Mieko Harada

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: Acting

Born: Toshima, Tokyo, Japan, 1958-12-26

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1974	Tomodachi		0
2	1974	Love Is in the Green Wind	Yukiko Matsushima	100
3	1976	Frozen River		0
4	1976	Lullaby of the Earth	Rin	65
5	1976	Permanent Blue		0
6	1976	The Youth Killer	Keiko Tsuneyota	66
7	1976	Love in the North		70
8	1977	Flickering Flames		100
9	1978	Truck Rascals: Another Odyssey of Momojiro		0
10	1978	The Fall of Ako Castle	Hatsu Hashimoto	66
11	1979	Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity	Akiko Negishi	70
12	1979	The Inferno	Aki Mizunuma / Miho Ikegata	72
13	1979	Nomugi Pass		63
14	1980	Wings of Icarus' Flight		0
15	1980	Dreamy Fifteen	Shizu	63
16	1980	Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely	Mie Shimazaki	60
17	1981	The Dump Truck Rascal	Yoriko Ozaki	50
18	1981	Somehow, Crystal	Makiko	0
19	1981	Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage		0
20	1982	Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword		0
21	1983	Modori River		40
22	1984	The Fugitive Samurai		0
23	1985	Ran	Lady Kaede	81
24	1986	Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma	Otaki	0
25	1986	House on Fire	Keiko Yajima	46
26	1986	Portrait in Prussian Blue		0
27	1986	The Greatest Man in the World	Yae	0
28	1987	Manatsu Girl		0
29	1988	Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis	Keiko Tatsumiya	62
30	1989	Free and Easy 2		80
31	1990	Dreams	The Snow Fairy	77
32	1990	Shikibu monogatari	Terue Otomo	10
33	1990	Making of 'Dreams'	Self	80
34	1991	My Sons	Reiko	77
35	1994	Uneasy Encounters		0
36	1994	Psychic: Traveler to the Unknown		0
37	1996	Village of Dreams	Mizue Tashima	63
38	1998	Female Detective Riko: The Virgin's Deep Abyss		0
39	1998	Begging for Love	Terue Yamaoka	63
40	1998	Female Detective Riko: Goddess Eternity		0
41	1999	Haunted School 4		66
42	2000	Off-Balance	Chiaki's Mother	0
43	2000	After the Rain	Okin	72
44	2000	First Love	Shizue Aida	69
45	2002	Oriume		85
46	2002	Mokuyo Kumikyoku		0
47	2002	Out	Masako Katori	53
48	2002	Inuyasha the Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass	Kaguya (voice)	77
49	2003	北の国から記憶前編		0
50	2004	Half a Confession	Keiko Kaji	80
51	2005	Hinokio: Inter Galactic Love	Sayuri Iwamoto	68
52	2005	Aegis	Yoshie Miyazu	42
53	2005	The Samurai I Loved	Tose	71
54	2005	Asuka e, Soshite Mada Minu Ko e		0
55	2006	Suite Dreams	Yumi Hotta	64
56	2007	Dororo	Yuri	70
57	2007	Chacha: The Princess of Heaven	Oichi	0
58	2008	School Days with a Pig	Principal Takahara	73
59	2009	Dear My Love	Chihiro Tachibana	0
60	2010	Sunshine Ahead	Hanae Kinjo	0
61	2010	Leonie	Umeko Tsuda	59
62	2011	Milocrorze: A Love Story	Oryuu	63
63	2011	Rock: Wanko no Shima		70
64	2011	Majutsu wa Sasayaku		70
65	2012	Helter Skelter	Wachi Hisako	66
66	2012	Dearest	Kumiko Tsukamoto	68
67	2012	The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky	Midwife / Takumi's mother	65
68	2012	Devoted Cookbook		0
69	2013	Miracle Apples	Mikami	76
70	2013	Trespassing Bergman	Self	66
71	2013	Koi	Fumiko Yano (2013)	75
72	2014	Our Family	Reiko Wakana	71
73	2014	Devoted Cookbook		70
74	2014	A Samurai Chronicle		74
75	2014	A Samurai Chronicle	Orie	74
76	2015	The Women on Page 3: The Nest of Love	梨山里衣子	50
77	2015	A Duel Tale		80
78	2016	If Cats Disappeared from the World	Postman's Mother	68
79	2017	Lear on the Shore	Yukiko	60
80	2018	68-Year-Old New Employee	Fumiko Niimoto	20
81	2018	Kohaku no yume		0
82	2018	Maki	Mika	50
83	2018	A Banana? At This Time of Night?	Hiroko Nohara	75
84	2019	Junichi	Ayuko	0
85	2021	Hoshi to Lemon no Heya	Mieko Harada	0
86	2021	Ashita o he guru	Narrator (voice)	0
87	2022	Tsuda Umeko: Osatsu ni Natta Ryugakusei	Ume Tsuda (late years)	70
88	2022	CLUB DEJA-VU ONE NIGHT SHOW 松田優作・メモリアル・ライブ		0
89	2022	A Hundred Flowers	Yuriko	70
90	2023	And so I'm at a Loss		65

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1975	Mizuiro no toki	今泉恭子（晋松の娘）	0
2	1984	子連れ狼		0
3	1993	Namiki-ie no Hitobito		0
4	1995	Kimi o Omouyori Kimi ni Aitai		0
5	1996	SMAP×SMAP	Bistro Guest	85
6	1998	A Sleeping Forest		67
7	2001	影の車(2001年版)		0
8	2004	Toubousha		80
9	2005	Hachiro	Shina	0
10	2005	Aikurushii	Yumi Mashiba	0
11	2008	追跡～失踪人捜査官・石森新次郎		0
12	2010	Shinzanmono	Mineko Mitsui	70
13	2010	Shooting Star	Kazuko Okada	100
14	2011	The Marriage Counselor	Mitsue Takakura	85
15	2012	Innocent		0
16	2012	高橋留美子劇場	요시모토 타마요	0
17	2013	Ka'en Kita no Eiyū Aterui Den		0
18	2013	Kumokiri Nizaemon		76
19	2013	Kaiki Daisakusen: Mystery File	Chikage Matoya	60
20	2014	The Hours of My Life	Sawako Sawada	78
21	2014	Mozart in the Jungle	Sadako	75
22	2014	Hello life from 55		80
23	2015	三面記事の女たち-愛の巣-		0
24	2015	Kekkonshiki no Zenjitsu ni		75
25	2016	Atypical Crime Investigator, Hinako Todo	Taeko Ishigami	70
26	2018	娘の結婚		0
27	2018	An Invisible Cradle	Mie Sakaki	70
28	2019	Junichi	Ayuko	73
29	2019	My Story Is Long	岸边房枝	85
30	2024	House of the Owl	Shiori Watanabe	68