Personal Info
Birth date
1981-07-27 (43 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Saitama, Japan
Also known as
高野真理
Mari Takano
호시노 마리
Mari Hoshino
Biography
Mari Hoshino (星野 真里 Hoshino Mari, born July 27, 1981 in Kamifukuoka, Saitama) is a Japanese actress and singer. She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University with a degree in Franch Literature. Most well-known for her lead role as Otome Sakamoto in T.B.S. drama, Kinpachi-sensei, Hoshino has starred in several dramas in recent years. Her main role in Platonic Sex was some-what controversial as it was rather contrary to her image as one possessing pure values. She has also published two photographic books as well as about six C.D.s. Of the Japanese dramas shown in Los Angeles, a substantial fraction of them has Mari in the cast.
Filmography
My Husband is a Cartoonist
8.5
Overview:
The 82nd NHK Asadora is Gegege no Nyobo. The story is based on a 2008 autobiography by Mura Nunoe, the wife of Gegege no Kitaro mangaka Mizuki Shigeru. The story revolves around the life of the married couple, told from the perspective of Mura. --TokyographMr. Kinpachi in Class 3B
7
Overview:
A legendary television series and cultural asset, Mr. Kinpachi in Class 3B is famous for putting many social issues on the front burner of the public conscious over its long run, as filtered through the emotionally volatile lives of third year middle school students. The heartfelt relations between a devoted schoolteacher, Kinpachi Sakamoto, and his unique students have won the show high praise for several decades. Whether due to the pressures of exams, family relations, teachers and friends, graduating middle school students navigate a turbulent hormonal sea of “hope” and “frustration”, constantly shaped by the social environment of the times. Standing as a beacon in the storm and emitting messages of hope for each generation is one Japanese teacher, Kinpachi Sakamoto, who has come to be adored and admired by a nation through the adventures of Class 3B.CSI: Crime Scene Talks
7.2
Overview:
Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenactments, fingerprint and voice data collections, profiling... His team collects scientific evidence and pieces together fragments of information in order to help build evidences. However, Itomura often does not care about the scientific approach and instead pays a great deal of attention to the things that the victims always carried with them or treasured. And he focuses on these things because they usually carry the victim’s dying wishes, understanding that last message not only helps solve the cases but also brings closure to the depressed family of victims.Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono
7.3
Overview:
Kaoru Mitazono (Masahiro Matsuoka) is a talented housekeeper with an usual secret. Kaoru is actually a guy! Besides cooking, cleaning and babysitting Kaoru Mitazono has the unusual habit of discovering secrets held within the family of her employers.Kumokiri Nizaemon
8.5
Overview:
During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo, and all across the Kansai region, stealing large sums of money with skillful techniques. They only target the very wealthy and never kill or injure people. They appear with the clouds and disappear like the mist. On the night that the beautiful Ochiyo is to become the bride of a dry goods dealer, a large amount of money hidden inside the shop is stolen. The gang disappears without injuring anyone. It was a two-year plan to marry Ochiyo off so that she could bring them in. The leader of this gang is Kumokiri Nizaemon, the greatest bandit of all time. He keeps a rein on his highly-skilled and notorious followers Nanabake no Ochiyo, Kinezumi no Kichigoro, Subashiri no Kumagoro, Ingakozo Rokunosuke and others.Divorce Lawyer
6
Overview:
