Asako Maekawa

Acting

Asako Maekawa

Born

1967-08-19 (59)

Place of birth

Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

8 titles

Known for

Only 5 Grams poster
5.0

Asuka Kotobuki, a junior college student, is in the middle of her job hunting. She spends all her time visiting companies and taking job exams, but her honesty and truthful personality causes her to keep receiving rejection notices.

Only 5 Grams

1988

Captured Mother and Daughter: She Beast poster
4.8

After watching her friend fall from a building a depressed high school girl runs away from home. When she is picked up by a nice guy on a phone date she realizes too late that he has plans to use her for his own ends.

Captured Mother and Daughter: She Beast

1987

Rinbu poster
NR

Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's novel, "La Ronde", many people are having sex in a variety of ways. A girl and her boyfriend go to a pool bar where she is served a free cocktail drink courtesy of a man who wants to date her. Another guy challenges her boyfriend to a game with the girlfriend being the prize. Three men are fighting over the young woman and a winner takes the girl. It ends up as four guys and the woman in a hotel room.

Rinbu

1988

The Family Game poster
6.8

A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the younger son is a rebellious goof-off for whom a tutor must be hired. The tutor proceeds to blow the entire family apart.

The Family Game

1983

The Human Chair poster
7.0

After seeing her husband off to work, the young author identified only as Yoshiko sets off to read the large collection of letters she received from other young authors. These are often letters containing samples of their work for critique. One large envelope contains a letter. The letter-writer does not provide his name. The letter is a confession of crimes. The letter-writer has no family or friends, and claims to be "ugly beyond description". He is a chair maker and loves his work and all the chairs he creates, even going so far as to claim some sort of intangible connection to his work.

The Human Chair

1997

Break Town Story poster
9.0

Japanese drama film.

Break Town Story

1985

Film credits

1990s · 2 titles

1980s · 6 titles