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Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese singer and actress who starred in numerous movies and drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 in Japan and released two solo albums and solo singles in the 1990s, after being part of the Japanese band "Modern Choki Chokies

Modern Choki Chokies

"Modern Choki Chokies" was a Japanese pop band from the early 90's, with many members, and many musical influences. The main singer was future soloist and actress Mari Hamada , not to be confused with homonym singer Mari Hamada ....

". She was also part of the Japanese "unit" (temporary band) "Unknown Soup & Spice

Unknown Soup & Spice

Unknown Soup & Spice was a temporary Japanese musical band created in 2003 to release only one album, with singer and actress Mari Hamada , and Taro Iwashiro....

" in 2003. She is the namesake of another Japanese singer, Mari Hamada

Mari Hamada

is a Japanese female rock singer, songwriter and producer.- Biography :Mari Hamada started her professional singing career in 1983 as a heavy metal idol, produced by the late Munetaka Higuchi . Her records were successful in the Japanese rock market...

 (浜田麻里), who is more famous abroad.

Solo albums

• Futsu no hito (フツーの人) (1995)
• Amu Onna (編む女) (1997) which includes a title with Autechre
  Autechre
  Autechre are an English electronic music duo consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both natives of Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1987, they are one of the most prominent acts signed to Warp Records, a label known for its pioneering electronic music and through which all Autechre albums...
  
  

Band albums

With "Modern Choki Chokies

Modern Choki Chokies

"Modern Choki Chokies" was a Japanese pop band from the early 90's, with many members, and many musical influences. The main singer was future soloist and actress Mari Hamada , not to be confused with homonym singer Mari Hamada ....

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• Rolling dodoitsu (ローリング・ドドイツ) (1992)
• Bongengan Bangara Bingen no Densetsu (ボンゲンガンバンガラビンゲンの伝説 (1993)
• Moda-Choki (別冊モダチョキ臨時増刊号) (1994)
• Kumachan (くまちゃん) (1994)
• Readymade no Modern Choki Chokies (レディメイドのモダンチョキチョキズ) (1997)

With "Unknown Soup & Spice

Unknown Soup & Spice

Unknown Soup & Spice was a temporary Japanese musical band created in 2003 to release only one album, with singer and actress Mari Hamada , and Taro Iwashiro....

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• Chant (2003)

Movies

• Cafe Isobe
  Cafe Isobe
  is a 2008 Japanese film directed by Keisuke Yoshida. It was in the Narrative Feature Competition at the 2008 Hawaii International Film Festival....
  
  (2008)
• Unfair: The Movie
  Unfair: The Movie
  Unfair: The Movie is a Japanese action movie released on March 17, 2007, directed by Yoshinori Kobayashi, follow up to the drama Unfair, and still starring Ryoko Shinohara in the main role...
  
  (2007)
• Battery (2007)
• Sakai-ke no Shiawase (2006)
• Hanada Shonen-shi (2006)
• Kiraware Matsuko no Issho (2006)
• Chi to Hone (Blood and Bones
  Blood and Bones
  Blood and Bones is a Japanese film, directed by Yoichi Sai and starring Takeshi Kitano. It is based on the semi-autobiographical novel Chi to hone by Zainichi Korean author Yan Sogiru ....
  
  ) (2004)
• The Cat Returns
  The Cat Returns
  is a Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Hiroyuki Morita, produced by Studio Ghibli and theatrically released in Japan in 2002 and in 2003 in the United States through Walt Disney Pictures....
  
  (2002)

Dramas & TV-movies

• Camouflage Chapter 4: Tomin Suzuko (WOWOW, 2008)
• SAITOU san (NTV, 2008)
• Kikujiro to Saki 3 (TV Asahi, 2007)
• Ushi ni Negai wo: Love & Farm (Fuji TV, 2007)
• Kodoku no Kake (TBS, 2007)
• Erai Tokoro ni Totsuide Shimatta! (TV Asahi, 2007)
• Kirakira Kenshui (TBS, 2007)
• Yakusha Damashii (Fuji TV, 2006)
• Unfair SP (Fuji TV, 2006)
• Dance Drill (Fuji TV, 2006)
• Unfair
  Unfair (drama)
  Unfair is an action Japanese television drama with 11 episodes and one TV special, aired in Japan in 2006 on Fuji-TV, and followed by a movie Unfair: The Movie in 2007 with the same cast.-Synopsis:...
  
   (Fuji TV, 2006)
• Tsubasa No Oreta Tenshitachi (Fuji TV, 2005, ep4)
• Kiken na Aneki (Fuji TV, 2005)
• Kikujiro to Saki 2 (TV Asahi, 2005)
• Shin Yonigeya Honpo (NTV, 2003, ep1)
• Wonderful Life (Fuji TV, 2004)
• Sore wa, Totsuzen, Arashi no you ni... (TBS, 2004)
• Ranpo R Kyuketsuki (NTV, 2004)
• Kikujiro to Saki (TV Asahi, 2003)
• Shin Yonigeya Honpo (NTV, 2003, ep1)
• Diamond Girl (Fuji TV, 2003)
• Yoiko no Mikata (NTV, 2003)
• Oatsui no ga Osuki? (NTV, 1998)
• Love Again (TBS, 1998)
• Koi no Bakansu (NTV, 1997)

External links

• Entry on Jdorama.com (picture and filmography in Japanese)