Atsuko Asano

Acting

Atsuko Asano

Born

1961-03-04 (65)

Place of birth

Adachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

63 titles

Known for

Dangerous Detective poster
8.4

Abunai Deka, often shortened to AbuDeka, is Japanese television drama aired by Nippon Television between 1986 and 1987. Starring Hiroshi Tachi and Kyohei Shibata, the series became very popular and spawned films, spin-offs series, and books. The series follows a pair of detectives, Takayama and Oshita, from the Naka-ku branch of the Kanagawa Prefectural Police.

Dangerous Detective

1986

Manten poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Manten

2002

The 101st Proposal poster
7.8

After 99 failed dates, an earnest bachelor meets a guarded classical musician. He's all in — she's not so sure. Can his persistence lead to love?

The 101st Proposal

1991

Dakishimetai! poster
NR

Asako Ikeuchi and Natsuko Hayakawa have been close friends for more than 25 years. Natsuko's husband Keisuke had affairs, so she asks Asako to let her stay at her house. Keisuke was once Asako's boyfriend. They will soon be 30 years old. There are other nice guys around Asako. It's a drama about their love and friendship.

Dakishimetai!

1988

MPD: Animal Unit poster
7.3

Tomozo Sudo is a detective. Due to an incident, he is excluded from investigative work. He is then assigned to work in a division responsible for taking care of animals whose owners are suspects or missing. Keiko Usuki is a police constable and works in the same division. She loves animals more than humans. Keiko develops inferences from clues from animals left behind at crime scenes. Tomozo and Keiko work together to solve cases.

MPD: Animal Unit

2017

37.5°C Tears poster
2.0

Sugisaki Momoko used to be a nursery school teacher. Her difficulty smiling leads to communication problems with parents and her contract is terminated in one year. Momoko is picked up by ‘Little Snow’, a home care service for sick children, and makes a fresh start there as a caregiver. When a child has a fever, the caregiver would visit the home and care for the child in place of the parents who simply cannot take time off from work. Momoko encounters all sorts of families at the places she is sent to. With the support of her colleagues and the occasional help of her best friend, Yumika, she starts to face work, romance, family and friendship.

37.5°C Tears

2015

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

2000s · 5 titles

1980s · 11 titles

The Geisha poster
5.6

Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it was home to over 200 geisha, however behind the fabulous facade, there were many battles - between family members, men and women, and with the Yakuza. Momokawa was sold to Yokiro at age 12, and despite being the top geisha, her many complicated relationships provide unending challenges throughout her glamorous but turbulent life.

The Geisha

1983

Four Sisters poster
7.5

Four sisters with no consanguinity are living together since childhood. When facing misfortune and grievances in lives, they give support and encouragement to each other, even sacrifice oneself to help others.

Four Sisters

1985

Tracked poster
5.7

When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous crimes--or the detectives hot on his trail.

Tracked

1985

Play it, Boogie-Woogie poster
8.0

A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic relationships.

Play it, Boogie-Woogie

1981

Twilight of the Cockroaches poster
6.2

The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. In the midst of these high living times, Naomi and Ichiro plan to get married and start a family. But when a hard-bitten stranger roach named Hans appears with news of war with the humans across the lawn, it foretells disruption-not only of Naomi and Ichiro's relationship, but of the hive's entire way of life.

Twilight of the Cockroaches

1987

Dangerous Cops poster
9.0

When a doctor is found dead and the company's exclusive data on a cancer drug is missing, detective Takayama and Oshita are called to the Nakamitsu pharmaceutical laboratory. However, a bungled attempt to catch the murderer leave Takayama and Oshita reassigned to the lackluster task of patrolling public bathrooms to keep them out of trouble.

Dangerous Cops

1987

The Last Hero poster
6.3

The 8th All-Japan Road Race Championship. The internationally ranked A-level SUGO circuit is on the edge of its seat as the 500 cc final draws near. Akio Kitano and Keishi Ooki face off: private team versus factory team. In the final lap, Akio is overtaken by Ooki and loses by a hair. The reason for his defeat? The difference between their two machines. With their scores tied, the two wait for the next match to settle the score for good.

The Last Hero

1982

Dangerous Cops Again poster
8.5

Detectives Takayama and Oshita participate in a major drug bust which arouses suspicion that the government may be secretly involved.

Dangerous Cops Again

1988

Fossilized Wilderness poster
8.0

Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1, is suddenly attacked by a trio of men at his apartment at midnight. When he regains consciousness, the corpse of a foreigner shot with his pistol lies in front of him. Nishina, with the help of his friend and newspaper reporter Mineshima, who believes in his innocence and vows to cooperate, pursues the incident and reveals a conspiracy related with 5,000 kilograms of gold that disappeared at the end of the WW2.