Takako Mamiya is a lawyer who quits her job at a prestigious law firm and establishes her own office. She confidently sets out to build her business, but soon her former firm is putting up obstacles and interfering, causing Takako's employees and clients to drift away. She finally puts together a new staff consisting of a college student who knows little about the law, a girl who applied for the job in hopes of meeting a rich guy, a hard-nosed lawyer, and a paralegal who hasn't passed the bar exam yet. Takako reluctantly handles divorce cases with her incompetent crew. For an elite lawyer like her, divorce cases are the most boring and unrewarding cases that exist. Through clashing with her employees and clients, Takako soon becomes a very mature and tough lawyer. "Divorce Lawyer" also tells the story of how difficult it is to judge love and relationships in legal terms.My Husband
6.2
Overview:
A sexy renegade male chauvinist rock singer by day, a bossed around, lousy dressed and demurring husband by night. Yuichi, the handsome, sexy, and a great rock singer, is known by his fans as 'The Wolf', a fearlessly independent musician who just couldn't care less about what others think of him. In reality, however, Yuichi is a lousy dresser, wears thick glasses and is totally devoted to his hidden girlfriend. Trouble ensues when he decides to marry in secret as he must fight to keep up his image while balancing his private life which grows ever complex as he is introduced to his overbearing family in law....Solitary Gourmet
8.804
Overview:
Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.The Knife and the Sword
6.4
Overview:
French chef Ken travels back in time to Sengoku period. Due to traveling through the time slip, Ken has lost his memory, but still retains his knowledge on fine cuisine. Thanks to his excellence in cuisine, Ken eventually becomes the chef to powerful daimyo Nobunaga Oda.Himitsu Chouhouin Erika
NYR
Overview:
Sanada plays a salariman who just lost his job. Yonekura, his wife, is a dancer who gave up her career when they got married. In the middle of family crisis, Yonekura leaves to pursue her dream. Sanada is stuck with their only son. Suzuki, his old flame -turn jet set career woman- is forced to take care of them. Will the romance spark again, now that Sanada already has family, and Suzuki has a younger man, Makoto, beside her?Don't be a cry baby
NYR
Overview:
After a car accident kills both her parents, the 16-year-old Ayumi (Fukada) and her brother are adopted by their aunt and uncle respectively. Their nightmares begin after they move in with the two families. Ayumi is forced to quit school and work in Water Inn, which is owned by her aunt's husband, who seems to be filled with hatred for Ayumi. In the inn, Ayumi is surrounded by people who seems to either hate her or dislike her. Her only friend is Lin (Chen) who is an illegal foreign worker. When she runs into troubles, she has 3 guardian angels who takes turn to help her: her aunt, Lin, and Sasaoka Yuzuri, the son of a politician and who has a promising future. Yuzuri's interest in her, however, incurs the jealousy of her cousin and the wrath of her uncle who loves his own daughter Yuriko (Nakamura) very much. In the meanwhile, she also has to find ways to bring her brother under her ownCinderella Date
NYR
Overview:
Makoto, a married senior high school teacher who goes on a vacation with her husband to Jakarta, Indonesia, where she accidentally meets and falls for journalist Ryota. 3 years later when Ryota returns to Japan, he and Makoto reunites and rekindles their romance.Tsukai TV Sukatto Japan
7.5
Overview:
Something that we struggle with daily, that eats us up and causes stress and anger: annoying people. You know those people. Unreasonable complainers, obnoxious drunk people, rude cab drivers, snobby salesperson, loud teenagers with no manners, and so on. Hosted by Teruyoshi Uchimura of the comedy duo Ucchan Nanchan, this show features short dramatic reenactments of real-life situation where someone beats those “bad guys” through cleverness and wit. In every episode, the well-reputed supporting actors are cast as characters. There’s no doubt that the show provides a great stress relief and leaves audience feel completely entertained and exhilarated!Invert: Jozuka Hisui Inverted Collection
8.556
Overview:
Jozuka Hisui is a psychic with green eyes and has the ability to feel the souls and bring the dead back. Together with her partner Chiwasaki Makoto, Hisui works hard as a "medium detective" and catches the culprits despite their perfect plans and alibis.Angel's Ears: Night of the Traffic Police
