Personal Info
Birth date
1970-12-08 (54 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Also known as
와쿠이 에미
和久井映见
和久井 映見
Emi Wakui
Biography
Emi Wakui is a Japanese actress. She has won three Japanese Academy Awards: the 1994 Best Actress award for her performance in Rainbow Bridge, and the 1992 awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Newcomer for her performance as Seiko Kawashima in My Sons.
Filmography
Chiritotechin
8
Overview:
The 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about Wada Kiyomi (referred to as Kiyomi-B), a girl brought up in Fukui who moves to Osaka in search of her soul. In Osaka, Kiyomi-B becomes enchanted with rakugo, a Japanese traditional form of comic storytelling, and pursues a career in rakugo. In the summer of 1982, Kiyomi-B and her family move to Obama of Fukui, her father's hometown. Kiyomi-B's grandmother and uncle welcome the family, but Shotaro the grandfather does not allow Masanori to take over the Wakasa lacquer chopsticks making. One day, Kiyomi-B listens to rakugo at Shotaro's factory and becomes fond of it. Shotaro and Kiyomi-B become close through rakugo.Love and Glory
7
Overview:
Kazutoyo lived during the end of the Sengoku period (1546-1605). He was the first feudal lord of the fief of Tosa on the island of Shikoku. He served Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Chiyo (1557-1617) was his wife, and was known in history for her dedication and devotion to her husband (like Matsu was to Toshiie in Toshiie to Matsu). She is the daughter of a samurai who served the feudal lord Asai.Musashi
8.3
Overview:
Orphaned when he was not yet ten, Musashi grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the Battle of Sekigahara, he fights on the side of the losing Toyotomi forces, but eludes the enemy as they hunt down the vanquished soldiers. He then spends years wandering the countryside mastering the sword. As his fame spreads throughout the nation, men seek him out to test their skills against him--most notably Sasaki Kojiro who faces Musashi in the ultimate duel at Ganryujima.Hiyokko
8.2
Overview:
The 17-year-old Yatabe Mineko grew up in a family of seven in a mountain village in northeastern Ibaraki Prefecture. Her father Minoru has gone to Tokyo to work in order to earn extra money. However, her life completely changes when her father does not come back for the New Year. Mineko asks her family to let her go to Tokyo to find him and promises to send money home. In the autumn of 1964, she and two childhood friends Tokiko and Mitsuo are hired to start working at a small factory in Tokyo’s working class neighborhood. After work each day, Mineko searches for her father and gets disheartened at times. Mineko overcomes challenges and starts to lay down roots in Tokyo as she experiences many meetings and farewells amid the laughter and tears with regulars, people of the shopping street, friends, and colleagues. But will she be able to find her father?The Waste Land
6.3
Overview:
Iki Tadashi is a military leader named who was captured by the Soviets during World War II. Treated as a war criminal, he was sentenced to many years of labor in a harsh Siberian detention camp. After 11 years of imprisonment, he is released. He returns to Japan and begins readjusting to life as a civilian, rejecting an offer from his former colleague to work on a defense project. Tadashi has decided to never involve himself in war again, much to the joy of his family. Instead, he attempts to set off on a new path working at a major trading company. --TokyographFirst Love
NYR
Overview:
Kasumi is shocked to discover that her older sister's fiance is the man she first fell in love with five years ago in high school. At the time, he was her high school teacher and ultimately quit his job racked with guilt over their relationship. Kasumi was deeply hurt and struggled for a long time to overcome her sadness. Now the two of them must come to terms with their secret past before the ones they care about in the present are hurt.The Last Cop
6.7
Overview:
In 1985, when detective Kyogoku Kosuke (Karasawa Toshiaki) was hunting down some criminals, he suddenly found himself in the center of an explosion and ended up falling into a coma. In 2015, after 30 years Kosuke wakes up and has a lot to catch up, new values, technology, family, work, everything he has missed. Back to the Criminal Division, Kosuke and his new partner Ryota (Kubota Masataka) are entrusted with classified security data that aims to a terrorist group Schiesser.Hana no Asuka gumi!
