Mao Inoue (Actress)

Mao Inoue is a Japanese actress from Kanagawa Prefecture. She made her debut in 1992 as a small child and has been acting steadily on TV and in movies ever since. She graduated from Meiji University’s Department of Literature on March 26, 2009.

Native name: 井上真央 (INOUE Mao)
Occupation: Actress
Birthplace: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture
Born: January 8, 1987 (age 29)
Height: 5' 2" (158 cm)
Blood type: O
Debuted: 1992
Genres: Films, TV dramas, commercials
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Filmography as actor

Year	Movie	Role
2014	The Snow White Murder Case	Miki Shirono
2013	The Eternal Zero	Kyuzo's wife
2013	The Apology King	Noriko Kuramochi
2012	Tug of War!	Chiaki
2011	Rebirth	Erina
2011	Oba: The Last Samurai
2010	My Darling is a Foreigner	Saori
2009	I Give My First Love to You
2008	Hana Yori Dango: Final	Tsukushi Makino
2007	Kaidan
2007	Gegege no Kitaro
2006	Check It Out, Yo!

Latest news

Mao Inoue to play murder suspect in Yoshihiro Nakamura’s "The Snow White Murder Case"

Mao Inoue is set to play a woman suspected of murder in Yoshihiro Nakamura’s Shirayukihime Satsujin Jiken (English title: “The Snow White Murder Case”), the latest film adaptation of a novel by...

3 years ago
Junichi Okada to play kamikaze pilot in “Eien no Zero”, Haruma Miura and Mao Inoue co-star

Today it was revealed that Junichi Okada of the boy band V6 will be playing Zero fighter pilot Kyuzo Miyabe in a film adaptation of Naoki Hyakuta’s popular novel Eien no Zero. Takashi Yamazaki of...

4 years ago
Mao Inoue, Koki Mitani win awards in the 3rd Nippon Theater Staff Film Festival

On Sunday, the awards for the 3rd Nippon Theater Staff Film Festival were presented to the winners at a ceremony in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. The awards are voted on by cinema staff members from all over...

4 years ago
Mao Inoue and Hiromi Nagasaku to star in film adaptation of “Youkame no Semi”

23-year-old Mao Inoue (Hana Yori Dango) and former J-pop idol turned actress Hiromi Nagasaku (39) will be co-starring in a film adaptation of Mitsuyo Kakuta’s novel Youkame no Semi. The work was...

6 years ago
Review: Hana Yori Dango Final: The Movie

The second “Hana Yori Dango” series, which aired on TBS in 2007 to massive ratings, concluded with a storybook ending—leaving the oft-sabotaged lovers Tsukushi Makino (Mao Inoue) and Tsukasa...

7 years ago
Review: Check It Out, Yo!

In the current culture of foreign movie coverage, where 1-line blurbs can make or break your international sales appeal, Check It Out, Yo! is a good example of a movie that gets unfairly torpedoed by...

8 years ago
Review: KITARO

"Gegege no Kitaro” is a long-running series in Japan, appearing first in manga form and then in many different incarnations of anime at sporadic intervals since the 1960s. Usually once a decade or...

8 years ago