NYR
Overview:
Adapted from the novel "Tenshi no Mimi" (天使の耳) by Higashino Keigo (東野圭吾).Izakaya Shinkansen
7
Overview:
Takamiya Susumu is a salary man. He who works in audit division of an insurance company. His job has him traveling all over the country on one-day business trips via the Shinkansen train. When he visits an area on his business trips, he likes to find delicious food nearby and gets it to go. On his return, via the Shinkansen train, he eats the meals that he bought. The train becomes like an izakaya to him, a place to relax with good food and drinks.Fragrance You Inherit
NYR
Overview:
Hirose Sakura had the worst day of her life when Monet, the person she loved, got married, but she was later given the greatest treasure. Fifteen years later she is living together with her treasured son, Toki, a high school student, and the two of them were living a normal but happy life. One day, Tooki brings along a girlfriend, Kano, who looks just like Monet, who loved cherry blossoms. From Sakura to Toki, what will happen to the love that has been handed down over two generations...?!Tokyo Friends
NYR
Overview:
Tokyo Friends is a Japanese television drama released on June 3, 2005. Unlike many other dramas, it was never aired on TV but released as a set of 3 DVDs. Volumes one and two contain the first 4 episodes while volume three contains the last episode. Each episode is approximately 70 minutes. The Tokyo Friends Premium Box was also released which includes all 5 episodes, a bonus DVD, and 12 postcards. Although this is a very typical Tokyo-story and was never aired on TV, it was quite successful probably because it was Ai Otsuka's debut as an actress.Platonic Sex
3
Overview:
Aoki, a naive, gullible young girl, strays towards the party life instead of taking her school work seriously.Moshichi
NYR
Overview:
A mysterious humanistic period drama, setting in the Edo Period. As Okappiki, unofficial collaborators who played a marginal role in police functions, Moshichi (Takahashi Hideki) solves a number of mysterious incidents that occur in downtown Edo.Time for Love
NYR
Overview:
When their mother falls ill, two sisters are faced not only with her extended care, but with the romances that spring from this change in situation. The younger sister, a married woman with children, falls for the man who found her mother in the park that day. The older sister is the president of her own company. She deals with both a man who (accidently?) assaulted her on the train and the doctor charged with her mother's care. The former keeps appearing in her life, always sad looking. He may seek a job in her company, since he recently lost his. The handsome doctor asked her hand in marriage, and she declined him. The story goes on...Family: Absence of the Wife, Existence of the Husband
NYR
Overview:
Kamikawa Ryohei is a 35-year-old man who works in a foreign company and lives a happy family life with his wife and son. On the day he decides to switch careers and submit his resignation, his wife runs away from home, leaving his hands full taking care of the home and bringing up their son. Saeki Shinichiro is a 61-year-old man who decides to live alone when he loses his wife to illness not long after he reached the mandatory retirement age.Santa Claus Dreaming
NYR
Overview:
Koshiba Seijuro is the assisstant to some influential figure whose daughter was all messed up, and who comes to the psychiatrist Koizumi Santa and asks him to counsel the daughter without her knowledge. Since Santa is a compulsive gambler he's hard up for money and takes the job even though he's queasy about the ethics. Turns out that she's the same girl he took to the hospital nine months earlier when she had passed out drunk on a roof preparing to jump. As it happens she woke up in the hospital and saw Santa's best friend Kusanagi Shunsuke (a surgeon) holding the Santa Claus hat Santa had been wearing (it was Christmas Eve), and it turns into a very complicated love triangle.Acting
2025The Way of The Prison Guard as Unknown
2024Fragrance You Inherit (8 Episodes) as Sakura Hirose
