Machiko Ono
Birthday: 1981-11-04
Place of Birth: Nishiyoshino, Nara, Japan
Biography: 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.
Movies
The Mourning Forest
A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into th...
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Funky Forest: The First Contact
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Gui...
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20-Year-Old Soul
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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Climber's High
On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest sin...
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Suzaku
Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with...
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Beyond Outrage
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggl...
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Anime Supremacy!
Hitomi Saito has been climbing the ranks for years and is set to direct an anime series for the firs...
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Frog River
Record shop clerk and aspiring DJ Tsutomu searches for his masculinity when challenged to a kendo du...
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Yoru no Agura: Ane to Ototo to Watashi
Akiko quit being a piano teacher and has been spending her days aimlessly without setting any goals ...
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Sabakan
Nagasaki in 1986. Hisada, who lives with her affectionate parents and her younger brother, although ...
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The Dry Spell
The story takes place during a summer of continuous sunshine when water supply restrictions are issu...
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The Floating Castle
In the year 1590, the mighty warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is close to fulfilling his ambition of unify...
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Like Father, Like Son
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was sw...
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Mom's Celestial Robe of Feathers
"There are many things that I don't like. The traffic jam on the way to Naha, my debt-ridden father,...
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Kiki's Delivery Service
A young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She leaves o...
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A Woman from Ashio
A story about a woman from Yanaka Village, Tochigi Prefecture, which was abolished by the government...
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Kaleidoscope
A photographer and a filmmaker challenge each other to shoot—one to photograph the other to film—two...
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2002 Spring Special
Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2002 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Mush...
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Detective in the Bar 2
A friend of the detective has been is murdered. During the investigation, he comes across a source w...
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Yah Chayka!
Renowned Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa teams with former "rock chick" Wakako Kaku to craft this pe...
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Gips
22-year old secretary Kazuko first bumps into Tamaki on the way back from work. Tamaki is crawling a...
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The Smiling Man
Based on a novel of by Nukui Tokuro, Hohoemu Hito tells the story of Nito Toshimi who, after graduat...
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Thousand and One Nights
Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to r...
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Arigatou
In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furui...
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Tales Of Terror From Tokyo And All Over Japan Volume 1
"Shin Mimibukuro," which has greatly influenced numerous Japanese horror works such as "Ring" and "J...
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Ramblers
Two young men arrive at a deserted countryside train station. They are Tsuboi and Kinoshita, amateur...
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Chieri and Cherry
Chieri is a sixth grade girl whose only friend is a stuffed toy named Cherry, which she found while ...
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Eureka
In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, al...
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Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep with...
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The Taste of Tea
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary hous...
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At River's Edge
A samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married with...
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The Apology King
Ryoro Kurojima is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologiz...
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The Castle of Crossed Destinies
In the inner chambers of the Shugun's castle, 3,000 men attempt to vie for the affection of the fema...
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Being Good
A new primary school teacher struggles to deal with his new students and their over-protective paren...
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Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
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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Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
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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Ke no Hi no Kekeke
Winner of the 47th Creative TV Drama Award. Through the story of a high school girl with "sensory se...
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Confess to Your Crimes
The story tells of the granddaughter of the political family Uta, who is kidnapped. The kidnappers' ...
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Bali Big Brother
Sachiko runs a business in Japan, but her business fails. She then escapes to Bali. There, Sachiko m...
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Too Young To Die!
After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band so h...
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Nadeshiko Tai
The story is set in Chiran, Kagoshima, the site of a secret base used to launch kamikaze missions du...
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A House on a Hill
Rieko Sugita, a young and beautiful hairdresser who happens to visit a bedding shop owned by Yoshita...
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Terminal
The masterpiece of Shino Sakuragi, who won the 149th Naoki Prize for "HOTEL ROYAL" in 2013, is now a...
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Museum
In Tokyo, Japan, several grotesque murders take place on rainy days. Detective Sawamura, who is in c...
