Maki Mizuno

Acting

Maki Mizuno

Born 1970-03-28 · Tokyo, Japan

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 University, obtaining a Level 1 Kindergarten Teaching Licence (Yōchien Kyōiku Isshū Menkyo).

Acting credits

Godzilla: Final Wars poster
7.1

Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth's cities. Overwhelmed, humanity is seemingly saved by a race of benevolent aliens known as Xiliens. But not all is what it seems with these bizarre visitors. If humanity wishes to survive, they must reluctantly resurrect their most hated enemy, Godzilla.

Godzilla: Final Wars

2004

Even If This Love Disappears Tonight poster
7.5

A high school girl wakes up each day with no memory of the day before. When she agrees to date a shy classmate, Toru, he begins to fall for her—despite her rule against falling in love.

Even If This Love Disappears Tonight

2022

To Me, the One Who Loved You poster
6.1

Koyomi Hidaka and Shiori Sato meet at his father’s research center and begin to fall in love, but so do their parents, who eventually marry. To avoid becoming stepsiblings, they decide to run away to a parallel universe. Traveling between dimensions is common in their world, but not without repercussions. Does a universe exist for the young couple, and what will it cost them to find it?

To Me, the One Who Loved You

2022

To Every You I've Loved Before poster
6.8

While struggling to make friends after his parents’ divorce, Koyomi Takasaki meets Kazune Takigawa, but apparently, they already have. Kazune reveals that she’s from World Line 85, an alternate universe in which she and Koyomi are lovers. But in a reality where moving between dimensions is natural, could Koyomi be the one from another world?

To Every You I've Loved Before

2022

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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

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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 Setting Sun poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Setting Sun

2022

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

Fly Boys, Fly! poster
7.0

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

Fly Boys, Fly!

1995

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

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
6.3

“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

Angel Target poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Angel Target

1991

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

Anpanman: Purun, the Soap Bubble poster
5.3

Anpanman's friends go see a bubble show performed by Shabondama-hime and her Shabondama Girls, who make exquisite bubbles by playing their flutes. One of the girls, Purun, can't make big bubbles no matter how much she rehearses. She feels inadequate as she goes to retrieve her lost flute, which Creampanda finds and goes to return. Meanwhile Baikinman takes over Shabondama-hime's castle and steals the flutes, using their power to create evil bubbles, and Purun must realize her own importance and save the day with Anpanman's help.

Anpanman: Purun, the Soap Bubble

2007

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

Romantic Lake Mashuko Murders poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Romantic Lake Mashuko Murders

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

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

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

Fuyu Monogatari poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fuyu Monogatari

1989

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Detective Ushio VS Case Reporter Saeko at the Terminal Station

2008