is a Japanese
actress
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. Her early stage name was ; she changed it to , and switched to writing her surname in
katakana
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in 2005.
Kuno has been active as a model since senior high school, and as an actress made her debut in 1987. In 1986, she participated in the first
Pocari Sweat
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Poca ...
Image Girl Contest, but lost to 17-year-old
Chisato Moritaka
(born 11 April 1969) is a Japanese pop singer who also is notable as a songwriter. She is affiliated with Up-Front Create, a subsidiary of the Up-Front Group. in the finals. Kuno was the image girl of the
JR East
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kiosks from 1988 to 1994. In 1994, she released a collection of photographs, ''Mitsu'', and appeared nude in an original video, ''XX: Utsukushiki Karyūdo''. In 1998, Kuno played the part of Sunday in the
Chunsoft sound novel ''
Machi'' to a favorable reception. In addition, she qualified as a
sommelier
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in 1998.
Filmography
Movies
* ''
Banana Shoot
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'' (1989) as Fuko Hosaka
* ''
Taro! Tokyo makai taisen'' (1991) as Yasuhara
* ''
The Guard from Underground'' (1992)
as Akiko Narushima
* ''
Fuyu no kappa'' (1995) as Tamako
* ''
Mari's Prey'' ''マリ-の獲物'' (1996)
* ''
The Mars Canon
is a 2002 Japanese film directed by Shiori Kazama. Themes of the film include adultery and homosexuality, as Mars connotes both fighting and sexual intercourse.
Plot
The film explores the relationship problems of two couples, Kohei and Kinuko, a ...
'' (2001) as Kinuko
* ''
World's End Girlfriend
, better known by his stage name World's End Girlfriend, is a Japanese musician from Gotō Islands, Nagasaki Prefecture. He is the founder of the record label Virgin Babylon Records.
Biography
Katsuhiko Maeda was born on 1 November 1975 in Gotō ...
'' ''Sekai no owari'' (2005)
* ''
Mushishi
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Urushibara. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Afternoon Season Zōkan'' from 1999 to 2002, and in ''Monthly Afternoon'' from December 2002 to August 200 ...
'' (2006) as Maho's mother
Television
* Ultraman Gaia (1998) as Kyoko Inamori
* ''Urutora kyû: Dâku fantajî'' (2004) TV series... a.k.a. Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy
Game
*
Machi (1998)
Original video
*''
XX: Beautiful Hunter'' ''XX: Utsukushiki karyuudo'' (1994).... Shion
*''
Oretachi wa tenshi ja nai (1993).... Eri
*''
Oretachi wa tenshi ja nai 2 (1993).... Eri
*''
Sugar: Howling of Angel'' (1996)
*''
Inagawa Junji no shinjitsu no horror'' (2003)... a.k.a. J-Horror Anthology: Legends
References
External links
official site
*
1967 births
Living people
People from Maebashi
Sommeliers
Japanese film actresses
Japanese television actresses
20th-century Japanese actresses
21st-century Japanese actresses
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