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group

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Mark Schilling Mark Schilling (born 1949) is an American film critic, journalist, translator, and author based in Tokyo, Japan. He has written for ''The Japan Times'', ''Variety'', and ''Screen International''. Biography Schilling began working for ''The Japan ...

of ''

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'' described her as "the best comic actress working in Japan today".

Career

Nagasaku appeared in

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's 2003 film '' Doppelganger''. She played a supporting role in the 2007 film ''

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'', for which she won the awards for Best Supporting Actress at the 32nd

Hochi Film Award The are film-specific prizes awarded by the ''Hochi Shimbun , previously known as , is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it had a circulation of a million copies a day. It is an affiliate newspaper of ''Yomiuri Shimbun''. ...

s and the ''

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'' magazine. She won the Best Supporting Actress award for ''

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'' at the 35th Japan Academy Prize in 2012.

Filmography

Film

* '' Doppelganger'' (2003) * ''

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'' (2005) * ''

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'' (2005) * ''

'' (2007) * ''Dolphin Blue'' (2007) * ''Closed Note'' (2007) * ''Sex Is No Laughing Matter'' (2007) * ''Dosokai'' (2008) * ''R246 Story'' (2008) * ''The Clone Returns Home'' (2009) * ''Cast Me If You Can'' (2010), Aya * ''

'' (2011), Kiwako Nonomiya * ''

Solomon's Perjury is a 2-part 2015 Japanese suspense mystery film directed by Izuru Narushima, based on the novel of the same title by Miyuki Miyabe. The first, , was released on March 7 and the second, , was released on April 11, 2015. Cast * Ryōko Fujino as ...

'' (2015) * ''The Furthest End Awaits'' (2015), Misaki Yoshida * ''

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'' (2020), Satoko Kurihara

Television

* ''

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'' (2006),

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* ''

Magerarenai Onna is a Japanese television drama that aired on NTV between 13 January and 17 March 2010. Synopsis Ogiwara Saki ( Miho Kanno) is a woman who does not go with the flow of society but forges her own path. She hates flattering men and trying to be nice ...

'' (2010) * ''Dirty Mama!'' (2012) * ''Chinmoku Hōtei'' (2017) * ''Mikazuki'' (2019), Chiaki Akasaka * ''

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'' (2022–23), Megumi Iwakura * ''Modern Love Tokyo'' (2022)

Dubbing

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'', K.W. (

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)

Discography

Albums

* ''N'' (1993) * ''Here and Now'' (1994)

Singles

* "My Home Town" (1993) * "Without You" (1994) * "Ai ni Kite" (1994) * "9:01 pm" (1998)

References

External links

Official website
* Japanese actresses Japanese women pop singers Japanese idols 1970 births Living people Actors from Ibaraki Prefecture Musicians from Ibaraki Prefecture 21st-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese women singers {{Japan-actor-stub