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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 26, 1958
Place of Birth
Toshima, Tokyo, Japan
Also Known As
- 原田 美枝子
- میکو هارادا
Mieko Harada
2.1 Popularity
Biography
Mieko Harada (原田 美枝子, Harada Mieko, born on December 26, 1958) is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. She has played various roles in many motion pictures, television shows and television dramas since her debut in 1974. She most notably portrayed Lady Kaede in Akira Kurosawa's 1985 film Ran, and further collaborated with him in his 1990 film Dreams. Harada also most notably provided the voice for Kaguya in the 2002 anime film InuYasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass. She is currently working on television dramas as of 2007. She won the award for best actress at the 21st Hochi Film Award for Village of Dreams and at the 23rd Hochi Film Award for Begging for Love. Harada is married to Ryo Ishibashi since 1987 and has three children.
Known For
8.5
Romantics Anonymous
2025
0.0
Mako
Hidden Sun
2025
7.5
My Story Is Long : 2025 Spring
2025
6.3
Shiori Watanabe
House of the Owl
2024
7.2
And so I'm at a Loss
2023
7.0
Yuriko
A Hundred Flowers
2022
0.0
CLUB DEJA-VU ONE NIGHT SHOW 松田優作・メモリアル・ライブ
2022
7.0
Ume Tsuda (late years)
Tsuda Umeko: Osatsu ni Natta Ryugakusei
2022
0.0
Narrator (voice)
Ashita o he guru
2021
0.0
Mieko Harada
Hoshi to Lemon no Heya
2021
Credits
Romantics Anonymous
2025
8.5
Hidden Sun
as Mako
2025
0.0
My Story Is Long : 2025 Spring
2025
7.5
House of the Owl
as Shiori Watanabe
2024
6.3
And so I'm at a Loss
2023
7.2
A Hundred Flowers
as Yuriko
2022
7.0
CLUB DEJA-VU ONE NIGHT SHOW 松田優作・メモリアル・ライブ
2022
0.0
Tsuda Umeko: Osatsu ni Natta Ryugakusei
as Ume Tsuda (late years)
2022
7.0
Ashita o he guru
as Narrator (voice)
2021
0.0
Hoshi to Lemon no Heya
as Mieko Harada
2021
0.0
My Story Is Long
as 岸边房枝
2019
8.6
Junichi
as Ayuko
2019
7.3
A Banana? At This Time of Night?
as Hiroko Nohara
2018
7.5
Maki
as Mika
2018
5.0
Kohaku no yume
2018
0.0
An Invisible Cradle
as Mie Sakaki
2018
7.0
68-Year-Old New Employee
as Fumiko Niimoto
2018
2.0
娘の結婚
2018
0.0
Lear on the Shore
as Yukiko
2017
6.2
Atypical Crime Investigator, Hinako Todo
as Taeko Ishigami
2016
7.0
If Cats Disappeared from the World
as Postman's Mother
2016
6.8
A Duel Tale
2015
8.0
Kekkonshiki no Zenjitsu ni
2015
7.5
🎬
三面記事の女たち-愛の巣-
2015
0.0
🎬
The Women on Page 3: The Nest of Love
as 梨山里衣子
2015
5.0
A Samurai Chronicle
2014
7.4
A Samurai Chronicle
as Orie
2014
7.4
Hello life from 55
2014
8.0
Devoted Cookbook
2014
7.5
Our Family
as Reiko Wakana
2014
7.1
Mozart in the Jungle
as Sadako
2014
7.5
The Hours of My Life
as Sawako Sawada
2014
7.8
Koi
as Fumiko Yano (2013)
2013
7.5
Kaiki Daisakusen: Mystery File
as Chikage Matoya
2013
6.0
Trespassing Bergman
as Self
2013
6.6
Miracle Apples
as Mikami
2013
7.6
Kumokiri Nizaemon
2013
9.0
Ka'en Kita no Eiyū Aterui Den
2013
0.0
Devoted Cookbook
2012
8.0
The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky
as Midwife
2012
6.6
Dearest
as Kumiko Tsukamoto
2012
6.8
Helter Skelter
as Wachi Hisako
2012
6.7
高橋留美子劇場
as 요시모토 타마요
2012
0.0
Innocent
2012
0.0
Majutsu wa Sasayaku
2011
7.0
Rock: Wanko no Shima
2011
7.0
