Hoshino Mari

Mari Hoshino, born in Kamifukuoka, Saitama, is a Japanese actress and singer. She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University with a degree in Franch Literature.

Most well-known for her lead role as Otome Sakamoto in T.B.S. drama, "Kinpachi-sensei", Hoshino has starred in several dramas in recent years. Her main role in "Platonic Sex" was somewhat controversial as it was rather contrary to her image as one possessing pure values. She has also published two photographic books as well as about six C.D.s. Of the Japanese dramas shown in Los Angeles, a substantial fraction of them has Mari in the cast.

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Name Hoshino Mari

Nationality Japanese

Gender Female

Born July 27, 1981

Age 41

Type Japanese

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Popularity #11

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A gangster thriller from director Lo Mar. (Source: Letterboxd)

By working on a case with farmers, lawyer Heo Seung comes to believe that the rural development movement is the only sustainable way to preserve the country's identity. With conviction, Seung throws himself into rural areas. However, this position runs counter to Japanese occupation policies and fin...

During the 1930s, the oppression of Japanese rule was severe. Heo Seung who states that he was "born from soil, will live in soil, and die in soil," goes to live at Yun's house, a government official in Seoul. In Seoul, he attends college, and after graduating, he plans to go back to his hometown i...

Jae Sup, a thirty-two-year-old man who teaches Korean at a night school, refuses to communicate with anyone other than a hooker he meets on the street. He goes to a college reunion when he hears that his old flame and alumna Hye Kyung is getting married but gets mad at himself for not being as socia...

He remembers his father and feels sadness over his loss...!

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Lee Ra El was a girl who idolized her loving parents – a highly intelligent father and a strikingly beautiful mother. But when cruel forces beyond their control cause her father’s death, her family crumbles. Embittered by this terrible experience, she vows revenge on the super-rich people who orches...

Junko Harumi was once a model student during her middle school and high school days. However, she, unfortunately, failed to enter the prestigious Tokyo University, and her life has not gone smoothly since then. Now, at the age of 31, she works as a teacher in a private tutoring institute, hoping to...

French chef Ken travels back in time to the Sengoku period. Due to travelling through the timeslip, Ken has lost his memory but still retains his knowledge of fine cuisine. Thanks to his excellence in cuisine, Ken eventually becomes the chef of powerful daimyo Nobunaga Oda.

Isayama Nami, in order to start over her life and to find happiness, married the man she fell in love with at first sight during a blind date and moved to a quiet high-end residential area. Nami isn't really good with domestic chores in general, including cooking or cleaning, but she has a very stro...

Nagase Saichi is the number one seller of a real estate agency whose biggest flaw is being excessively honest and unable to lie. Tsukishita Sakura is her youngest. (Source: News Yahoo)

In the food themed drama, Uno Meiko is the daughter of parents who run a western style restaurant in Tokyo. She marries and moves to Osaka with her husband. Meiko experiences cultural differences between Tokyo and Osaka, as she lives as a mother and wife in Osaka. (Source: AsianWiki) ~~ This drama...

Several years after the conclusion of Iryu 2, Team Medical Dragon is once again reassembled to revive a faltering Meishin University Hospital.

This work is a human drama that attorney, Taku Kurokawa challenges reversal play with weapons, passion, and science as a weapon to cause "miracle" to clear false charges. Kurokawa who plays Sakaguchi actively opposes fake crime defense, which is said to be impossible, reproduces the events that occu...

The 49th NHK Taiga drama is Ryoma den, set back in the Bakumatsu period. The story focuses on the life of Sakamoto Ryoma, who lived from 1835 to 1867. He was an important leader in the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa Bakufu, eventually bringing about the Meiji Restoration. He was also one of the...

Ishibashi Taro is 38-years-old, single and works for a big bank. Miyoshi Reiya is 37 years old, divorced and works as a dentist. Iwakura Kazuhiko is 45-years-old, single and works as a lawyer. These three men are close friends and they enjoy their lives as single men, but they begin to think about m...

This series is back in its 25th year with the seventh season. What concerns and problems with this new class will Kimpachi Sakamoto confront? Yet again, through the days and months of the year, we will learn lessons that money can't buy. In the sixth series, Sakamoto was in heated disagreement with...

Tokino Mitani runs a watch shop, located on a street far from the downtown area. She is 20-years-old and inherited the watch shop from her grandfather. Unknown to most, she is also an excellent private detective and offers an alibi cracking service. She can crack someone's false alibi by using logic...

Takamiya Susumu is a salary man. He who works in audit division of an insurance company. His job has him traveling all over the country on one-day business trips via the Shinkansen train. When he visits an area on his business trips, he likes to find delicious food nearby and gets it to go. On his r...

“A completely undetectable poison that kills 24 hours after consumed.” It is the rumour that has spread on the internet of a lethal drug that makes the perfect crime possible. It has even become a topic at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Special Crimes Unit which Sasamoto Naomi has been t...

"The Knife and the Sword Part 2" follows a struggle between Nobunaga Oda and opposing powers, a suspicious movement of Mitsuhide Akechi and the love between Ken and a female blacksmith named Natsu.

