Maki Mizuno

Acting

Maki Mizuno

Born

1970-03-28 (56)

Place of birth

Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

57 titles

Maki Mizuno is an actress under Toho Entertainment in Japan. She graduated from the affiliated junior and senior high schools of the Faculty of Education at the University of Tokyo, and from Toyo Eiwa Women's Junior College. She gained prominence through numerous appearances in the Saturday Mystery Theatre series. In 2002, she graduated from Hattori Nutrition College and obtained a chef's licence. In 2004, she married Masazumi Gotoda, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, and they had a son. They separated in 2009. In April 2018, she resumed her university studies. In March 2021, she graduated from the Department of Education within the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Sacred Heart Universit…

Known for

Solitary Gourmet poster
8.9

Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.

Solitary Gourmet

2012

CSI: Crime Scene Talks poster
7.2

Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenactments, fingerprint and voice data collections, profiling... His team collects scientific evidence and pieces together fragments of information in order to help build evidences. However, Itomura often does not care about the scientific approach and instead pays a great deal of attention to the things that the victims always carried with them or treasured. And he focuses on these things because they usually carry the victim’s dying wishes, understanding that last message not only helps solve the cases but also brings closure to the depressed family of victims.

CSI: Crime Scene Talks

2011

Rinrinto poster
NR

The 44th NHK Asadora about a man who developed an early television system.

Rinrinto

1990

The Great White Tower poster
9.1

Two surgeons with contrasting objectives are asked to work together in a city hospital. While one of them strives to achieve fame and power through his work, the other wants to save human lives.

The Great White Tower

2003

When It Rains, It Pours poster
8.0

Trapped in unfulfilling relationships, two coworkers find unexpected intimacy through secret messages that challenge everything they believe about love.

When It Rains, It Pours

2025

Central Ikegami Police poster
6.0

Police chief in a blue-collar part of town called Central Ikegami, Keisuke is known for his laziness. But looks can be deceiving! Having graduated from an elite university, Keisuke merely prefers to lead an unassuming life without all the politics of climbing the department ladder. But the chief always gets the job done when the people need him, and they appreciate his unpretentious attitude. Some are sure to be surprised when they underestimate this deceptively folksy crime-fighter!

Central Ikegami Police

2002

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 8 titles

IMAT ~Crime Scene Medics~ poster
NR

IMAT (Incident Medical Assistance Team) is an emergency medical team formed to treat patients who are injured on crime scenes. The doctors on this team are often sent to dangerous destinations. The protagonist, Akira, lost his father in a terrorist bomb explosion in his childhood, and he is a doctor with an unparalleled will to save others. Takuma, a detective on the SIT (Special Investigation Team) has the polar opposite personality. He too lost his father in the same incident as Akira. Akira and Takuma tackle problems in opposite ways, sometimes going head to head with each other.

IMAT ~Crime Scene Medics~

2013

No artwork available
NR

The body of Kou Fujisaki, who fell to her death, is discovered in front of an old building in West Shinjuku. Chief Sakamoto notifies Ushio, who arrives at the scene. Ushio thinks that this must be a murder, but according to Yamaji, who was at the scene before him, an eyewitness testified that Kou had jumped off the roof of the building, killing herself. Kou is someone who has lingered in Ushio's memory - as a suspect...

Detective Ushio vs. Case Writer Saeko: Last Family

2017

Goodbye to Our Kindergarten poster
7.7

One day, five kindergarten children suddenly disappear from a kindergarten in Tokyo, sending their teachers and parents into a panic. The five of them are connecting on trains and headed to an unfamiliar place for some purpose.

Goodbye to Our Kindergarten

2011

No artwork available
NR

The body of Kazuyoshi Kawagishi, a construction company worker, is discovered stabbed to death in Shinjuku Central Park in Tokyo. Detective Masanao Ushio of Shinjuku West PD begins an investigation and finds that the murdered Kawagishi was an honest person who didn't have any troubles. Kawagishi worked for a company in Kofu City in Yamanashi, leaving behind his wife and daughter on Awaji Island in Hyogo. He seems to have started working as a laborer 3 years ago, having fallen on hard times when the company went bankrupt. Saeko Kawamura, Ushio's reporter friend, calls him wanting to talk about the case. According to Saeko, Kawagishi was one of the survivors of the "bus hijack arson case" that happened three years ago. In the bus hijack arson case, a man who was hallucinating under the influence of dangerous drugs set fire to an intercity bus going to Shinjuku and departing from Kofu Station...

