Personal Info
Birth date
1968-09-14 (57 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Tokyo, Japan
Also known as
渡辺 真起子
渡辺真起子
渡边真起子
Makiko Watanabe
Biography
Makiko Watanabe (渡辺 真起子, Watanabe Makiko, September 14, 1968) is a Japanese actress and former fashion model from Tokyo. She is affiliated with Decade.
Filmography
Tokyo Vice
7.88
Overview:
A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.Drops of God
7.5
Overview:
While the world of wine mourns the death of Alexandre Léger, his estranged daughter, Camille, learns his extraordinary collection is now hers. But before she can claim her inheritance, Camille must best Alexandre's protégé, Issei, in a test of their senses.Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
7.668
Overview:
Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gentle Tomoe Yukishiro, a beautiful young woman who carries a huge burden in her heart, his life will change forever.Love Exposure
8
Overview:
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while operating for the sake of sin as an "up-skirt" photographer. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.99.9 Criminal Lawyer
6.9
Overview:
Hiroto Miyama is an unconventional young lawyer who dances to his own tune and gets a little obsessive. For one thing, he’s only interested in criminal cases, and he will never give up in his pursuit of the truth even if offers only a 0.1% chance of being discovered. Japan’s 99.9% criminal case conviction rate leads the world, attesting to a “highly reliable” judicial system. In other words, once a crime suspect is indicted, prosecutor arguments tend to be accepted hook, line and sinker. In the face of those 99.9% odds, there’s no money in being a defense lawyer specializing in criminal cases, but for Miyama, that’s where the interest and kernels of truth lie. From unexpected places, the mold-breaking Miyama stakes his reputation on a prayer of a chance as he clashes with hotshot lawyers who’ll go to any lengths to win in this gloriously fun, legal mystery.Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete
6.4
Overview:
A girl named Ai gets a major record deal to sing a song written by a friend of hers who is deceased. However an obsessed stalker fan slowly starts becoming more like her and tearing her world apart.Happyend
6.533
Overview:
In a near-future Japanese city bracing for a devastating earthquake, a group of teenage friends navigate personal struggles and fractured bonds amid rising tension.The Lowlife
6
Overview:
Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in Japan’s adult video industry.Himizu
7.1
Overview:
After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.Star Sand
7
Overview:
In the closing days of World War II, Japanese-American Hiromi, a girl age 16, encounters an American deserter, Bob, and a Japanese soldier, Iwabuchi, living together in a cave on a small island in Okinawa. The two men are deserters from their armies; yet both vow never to harm another human being again. Hiromi looks after the deserters until another soldier appears and the peace of the cave is shattered. It leads to the death of three of them and a fascinating mystery that isn't solved until the present day.My Sister, My Love
5.7
Overview:
It is a taboo story about love and incest between twins. It's not about sex, it's about the feelings the two have for one another and how society views them.White Night
8
Overview:
Fate brings a man and woman together in Lyon, France. They fall in love, but time is set to run out on them ...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.Tamaran Hill
4.5
Overview:
Hinako comes across the novel “Tamaran Hill” and immediately starts reading it with delight, as “tamaran” (intolerable) happens to be her father’s favorite swear word. She soon imagines herself inside the book’s story, which also deals with someone intrigued with that particular word, and even meets the real-life author Senji Kuroi there.And Your Bird Can Sing
6.8
Overview:
With a contagious sense of abandon, three young adults' lives become intimately entangled over the course of a long summer in Hakodate, Hokkaido.The Mourning Forest
6.8
Overview:
A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in the titular forest.XX: Beautiful Prey
6.1
Overview:
