Personal Info
Birth date
1955-01-13 (70 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Kichijoji, Musashino, Tokyo, Japan
Also known as
Ran Itô
伊藤 蘭
Itō Ran
Ran Ito
Biography
Ran Ito (伊藤 蘭 Itō Ran, born 13 January 1955) is a Japanese actress and previous member of the 1970s legendary idol group Candies. As the leading member of Candies, Ran Ito was in charge of the solo of most hit songs. Ran Ito was born in Kichijōji, Musashino, Tokyo, Japan. She is married to Mizutani Yutaka, a famous actor in Japan. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 2nd Yokohama Film Festival for Disciples of Hippocrates. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
That's Our Heroes of Justice, Gather Everyone!
NYR
Overview:
Owner of a fraudulent newspaper agency is caught in a conflict between the local residents and a yakuza gang, who is backing a construction of a leisure complex on their land.NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen
8
Overview:
NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen (NHK紅白歌合戦, "NHK Red and White Song Battle"), more commonly known simply as Kōhaku, is an annual New Year's Eve television special held on December 31 every year, and produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. It is broadcast live simultaneously on NHK General TV, BS4K, BS8K, and NHK radio (nationally) and internationally on NHK World Premium and some overseas (mainly cable) broadcasters who buy the program. The program divides the most popular music artists of the year into competing teams of red and white. The "red" team or "akagumi" (紅組) is composed of all female artists (or groups with female vocals), while the "white" team or "shirogumi" (白組) is all male (or groups with male vocals).Foster Daddy, Tora!
7.5
Overview:
After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.DOCTORS: The Ultimate Surgeon
7.5
Overview:
Donoue General Hospital runs into a budget deficit, even though the doctors drive expensive imported cars and live an outlandish lifestyle. Office manager Momoi finds surgeon Kosuke Sagara through a medical website. Kosuke Sagara arrives at the hospital and tells the director of the general hospital to decide on his pay after watching his work. Kosuke Sagara informs the hospital that he had previously quit his job at a university hospital and taken a year sabbatical.The Crimes That Bind
7.214
Overview:
Michiko Oshitani, who lived in Shiga Prefecture, is found dead at an apartment in Tokyo. She was strangled to death. Mutsuo Koshikawa is the owner of the apartment and he goes missing. Detectives including Yuhei Matsumiya who is a cousin of Detective Kyoichiro Kaga , have difficulties in solving the case. They can't find a connection between Michiko Oshitani and Mutsuo Koshikawa. They soon learn that Michiko Oshitani came to Tokyo to visit Hiromi Asai . They graduated from the same school, but there isn't a connection between Hiromi Asai and Mutsuo Koshikawa. Detective Yuhei Matsumiya finds something near Michiko Oshitani's body. That something has the names of 12 bridges surrounding the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. Detective Kyoichiro Kaga learns of the clue and becomes agitated. There's a connection with his late motherThe Man of the Political Economy
NYR
Overview:
Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to achieve the breakup and privatisation of the electricity business. As a follower of Fukuzawa Yukichi, he inherited the spirit of independence, self-respect and the people. He rose up alone from the ruins of the war. It was the fight of an unconventional, stubborn old man over 70 with an indomitable will. Minister of Trade and Industry Ikeda Hayato admired Matsunaga like a father while Prime Ministers Yoshida Shigeru and Konoe Fumimaro, Shirasu Jiro (Takagawa Yuya) and others were in awe of his unfathomable passion.Don't Lose Heart
8
Overview:
Depicts the life of best-selling Japanese poet Toyo Shibata. Toyo Shibata first began writing poems at the age of 92 and published her first collection of poems "Kujikenaide" (″Don't lose heart″) in 2009, which sold over 1.5 million copies.Disciples of Hippocrates
6.4
Overview:
The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a pro-reformist militant and his girlfriend, Ogino is starting to wonder if he's really cut out to be a doctor.Modern Love Tokyo
6.8
Overview:
This seven-episode anthology features a cast of leading actors and depicts various forms of "love," such as love almost forgotten, love between sons and mothers, and love that transcends borders.Miss Sherlock
6.936
Overview:
Sherlock has a peculiar character flaw. She does not open her heart to strangers. She is Japanese, but was born in Britain. She now works as an investigation consultant for the police department. Wato Tachibana is an excellent surgeon and is guided by the principal of justice. Sherlock and Wato Tachibana get to know each other through a case and begin to rely on each other.
