Makiko Watanabe

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Biography

Makiko Watanabe (渡辺真起子, Watanabe Makiko, September 14, 1968) is a Japanese actress and former fashion model from Tokyo. She is affiliated with Decade.

Known For

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning

Landlady

Love Exposure

Kaori

Tokyo Vice

Mrs. Tozawa

Tokyo Vice

Kazuko Tozawa

Himizu

Sumida's Mother

The Asadas!

Michiko Togawa

Drops of God

Honoka Tomine

Still the Water

Misaki

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2025	Sugar Glass Bottle MOVIE	Fukuko
2025	Second to Last Love 3 TV	Self
2025	The Harbor Lights MOVIE	Self
2025	Nursing Aide at Your Side SP MOVIE	Self
2024	Or Utopia MOVIE	Miwako Onishi
2024	Golden Kamuy -The Hunt of Prisoners in Hokkaido- TV	Monoa
2024	Happyend MOVIE	Yoko
2024	Desert of Namibia MOVIE	Mari
2024	Secret Makeover TV	Kujo Miki
2024	Red Roof on the Slope TV	Self
2024	The Great Passage: I'll Make a Dictionary TV	Sasaki Kaoru
2023	Ozu TV	Self
2023	Family MOVIE	Self
2023	Sayonara wo Kimeta Hi MOVIE	Mother
2023	Tengu's Kitchen TV	Ichino
2023	Tengu's Kitchen TV	Izuna Kazuno / Kazuno Wilson
2023	悪女について TV	沢山朝子
2023	Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room: The Movie MOVIE	Mariko Shirokane
2023	Drops of God TV	Honoka Tomine
2023	Kashi Mashi Meshi TV	Self
2023	About the Evil Woman MOVIE	Self
2022	Small, Slow But Steady MOVIE	Ms. Goto
2022	Fragments of the Last Will MOVIE	Self
2022	Mugonkan MOVIE	Yamaryo Mari
2022	Haw MOVIE	Self
2022	Renovation Like Magic TV	Self
2022	Tokyo Vice TV	Mrs. Tozawa
2022	Tokyo Vice TV	Kazuko Tozawa
2022	The Midnight Maiden War MOVIE	Self
2021	99.9 Criminal Lawyer: SP MOVIE	Natsuko Shiga
2021	Come and Go MOVIE	Yoshiko Tomioka
2021	In the Wake MOVIE	Self
2021	TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room TV	Mariko Shirokane
2021	Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning MOVIE	Landlady
2021	Tomorrow's Dining Table MOVIE	Yoriko Narita
2021	Living, Dying, Father, etc. TV	Self
2020	孤独のグルメ 2020大晦日スペシャル～俺の食事に密はない、孤独の花火大作戦！～ MOVIE	Self
2020	The Asadas! MOVIE	Michiko Togawa
2020	State of Emergency MOVIE	Delivery 2020
2020	Unsung Cinderella, Midori, the Hospital Pharmacist TV	Manami Koga
2020	Tamaran Hill MOVIE	Hinako's teacher
2020	三浦部長、本日付けで女性になります。 MOVIE	三浦的姐姐
2020	Momi's House MOVIE	Self
2020	The Calming MOVIE	Makiko
2020	Voices in the Wind MOVIE	Hiroko
2019	Walking Man MOVIE	Mitsuyo
2019	Startup Girls MOVIE	Self
2019	Aesop's Game MOVIE	Misako-kun
2019	I Shared My Husband TV	Miho Tsukamoto
2019	Rikon na Futari TV	Self
2019	37 Seconds MOVIE	Mai
2018	A Banana? At This Time of Night? MOVIE	Takako Maeki
2018	And Your Bird Can Sing MOVIE	Naoko
2018	My Friend "A" MOVIE	Asako Shinozuka
2017	The Lowlife MOVIE	Izumi
2017	Slight Fever MOVIE	Naoko Maeda
2017	Foreboding MOVIE	Kasuya's wife