This Japanese thriller finds a sexy policewoman becoming entangled in Japan's S&M underground while investigating a gruesome murder. Soon, her investigation has led her to a seductive sadist and his equally appealing masochist victim. Falling prey to her suspects' powerful allure, she struggles to extricate herself from an increasingly torrid affair to solve the mystery she set out to investigate.Wandering Home
6.2
Overview:
War photojournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple divorced. Yasuyuki is now coughing up blood, hospitalized, and violent. Even with all of these problems Yasuyuki can't give up drinking alcohol. His family gets tired. Yasuyuki is then hospitalized in an alcoholic ward. There he finds comfort living with other patients and having conversations with doctors. With the help of his family, Yasuyuki recovers mentally and physically, but his body has already paid a heavy toll.The Great Passage: I'll Make a Dictionary
6.5
Overview:
Kishibe Midori (Ikeda Elaiza), an editor for a popular fashion magazine, finds herself transferring to the lexicography division following the magazine's discontinuation. The place is filled with a group of quirky characters, led by Majime Mitsuya (Noda Yojiro), a boss with a shaggy hair who is extremely serious. While being tossed about by them, Midori is influenced by their patience and passion for making a dictionary which takes over a decade, and she gradually immerses herself in the work. This drama depicts their struggles in creating and finalizing the dictionary, "The Great Passage."Women on the Edge
NYR
Overview:
Following the 2011 tsunami, three women reunite in the family home only to rekindle tense, ruinous relationships.Aoi Shushi wa Taiyou no Naka ni Aru
NYR
Overview:
In the summer of 1963, flats of modern construction begin to be built in the slums where vagrants and women of the night gather. The city hall's plan is to house the slum dwellers in cultural housing, complete with gas and running water. Kenji, a construction worker, and Yumiko, a waitress at a late-night rest house, meet in the slum, but only at dusk. One day, a Korean worker falls from scaffolding at an apartment building site and dies. The site supervisor and city hall workers bury the corpse in the concrete foundations of the apartment building...The Rebirth
5.8
Overview:
A widower who’s daughter has been murdered at high school meets the mother of the murderer by coincidence after moving to a small town in Hokkaido.Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Jesus in the Barn
NYR
Overview:
A 2001 Japanese language film directed by Shinji Aoyama, starring Hidetoshi Nishijima. The film screened at Locarno International Film Festival in 2009. Directed by Shinji Aoyama, this installment of NHK’s "Recitation Travelogue" series features actor Hidetoshi Nishijima performing Jun Ishikawa’s postwar classic "Jesus in the Barn". Blending literature, performance, and cinema, the program reimagines Ishikawa’s demanding text through evocative modern landscapes.The Many Faces of Chika
NYR
Overview:
When her husband is hospitalized with tuberculosis, Chika has a series of three relationships: with a teacher in her hometown, with a student in Tokyo, and with an aging gangster.The Midnight Maiden War
5.5
Overview:
I is a university, who came to Tokyo from his hometown. I lives alone and doesn't have friends or a girlfriend. I's university life is boring and he doesn't have a dream. I supports himself by working as a day laborer at a construction site. I meets two people at a hide-and-seek club. One is his Senior and the other person is Black Suit. By meeting them, I's boring life changes. They start the "Midnight Maiden War," which is their plan to destroy Tokyo.While the Women Are Sleeping
5.667
Overview:
Kenji and Aya spend their summer days in a Hotel. While she is doing her own thing, he tries to work on his novel. But then a few strange hotel guest arouse the curiosity of the couple.Acting
TBASayonara wo Kimeta Hi as Mother
2025Sugar Glass Bottle as Fukuko
2025Second to Last Love 3 (11 Episodes) as Unknown
2025Happyend as Yoko
2025The Harbor Lights as Unknown
2024Or Utopia as Miwako Onishi
2024Desert of Namibia as Mari
2024Secret Makeover (10 Episodes) as Kujo Miki
2024Red Roof on the Slope (5 Episodes) as Unknown
2024The Great Passage: I'll Make a Dictionary (10 Episodes) as Sasaki Kaoru
2023Ozu (1 Episode) as Unknown
2023Family as Unknown
2023Tengu's Kitchen (10, 10 Episode) as Ichino, Izuna Kazuno / Kazuno Wilson
2023悪女について (2 Episodes) as 沢山朝子