7.5
Overview:
While the adults were devouring the country in peace the young girls are now plunging into the Sengoku Period. A domination of fear and terror by the Zenchura, a federation of banchos nationwide, began. With 80% of the nation's middle schools already under its control. Yet, there was one girl who was determined to crush those wicked ambitions. Her name is Asuka Kuraku.Radiation House
6.8
Overview:
Iori Igarashi is a talented radiographer who believes the “truth” is definitely captured in CT and MRI images. He and radiologist An Amakasu work at a hospital’s radiology department where they determine the causes of patients’ illnesses and injuries.Tokyo Cinderella Story
7.7
Overview:
Yukiko (Wakui Emi) has been living in Tokyo for three years. Inside her heart, she believes that this beautiful city will certainly bring her happiness. This belief starts to realise one day when she has a chance encounter with Masashi (Karasawa Toshiaki) while welcoming her brother, Kikuo (Kishitani Goro), at a railway station. As Masashi is the son of a very rich businessman, and Yukiko is only an ordinary girl from the countryside, their together is highly obstructed by lots of barriers. However, Yukiko's kind-hearted personality finally wins Masashi's love, and he takes out his courage to turn down marrying his rich fiancee. --SnowflakesTears of a Swan
NYR
Overview:
Mika, a prodigy ballerina, gave up her ballet career when she tore her Achilles tendon. Later, at the suggestion of Shoko, an acquaintance of her father's, Mika joins a swimming club where Shoko teaches synchronized swimming, but Mika is traumatized by an incident in her childhood and has a phobia of water. She is also bullied by Ryoko, the daughter of the owner and a top synchronized swimmer, and by her classmates out of jealousy. However, under Shoko's strict but enthusiastic guidance, Mika eventually overcomes her fear of water and her talent blossoms...Our Sister's Soulmate
7.9
Overview:
27 year old Adachi Momoko lost both her parents in an accident when she was in third year high school. She then gave up going to college and has been working at a home centre for the past nine years while supporting her three younger brothers who are now 20, 17, and 14 year old respectively.About Sunday Night...
8
Overview:
Old apartment complexes, rented houses in the suburbs, and cabs running through the cities. These scenes may look ordinary but each has a different story to tell. A daughter who works part-time to support her disabled mother; a woman who has been cut off from her family and continues to work as a cab driver; a granddaughter who lives in a rented house and works at a factory with her grandmother. This is the story of three women, who live far apart from each other and do not know each other's existence until a fateful encounter through a radio program.Wonderful Unrequited Love
6
Overview:
Shumpei sometimes sees his neighbor Keiko, but doesn't think much of her. One of Keiko's friends gives her the phone number of a single guy, but when she calls she recognizes him as Shumpei, and gives him the made up name 'Nana.' When they meet face to face, she pretends not to know him, but through their phone calls, they slowly start to fall in love.When I Fall in Love
NYR
Overview:
A success story with depth involving work, love and friendship. Its setting is an IT enterprise which once basked in the limelight because it tried to take over management of a pro-baseball team. There's the entrepreneur who's acquired immense wealth with business success. The man who becomes his apprentice shows his ability in the firm and makes an upward climb. In depicting these events, the drama poses the question: What is real success in life? --Fuji CreativeVirgin Road
7
Overview:
To pursue her dreams, Sakurai Kazumi (Wakui Emi) quits her job and goes to New York to study jewelry design, against the objections of her naggy and stubborn but well-meaning father (Takeda Tetsuya). As part of remaking herself, she changes from spectacles to contact lenses, even though she has problems adapting to them. When she accidentally drops her contact lenses, a mysterious man helps prevent them from being stepped on, but he walks away before she can talk to him. Some years pass, and Kazumi is on a plane home after receiving a letter from her brother Taku saying their father is critically ill. She has morning sickness and has some run-ins on the plane with a sloppily-dressed man, and it is only when she drops her contacts and the man helps her in a similar way that she recognises him (Sorimachi Takashi). She chases after him and asks, "would you like to do some work (arubaito)?" It turns out that Kazumi in her last letter from New York had written that she was in a relationship with someone and that they might soon marry, but since then she has broken up with him, and she didn't want to make her father upset by coming home alone. The man, a freelance journalist named Yoshimi Kaoru, agrees to pretend to be her fiancé.Dating: What's It Like To Be In Love
7.4
Overview:
Yoriko Yabushita works at a Yokohama research laboratory. She tracks trends in relation to macroeconomics. She is 29-years-old and enthusiastic about her work. She also enjoys efficiency and having a regular life. Although she doesn't excel in social settings with other people, her next goal is getting married and having a baby. Yoriko believes that she marry by the age of 30, because everyone around her did including her late mother. If Yoriko finds a man who fills 24 items listed on her ideal husband list, she will marry him.Will You Marry Me…Again?