Tetsuya Takeda is back for his sixth season as Japan's most dedicated middle school teacher. Sakura Middle School becomes the first school to introduce the new student-guidance standards set to be instituted by the education ministry next April. Two transfer students also will join the 3-B class and...

A sequel from the first series.

The series will once again depict the passion of Kinpachi Sakamoto, the teacher who shares the joys and sorrows with his 25 students, and the students who, in turn, also grow with him. This includes facing college entrance examinations and higher education, worrying about relationships between their...

After an absence of four years Kinpachi Sensei, everyone's favorite teacher, returns to the television screen in a new series. When the series first went into production in 1979, delinquency and on-campus violence were big social problems. Over the years, the pressing problems became truancy and bul...

Misaki Sakaguchi, a second-year student, arrives at Yokosuka High School and decides to join the Brass Band Club after hearing about her prestigious past from her father, a former member. However, after his entry, Misaki discovers that many things have changed and that the club is now filled with bo...

This drama offers an enlightening portrayal of the problems faced by junior high students in today's society, from juvenile delinquency and sex to a general crisis of spirit. The series is divided into three major storylines.

The new season begins with a special case that leads the duo to the Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong. It’s the first time for ‘Aibou’ to expand its setting to a foreign location since they went to London in the second season. Mizutani commented that it perfectly suits inspector Sugishita Ukyo...

This is the story of the detectives at Jinnan's police station in Harajuku, Tokyo. Azumi Tsuyoshi, head of the Department of Criminal Affairs, trusts his staff and generally does not interfere in their investigation. However, one day, a corpse is found in the neighborhood. Toyo Ota, a neighbor, is s...

Kirishima, a skilled plastic surgeon who previously used to work for the US 'Federal Witness Protection Programme'. His nickname is "Face Maker." Patients come to him seeking to change their lives, and he grants them that wish with a new face. He doesn't take money but asks for his patients' previou...

Takashiro Kengo is a former police detective of the Metropolitan Police's 1st Investigation Division. Since his daughter disappeared, Kengo's attitude has changed and he normally disregards caution. Now, Kengo works in the Metropolitan Police Missing Person Investigation Section with partner Myojin...

Arima Eiji, a police detective nearing retirement, who belongs to the Misjudgement Countermeasure Officer has had the experience of arresting the wrong person for a crime he did not commit. As such, when he is tasked to investigate the likelihood of wrong judgments given out to criminals on death ro...

Asami Mitsuhiko is a reportage writer and detective who solves difficult cases related to local legends across Japan. In each weekly episode the sleuth will visit a different part of the country to tackle these mysteries. --Tokyograph

Asawa Naoki visits Ishikawa Michiko, and while they are having breakfast, he receives a phone call from Kano Rintaro, the head of the First Investigative Division’s Ninth Sub-division, about a murder case that has occurred. The president of Godai Bank was found dead and it seems that he had been str...

In the previous series, Takako Mamiya was an elite lawyer who handled public relations cases. She quit her job at a prestigious law firm to establish her own office. She confidently walked into her new office only to find that her former firm had interfered and taken all her lawyers and staff. They...

Animal Trail, a natural path made by traffic of wild animals, can sometimes be helpful for people who are totally lost in the wilderness. One day, a woman who is exhausted with her hopeless life unexpectedly meets a gentleman by chance. Out of genuine hope to escape from her misery, she allows her d...

When Hikari Morimura was 11, she dreamed of becoming a musical actress. She was close to a musical actress, but the actress was murdered. His older brother Kunihiko was dating the actress and he was arrested for his murder. Hikari Morimura left her hometown and changed her family name from Morimura...

At the Metropolitan Police Department First Investigation Scientific Criminal Unit lead investigator Satoshi Itomura leaves no stones unturned at crime scenes to apprehend the perpetrators. Rookie investigator Miyuki Oda doesn't seem cut out to be a detective, but possesses a keen sense to gather in...

Yuka plays a wedding planner named Takako who has to deal with five weddings at the same venue on a lucky day, but on that morning, a threatening letter arrives demanding that all the ceremonies be canceled. She frantically tries to find the culprit while working to keep the wedding schedule without...

Under the rule of Shogun Ienari, the samurais and the townspeople are all discontented and grumbling about their lot in life. Amidst all these, there lives a man by the name of Jirokichi, popularly known as Nezumi Kozo. Jirokichi runs a bar with the help of his sister, Kosode. Unbeknownst to everyon...

It is about Sumire, a girl born in the uptown of Kobe in the early Showa period. In the wake of wartime devastation, she works hard toward making children's clothes for a living, and later establishes a first-ever children's goods store in Japan.

Aoi is a moe-type maid working on a wealthy Osaka estate. In reality, though, she is an undercover detective sent by the police on a special mission to investigate a suspect. (Source: Tokyograph)

The fourth session in the Ooku series revolves around the era of the 3rd Shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, and the birth of the Ooku. Iemitsu was brought up by his nanny, O-fuku, while his younger brother Tadanaga was brought up by their birth mother, who's the Shogun's wife. From when he was a young boy, h...

