Mieko Harada
Birthday: 1958-12-26
Place of Birth: Toshima, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Mieko Harada (原田 美枝子, Harada Mieko, born on December 26, 1958) is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. She has played various roles in many motion pictures, television shows and television dramas since her debut in 1974. She most notably portrayed Lady Kaede in Akira Kurosawa's 1985 film Ran, and further collaborated with him in his 1990 film Dreams. Harada also most notably provided the voice for Kaguya in the 2002 anime film InuYasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass. She is currently working on television dramas as of 2007. She won the award for best actress at the 21st Hochi Film Award for Village of Dreams and at the 23rd Hochi Film Award for Begging for Love. Harada is married to Ryo Ishibashi since 1987 and has three children.
Movies
Asuka e, Soshite Mada Minu Ko e
Spring 2005, Okinawa. It's the wedding of Sawamura Seiji's second daughter, Seiko (Fujisawa Ema). Mi...
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Devoted Cookbook
The film is set in Edo period. As an orphan child Mio starts working at a restaurant in Osaka where ...
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Dreams
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a...
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Village of Dreams
Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Inc...
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Hinokio: Inter Galactic Love
Satoru, a wheelchair-bound elementary student, locks himself away from the outside world after his m...
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Dororo
Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, i...
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First Love
This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka has gotten dumped by her boy...
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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th centur...
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A Hundred Flowers
Diagnosed with dementia, Yuriko's mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son Izumi, memories of t...
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The Samurai I Loved
A young samurai stuck at the bottom of the hierarchical order attempts to rescue his childhood sweet...
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Making of 'Dreams'
This 150-minute documentary, directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi on the set of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, fe...
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The Youth Killer
Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when ...
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Trespassing Bergman
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of F...
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Tsuda Umeko: Osatsu ni Natta Ryugakusei
Tsuda Umeko was born in December 31, 1864 and became a pioneer in women's eductation. In 1871, Tsud...
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Milocrorze: A Love Story
Three tales of love told through wildly intoxicating, colorful stories. When platinum redhead Ovrene...
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Frozen River
A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one...
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Dearest
The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. ...
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Aegis
The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to...
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A Samurai Chronicle
A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life....
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Leonie
The true life story of Leonie Gilmour, whose life crossed continents, wars and cultures, embodied wi...
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School Days with a Pig
A school teacher suggests to his class that they ought to raise a pig together and eat it when it gr...
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Love Is in the Green Wind
A youthful film depicting the sexual awakening of a boy who has just entered adolescence and his hea...
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The Inferno
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mothe...
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Wings of Icarus' Flight
A young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a fascinating su...
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Devoted Cookbook
It is the Spring of 1814. The restaurant “Tsuru-ka” is gaining much popularity after its chef, Mio, ...
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After the Rain
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As...
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Our Family
The emotional journey of a four-member family that fails to recognize that it is rapidly growing apa...
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Rock: Wanko no Shima
A boy, Shin, and his family are forced to evacuate the island of Miyakejima, when it erupts in 2000....
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And so I'm at a Loss
Yuichi Sugawara is a freelancer, who spends his days meaninglessly. He lives with his long-term girl...
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Half a Confession
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a ta...
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A Samurai Chronicle
A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life....
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Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage
Sakane, a police officer nicknamed "Kasajiro," remains single. He meets Shinko, the daughter of a co...
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Sunshine Ahead
Based on a true story, "Sunshine Ahead" tells the story of environmentalist Koji Kinjo & his wif...
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Dreamy Fifteen
Aspiring to be admitted to a good university and to become a lawyer, Tasiro Yuusuke, a tenth-grader ...
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Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsuk...
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Out
When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she stra...
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Ashita o he guru
This documentary records the lives of people in a mountain village surrounding the kozo (paper mulbe...
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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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Lullaby of the Earth
The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is su...
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Ran
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...
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My Sons
Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has alway...
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House on Fire
In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his nu...
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Helter Skelter
Top model Lilico, having recently undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries, begins to experience troubl...
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Oriume
About a family shouldering an unexpected responsibility when Alzheimer's disease strikes their grand...
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Suite Dreams
New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional part...
