Masako Motai

Biography

Born in Shibuya, Tokyo. A Japanese actress joined in Shasha Co.. Started acting in around 1972, created an acting band called Gekidan Sanjyumaru with Eri Watanabe in 1979. At the time she was directing, yet she began to act later on. In 1984, she played a role of a teacher in a TV drama called "Takeshi's Gakumon no Susume". In 1985, she started appearing in many TV dramas and shows such as "OH! Takeshi" and "Haru no Hato" etc.

Known For

The Pride of the Temp

Quartet

Karin

Shining Brightly

One-Pound Gospel

Bread and Soup and Cat Weather

The Golden Piggy

Pension Metsä

All Movies (36)

• Hello, Goodbye2017 · as Etsuko Kobayashi
• The Mohican Comes Home2016 · as Haruko Tamura
• Mountain Days with Tom2015
• Teacher and Stray Cat2015 · as Yayoi Morii
• Akko's Secret2012 · as Tsuruko Oba
• Always: Sunset on Third Street '642012 · as Kin Ota
• Tokyo Oasis2011 · as Customer at Cinema
• Mother Water2010 · as Makoto
• BECK2010
• Toilet2010 · as Bachan
• Pool2009 · as Kikuko
• Nekonade2008 · as Makoto Koike
• Always: Sunset on Third Street 22007 · as Kin Ohta
• Glasses2007 · as Sakura
• I Just Didn't Do It2007 · as Toyoko Kaneko
• Hanada Shonenshi the Movie: Spirits and the Secret Tunnel2006 · as Granny Yoshikawa
• Kamome Diner2006 · as Masako
• Always - Sunset on Third Street2005 · as Kin Ota
• Love Is Five Seven Five2005 · as President
• Yoshino's Barber Shop2004 · as Yoshiko
• The Choice of Hercules2002
• Round About Midnight1999 · as Shopkeeper
• Jubaku: Spellbound1999 · as Ichijo
• Gemini1999 · as Shige
• The Exam1999
• Sharan-Q no enka no hanamichi1997
• Last Friends1995
• Many Happy Returns1993 · as Masako
• Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 21992
• After All, I Love Cats the Three Onda Sisters’ Great Kyoto Troubles1990 · as Kayano Onda
• Beijing Watermelon1989 · as Michi Horikoshi
• Four Days of Snow and Blood1989 · as Saku Akimoto
• Cheek to Cheek at Night ~ A Woman Embracing the Past1988 · as Hisako Yamamoto
• À la carte Company1987
• Space Girl Morumo 1/101987
• Yume Camera 21987

All TV Shows (12)

• Pension Metsä2021 · as Forest person
• Quartet2017 · as Kyoko Maki
• Bread and Soup and Cat Weather2013 · as Mama
• The Golden Piggy2010 · as Tsueko Tsutsumi
• One-Pound Gospel2008 · as Reverend Mother
• The Pride of the Temp2007 · as 橋立 くに子
• Fukigen na Gene2005
• Beginner2003 · as Hiroko Sawaguchi（沢口 裕子）
• Shining Brightly1998
• Karin1993 · as 池田（黒田）文江
• Sakura Momoko Land: Taniguchi Rokuzo Shoten1993 · as 谷口ヨシ
• NonNonBa1991