Morita Sakura is a peculiar "freeter" (freelance part-timer) who dreams of becoming a mystery novel writer. While switching between various jobs throughout the series, she also becomes an assistant to Officer Udagawa, a detective who discovers her excellent memory and reasoning skills. On the other...

Matoba Ryosuke is an ex-gangster who enters the host world and history describes his journey to become the club's number one. Source: http://wiki.d-addicts.com

Tachibana Noboru, a 20-year-old aspiring doctor, lives for tomorrow. Leaving Dewa Province (present day Akita), he turns to an uncle Komaki Genan, who is a town doctor in Edo and gets a job as a doctor of Kodenmacho Prison at Genan’s recommendation. The impressionable Noboru sees the suffering of pe...

The drama depicts Oizumi as the manager of an unopened restaurant in Chigasaki, Kanagawa. Each episode depicts various people visiting the restaurant. This NTV drama is a special collaboration project with Japanese rock band, Southern All Stars and management agency, Amuse in celebration of Souther...

Shirakawa is a surgeon. His 21-year-old patient Shotaro has terminal cancer. Shirakawa tries everything he can, but it doesn't help Shotaro. His patient is in extreme pain. Shotaro's aunt asks Shirakawa to euthanize her nephew. Shirakawa carries out her wishes, but Shotaro's mother Yasuya, who did n...

Yamaguchi Chikako (30) is a woman who's longing for love and marriage. Because of her 30 years of age, she's finding it more difficult to find a man who will marry her. Her brother Taku (22), who's still attending law school, hangs out with his best friend Kengo (22) and his girlfriend Asami (19). K...

The story of Yuko, an elementary school student who, together with her family and friends, solves a small crime cases in the area. (Source: MyDramaList)

This is a story about 3 men that live together : Zen, Taro and Ken. One morning they wake up to find out that they are now fathers; which helps them to grow right beneath their own eyes. Although different ages, all three were known as the toughest cats in Harajuku Middle School. Now the 3 of them l...

The story is about a 17-year-old girl, Tenka, who was born and raised in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture. Her family moves to Tokyo when her father changes his job. Tenka stays for a short period of time with her grandfather, who is an eager rice farmer, living at Igune, forest in the middle of vast rice...

This is like a Tales of the Crypt or X-Files like drama. Which starred the popular young actors/actresses during the 1990's.This series features the girls: Hirosue Ryoko, Suzuki Ran Ran, Tomosaka Rie and more.

Hanazawa Taro is now a detective of a special unit of Kyoto Prefectural Police’s First Investigative Division. Unconcerned about being a novice in investigations, he uses his physique and smile to get close to people and search the inner recesses of their hearts. He quickly identifies discrepancies...

One year after the end of Season 1, Kiyo, Shige and Nori are still doing night patrols, keeping the town safe from bag-snatchers, molesters and…a ghost? Meanwhile, Yūki and Sanae are starting university and still trying to get time together away from Nori.

"This is a comedic love story revolving around three young work, and love, oriented women in their 20s. The central character, Hara Ayaka, is turned on to her gay male friend and fails to notice that her roommate Natsuki is being hotly pursued by her boss, Yamada." (Wiki) Please note this does cont...

On the outside he's a cool and handsome big star, the #1 man whom women in Japan would love to be held by. Actually, however, he's a real geek, a guy who is sentimental and warm-hearted. Announcing the return of Yuichiro Sakuraba! That major star Yuichiro Sakuraba is actually a geek who breaks down...

Set in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Five siblings, including eldest daughter Asa, all have their own problems. Then, their 60-year-old mother Fuko returns to Japan from Italy. Fuko is bright and grandiose in her ways. The mother has arguments with Fuko, but leads her five children to new li...

Abe Riji is a repeat offender of driving under the influence and his license has been suspended. Forced to go to driving school, Reiji chooses the quickest, least expensive, and easiest driving school he can find. Unfortunately for Reiji, the nation's strictest instructor, Takanashi Miyuki, is asked...

The 46th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Kimi no Na wa. A popular radio drama in 1952 made into a TV drama. A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945.

Naoko finds her life at cross-roads, as her career unravels after an unsuccessful project results in her demotion from marketing to data management, and her lover-cum-boss, Yanagiba Toshiro has left her to move to New York. When her life feels like it is at its lowest point, she meets Uchimura, a bu...

Set in an unusual restaurant named "L' Eterenite", lovers who have been separated by fate are allowed to meet just once. The lovers face each other and talk about their memories. Parents and children who died by an unforeseen accident face each other and talk about their memories. Each of the 8 epis...

Drama focuses on a pregnancy, prenatal care, and gynecological clinic, that tries to help its patients. In the episodes, divided into 8 separate stories, we learn not only about the dilemmas of future mothers and their families, but also the facility itself. ~Adapted from novel "Tenshi no Dairinin...

Kihara Jiro is a divorced employee who works at a food chain company in Tokyo's suburbs. On day, the company is sold to a foreign investment funder, and it was decided that there will be a large-scale restructuring plan. However, it turns out that the new boss at work, is none other than his ex-wife...

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