Mami Kumagai
Birthday: 1960-03-10
Place of Birth: Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Mami Kumagai (熊谷 真実, Kumagai Mami, bor March 10, 1960) is a Japanese actress and talent. Born in Suginami, Tokyo, she lives in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. She is affiliated with Our Songs Creative. Kumagai made her drama debut in 1978 in the third episode of the TV drama Jūjiro Dainibu (Crossroads Part 2) starring Sonny Chiba. In 1979, she made her screen debut with Oretachi no Kōkyōgaku, and starred in the NHK TV series Mā-nēchan in the first half of the same year, winning the Élan d'Or Award for Newcomers. In 2016 she received the Kinokuniya Theater Award and Yomiuri Theater Award for her Komatsuza Theater performance in Manzana, Waga Machi (Manzana, My Town).
Movies
Making of Daibyonin
A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Daibyonin" a.k.a. "The Last Da...
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Through Their Eyes
A compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding the...
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Begging for Love
During a quest to find a Taiwanese father's grave, disturbing memories of child abuse are aroused....
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300 Million
Katagiri, a highly ambitious young detective, teams up with older detective Takiguchi, who is about ...
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The Bored Samurai
Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) wh...
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Ekeb of Dekye
Takahiko Tokito is a doctor at a big medical corporation. He has decided to run away with his lover,...
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Haze of Love
Rumiko Arai, a 20-year-old girl working in a sawmill, meets a driver, Sekiguchi, and they begin a re...
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The Last Dance
A successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on his la...
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Kawasaki Vice Squad
A photographer who takes pictures of a rendezvous between a politician, company president and yakuza...
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Partners
19-year-old freeter (a Japanese expression for people between the ages of 15 and 34 who lack full ti...
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Drifting Clouds
Retired samurai Kumosuke lives quietly, not to say idly, in Edo (old Tokyo) with his wife and two ch...
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Underdog: Part One
Tells the story of three bottom-dog boxers who gets used as punching bags. Pro boxer Suenaga Akira ...
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Days with You
Natsuki takes care of her young autistic brother. She then meets her old childhood friend and falls ...
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Burning Dog
A gang of thieves plot to rob a US military base in Okinawa, but rising tensions in the group threat...
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Underdog: Part Two
Suenaga finds his life on the verge of collapsing as violence consumes those around him. However, he...
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