Masako Motai

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Masako Motai

Acting 73 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…

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Gemini

Gemini

6.5 1999 Movie
The Pride of the Temp

The Pride of the Temp

7.3 2007 TV Show
Quartet

Quartet

8.0 2017 TV Show
Kamome Diner

Kamome Diner

7.4 2006 Movie
Karin

Karin

1993 TV Show
Always - Sunset on Third Street

Always - Sunset on Third Street

7.7 2005 Movie
BECK

BECK

6.5 2010 Movie
I Just Didn't Do It

I Just Didn't Do It

7.4 2007 Movie
Glasses

Glasses

7.1 2007 Movie
Always: Sunset on Third Street 2

Always: Sunset on Third Street 2

7.1 2007 Movie
Always: Sunset on Third Street '64

Always: Sunset on Third Street '64

7.2 2012 Movie
One-Pound Gospel

One-Pound Gospel

7.0 2008 TV Show

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2021
    Pension Metsä

    TV show Forest person

  2. 2017
    Hello, Goodbye

    Movie Etsuko Kobayashi

  3. 2017
    Quartet

    TV show Kyoko Maki

  4. 2016
    The Mohican Comes Home

    Movie Haruko Tamura

  5. 2015
    Mountain Days with Tom

    Movie

  6. 2015
    Teacher and Stray Cat

    Movie Yayoi Morii

  7. 2013
    Bread and Soup and Cat Weather

    TV show Mama

  8. 2012
    Akko's Secret

    Movie Tsuruko Oba

  9. 2012
    Always: Sunset on Third Street '64

    Movie Kin Ota

  10. 2011
    Tokyo Oasis

    Movie Customer at Cinema

  11. 2010
    Mother Water

    Movie Makoto

  12. 2010
    The Golden Piggy

    TV show Tsueko Tsutsumi

  13. 2010
    BECK

    Movie

  14. 2010
    Toilet

    Movie Bachan

  15. 2009
    Pool

    Movie Kikuko

  16. 2008
    Nekonade

    Movie Makoto Koike

More credits
  1. 2008
    One-Pound Gospel

    TV show Reverend Mother

  2. 2007
    Always: Sunset on Third Street 2

    Movie Kin Ohta

  3. 2007
    Glasses

    Movie Sakura

  4. 2007
    I Just Didn't Do It

    Movie Toyoko Kaneko

  5. 2007
    The Pride of the Temp

    TV show 橋立 くに子

  6. 2006
    Hanada Shonenshi the Movie: Spirits and the Secret Tunnel

    Movie Granny Yoshikawa

  7. 2006
    Kamome Diner

    Movie Masako

  8. 2005
    Always - Sunset on Third Street

    Movie Kin Ota

  9. 2005
    Love Is Five Seven Five

    Movie President

  10. 2005
    Fukigen na Gene

    TV show

  11. 2004
    Yoshino's Barber Shop

    Movie Yoshiko

  12. 2003
    Beginner

    TV show Hiroko Sawaguchi（沢口 裕子）

  13. 2002
    The Choice of Hercules

    Movie

  14. 1999
    Round About Midnight

    Movie Shopkeeper

  15. 1999
    Jubaku: Spellbound

    Movie Ichijo

  16. 1999
    Gemini

    Movie Shige

  17. 1999
    The Exam

    Movie

  18. 1998
    Shining Brightly

    TV show

  19. 1997
    Sharan-Q no enka no hanamichi

    Movie

  20. 1995
    Last Friends

    Movie

  21. 1993
    Many Happy Returns

    Movie Masako

  22. 1993
    Karin

    TV show 池田（黒田）文江

  23. 1993
    Sakura Momoko Land: Taniguchi Rokuzo Shoten

    TV show 谷口ヨシ

  24. 1992
    Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2

    Movie