Detective Ushio vs. Case Writer Saeko: Survivors

2016

The Story of Shotaro Ishinomori, The Man Who Created Heroes poster
NR

This story follows the semi-autobiographical account of manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori, author of the original Kamen Rider, Cyborg 009, and Super Sentai.

The Story of Shotaro Ishinomori, The Man Who Created Heroes

2018

The Woman Without a Shadow poster
NR

Detective Kamitsu investigates a baffling locked-room murder of a wealthy businessman. A mysterious "Woman in Black" disappears from a sealed room, and a stolen diamond escalates the crime—leading to multiple related murders and hidden connections.

The Woman Without a Shadow

2014

Musashi poster
8.0

Musashi returns Japan's legendary swordsman and philosopher to the screen once again. In an original period drama based on the historical facts of the life and travels of the famous Miyamoto Musashi we find an apprentice, an instructor and the account of a famous battle in Japan of the Middle Ages where many questions will be answered.

Musashi

2019

The Peers poster
NR

This human drama depicts the challenges of an ageing society and gives the limelight to some of the hardest working people in society, care workers and medical professionals.

The Peers

2019

2000s · 4 titles

1990s · 9 titles

The Laughing Kangaroo poster
NR

A love triangle turns deadly during an awards ceremony in Australia. Unfortunately for the killers, however, Furuhata and Shintaro are on a well-deserved holiday in the same hotel.

The Laughing Kangaroo

1995

Fly Boys, Fly! poster
7.0

Six young pilots who all volunteered to be Kami-kaze or suicide pilots.

Fly Boys, Fly!

1995

スチュワーデス刑事 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

スチュワーデス刑事

1997

No artwork available
6.2

“Night Train to the Stars” is a biography of the fascinating life of Kenji Miyazawa, one of Japan's most beloved fantasy novelists. Miyazawa is an idealist pledging with his friend Kanai to work for the improved life of farmers. Troubled by his family’s interest in money making and social status, he leaves home after graduating high school to join a Buddhist sect in Tokyo. After falling out with a friend, and receiving news about his sister re-emerging pneumonia, he decides to return home where starts his own experimental school, teaching new farming methods to young local farmers while also instructing them in music and arts. It was only after his death, through the help of his brother Seiroku, that his writings became widely read.

Night Train to the Stars

1996

Rainbow Bridge poster
8.0

Set in Edo-era Kyoto, this drama depicts the adolescent battles and the love between parents and children who are born and raised in the same tenement house.

Rainbow Bridge

1993

Angel Target poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Angel Target

1991

Romantic Lake Mashuko Murders poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Romantic Lake Mashuko Murders

1998

The Aesthetic Salon Murders 2 poster
NR

Iwatsuki Reiko, a writer for a weekly magazine goes on a trip to Amakusa, Kyushu with Yukitake Asami, the president of a company. Yukitake informs Iwatsuki that she has many enemies.

The Aesthetic Salon Murders 2

1998

Ie Naki Ko poster
7.3

"Don't pity me, just give me money." A smart little girl, Suzu, for the sake of her beloved sick mother, has no choice but to attempt all ways to fork up the money required for the operation. It includes stealing, cheating and almost anything that could yield cash. However, deep within her is a sadness unseen by many.

Ie Naki Ko

1994

Series credits

Solitary Gourmet poster
8.9

Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.

Solitary Gourmet

2012

CSI: Crime Scene Talks poster
7.2

Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenactments, fingerprint and voice data collections, profiling... His team collects scientific evidence and pieces together fragments of information in order to help build evidences. However, Itomura often does not care about the scientific approach and instead pays a great deal of attention to the things that the victims always carried with them or treasured. And he focuses on these things because they usually carry the victim’s dying wishes, understanding that last message not only helps solve the cases but also brings closure to the depressed family of victims.

CSI: Crime Scene Talks

2011

Rinrinto poster
NR

The 44th NHK Asadora about a man who developed an early television system.

Rinrinto

1990

The Great White Tower poster
9.1

Two surgeons with contrasting objectives are asked to work together in a city hospital. While one of them strives to achieve fame and power through his work, the other wants to save human lives.