Kokoro
NYR
Overview:
Suenaga Kokoro, an international flight attendant, lives with her mother and grandmother who operate a traditional restaurant in a lively downtown district of Tokyo where customs and traditions run deep and neighbors know each other like a big family.A Boy Called H
7.8
Overview:
Told from the viewpoint of the father Morio, "A Boy Called H" follows a young boy named Hajime Senoh, nicknamed "H". His father, Morio runs a tailor shop. With the onset of World War II, their family must endure difficult times. Nevertheless, H is filled with curiosity and a sense of justice. Based on the autobiographical novel "Shonen H" by Kappa Senoh (published by Kodansha, July 9, 1999).MOMENT
10
Overview:
Pocky, an upbeat high-schooler, is told she will die in three days by a psychic whose predictions always come true. Along the way, she talks about boyfriends with her two friends, meets a strange boy with heart disease, and regularly bumps into a serial bomber.Kiheitai
NYR
Overview:
A period drama at the end of the Edo period, featuring Shinsaku Takasugi, who organized the Kiheitai and led the Meiji Restoration to success, and depicts the turbulent life of the young samurai of the Choshu clan at the end of the Edo period.The Roads Men Travel
8.2
Overview:
The series depicts the employees of a security company from different generations and backgrounds facing many difficult questions. It features a guard who survived a suicide mission during the war and his conflicts, rebellion, empathy and reconciliation with the younger generation born after the war.Keisei Saimin no Otoko
NYR
Overview:
A 3-part series of biographical dramas to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of NHK.Teinen Oyaji Kaizou Keikaku
7
Overview:
Tsuneo Shoji has finally reached retirement age, but his wife feels sick when she sits in the passenger seat of the car due to her husband's illness, and his daughter says, "Husband's disease!"Garden of the Wind
NYR
Overview:
The lead, Dr. Sadami Shiratori worked in the operating room at a famous Tokyo hospital was around death on a daily basis. His own father, Teizo Shiratori is also a doctor, called Grandfather as he raised the estranged children of his wayward son, he practiced medicine in a small town on Hokkaido, Japan’s most northern island. His practice was limited only to terminal patients…in their own homes. He cared for them and helped both them and their families prepare for the ‘final journey’.Medical Team Lady da Vinci’s Diagnosis
7
Overview:
Shiho works as a neurosurgeon at Nishitokyo General Hospital. She decides to quit her profession after hallucinating during surgery. Her ex-teacher Masayuki Kitabatake is the director at Tokyo University Hospital and he persuades Shiho to work at his hospital in the diagnosis department which consists of all female doctors. Shiho, who is more stubborn in her will to save other patients, sometimes come in conflicts with the other doctors there, but she cooperates with them to reveal a mysterious malady.In This Corner of the World
6.667
Overview:
18-year-old Urano Suzu marries Hojo Shusaku and moves from Eba City to Kure City in Hiroshima Prefecture in the middle of the Pacific War. As Japan slides into a war it cannot get out of, the townspeople go on with their “ordinary” lives. Supplies are short, and family and friends get sent to the battlefield. Suzu and the Hojo family battle such anxieties as they try to live positively.Seigida! Mikatada! Zeninshugo!!
NYR
Overview:
Chotaro and Nakanishi, a duo of unemployed advertisers, drifted to Isehama, a port town near Yokohama, but a gang was making its presence felt in the town and the shopkeepers in the shopping arcade were troubled by it. Chotaro poses as a journalist and uses his words of wisdom to suggest that pen is mightier than the sword, so they create a mini-comic magazine and launch a campaign to expel the gang.School can't teach!