2017	Star Sand MOVIE	Yoshigami
2017	Hello, Goodbye MOVIE	Saki Kobayashi
2017	Love Exposure: The TV-Show TV	Kaori Fujiwara
2016	Tokyo Girl TV	Self
2016	Tokyo Girl TV	Anna
2016	Princess Maison TV	Fumi Nakamori
2016	Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono TV	Misako Iwase
2016	A Loving Husband MOVIE	Yohei's mother
2016	64: Part 2 MOVIE	Self
2016	99.9 Criminal Lawyer TV	Natsuko Togawa
2016	女優堕ち TV	Self
2016	While the Women Are Sleeping MOVIE	Kyoko
2015	Mystery Trilogy Special MOVIE	(segment "Winter Has Come")
2015	東京の日 MOVIE	Harumi
2015	Aoi Shushi wa Taiyou no Naka ni Aru MOVIE	Self
2015	Red Cross TV	Self
2015	Obon Brothers MOVIE	Self
2015	Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Manga Artist Competition MOVIE	Self
2015	Marumaru Tsuma TV	Kasai Midori
2014	Miracle: Devil Claus' Love and Magic MOVIE	Ritsuko
2014	Starting Over MOVIE	Keiko Kuroswa
2014	Still the Water MOVIE	Misaki
2014	Fukuie Keibuho no Aisatsu TV	三浦
2013	Au revoir l'été MOVIE	Sakuko's Aunt
2013	Nobody's Perfect MOVIE	Self
2013	Capturing Dad MOVIE	Sawa
2013	dinner TV	Self
2013	Tada's Do-It-All House TV	Self
2013	Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark MOVIE	Nagisa
2012	Odayaka MOVIE	Noriko
2012	Playback MOVIE	Self
2012	GFP BUNNY MOVIE	Mother
2012	A Road Stained Crimson MOVIE	Self
2012	Himizu MOVIE	Sumida's Mother
2012	Second to Last Love TV	Mizuno Shoko
2011	Life Back Then MOVIE	Self
2011	Women on the Edge MOVIE	Takako
2010	Sketches of Kaitan City MOVIE	Bar Hostess (voice)
2010	Wandering Home MOVIE	Self
2010	Nemuriba MOVIE	Self
2010	Heaven's Story MOVIE	Mina
2010	Tokyo Stray Girls MOVIE	Keiko Ogura
2010	All to the Sea MOVIE	Self
2009	Torso MOVIE	Hiroko
2009	Where Are You? MOVIE	Kawai's Mother
2009	White Night MOVIE	Self
2009	Lost Girl MOVIE	Ryoko
2008	Love Exposure MOVIE	Kaori
2007	The Rebirth MOVIE	Noriko
2007	CREEP MOVIE	Self
2007	Rabbit on the Moon MOVIE	Self
2007	My Sister, My Love MOVIE	Self
2007	The Mourning Forest MOVIE	Wakako
2007	Sixteen MOVIE	Self
2007	Fourteen MOVIE	Self
2006	Faces of a Fig Tree MOVIE	Self
2006	Colors MOVIE	Self
2005	Canary MOVIE	Self
2005	Yumeno MOVIE	Masami
2005	The Many Faces of Chika MOVIE	Chika II
2004	Zebraman MOVIE	Yukiyo Ichikawa
2002	Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete MOVIE	Bando's Wife
2001	Tampen MOVIE	Woman
2001	Luxurious Bone MOVIE	Sakiko's Father Girlfriend
2001	Labyrinth of Leg Fetishism MOVIE	Self
2001	Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Jesus in the Barn MOVIE	Self
2000	Isola: Multiple Personality Girl MOVIE	Yayoi Takano
1999	M/Other MOVIE	Aki
1997	Ringo no usagi MOVIE	Self
1997	2/Duo MOVIE	Yu's Friend
1996	Mogura MOVIE	Cellist
1996	XX: Beautiful Prey MOVIE	Noriko
1988	Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad MOVIE	Self

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