The Great White Tower

2003

When It Rains, It Pours poster
8.0

Trapped in unfulfilling relationships, two coworkers find unexpected intimacy through secret messages that challenge everything they believe about love.

When It Rains, It Pours

2025

Central Ikegami Police poster
6.0

Police chief in a blue-collar part of town called Central Ikegami, Keisuke is known for his laziness. But looks can be deceiving! Having graduated from an elite university, Keisuke merely prefers to lead an unassuming life without all the politics of climbing the department ladder. But the chief always gets the job done when the people need him, and they appreciate his unpretentious attitude. Some are sure to be surprised when they underestimate this deceptively folksy crime-fighter!

Central Ikegami Police

2002

Spiritual Teacher, Kyoko Odagiri poster
5.7

Kyoko Odagiri is a beautiful and charismatic clairvoyant. She is also popular and admired by her fans. Today, Kyoko appears on a popular tv show and display her psychic abilities alongside a popular actor. Her performance goes off splendidly with the audience applauding her performance enthusiastically.

Spiritual Teacher, Kyoko Odagiri

2010

Tattooed Kin-san vs Miss Ninja Thief poster
NR

It is 1845. Toyama Kinshiro is a town magistrate who roams Edo in guise of Kinsan the playboy. In his efforts to keep Edo crime-free, he allies himself with Onna Nezumi, a female Robin Hood. Watch Kinsan unveil his cherry blossom tattoo and bring criminals to justice.

Tattooed Kin-san vs Miss Ninja Thief

1997

Paper Moon poster
NR

Rinka Umezawa is a housewife who pursues things that will bring her small happiness in life. Her husband Masabumi holds a stern belief that he will support his wife Rinka. The couple do not have children. Rinka begins to work part-time at a bank. She visits her clients’ homes. Sometimes, she even helps her elderly clients’ with their house chores. This builds a strong level of trust with her clients. One day, she visits client Kojo Hirabayashi’s. At his home, she meets his grandchild Kota who came to ask for money. Her encounter with Kota changes her. Soon, Rinka embezzles one hundred million yen from her bank and runs away. Two years later, Rinka’s former high school friends Yuko Okazaki and Aki Nakaji trace her embezzlement case and face their own darkness.

Paper Moon

2014

Best Friend poster
NR

Kouhei asks his girlfriend Kaede to marry him. He also reveals that his company going to transfer him to London office and that he would like his bride-to-be to come along. As Kaede walks home she bumps into Yuuko, a girl from far-off Yaizu who has come to town for meeting with her ex-boyfriend's buisiness partner. The girls inadvertently swap addresses books in the confusion, leading Kaede to discover that Yuuko has meeting planned with Kouhei. She immediately expects the worse.

Best Friend

1995

29-sai no Christmas poster
NR

Noriko is approaching 30 and is still unmarried. She is a fashion designer, dreaming of success and a Paris Collection. On her 29th birthday her world falls apart. Her boss transfers her from design to managing a bar. Her boyfriend betrays her for another woman. Shocked, Noriko decides to leave home and to move in with her best friend, Aya. The story of one woman's struggle to find happiness and love.

29-sai no Christmas

1994

Tokai no Mori poster
NR

Fresh out of judicial training school, Shinsuke Yabashi becomes a rookie lawyer at the Funamoto Law Firm. When he takes on the role of lead counsel for a case involving a female teacher accused of having an affair with a student's father and killing her husband, Shinsuke boldly asserts her innocence amidst a courtroom where everyone assumes her guilt.

Tokai no Mori

1990

僕らプレイボーイズ 熟年探偵社 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

僕らプレイボーイズ 熟年探偵社

2015

Love & War of a Samurai poster
8.0

Based on the jidaigeki novel, Semishigure, written by Fujisawa Shuhei. Duty and honor were the principles of the samurai, but just like others throughout history, greed and power motivated some while friendship, truth and love guided others. This is the story of Bunshiro, a true warrior who survives tragedy in his youth to become a great swordsman and defender of the weak, and Fuku, the love of his life. They first fall in love as teenagers, but her poverty and his tragedy separate them. After a corrupt official forces Bunshiro's father to commit suicide, he is treated like an outcast. Later, the same official tries to use Bunshiro in a plot to kill Fuku, who has become a wife of the local lord, but he turns the tables, saving Fuku and her child and uncovering the corruption. Many years later Bunshiro and Fuku meet again to reminisce about their lives, and the love that remains smoldering in their hearts.

