Ayaka Maeda

Acting

Ayaka Maeda

Born 1983-08-18 · Kakogawa, Kanagawa, Japan

Acting credits

L'amant poster
5.0

When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year's-worth of sexual services -- her motivation, aside from money, is never explained -- the relationships among the men (whom she calls A. B and C) keep shifting in ways that redefine power and sex.

L'amant

2004

Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete poster
6.4

Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete (パーfectブルー 夢なら醒めて, Pāfekuto Burū: Yume Nara Samete) is a 2002 Japanese psychological thriller film directed by Toshiki Satō and adapted from the novel of the same name by Yoshikazu Takeuchi. The story centers on Ai, a teen pop idol transitioning to a recording career, whose life unravels amid fixation from a obsessive convenience store clerk, leading to themes of distorted self-perception, narcissistic delusions, and violent events.

Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete

2002

Strawberry Shortcakes poster
5.6

Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives.

Strawberry Shortcakes

2006

Solaris poster
4.0

Shot while the director was still in college, the film is a remake of the Russian film of the same name. The man's dead ex who had committed suicide appears in front of him. The ghost has a cross-like scar on her wrist.

Solaris

2007

Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims poster
6.0

Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.

Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims

2005

Akiba poster
1.0

A Japanese film about a bunch of otaku (or the cool cinema versions) in Akihabara who form a company and find themselves pitted against an evil corporation.

Akiba

2006

Dead Girl Walking poster
5.5

Yuri is an ordinary teenage girl. But one day, everything changes when she learns that she's apparently dead. Even though she's technically not alive, she tries to keep her humanity and life. Her family, however, wants her out of the picture.

Dead Girl Walking

2004

Tales of Terror: Haunted Apartment poster
6.2

Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not as they seem.

Tales of Terror: Haunted Apartment

2005

The Last Supper poster
5.3

A plastic surgeon who excels at his job hides a dark secret. After finally succumbing to his desire to taste human flesh, the surgeon soon finds himself addicted to the taste of his patients' skin, which leads him to discover further culinary delights at a seedy restaurant with some highly dubious special dishes. Murder and mayhem ensue as the demented doctor continues to find new and gruesome ways to satisfy his appetite.

The Last Supper

2005

The Piercing Gaze: Memories of a Bizarre Murder poster
NR

One day, Shu, a runaway girl, turns up at Miyabe’s ramshackle detective agency. Claiming to be able to read people’s minds, Shu soon begins to display her mysterious powers. Around the same time, a series of bizarre, gruesome murders targeting only women begins to occur. The dismembered, brutally murdered bodies bear the letter ‘R’ carved into them…  

The Piercing Gaze: Memories of a Bizarre Murder

2005

Seventh Anniversary poster
NR

Each time Lulu is heartbroken small stones come out of her body. The doctor tells Lulu they are kidney stones. She collects them in memoriam of love.

Seventh Anniversary

2003

Revolver — Blue Spring poster
10.0

Osamu (Tamaki Hiroshi), a member of the “Ero Supremacy Club,” Kōji (Sato Ryuta), the quiet Biology Club member, and Tatsutoshi (Moriyama Mirai), the solitary Soccer Club member, come across a map one day. Following its markings, they discover a real handgun and three bullets. With the weapon in hand, the three hatch a plan to search for some “truly amazing thing”… Based on the comic Revolver by Maro Naruse & Taiyo Matsumoto, director Takeshi Watanabe (Chaka 2) delivers a youth drama that’s raw, comical, and tinged with melancholy. Following the success of the film Blue Spring (also from Matsumoto’s work), this original video production was created, and in fact, it carries an even stronger Matsumoto flavor. The three leads each stand out vividly, their personalities brought to life in a way that makes this a strangely endearing and memorable gem.

Revolver — Blue Spring

2003

Border Line poster
5.2

Three storylines interweave in Border Line. Kurosawa (Murakami Jun) finds himself driving a taciturn young man named Matsuda (Sawaki Tetsu) halfway to Hokkaido, after accidentally knocking him off his bike; their fragile bond can last only so long. The housewife Aikawa Misa (Aso Yumi) tries desperately to hold her family together when her husband gets laid off and her son is so frightened of bullies at school that he throws up in the car; she’s reduced to taking a McJob in a convenience store. And Miyaji (Mitsuishi Ken), who collects debts for a yakuza gang, gets into trouble when his partner Kitajima puts personal need above duty.

Border Line

2003

The Suicide Manual poster
3.7

After a group suicide, two journalists investigate the cycle of suicides caused by spirits bound by the Suicide Manual.

The Suicide Manual

2003

Custom Made 10.30 poster
7.7

Sisters "Manamo" and "Minamo" live separately in Hiroshima and London since the divorce of their parents. The elder sister Manamo lives in Hiroshima with her mother, she is a high school student, but moonlights at a Japanese cabaret-club. After her mother remarries and moves to Yamaguchi Prefecture, Manamo lives by herself in Hiroshima. One day, her younger sister Minamo returns from London to visit Manamo. It is ten years since they have lived together, and they argue every day.

Custom Made 10.30

2005

Nibanme no kanojo poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nibanme no kanojo

2004

Enclosed Pain poster
4.8

Yuri and Takumi are brother and sister who faced unusually harsh treatment by their father. An act of brutality keeps them extremely close together until an older couple occupy the house where their secret was buried.

Enclosed Pain

2000

Boy Meets Pusan poster
4.0

A youth drama in which a young man visiting Busan, South Korea falls in love with a Japanese woman. Debut film directed by Masaharu Take.

Boy Meets Pusan

2007

Arigatou poster
NR

In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera store in Kobe City, lost his friends, his house, and his property. Tadao is busy volunteering for the reconstruction of the town, and one day he comes across his own golf bag that survived the earthquake. Feeling a miracle, Tadao decides to challenge the professional golf test before he turns 60.

Arigatou

2006

Like a Dragon: Prologue poster
6.0

In 1970s-era Japan, three children, Kazuma Kiryu, Akira Nishikiyama, and his younger sister, Yuko Nishikiyama, are raised together in Shintaro Kazama's Sunflower Orphanage. In the summer of 1980, Yumi Sawamura, a young girl whose parents were accidentally shot and killed during a gang's shootout, joins them in the orphanage. Following a yakuza tradition, the honorable Kazama secretly raises orphans whose parents he has directly or indirectly killed. In return, the children love him as a father and he eventually inducts the teenage Kiryu and Nishikiyama into the Dojima Family, a Tojo Clan affiliate of which he is a senior officer.

Like a Dragon: Prologue

2006

Shibuya Kaidan: THE Riaru Toshi Densetsu poster
6.0

8 episodic series from the Shibuya Kaidan series.

Shibuya Kaidan: THE Riaru Toshi Densetsu

2006

Reawaken poster
NR

A lonely accountant adjusting to big city life, a struggling manga artist forced to conclude her series and a millennial convenience store clerk without direction; three women decades apart all bound by one inescapable fate.

Reawaken

2006

No artwork available
2.0

Kyoko is an aspiring writer whose artistic vision is yet to be formed. When her girlfriend Rie asks her to move in with her, Kyoko begins to wonder about their uncertain future as a lesbian couple in Tokyo.

When I Become Silent

2007

White Panic poster
4.4

One day, when three guys and one girl wake up in the morning, they're all in a small room filled with the white powder, naked. Why were they gathered? What does this room mean? Who brought them here? How to escape from it?

White Panic

2005