NYR
Overview:
Haru and Kanako have been married for four years. They don't have any children, but they both enjoy their job and are happy together. However their lives are suddenly disrupted when Kanako faints from subarachnoid hemorrhage. After the operation, it becomes evident that she has lost some of her memory...her memory of the five years with her husband. She decides to return home to her parents. Her younger brother takes care of her. Meanwhile, Haru's colleague notices that there is something troubling him. Life without his wife makes Haru realize how much his wife means to him and vows to propose to her once again...Hanayome to Papa
6
Overview:
Ishihara plays a new 20-year-old OL working in the apparel company of her dreams. Her father, played by Tokito, loves his daughter excessively to the point that he compels her to follow his house rules: 7:00pm curfew, no socialising with the opposite sex. Nevertheless, she falls in love with her colleague, played by Taguchi, and begins a mission to "graduate" from her father..Reach Beyond the Blue Sky
7.3
Overview:
Shibusawa Eiichi was born in 1840 to a farmer’s family. He grew up helping his family with work, which was to manufacture and sell indigo production and also silk farming. He left his hometown at the age of 23 and began working for the government. He later traveled to Paris and learned about banking. Upon his return to Japan, he helped build up the first modern bank in Japan. He eventually became a founder or supporter to about 500 companies and was involved with about 600 public services, including education for women.I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
8.244
Overview:
After his classmate and crush is diagnosed with a pancreatic disease, an average high schooler sets out to make the most of her final days.A Calm Sea and Beautiful Days with You
10
Overview:
During the Showa-era, newlyweds Natsumi Ebata and Takimasa Ebata enter an arranged marriage without a single day of courtship. Through tender yet exasperating moments, the two slowly bridge the gap between them, discovering love in the quiet routines of their shared days.Mission To Kill
7
Overview:
Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. The franchise came back in 2007 with a one-shot special, but this is its first full season since 1992. Makoto Fujita returns as the protagonist Nakamura Mondo, one of the "shigotonin," a team of hired assassins.The History of Our Family
7
Overview:
Wagaya no Rekishi is a Japanese three-part television mini-series, shown on Fuji TV from April 9, 2010 to April 11, 2010 to celebrate its 50th Anniversary. The show was known for its star-studded cast.The Taste of Tea
7.5
Overview:
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.Acting
2025A Calm Sea and Beautiful Days with You (10 Episodes) as Shibahara Ikuko
2025Gold Sunset (6 Episodes) as Mitsuhashi Yoshiko
2025Checkmate Lawyer (8 Episodes) as Kasumi Tendo
2024366 Days (11 Episodes) as Ikezawa Yuri
2023Fly Me to the Saitama: From Biwa Lake with Love as Unknown
2023About Sunday Night... (10 Episodes) as Kishida Kuniko
2023Deadly Professional 2023 as Okiku no Hanagoten
2022Radiation House: The Movie as Nagisa Omori
2022Hissatsu Shigotonin 2022 as Hanagoten no Okiku
2021Reach Beyond the Blue Sky (41 Episodes) as Shibusawa Ei [Eiichi's mother]
2021The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window as Noriko Mikado
2020Our Sister's Soulmate (9 Episodes) as Takako Yoshioka
