Date of birth: 1981-11-04
Place of birth: Nishiyoshino, Nara, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 오노 마치코, おの まちこ, Machiko Ono, ماچیکو اونو
The Nara-born actress got an early start in the much praised and oft discussed The Taste of Tea before staying with the profession and graduating to adult roles. Before that, however, the youngest of four sisters had debuted in Suzaku after, legend has it, director Naomi Kawase spotted her cleaning shoe boxes at her junior high school. She has won several awards since.
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A young music lover named Asano Daiyoshi died at the young age of 20. In that fact, there is a feeli
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On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest sin
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Nagasaki in 1986. Hisada, who lives with her affectionate parents and her younger brother, although
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2013-09-24
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Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2002 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Mush
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A friend of the detective has been is murdered. During the investigation, he comes across a source w
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22-year old secretary Kazuko first bumps into Tamaki on the way back from work. Tamaki is crawling a
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Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to r
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"Shin Mimibukuro," which has greatly influenced numerous Japanese horror works such as "Ring" and "J
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Two young men arrive at a deserted countryside train station. They are Tsuboi and Kinoshita, amateur
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Chieri is a sixth grade girl whose only friend is a stuffed toy named Cherry, which she found while
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In 2011, top-secret data on nuclear power is stolen from a university facility. At the same time, le
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In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, al
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Ryoro Kurojima (Sadao Abe) is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how
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In the inner chambers of the Shugun's castle, 3,000 men attempt to vie for the affection of the fema
2015-06-27
A new primary school teacher struggles to deal with his new students and their over-protective paren
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A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by
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A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by
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Winner of the 47th Creative TV Drama Award. Through the story of a high school girl with "sensory se
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The story tells of the granddaughter of the political family Uta, who is kidnapped. The kidnappers'
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Sachiko runs a business in Japan, but her business fails. She then escapes to Bali. There, Sachiko m
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After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band so h
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The story is set in Chiran, Kagoshima, the site of a secret base used to launch kamikaze missions du
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Rieko Sugita, a young and beautiful hairdresser who happens to visit a bedding shop owned by Yoshita
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The masterpiece of Shino Sakuragi, who won the 149th Naoki Prize for "HOTEL ROYAL" in 2013, is now a
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In Tokyo, Japan, several grotesque murders take place on rainy days. Detective Sawamura, who is in c
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Story of the last assistant doctor in Okinawa.
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Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and ev
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The bobbed-head Ryoko is a shy middle school student. She has been living with her dad, just the 2 o
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Six directors picked a favorite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short f
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Two tiny, aquatic humanoids search for their missing father, a boy battles a lethal allergy to eggs,
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Detective Ryoko Kozuki receives a demotion after having an affair with a superior. She succeeds in a
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