is a Japanese

Japanese people

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 actress from Kakogawa

Kakogawa, Hyogo

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 in Hyōgo Prefecture

Hyogo Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region on Honshū island. The capital is Kobe.The prefecture's name was previously alternately spelled as Hiogo.- History :...

. She is a graduate of Asia University

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.

Megumi entered acting in 1989. She made her debut the following year in a commercial for Seibu Department Stores

Seibu Department Stores

is a Japanese department store. The first store to trade under the name opened its doors in 1949. Seibu is typical of Japanese department stores with a wide variety of stores doing business on several floors. The company is now a subsidiary of Seven & I Holdings Co., Ltd..-Japan:The Seibu...

. In 1991, JVC

JVC

, usually referred to as JVC, is a Japanese international consumer and professional electronics corporation based in Yokohama, Japan which was founded in 1927...

 selected her for their annual National High School Baseball Championship

National High School Baseball Championship

The National High School Baseball Championship of Japan, commonly known as "Summer Kōshien" , is an annual nationwide high school baseball tournament...

 poster campaign, following Noriko Sakai

Noriko Sakai

is a Japanese pop singer and actress. She was born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. She married in 1998, and divorced on July 31, 2010. She and Yūichi have one son, born in 1999. She is particularly popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan...

, Saki Takaoka

Saki Takaoka

is a Japanese actress. Yōsuke Yamashita, a jazz pianist is her uncle. She won the award for best actress at the 19th Hochi Film Award for Crest of Betrayal.- Filmography :* cf girl * Swimming Upstream...

, and Yumiko Takahashi (Miho Kanno

Miho Kanno

is a Japanese actress and J-Pop singer. Her nickname is Kanchan . She was born in Sakado, Saitama, Japan.- Biography :In 1992, Kanno made her debut as a member of a group called Sakurakko Kurabu Sakura Gumi after passing the orientation for the TV variety show Sakurakko Kurabu...

, Kazumi Murata

Kazumi Murata

is a model and actress whose most memorable performance is Sakurako Sawatari in Kamen Rider Kuuga.-External links:* http://www.big-apple21.jp/talent/entertainers/murata_kazumi.htm...

, Aya Ueto

Aya Ueto

is a Japanese actress, singer, model, tarento, and occasional radio personality. Born in Nerima, Tokyo, Ueto was discovered when she participated in the 7th Japan Bishōjo Contest, where she won the special jury prize...

, Anne Watanabe

Anne Watanabe

is a Japanese fashion model, actress and singer. She is the daughter of film actor Ken Watanabe. In her modeling work, she is known by the mononym Anne....

, Anne Suzuki

Anne Suzuki

is a Japanese actress.A model since the age of three, she got an early break in her acting career at 12 when she starred in the Hollywood film Snow Falling on Cedars with Ethan Hawke. She was next featured in the action movie Returner opposite Takeshi Kaneshiro, and won the Best New Actor at the...

, Erika Toda

Erika Toda

, is a Japanese actress from Kobe. She originally debuted as a gravure model at age 13.She starred in many dramas like Liar Game, Code Blue, Ryusei no Kizuna and Keizoku 2: SPEC. She has had supporting roles in many popular Japanese TV dramas such as BOSS, Nobuta wo Produce, Engine and Gal Circle...

 and others have also appeared on these posters).

Her first dramatic role was in the 1991 TBS

Tokyo Broadcasting System

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 series Sensei no Okiniiri. She also appeared in Night Head Genesis (Fuji Television

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, 1992) and the 1993 series Under One Roof.

Megumi appeared as Otsuya in Fuji's 1996 Chūshingura

Chushingura

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. This presaged her roles in jidaigeki

Jidaigeki

is a genre of film, television, and theatre in Japan. The name means "period drama" and is usually the Edo period of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier—Portrait of Hell, for example, is set during the late Heian period—and the early Meiji era is also a popular...

. NHK

NHK

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 tapped her for the asadora drama Aguri (1997), and also in that year she reprised her role in Under One Roof. Returning to period dramas, she portrayed Sasaki Mifuyu, the female lead, for three years in Fuji's prime-time Kenkaku Shōbai opposite Makoto Fujita

Makoto Fujita

, born Makoto Harada , was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, the son of silent-film actor Rintarō Fujima, and started his career as a comedian in 1952.-Acting Roles:...

. She also played a newspaper reporter for four years in TV Asahi

TV Asahi

, also known as EX and , is a Japanese television network headquartered in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The company writes its name in lower-case letters, tv asahi, in its logo and public-image materials. The company also owns All-Nippon News Network....

's Kyoto Meikyū Annai. Also on the Asahi network, she played the more mature role of Oshin, the lover of Shimizu Ichigaku, in the 2004 Chūshingura following another Chūshingura on TV Tokyo

TV Tokyo

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 in 2003. She also appeared in numerous guest roles and in specials such as Onihei Hankachō

Onihei Hankacho

is a popular series of stories and television jidaigeki in Japan. A story by Shōtarō Ikenami in the December 1967 issue of the magazine "All Yomimono" developed into a series, which Bungei Shunju published the following year. In all, 135 stories were published....

. Megumi has made the rounds of the prime-time two-hour mystery shows on various networks.

Other activities include radio dramas, television commercials, and stage performances. In addition, she portrayed one of the Himeyuri Students

Himeyuri Students

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 in the 1995 version of the film Himeyuri no Tō. She has published a book of essays and appeared in magazine gravure features.

External links

• Megumi Ohji at IMDB
• 剣客商売 at Fuji Television
• 大路恵美 at Oricon
• Oji Megumi at JDorama