7
Overview:
Gakko ja Oshierarenai! is a Japanese television drama series concerning the life of ten high school students. It stars Kyoko Fukada as their teacher. It started to air on July 15, 2008. Aida Mai is a woman in her third year as an english teacher at a private all-girls high school. Due to declining enrollment, the school decides to admit its first male students. Those five freshmen initially feel they're in paradise, but the concerned Mai tries to help them adjust by creating a social dance club and inviting five girls. Those ten students become the focus of the drama, which is described as a story of love and adolescence.Dare Yori mo Mama wo Aisu
NYR
Overview:
A heartwarming home drama told from the perspective of 11-year-old Kaoru (Nagashima), who says his family is often called weird/unusual. It revolves around the lives of stay-at-home dad (Tamura), lawyer and breadwinner mother (Ito), tomboyish oldest daughter (Uchida) and SNAG oldest son (Tamayama). A mysterious neighbor (Kobayashi) also gets involved.The Sun Never Sets
NYR
Overview:
Nao always get's into fights and does fight for his mother but eventually she dies. He is certain the hospital did something wrong which caused her death so he finds a lawyer because he wants to know the truth. While he trying to discover the truth of his mothers death he falls in love with the daughter of the hospital owner.Acting
2025おどる夫婦 as Unknown
2022Modern Love Tokyo (1 Episode) as Natsuko Kurata
2022Teinen Oyaji Kaizou Keikaku as Toshiko Shoji
2021Doctors~The Strongest Doctor~2021 New Year SP as Kazue Minagawa
2018あまんじゃく～元外科医の殺し屋 最後の闘い～ (1 Episode) as Unknown
2018In This Corner of the World (9 Episodes) as San Hojo
2018The Crimes That Bind as Yuriko Tajima
2018Miss Sherlock (8 Episodes) as Kimie Hatano
2016Medical Team Lady da Vinci’s Diagnosis (10 Episodes) as Yoko Iwakura
2016仮釈放の条件 出口の裁判官 岬真斗香 (1 Episode) as Unknown
2015The Man of the Political Economy as Unknown
2015Keisei Saimin no Otoko (5 Episodes) as Matsunaga Ichiko
2013Don't Lose Heart as Shizuko
2013DOCTORS2 最強の名医 (1 Episode) as 미나가와 카즈에
2013A Boy Called H as Toshiko Senoh
2012Otona ni natta natsu as Unknown
2011DOCTORS: The Ultimate Surgeon (29 Episodes) as Kazue Minagawa
2008Garden of the Wind (11 Episodes) as Taeko Uchiyama
2008School can't teach! (10 Episodes) as Meiko Kageyama
2007ベビーシッターの危険な好奇心 (1 Episode) as Unknown
2006Dare Yori mo Mama wo Aisu (11 Episodes) as Unknown
2004Atarashii Kaze (10 Episodes) as Unknown
2003Kokoro (156 Episodes) as Suenaga Misako
2002女刑事ふたり (1 Episode) as Unknown
2001西村京太郎サスペンス 脅迫者 (1 Episode) as Unknown
2001みちのく祭り殺人行 死んだ妻からの電話 (1 Episode) as Unknown
2000The Sun Never Sets (11 Episodes) as Ikutani Akiko
1999Good News (12 Episodes) as Unknown
1991深夜の偶然 (1 Episode) as Unknown
1989Kiheitai as Unknown
1981Ore to aitsu no monogatari as 南原純子
1981MOMENT as Unknown
1980Foster Daddy, Tora! as Sumire
1980Disciples of Hippocrates as Unknown
1976The Roads Men Travel (1 Episode) as Singer
1975Seigida! Mikatada! Zeninshugo!! as Unknown
1975That's Our Heroes of Justice, Gather Everyone! as Unknown
1951NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen (1 Episode) as Herself