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If Cats Disappeared from the World
A postman learns that he doesn't have much time left to live due to a terminal illness. A devil then...
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Flickering Flames
In the early hours of April 13th, a five year old hemophiliac child was kidnapped by someone from Ta...
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The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky
Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait o...
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The Fugitive Samurai
Itto Ogami- High Executioner to the Shogun- has been betrayed by his political enemies and sentenced...
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Manatsu Girl
The Special is loosely inspired by horror classics of the time, such as "Carry" and "Fury." The sto...
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Portrait in Prussian Blue
Fuyuhana, is bullied child at school, because she was not able to speak until recently. This was due...
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Free and Easy 2
Hama-chan gets Su-san hooked on fishing, but Su-san has some problems to deal with; a beautiful woma...
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Lear on the Shore
Chokichi Kuwahata was once a leading actor, but he is ravaged by dementia and old age now. His daugh...
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The Dump Truck Rascal
Depicting the turbulent life of truck driver Takashi, his fellow drivers, and the women he meets....
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Psychic: Traveler to the Unknown
Hikaru, an ordinary man, discovers a way to unleash the supernatural powers hidden inside his soul, ...
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Miracle Apples
Akinori Kimura (Sadao Abe) and his wife Mieko (Miho Kanno) opens an apple orchard in their hometown ...
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Truck Rascals: Another Odyssey of Momojiro
Hoping to romance an alien, Momojiro meets beautiful animal trainer Eriko instead. Then he and Jonat...
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The Fall of Ako Castle
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells ...
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Koi
The story is set in the 70s where Ishihara plays Fumiko, an university student, who gets involved ro...
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Permanent Blue
In a fishing town by the Seto Sea, a student discovers a woman motionless on the beach and takes her...
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Female Detective Riko: The Virgin's Deep Abyss
The film centers on Riko Murakami, a tough-as-nails detective who is also the single mother of a you...
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Modori River
The story of Takeha, a free-spirited genius poet who lived through Taisho Romanticism, and the women...
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Majutsu wa Sasayaku
A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three of h...
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A Duel Tale
Nakadai Tatsuya, Japan’s greatest living actor, gives the performance of a lifetime as Shoji Sanosuk...
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Off-Balance
13-year old Chiaki Matsumoto enters middle school with two rules for herself: 1. Always stay cool an...
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza ...
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Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
Chacha, the woman of the blood of Nobunaga, who loved with Hideyoshi, and feared Tokugawa....
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Kohaku no yume
a TV drama special based on the life of SUNTORY's founder Shinjiro Torii...
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Nomugi Pass
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in...
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Dear My Love
Too shy to speak out the word of appreciation, too busy to show that you care... Many excuses lie be...
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Maki
Story of displacement, power, and vulnerability told through the relationship between a hostess, the...
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Shikibu monogatari
Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial acciden...
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68-Year-Old New Employee
Hitsujido Honpo, an established Japanese-style sweets company known for its traditional flavours and...
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Inuyasha the Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass
With their most formidable foe vanquished, Inuyasha and his comrades begin returning to their everyd...
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Haunted School 4
Taking advantage of their summer holiday, Kō and his little sister Yae visit their cousin at Nozaki ...
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Mokuyo Kumikyoku
A closed-room mystery where five women gathered in memory of a mysteriously dead female writer to un...
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Tomodachi
Shinta is a sixth grader in Kawasaki City a troublemaker that dreams to become a soccer player. Yosh...
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A Banana? At This Time of Night?
A man is immobile and incapacitated, but has professional and nonprofessional volunteers serve and h...
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Somehow, Crystal
While her boyfriend Jun'ichi is out of town, college student and part-time model Yuri passes the tim...
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Strawberry Road
Hisa Ishii and his brother Akira emigrate from Japan to the United States. They settle in rural Cali...
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Minato no Yoko Yokohama Yokosuka
A young girl travels between Yokohama and Yokosuka, searching for her older sister to tell her about...
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Hidden Sun
While visiting Japan, philosopher Sushila and her astrophysicist husband Kenji attend the final perf...
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Lone Wolf and Cub
Ogami Itto, framed for treason and surviving a deadly attack, becomes a lone assassin with his son. ...
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