Miwa Kawagoe

Acting

Miwa Kawagoe

Born 1973-01-03 · Kagoshima, Japan

Miwa Kawagoe (川越美和) is a former Japanese pop singer, actress, and member 1950 of the gravure group Momoco Club. Kawagoe Miwa first debuted as a idol singer on October 1988 with the single "Looking at You". Her fourth single, "Yume Dake Miteru", won her the Rookie of the Year award at the 31st Annual Nihon Record Taishou. At the same she debut as a singer, she debut as a variety show talent and an actress with her first drama being Jiken desu yo Heisei Gannen. In the 1990s, Kawagoe Miwa briefly appeared under the name Hatause Kaoru. She continued to work in many doramas and movies until 2007 when she quit her agency and retired from the world of show business. Source: Generasia

Acting credits

Open House poster
6.0

A struggling model and a troubled divorcee face loneliness and desperation in Tokyo.

Open House

1998

The Matsugane Potshot Affair poster
5.0

When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and darkly humorous.

The Matsugane Potshot Affair

2007

The Girl Who Picks Flowers and the Girl Who Kills Insects poster
7.0

Two girls, one from Germany, the other from Japan meet and become friends in London, but soon discover things aren't what they seem.

The Girl Who Picks Flowers and the Girl Who Kills Insects

2000

Countdown poster
6.7

When Chris Murdoch falls obsessively in love with a Japanese girl attending University in Seattle (Kaori Ozaki) he murders Japanese men who have shown her kindness under the pretext of revenge for the attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII. However the ruse involves the FBI in the case, and Agent Sara Daniels. However, the investigation is hampered when Yoko Sugimura of the Tokyo Police arrives to take Kaori back to her influential father. Despite their initial dislike, Sara and Yoko are forced to work together to stop Chris when his obsession is manifest with high explosives.

Countdown

1996

Rain of Light poster
6.0

This documentary-style film recreates the infamous Asama Sanso Incident of 1972 wherein an extreme faction of the Students Allied Red Army holed themselves up in a mountainous cabin in the dead of winter. By the time the police finally caught up with them, it was discovered that they had murderously turned upon themselves in a bizarre extension of their radical philosophy. This event virtually marked the end of the Student Revolution.

Rain of Light

2001

Falling into the Evening poster
7.0

Rica and Kengo have been living together for the past four years. It's been a very happy time for Rica; the only dark spot being an accident she caused during a shoot for a commercial in which Kengo's good friend, Shibata, nearly lost his life. The memory of this event weighs heavily on Rica's conscience. One night Kengo tells Rica that he has fallen in love with a charming but inscrutable woman named Hanako.

Falling into the Evening

1998

Can you collect it? 2 poster
NR

Jin, who has killed is worried about his younger brother Jiro and has returned to the world as a ghost!

Can you collect it? 2

1993

Can you collect it? Complete poster
NR

Jiro becomes a happy instructor but a shocking suspicion was raised by Owada who took the place of his parents.

Can you collect it? Complete

1994

Otoko Tomodachi poster
NR

Eriko, a 25-year-old office worker living in Tokyo, has become pregnant by her boyfriend, Ide, whom she doesn’t love all that deeply. Torn between her future and her lingering feelings for Uozumi, whom she dated in college, she travels to Shikoku—Uozumi’s hometown—with her best friend, Misato. Meanwhile, she also learns that Ide had gotten another woman pregnant at the same time, and that she chose to have an abortion…

Otoko Tomodachi

1994

A Painful Pair poster
6.0

Ryo and Natsu love each other immensely. They are also able to feel each other's pain. Their relationship is troubled when Ryo allows himself to be seduced by an office employee.

A Painful Pair

2002