The Marriage Counselor
as Mitsue Takakura
2011
8.5
Milocrorze: A Love Story
as Oryuu
2011
6.4
Leonie
as Umeko Tsuda
2010
5.6
Shooting Star
as Kazuko Okada
2010
10.0
Sunshine Ahead
as Hanae Kinjo
2010
0.0
Shinzanmono
as Mineko Mitsui
2010
7.2
Clouds Over the Hill
as 正岡八重
2009
8.2
Dear My Love
as Chihiro Tachibana
2009
0.0
School Days with a Pig
as Principal Takahara
2008
7.3
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追跡～失踪人捜査官・石森新次郎
2008
0.0
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
as Oichi
2007
8.5
Dororo
as Yuri
2007
7.0
Suite Dreams
as Yumi Hotta
2006
6.1
Asuka e, Soshite Mada Minu Ko e
2005
0.0
The Samurai I Loved
as Tose
2005
7.3
Aegis
as Yoshie Miyazu
2005
4.2
Hinokio: Inter Galactic Love
as Sayuri Iwamoto
2005
6.5
Aikurushii
as Yumi Mashiba
2005
0.0
🎬
Hachiro
as Shina
2005
0.0
Toubousha
2004
8.0
Half a Confession
as Keiko Kaji
2004
8.0
北の国から 記憶 前編
2003
0.0
Inuyasha the Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass
as Kaguya (voice)
2002
7.7
Out
as Masako Katori
2002
5.3
Mokuyo Kumikyoku
2002
0.0
北の国から記憶
2002
0.0
🎬
Oriume
2002
8.5
🎬
影の車(2001年版)
2001
0.0
First Love
as Shizue Aida
2000
6.9
After the Rain
as Okin
2000
7.3
Off-Balance
as Chiaki's Mother
2000
0.0
Haunted School 4
1999
5.7
Female Detective Riko: Goddess Eternity
1998
0.0
A Sleeping Forest
1998
7.0
Begging for Love
as Terue Yamaoka
1998
6.3
Female Detective Riko: The Virgin's Deep Abyss
1998
0.0
Village of Dreams
as Mizue Tashima
1996
5.9
SMAP×SMAP
as Bistro Guest
1996
8.5
🎬
Kimi o Omouyori Kimi ni Aitai
1995
0.0
Psychic: Traveler to the Unknown
1994
0.0
Uneasy Encounters
1994
0.0
🎬
Namiki-ie no Hitobito
1993
0.0
My Sons
as Reiko
1991
7.7
Strawberry Road
1991
10.0
Making of 'Dreams'
as Self
1990
8.0
Shikibu monogatari
as Terue Otomo
1990
1.0
Dreams
as The Snow Fairy
1990
7.7
Free and Easy 2
1989
8.0
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
as Keiko Tatsumiya
1988
6.1
Manatsu Girl
1987
0.0
The Greatest Man in the World
as Yae
1986
0.0
Portrait in Prussian Blue
1986
0.0
House on Fire
as Keiko Yajima
1986
4.1
Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma
as Otaki
1986
0.0
Ran
as Lady Kaede
1985
8.0
Lone Wolf and Cub
as Osen
1984
0.0
🎬
子連れ狼
1984
0.0
The Fugitive Samurai
1984
0.0
Modori River
1983
4.0
Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
1982
0.0
Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage
1981
0.0
Somehow, Crystal
as Makiko
1981
0.0
The Dump Truck Rascal
as Yoriko Ozaki
1981
5.0
Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely
as Mie Shimazaki
1980
6.0
Dreamy Fifteen
as Shizu
1980
5.8
Wings of Icarus' Flight
1980
0.0
Nomugi Pass
1979
6.3
The Inferno
as Aki Mizunuma / Miho Ikegata
1979
6.6
Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Akiko Negishi
1979
7.0
The Fall of Ako Castle
as Hatsu Hashimoto
1978
6.6
Truck Rascals: Another Odyssey of Momojiro
1978
0.0
Lover's Cape
1977
0.0
Flickering Flames
1977
10.0
Love in the North
1976
7.0
The Youth Killer
as Keiko Tsuneyota
1976
6.3
Permanent Blue
1976
0.0
Lullaby of the Earth
as Rin
1976
6.1
Frozen River
1976
3.0
Minato no Yoko Yokohama Yokosuka
1975
0.0
Mizuiro no toki
as 今泉恭子（晋松の娘）
1975
0.0
Love Is in the Green Wind
as Yukiko Matsushima
1974
6.9
Tomodachi
1974
0.0