2023Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room: The Movie as Mariko Shirokane
2023Drops of God (8 Episodes) as Honoka Tomine
2023Kashi Mashi Meshi (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2023About the Evil Woman as Unknown
2022Small, Slow But Steady as Ms. Goto
2022Fragments of the Last Will as Unknown
2022Mugonkan as Yamaryo Mari
2022Haw as Unknown
2022Renovation Like Magic (1 Episode) as Unknown
2022Tokyo Vice (2, 1 Episode) as Mrs. Tozawa, Kazuko Tozawa
2022The Midnight Maiden War as Unknown
202199.9 Criminal Lawyer: SP as Unknown
2021Come and Go as Yoshiko Tomioka
2021In the Wake as Unknown
2021TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room (11 Episodes) as Mariko Shirokane
2021Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning as Landlady
2021Tomorrow's Dining Table as Yoriko Narita
2021Living, Dying, Father, etc. (1 Episode) as Unknown
2020孤独のグルメ 2020大晦日スペシャル～俺の食事に密はない as Unknown
2020The Asadas! as Michiko Togawa
2020State of Emergency as Delivery 2020
2020Unsung Cinderella, Midori, The Hospital Pharmacist (1 Episode) as Manami Koga
2020Tamaran Hill as Hinako's teacher
2020Momi's House as Unknown
2020The Calming as Makiko
2020Voices in the Wind as Hiroko
2019Walking Man as Mitsuyo
2019Startup Girls as Unknown
2019Aesop's Game as Misako-kun
2019I Shared My Husband (10 Episodes) as Miho Tsukamoto
2019Rikon na Futari (2 Episodes) as Unknown
201937 Seconds as Mai
2018A Banana? At This Time of Night? as Takako Maeki
2018And Your Bird Can Sing as Naoko
2018My Friend "A" as Asako Shinozuka
2017The Lowlife as Izumi
2017Slight Fever as Naoko Maeda
2017Foreboding as Kasuya's wife
2017Star Sand as Yoshigami
2017Hello, Goodbye as Saki Kobayashi
2017Love Exposure: The TV-Show (10 Episodes) as Kaori Fujiwara
2016Tokyo Girl (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Anna
2016Princess Maison (8 Episodes) as Fumi Nakamori
2016Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono (1 Episode) as Misako Iwase
2016A Loving Husband as Yohei's mother
201664: Part 2 as Unknown
201699.9 Criminal Lawyer (12 Episodes) as Natsuko Togawa
2016女優堕ち (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2016While the Women Are Sleeping as Kyoko
2015Mystery Trilogy Special as (segment "Winter Has Come")
2015東京の日 as Harumi
2015Aoi Shushi wa Taiyou no Naka ni Aru as Unknown
2015Red Cross (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2015Obon Brothers as Unknown
2015Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Manga Artist Competition as Unknown
2015Marumaru Tsuma (10 Episodes) as Kasai Midori
2014Miracle: Devil Claus' Love and Magic as Ritsuko
2014Starting Over as Keiko Kuroswa
2014Still the Water as Misaki
2014Fukuie Keibuho no Aisatsu (11 Episodes) as 三浦
2013Au revoir l'été as Sakuko's Aunt
2013Nobody's Perfect as Unknown
2013Capturing Dad as Sawa
2013dinner (1 Episode) as Unknown
2013Tada's Do-It-All House (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2013Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark as Nagisa
2012Odayaka as Noriko
2012Playback as Unknown
2012GFP BUNNY as Mother
2012A Road Stained Crimson as Unknown
2012Second to Last Love (34 Episodes) as Mizuno Shoko
2011Life Back Then as Unknown
2011Women on the Edge as Takako
2011Himizu as Sumida's Mother
2010Sketches of Kaitan City as Bar Hostess (voice)
2010Wandering Home as Unknown
2010Nemuriba as Unknown
2010Heaven's Story as Mina
2010Tokyo Stray Girls as Keiko Ogura
2010All to the Sea as Unknown
2009Torso as Hiroko
2009Where Are You? as Kawai's Mother
2009White Night as Unknown
2009Lost Girl as Ryoko
2009Love Exposure as Kaori
2007The Rebirth as Noriko
2007CREEP as Unknown
2007Rabbit on the Moon as Unknown
2007My Sister, My Love as Unknown
2007The Mourning Forest as Wakako
2007Sixteen as Unknown
2007Fourteen as Unknown
2006Faces of a Fig Tree as Unknown
2006Colors as Unknown
2005Canary as Unknown
2005Yumeno as Masami
2005The Many Faces of Chika as Chika II
2004Zebraman as Yukiyo Ichikawa
2002Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete as Bando's Wife
2001Tampen as Woman
2001Luxurious Bone as Sakiko's Father Girlfriend
2001Labyrinth of Leg Fetishism as Unknown
2001Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Jesus in the Barn as Unknown
2000Isola: Multiple Personality Girl as Yayoi Takano
1999M/Other as Aki
1997Ringo no usagi as Unknown
19972/Duo as Yu's Friend
1996Mogura as Cellist
1996XX: Beautiful Prey as Noriko
Writing
1999M/Other ... Writer