Love & War of a Samurai

2003

金曜日の恋人たちへ poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

金曜日の恋人たちへ

2000

If love happens a second time poster
NR

Kosuke Mikami, the head office manager of a convenience store, takes a mistress named Komachi, a Kyoto beauty, while he is working alone in Osaka. After he returns to Tokyo, his wife finds out about this and ends up divorcing him... "Koimo Nidome Nara" is a Japanese TV drama that was broadcast on the Nippon Television Network's Wednesday Drama slot from January 11, 1995 to March 15, 1995. Starring Sanma Akashiya.

If love happens a second time

1995

Dear Friday's Lovers poster
5.0

Madoka is transferred to the secretarial pool when the company goes through restructuring. It's a letdown after being in the busy Sales Department, but Madoka tries to find her place there. She meets and falls in love with Haruki, a security guard, but trouble rears its head in the form of Kaori, Haruki's ex-girlfriend.

Dear Friday's Lovers

2000

Aiken Rosinante no Sainan ~ Mukai Ryuuta no Doubutsu Nikki poster
8.0

The star of the show is Rosinante, a lovable Labrador retriever, whose master, a commuter train conductor, dies while Rosinante is spending the night at the impromptu weekend dog hotel a veterinary professor has set up at the university to collect a little extra cash. With a touch of the loyal Hachiko in him, Rosinante greets all the passing trains his master used to ride. Such loyalty leads Domoto to adopt Rosinante even if it does mean getting thrown out of his apartment building and having to live in the girl's dorm. "Dear Diary, the dogs broke out of the veterinary clinic again today . . .", you would think was written by a person. Well, the whole story is in fact told by a dog, Rosinante, one of the inhabitants of a university veterinary clinic. Chief among his writings is happy-go-lucky yet hapless vet student Arata Mukai, who is at bliss with animals. The question is, can Arata get along with his peers and professors as well as he can with the animals he cares for?

Aiken Rosinante no Sainan ~ Mukai Ryuuta no Doubutsu Nikki

2001

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Risky Game

1996

Singles poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Singles

1997

Good Job poster
NR

This is not the story of an office lady in love, but six female employees of the sales assistants of Sajima Construction and Sales Division 2 take pride in the work of the office lady who is considered to be comfortable, and run it through communication and a female network. It is a story that depicts the true intentions and real life of working office ladies who perfectly support the two salespeople. Original by Misao Kataoka, Screenplay by Mika Omori, Cast by Nao Matsushita, Mikako Ichikawa, Misato Tanaka, Saeko, Eri Murakawa, Maki Mizuno, Satoshi Tokushige and others.

Good Job

2007

The Neighbours Are Secretly Laughing poster
NR

The story starts with a serial killer, whose victims are lone women and acts are perpetrated in Mizuno Maki's neighborhood (it is suggested that Motoki is this serial killer). Motoki is a police officer with 2 faces: he has an obsession for housewife Maki and is very gentle with her, and on the other side he rapes & tortures one of her friend, Kanda Uno. His ultimate goal seems to make Maki fall in love with him: so he uses her friend Uno to affect her relationship with her husband & he gradually introduces himself into her life. Another person is also obsessed with Maki (she is a sort of public personality as she runs a cooking club with other housewives and appears in magazines), harassing her all the time on the phone, spying on her, etc...: this person is close to her as he knows things from her past (her son drowned in an accident). Motoki also had an ordeal in his past: his mother was killed in a fire, by her lover.

The Neighbours Are Secretly Laughing

1999

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rookie Cop

1997

スチュワーデス刑事 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

スチュワーデス刑事

1997

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

花の罠-奈良・大和路殺人事件-

2003

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

名探偵 神津恭介

2014

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

夏樹静子サスペンス 断崖 ~死のダイビング~

2001

Mizuno Maki no Mahou Restaurant poster
NR

Japanese gourmet information TV show thosted by actress Maki Mizuno. The show features her as the “owner” and includes various segments such as guest appearances, cooking demonstrations, and restaurant visits.

Mizuno Maki no Mahou Restaurant

2001

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

司法教官・穂高美子

2011

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ホステス探偵危機一髪

1999

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

松本清張スペシャル 黒い樹海

1997