or loving anyone since he was a child. But when Satoshi meets a woman named Mizuki, he unexpectedly falls in love with her. And that was the beginning of a very sad love story...
Kamikaze girls
Baby's Staff
Momoko (Kyoko Fukada) es una joven solitaria que vive en su propio mundo construido sobre la época rococó francesa y que tiene una visión muy particular de las cosas. Pero su mundo de disfraces y máscaras pronto se ve trastocado por la llegada de Ichigo (Anna Tsuchiya), una gamberra motorizada que, al contrario de ella, prefiere el estilo norteamericano y necesita estar rodeada de gente en todo momento. Para ello se inventa una leyenda urbana que la hará sentir importante y gracias a la cual juntará una pandilla propia con Momoko. A partir de ese momento ambas iniciarán una inseparable amistad que las hará ver el mundo de forma diferente. Adaptación de una novela de Novala Takemoto (autor de las novelas Lolita).
Battle Royale 2: Réquiem
Maki Souda
Tres años después de los sucesos de “Battle Royale”, Shuya Nanahara es un famoso terrorista que está empeñado en derrocar al gobierno. Como respuesta, ellos ordenan la creación del programa “Battle Royale 2” y enviar a una clase de estudiantes de secundaria para buscarlo y matarlo.
The Princess Blade
Aya
Yuki, asesina profesional que trabaja para el gobierno, y Takashi, mago informático al servicio de la rebelde oposición, descubren que han sido traicionados por sus respectivos líderes. Mientras deciden que hacer surge, incontenible, el amor.