Fossilized Wilderness

1982

Mottomo Abunai Deka poster
8.5

Taka and Yuji find evidence in a 15-year-old case, but the statute of limitations expires in four days and they're hunting illicit gun manufacturers.

Mottomo Abunai Deka

1989

Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma

1986

Series credits

Dangerous Detective poster
8.4

Abunai Deka, often shortened to AbuDeka, is Japanese television drama aired by Nippon Television between 1986 and 1987. Starring Hiroshi Tachi and Kyohei Shibata, the series became very popular and spawned films, spin-offs series, and books. The series follows a pair of detectives, Takayama and Oshita, from the Naka-ku branch of the Kanagawa Prefectural Police.

Dangerous Detective

1986

Manten poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Manten

2002

The 101st Proposal poster
7.8

After 99 failed dates, an earnest bachelor meets a guarded classical musician. He's all in — she's not so sure. Can his persistence lead to love?

The 101st Proposal

1991

Dakishimetai! poster
NR

Asako Ikeuchi and Natsuko Hayakawa have been close friends for more than 25 years. Natsuko's husband Keisuke had affairs, so she asks Asako to let her stay at her house. Keisuke was once Asako's boyfriend. They will soon be 30 years old. There are other nice guys around Asako. It's a drama about their love and friendship.

Dakishimetai!

1988

MPD: Animal Unit poster
7.3

Tomozo Sudo is a detective. Due to an incident, he is excluded from investigative work. He is then assigned to work in a division responsible for taking care of animals whose owners are suspects or missing. Keiko Usuki is a police constable and works in the same division. She loves animals more than humans. Keiko develops inferences from clues from animals left behind at crime scenes. Tomozo and Keiko work together to solve cases.

MPD: Animal Unit

2017

37.5°C Tears poster
2.0

Sugisaki Momoko used to be a nursery school teacher. Her difficulty smiling leads to communication problems with parents and her contract is terminated in one year. Momoko is picked up by ‘Little Snow’, a home care service for sick children, and makes a fresh start there as a caregiver. When a child has a fever, the caregiver would visit the home and care for the child in place of the parents who simply cannot take time off from work. Momoko encounters all sorts of families at the places she is sent to. With the support of her colleagues and the occasional help of her best friend, Yumika, she starts to face work, romance, family and friendship.

37.5°C Tears

2015

Good Mourning poster
NR

Minori Amano becomes a widow on her honeymoon. Still, she becomes part of the Amano family's funeral home business. From now on, the woman not only has to fight with eccentric clients, but the rest of the Amano family who have a lot to say about running the business.

Good Mourning

1994

Freeter, Ie wo Kau poster
6.0

Freeter, Ie wo Kau is a Japanese television drama series that aired on Fuji Television and on Kyodo Television in 2010. The story revolves around Take Seiji, who quits his job after three months. With no dreams, no savings, and a poor relationship with his family, he becomes a hikikomori. However, after his mother falls ill with depression, he ends up having to take on a part-time job at a construction site. Because of that, he soon decides to work towards rebuilding his life: "Even though I'm just a freeter, I'm going to buy a house for the sake of my family." One of the people he meets at the construction site is Chiba Manami, who graduated from a top-class university and joined a well-known general contracting firm. Manami is the complete opposite of Seiji. But while their personalities clash at first, they gradually come to understand each other. --Tokyograph

Freeter, Ie wo Kau

2010

Retake poster
7.0

Protagonist Shinji Aratani is a man who lost everything around him—successful career, family, and friends—due to a twist of fate. His current job title is Chief of Registry Supervision Division of Ministry of Justice. Colleagues in other divisions look down on the Division saying nobody cares about their job and it's unneeded. But what they don't know is that the Division's true duty is to accomplish the top-secret mission from Parliamentary Secretary of Justice to "isolate time travelers in a special residential district and keep them under a close watch." In the near future, it's expected that time machine will be invented and there will be time travelers, each with their own purpose, coming back from the future to the present time. Registry Supervision Division was newly established in order to not let these time travelers change or affect the present and also to prevent big confusion from happening when the existence of time travelers gets revealed.

Retake

2016

Someday at a Place in the Sun poster
7.0

Hako was senteced to 7 years in prison on a robbery charge for the host she loved. Ayaka killed her husband to protect their son from domestic violence. These two women became acquainted in prison and forged strong bonds. After they are released from prison, they stay together and begin new lives in the old district of Yanaka in Tokyo while carrying pasts that no one must not know.

Someday at a Place in the Sun

2013

Zenryoku Shissou poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zenryoku Shissou

2017

Daddy, the Newscaster poster
9.5

He didn’t even like children, yet without warning, the handsome, single newscaster finds himself playing the role of father to three impertinent daughters. His entire image of the roles of the sexes gets turned upside down as he makes the transition from a swinger into a caring parent.