2023Shinrei Naikai Inao Chisei (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2023Angel's Ears: Night of the Traffic Police (2 Episodes) as Kanazawa Emi
2022Inspector Totsugawa's Requiem as Unknown
2022海岸通りのネコミミ探偵 as Unknown
2022Invert: Jozuka Hisui Inverted Collection (1 Episode) as Suezaki Eri
2022The Honest Realtor (1 Episode) as Maki Ishida
2021Izakaya Shinkansen (12 Episodes) as [Susumu's wife]
2020Tsukai TV Sukatto Japan (1 Episode) as Unknown
2019Love in Parallel as Yoshimi
201860 JUSTICE PROJECT (5 Episodes) as Misuzu Haruna
2017Kyotaro Nishimura's Travel Mystery 67: Murder in Hakone - Leaves & Mountains as Yuki Izeki
2016Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono (1 Episode) as Shōko Yagi
2016The Red Museum of Crime Evidence - The Saeko Hiiro Series as Tomoko Terada
2016Crime Mystery by Kosaku Asahina: Tragedy of Hanasaki Village as Yuiko Hanayagi
2014Justice is Blind: The Moving Tale of a Vision-Impaired Lawyer as Satomi Ando
2014Cinderella Date (39 Episodes) as Nishimura Makoto
2014Why did the girl have to lose her memory? as Seta Aiko
2014Tomorrow Which Flower Blooms (8 Episodes) as Kana Hanasaku
2013Keiji 110 kiro (6 Episodes) as Chinatsu Gonda
2013Kumokiri Nizaemon (5 Episodes) as Unknown
2013The Knife and the Sword (17 Episodes) as Oichi
2012灰色の虹 (1 Episode) as 이사야마 타케오미
2012Lucky Day (10 Episodes) as Unknown
2012Solitary Gourmet (1 Episode) as Unknown
2011Himitsu Chouhouin Erika (1 Episode) as Shiori Fujimura
2011Deadball as Suzuki Shinosuke / Four Eyes
2011The 11 Words Murder as Fuyuko Hakio
2011Keigo Higashino 3-week drama SP series (1 Episode) as 萩尾冬子
2011CSI: Crime Scene Talks (1 Episode) as Unknown
2011The King of Minami Returns: The Seal of Betrayal as Unknown
2011新・ミナミの帝王～裏切りの実印～ (1 Episode) as Unknown
2010Face Maker (1 Episode) as Unknown
2010しってはいけない怖い話 (8 Episodes) as Unknown
2010Azamijô no lullaby (1 Episode) as Unknown
2010Lost Love Murder as Fumiyo (Kogorou's Wife)
2010My Husband is a Cartoonist (156 Episodes) as Unknown
2010Soil (8 Episodes) as Onoda Masako
2010The Negotiator: The Movie as Yuka Dounoue
2009Cellular Boyfriend as Unknown
2009Air Doll as Miki
2009I’m a Cat Stalker as Haru
2009Kyo Kara Hitman as Unknown
2009Dear My Love as Maki Tachibana
2009Black Current as 横山リエ
2008Detective Ushio VS Case Reporter Saeko at the Terminal Station as Nozomi Unezawa
2008Four Lies (9 Episodes) as Unknown
2008Tokugawa Ieyasu and his Three Ladies as Unknown
2007Dots and Lines as Unknown
2007Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007 as Unknown
2007Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2 as Unknown
2006Ōoku supesharu ~ mō hitotsu no monogatari ~ as Unknown
2006Taikoki: Hideyoshi Chronicle (6 Episodes) as Unknown
2006Family: Absence of the Wife, Existence of the Husband (8 Episodes) as Unknown
2006Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai Go Ya as Unknown
2006Tales of Terror: Final Night 2 as Unknown
2006Tales of Terror: Final Night 1 as Unknown
2006Seicho Matsumoto Special: Fingers as Kaori Suzuki
2005Time for Love (10 Episodes) as Unknown
2005The Files of Young Kindaichi: The Legendary Vampire Murders as Aoko Minato
2005Sayonara Midori-chan as Yuko
2005Tokyo Friends (5 Episodes) as Akemi Kiuchi（木内 暁美）
2005For the coming day as Unknown
2004Ooku Dai-isho (11 Episodes) as Unknown
2004Infection as Nurse
2004Divorce Lawyer (1 Episode) as Maki Kitadume
2004Tracing Jake as Unknown
2003A Younger Man (11 Episodes) as Asami Kitamura
2001Platonic Sex (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2001Moshichi (25 Episodes) as Unknown
2001My Husband (11 Episodes) as Hikari Aikawa（相川 ヒカリ）
2000Go-Con! Japanese Love Culture as Umeda
1999Live (12 Episodes) as Ayukawa Nana
1999Don't be a cry baby (11 Episodes) as Kanemoto Rieko
1998Brothers (12 Episodes) as Unknown
1997The Rainbow Seeker 2 as Unknown
1997Santa Claus Dreaming (10 Episodes) as Sonobe Mika
1997Mokuyou no Kaidan'97: Akuryou Gakuen as Unknown
1997The Glass Shoe (12 Episodes) as Unknown
1996Doku (10 Episodes) as Natsumi Nagase
1990Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen (5 Episodes) as Unknown
1979Mr. Kinpachi in Class 3B (113 Episodes) as Otome Sakamoto