Marika Matsumoto
Birthday: 1984-09-12
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Marika Matsumoto (松本 まりか, Matsumoto Marika, born September 12, 1984) is a Japanese actress. From 2001 and 2003, she was known as "Mini Stop-chan", acting as the mascot for the Ministop convenience store chain commercials in Japan. She is the owner of a unique voice and has held a recital with upcoming star Satoshi Tsumabuki. Since November 2005, she has been on the A&G Radio Show: Anisupa! segment Anisupa Kōnin Akujo Queen. Her major roles in anime include Maya Tōmi in Fafner in the Azure, Chocolat Meilleure in Sugar Sugar Rune, Miwako Sakurada in Paradise Kiss, Kazamori Sasa in Un-Go and Diancie in Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction. In video games, she provides the voice of Rikku in Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, and Kingdom Hearts II. In live-action films, she portrayed herself in the Kōji Shiraishi-directed horror film The Curse, and Yuka Morita in the Takashi Shimizu film Reincarnation.
Movies
Shrieking in the Rain
At a movie studio in 1988, rookie director Hanako Hayashi is making her directorial debut, the eroti...
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Reincarnation
A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror fi...
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Alone Together
A state of emergency was declared for the first time under the Law Concerning Special Measures again...
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I SCREAM FEVER
Miwa lost her mother in a traffic accident and wanders the streets of Shibuya. Trying to sort out he...
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Junji Inagawa's Shivering Horror
Six short stories: Chain Mail, Left Behind, Tattoo, Viewfinder's Memory, Guardian Angel, and Mortu...
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Kyrie
Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak. However...
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Youkai Sharehouse: The False Prince on a White Horse
Mio Meguro (Fuka Koshiba) continues her dream of becoming a writer, while living with yokai (folklor...
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All Because of Me
Yuta lives in an orphanage while waiting for her mother to pick her up. One day, Yuta, who happened ...
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Final Fantasy X: Eternal Calm
A cinematic cutscene taking place between Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2....
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Whisper of the Heart
Shizuku Tsukishima is a 3rd grade middle school student. She likes reading books. Shizuku meets Seij...
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Night, Birds Scream
Shinichi debuted as a novelist at a young age, but his career has been stagnant for many years. He a...
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The Women in the Lakes
A 100-year-old resident of a Lake Biwa nursing home dies mysteriously. Did a respirator keeping him ...
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Penance
The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of ...
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Ice Cream Fever
Four women of different ages work at or frequent an ice cream shop, each dealing with dreams, timidi...
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Same Old, Same Old
Focusing on the lives (and a few deaths) of three filmmakers, Rikiya Imaizumi (Their Distance, Sad T...
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Opening Night
Aspiring child actress Nanoka (Nanoka Hara) hopes to follow in her late mother's footsteps and becom...
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Traces of Sin
Tanaka is going through a tough time trying to support his younger sister Mitsuko, recently arrested...
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Cold Bloom
Industrial Hitachi City is the location for this post-3.11 drama. Still recovering from the tsunami,...
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Memoirs of a Murderer
The movie begins in the year 1995 where there were 5 peculiar murder cases. The murderer would alway...
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Nisekoi: False Love
Raku Ichijo (Kento Nakajima) is an only son and a high school student. His father is the leader of y...
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What Happens Before War?
Short anti-war animation adapting the picture book Sensou no Tsukurikata. It was created by the grou...
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Noroi: The Curse
A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of...
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Space Battleship Yamato
In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by th...
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Farewell Song
Haru and Reo perform as musical duo Haru-Reo. With their indie music, they suddenly get popular. Eve...
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Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction
In the underground Diamond Domain, where many Carbink live, the Mythical Pokémon Diancie serves as r...
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The Sacrament
Iwakiri is now a third year university student who belongs to a film studies group on campus but has...
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Life Finds A Way
Born out of every artist’s creative crisis, the search for the next topic, Hirobumi WATANABE present...
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Blue
A work that spun a story inspired by the world view of the song "You Named Me Blue" by jazz singer Y...
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Tropical-Rouge! Precure: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring!
One day, the Tropical-Rouge Pretty Cure receive an amazing invitation from the Land of Snow, Shantia...
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Fafner: Heaven and Earth
The year is 2148. Two years have passed since the world was defended from the mysterious Festum, le...
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Fun House
7 high school boys at a summer dance club retreat find themselves in a terrifying night they never e...
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