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Black Widow Business
Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and ev...
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Everest: The Summit of the Gods
Makoto Fukamachi is a Japanese cameraman. He finds an old camera on a backstreet of Nepal. The camer...
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Fish of the Fire
Hi no Sakana (火の魚, Fish of the Fire) is a Japanese novel by Murō Saisei; it was first published in 1...
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The Sparkling Amber
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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The Blue Hearts
Six directors picked a favorite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short f...
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The Tale of Nishino
Yukihiko Nishino is very popular with women, but, in the end, he is always dumped by a woman. Yukihi...
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The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They...
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Dynamite Graffiti
When Suei was little, his mother had an affair with a young man who lived next door. Suei's mother a...
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The Bastard and the Beautiful World
The Bastard and the Beautiful World is an omnibus film consisting of four episodes. Fujiko is runnin...
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Hasegawa Machiko's Story
In the year 1926, Machiko Hasegawa is a 6-year-old child and lives in Fukuoka. She is a bright girl,...
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Modest Heroes
Two tiny, aquatic humanoids search for their missing father, a boy battles a lethal allergy to eggs,...
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Sniper
Detective Ryoko Kozuki receives a demotion after having an affair with a superior. She succeeds in a...
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Synchronicity
Three strangers get a strange feeling that something is "calling them." Minor things about their dai...
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If Blessed
Poet Okachimachi Kaito makes his directing debut. Featuring lead actress Ono Machiko, who starred in...
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Shadowfall
Typically thieves enter a house, steal things and get out. This time an unsuspecting thief enters a ...
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Typhoon Family
Ittetsu and Maitsuko are married, but they are not just any normal couple. They robbed a bank and to...
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Rail Truck
A tale of two islands and growing up as a stranger in a strange land, told with an artistry that rec...
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When Will You Return?
Tomoko Ashimura types on a computer her memory of her late husband Goro, but Tomoko Ashimura succumb...
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A Family
Taken in by the yakuza at a young age, Kenji swears allegiance to his old-school boss, pledging to a...
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Crickets
Kaoru, a wealthy woman whose youth is fading, abandons the hustle and bustle of the city to live a p...
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Shikasha
A woman and her child get trapped underground while investigators look for them....
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Tomorrow's Dining Table
3 women are happy and busy raising their boys named Yu. Due to some little thing, their lives fall a...
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YACHIMUN
The studio of potter Seisho Kuniyoshi is deep in the mountains, surrounded by greenery, where he dev...
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A Madder Red
7 years ago, Yoichi died in a traffic accident. His wife Ryoko did not receive compensation from her...
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Amiko
Amiko isn't like other children. Her endless energy makes her an outcast at school and gets her in t...
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Plastic
After his shot at a record deal falls through, Jun transfers to sleepy Nagoya and begins busking son...
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DitO
Professional boxer Eiji Kamiyama had been attempting a comeback in the Philippines but hit 40 withou...
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Oboe no Nai Satsujin
An ex-cop suffering from dementia is marked by detectives pursuing a murder case. It is a case that ...
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Bullet Train Explosion
When panic erupts on a Tokyo-bound bullet train that will explode if it slows below 100 kph, authori...
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The Man Who Carries the Voice of August
This is the story of a strange encounter brought about by the atomic bomb, based on the true story o...
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Hana's Miso Soup
Yasutake Shingo works as a newspaper reporter but his life is stiffled and lifeless. That changes on...
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Yakushima's Illusion
Corry, a French coordinator of pediatric heart transplants is sent to Japan where organ donation rem...
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Oishikute Naku Toki
Shinya lost his mother at a young age, and Shinya's classmate, Yuka, feels out of place in her own h...
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Totto no Ketsuraku Seishunki
In 1946, one year after World War II, Tetsuko leaves her mother in Aomori and moves to Tokyo alone t...
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