2020God of Novels as Unknown
2020必殺仕事人2020 as Unknown
2019リーガル・ハート (7 Episodes) as Unknown
2019Strawberry Song as Unknown
2019Radiation House (24 Episodes) as 大森渚
2019必殺仕事人2019 as Unknown
2018I Want to Eat Your Pancreas as Sakura's Mother (voice)
2018必殺仕事人2018 as Unknown
2017Universal Ad Agency: We Pitch Your Life (7 Episodes) as Unknown
2017Last Cop The Movie as Kanako Suzuki
2017Hiyokko (156 Episodes) as Aiko Nagai
2016必殺仕事人2016 as Unknown
2016People at Hopehills (5 Episodes) as 케이코
2016横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2016Let Me Call You Father-in-Law (9 Episodes) as Shizuka Hanazawa
2015必殺仕事人2015 as Unknown
2015The Last Cop (7 Episodes) as Suzuki Kanako
2015Dating: What's It Like To Be In Love (10 Episodes) as Kiyoko Yabushita
2015Again as Yuko Tachihara
2014Boat to the Moon as 水沢理生
2014必殺仕事人2014 as Unknown
2014White Lab (11 Episodes) as Keiko Kamiyama（神山 恵子）
2013必殺仕事人2013 as Unknown
2012Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen as Unknown
2012Double Face: Sen'nyû sôsa hen as Unknown
2012Will You Marry Me…Again? (10 Episodes) as Miyamoto Kanako
2012Hissatsu Shigotonin 2012 as Hanagoten no Okiku
2012Robo-G as Saitou Harue
2011Bitter Sugar (10 Episodes) as Hashimoto Mari
2011Princess Toyotomi as Unknown
2011Recipe of 49 Days (4 Episodes) as Endo Yuriko
2010The Lady Shogun and Her Men as Hisamichi Kanou
2010Hissatsu shigotonin 2010 as Unknown
2010Hissatsu Shigotonin 2010 as Unknown
2010The History of Our Family (3 Episodes) as Machiko Hasegawa
2009The Waste Land (20 Episodes) as Yoshiko Iki
2009Anmitsu Hime 2 as Unknown
2009Mission To Kill (22 Episodes) as Unknown
2009Hissatsu shigotonin 2009 as Hanagoten no Okiku
2008The Silent Sword: Loyalty and Honor as Unknown
2008Nadeshiko Tai as Unknown
2008Anmitsu Hime as Tencha
2007Chiritotechin (151 Episodes) as Wada Itoko
2007Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007 as Hanagoten no Okiku
2007必殺仕事人 (1 Episode) as 하노고텐의 오키쿠
2007Hanayome to Papa (12 Episodes) as Unknown
2006Tsubakiyama's Send Back as Maya
2006Love and Glory (49 Episodes) as Noh
2005Love Song (10 Episodes) as Enomoto Fusako
2005When I Fall in Love (11 Episodes) as Unknown
2005MAKOTO as Unknown
2005Seishu Hanaoka no Tsuma (5 Episodes) as Unknown
2004Saigo no Chūshingura (6 Episodes) as Unknown
2004School Wars: Hero as Etsuko Yamagami
2004The Taste of Tea as Narrator (voice)
2004Tange Sazen : The Jar Worth One Million Ryo as Unknown
2004あじさいの唄 (9 Episodes) as Unknown
2003Love Letters - Men We Have Loved (10 Episodes) as Etsuko Tajima
2003Animal Doctor (9 Episodes) as Unknown
2003動物のお医者さん (11 Episodes) as Seiko Hishinuma
2003Musashi (49 Episodes) as Orin
2002First Love (11 Episodes) as Tomoko Ejawa
2001世界で一番熱い夏 (10 Episodes) as Unknown
2000フレンズ (11 Episodes) as 日浦 梨沙
1998Naguru Onna (10 Episodes) as Yoshimura Kaori
1997Virgin Road (11 Episodes) as Sakurai Kazumi
1996Pure (11 Episodes) as 折原 優香
1995Birthday Present as Unknown
1994Tokyo Cinderella Story (10 Episodes) as Yukiko Matsui
1994Natsuko no Sake (11 Episodes) as 佐伯夏子
1993Rainbow Bridge as Unknown
1992Angel, My Song Is Your Song as Unknown
1991My Sons as Seiko Kawashima
1991All's Quiet on the Recruit Front as Unknown
1990Wonderful Unrequited Love (10 Episodes) as Tomomi Nishina
1989Beppin Town as Machiko Nakajima
1989Aishiatteru Kai (10 Episodes) as Kawakami Shinobu
1989Aishiatteru Kai (10 Episodes) as Unknown
1989Tears of a Swan (25 Episodes) as Kanako Fukushima
1988Hana no Asuka gumi! (23 Episodes) as Ka