Daddy, the Newscaster

1987

Sashow The Last Case poster
8.0

Lady cop (Asano Atsuko) and team leader (Katori Shingo) are lovers and they solve major crimes together, targeting psychos. One day, the team leader suddenly became a criminal as well

Sashow The Last Case

1995

ママハハ・ブギ poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ママハハ・ブギ

1989

Coach poster
4.0

Kubota Nagisa, a spoiled brash executive, is the chief of Food Import Section in a first-rate trading company. Nagisa is transferred to an affiliate company in the countryside until the mishap she created in her company blows over.

Coach

1996

Salaryman Kintarō poster
7.8

Kintarō Yajima is a former leader of a motorcyle group and also a former tuna fisherman. He lived a wild and reckless life during his days as the leader of the motorcycle group. He now jumps to the corporate world and begins work as a salaryman.

Salaryman Kintarō

2025

Maria poster
9.0

Four sisters are all involved with the medical field. Sora inherits a medical clinic in Shinjuku from her father, while Umi is a doctor researching gene therapy. Riku's husband owns a large hospital, and Mimi is a trainee doctor dreaming of becoming famous. The four sisters are shocked to meet an unknown half-sister, Hiyo, from Hokkaido.

Maria

2001

What a Wonderful Life poster
8.5

Yume (Asano) is a single mother raising a now teenage daughter, Haruka, by herself. She has trouble trusting men, as Haruka's real father Kunio left before Haruka was born, and her first marriage ended when her husband cheated on her. It is then though that she meets Kunio's younger brother, Mitsugu (played by Oda). He falls for her immediately, and sets out to win her heart despite her disbelief.

What a Wonderful Life

1993

Love and Eros poster
NR

When Kasumi's husband dies in a car wreck, Ryuichi vows to watch over her and her unborn son. Over the next 10 years, he gradually falls in love with Kasumi. Now 35-year-old, Kasumi has resisted loving another man for fear of reliving the pain of losing a loved one. She happens to meet Ryuichi's bad boy younger brother and finds herself physically attracted to him; but Ryuichi finally acts on his bottled-up feelings for Kasumi and asks her to marry him. Kasumi must decide if she can bring herself to fall in love with a responsible man like Ryuichi, or if she can be content with the purely physical relationship that his brother can provide. --TBS

Love and Eros

1998

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zoku Heisei Meoto Jawan

2002

Kyohansha poster
NR

For the past 15 years, Fuyukawa Misaki has lived a quiet, reclusive life while keeping her secret well-hidden. With just two months left before the statute of limitations on the murder of her colleague expires, a mysterious man appears in Misaki’s life, who says, “I know your secret.” Is he a friend or foe? The nameless man who claims to know about Misaki’s past does not reveal any personal information about himself, but only says he wants to live with her in exchange for keeping her secret. Hence, a bizarre living arrangement begins. Who is this man and what is his purpose? Meanwhile, conventional detective Kiba is convinced that Misaki is the elusive criminal behind the 15-year old murder case and is determined to uncover evidence to prove his theory. As this peculiar love-suspense drama unfolds, you will need to piece together information to solve the mysterious puzzle of murder while the clock counts down to the expiration deadline.

Kyohansha

2003

職員室 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

職員室

1997

Naru yô ni Naru sa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Naru yô ni Naru sa

2013

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mamatte Kirei!?

1991

Sekai de Ichiban Kimi ga Suki poster
6.0

Koji and Mankichi loves Hana. But those men are very close friends. Hana wonders who she really loves.

Sekai de Ichiban Kimi ga Suki

1990

My Sister is a Pilot! poster
NR

A comedy in which Arisa, an airline pilot is sent to an aviation school to be the instructor of the four worst students in the aviation school, including her younger brother Hayato, in a bid to nurture them into competent pilots.

My Sister is a Pilot!

1987

There's No Easy Job in This World poster
7.0

Kasumi gets a job as a teacher at an elementary school. This fulfills a lifelong dream for her, but Kasumi is too passionate about her job. She overworks herself and gets burned out from her job. Kasumi quits her teaching job. She is still only 28 years old. Kasumi needs to find work and begins to take short-term jobs. She meets mysterious employee Masakado of Hello Work. ~~Based on the novel "Kono Yo ni Tayasui Shigoto wa Nai" by Kikuko Tsumura (Source: Asianwiki)

There's No Easy Job in This World

2017

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Daiyamondo no Koi

2005

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

小京都連続殺人事件

2012

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

沖縄リゾート コンシェルジュ具志堅陽子の名推理

2012

警察庁特別監察官 氷の女・氷室透子 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

警察庁特別監察官 氷の女・氷室透子

2014

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

刑務所の医者 若宮冴子

2004

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

救急救命士・牧田さおり

2002

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

開幕ベルは華やかに

2002