Miki Maya

Acting

Miki Maya

Born 1964-01-31 · Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan

Miki Maya is a Japanese actress and former top star of the Takarazuka Revue. Her real name is Miki Sato (佐藤美季, Satō Miki). She joined the Takarazuka Revue in 1981. Her debut performance was "Takarazuka Haru no Odori" and she became the top star of the Flower Troupe for her role in East Of Eden in 1995. She retired in 1998 after her last show 'Speakeasy', based on the 17 John Gay ballad opera The Beggar's Opera, in which she sang the theme song Kaze no machi no junjō na akutō tachi (風の街の純情な男たち).

Acting credits

Suspect X poster
7.6

A male corpse is discovered with a smashed face and burned hands. Strangely, the cause of death is determined to be strangulation. When Detective Kaoru Utsumi attempts to corroborate the victim’s ex-wife’s alibi she discovers the mysterious neighbor and only a few small clues to help her disprove a seemingly "airtight" alibi...

Suspect X

2008

Once Upon a Crime poster
6.3

While at the royal ball with Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood finds herself in the middle of a mystery. Can she solve the case before midnight strikes?

Once Upon a Crime

2023

Diner poster
6.5

A former murderer and genius chef along with a waitress come together with a group of fantastical assassins in a diner. A girl with a hollowness in her heart, who believes that she belongs nowhere, is thrust into a series of attacks where she must struggle to find her will to live.

Diner

2019

Bayside Shakedown 2 poster
6.1

The movie takes place again in the fictional Wangan Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department the once empty space within Wangan's jurisdiction has become a popular tourist attraction. When a string of murders of company execs begins taking place, Aoshima jumps at the opportunity to pursue something other than his current case, which he finds less than inspiring. However the powers that be have other ideas, and Wangan again plays host to a special investigation team from headquarters. Aoshima's friend Superintendent Shinji Muroi, assigned by headquarters to assist Okita, is again powerless to help the local officers as decisions are made by the higher ups.

Bayside Shakedown 2

2003

Angry Squad: The Civil Servant and the Seven Swindlers poster
6.3

Kumazawa Jiro, a tax-worker, is tricked out of a large sum of money by the swindler Himuro Makoto. With the help of his best friend, a detective, Kumazawa tracks down Himuro and teams up with him and sets out to extract JP¥ 1B in unpaid tax from a large corporation that is hiding tax evasion.

Angry Squad: The Civil Servant and the Seven Swindlers

2024

'86 TMP Music Festival - That's Movie! poster
NR

Takarazuka Revue's special performance including all troupes.

'86 TMP Music Festival - That's Movie!

1986

Bayside Shakedown THE FINAL: The New Hope poster
5.8

Set 2 years after prior film "Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose," a major case occurs that has the potential to take down the entire police organization. For the next 3 days, Shunsaku Aoshima and his colleagues struggle to unravel the case...

Bayside Shakedown THE FINAL: The New Hope

2012

'87 TMP Music Festival - La Chanson poster
5.0

Takarazuka Revue's special performance including all troupes.

'87 TMP Music Festival - La Chanson

1987

'88 TMP Music Festival - Eternal Pops poster
5.0

Takarazuka Revue's special performance including all troupes.

'88 TMP Music Festival - Eternal Pops

1988

Cottontail poster
6.3

After the death of his wife, Kenzaburō receives an unexpected letter from beyond the grave. His late wife asks him to travel to Lake Windermere in England with their son to scatter her ashes. Plagued by sweet and painful memories of his wife, Kenzaburō travels to England from Tokyo to fulfill her final wish, but the father and son's fraught relationship threatens to upend their journey.

Cottontail

2024

Maya Miki's Dinner Show 「Nice Guy!」 poster
NR

Maya Miki's dinner show.

Maya Miki's Dinner Show 「Nice Guy!」

1996

'90 TMP Music Festival - "Sound In Big City" poster
5.0

Takarazuka Revue's special performance including all troupes.

'90 TMP Music Festival - "Sound In Big City"

1990

Dream Girls poster
4.0

This film is about Japanese women, escape, glamour and dreams. The Takarazuka Revue is an enormously successful spectacular where the all-women cast create fantasies of erotic love and sensitive men. It is also a world for young girls desperate to do something different with their lives. In return for living a highly disciplined and reclusive existence, they will be adored and envied by many thousands of Japanese women. They will look, act and behave like young men while having no real men in their lives. Dream Girls explores the nature of sexual identity and the contradictory tensions that face young women in Japan today.

Dream Girls

1994

Maiko Haaaan!!! poster
6.5

Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with maiko (apprentice geisha) and whose greatest goal in life is to play a party game called "yakyuken" with one.

Maiko Haaaan!!!

2007

Bayside Shakedown N.E.W. poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bayside Shakedown N.E.W.

2026

A Single Rose poster
NR

Flower Troupe's performance.

A Single Rose

1987

TCA Special OG Version: Golden Memories poster
NR

Takarazuka OG special performance.

TCA Special OG Version: Golden Memories

2004

People Who Love Flowers poster
NR

Nihonmono performance.

People Who Love Flowers

1996

The Suspect: Muroi Shinji poster
6.0

One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched murder case he headed. His faithful colleagues, including Arashiro (Toshio Kakei) and Okita (Miki Maya), only exacerbate the situation when they try to help clear his name. Is Muroi guilty as charged or merely taking the fall? What is the truth behind the murder? Two lawyers, one determined to get Muroi, the other resolved to save him, a feud between two police departments, political power plays and legal trappings, all combine to orchestrate Muroi’s downfall.

The Suspect: Muroi Shinji

2005

90 Years Old – So What? poster
8.7

Aiko Satō, who has won many literary awards, retired from her life as a writer and had no guests. She spent a gloomy time, but then a middle-aged editor named Tachibana came with a commission for a story. The story begins with a series of essays that are initially unpleasant, writing out her anger towards society. Aiko's life will undergo significant changes by the time she is 90 years old.

90 Years Old – So What?

2024

No artwork available
NR

Saburo Sugimura (Kotaro Koizumi) works for the PR department of a company which his father-in-law Yoshichika Imada runs. One day, Yoshichika Imada tasks Saburo Sugimura with work regarding a man named Nobuo Kajita. A complicated story unfolds from the request.

Nameless Poison [aka Namonaki Doku]

2013

'92 TMP Music Festival - Songs in Your Heart poster
NR

Takarazuka Revue's special performance including all troupes.

'92 TMP Music Festival - Songs in Your Heart

1992

December poster
6.8

A divorced husband and wife reunite to fight the release of their daughter's murderer.

December

2023

Life Tengoku de Kimi ni Aetara poster
7.0

Follows the life of Natsuki Iijima, a windsurfer from Japan, as he battles and ultimately loses his life to liver cancer. The first and only windsurfer to compete for 8 consecutive years in the World Cup Competition, Natsuki's diagnosis overwhelms him with fear and panic. Despite this set back, with the love and devotion of his wife Hiroko and four children, he decides to live life the best he can, to the fullest, without having his life prolonged with further treatment

Life Tengoku de Kimi ni Aetara

2007