Aki Maeda
Aki Maeda is a Japanese actress and singer. She has an older sister named Ai Maeda.
She is perhaps best known in the west for her role as Noriko Nakagawa in the controversial 2000 film Battle Royale, which she reprised for its sequel Battle Royale II: Requiem. She graduated from Hosei University in 2008.
Filmography
Films
- Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
- School Ghost Stories 2, Nanako Imai
- School Ghost [Stories 3], Mayuko Fujii
- Pride, Kimie Tōjō
- Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris, young Ayana Hirasaka
- Battle Royale
- High School Girl's Friend
- Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: [Giant Monsters All-Out Attack]
- Genji: A Thousand-Year Love
- Battle Royale II: Requiem
- Out of This World
- Linda Linda Linda, Kyoko
- Harami
- Saikano
- Romance of Darkness
- Aokigahara
- I Never Shot Anyone
- A Madder Red,
- Kawa no Nagare ni
- Frontline: Yokohama Bay
- Our Journey for 50 Years, Mari
Television
- Aoi Tokugawa Sandai, Sadako
- Fūrin Kazan, Ritsu
- Gochisōsan, Sakurako Muroi
- Shinya Shokudō, Sachiko's Sister
- Kuroshoin no Rokubei, Tenshō-in Atsuhime
- ''The Return''
Anime
- Cosmic [Baton Girl Comet-san], Comet
- The Cat Returns, Yuki
Discography
Studio albums
- * 1999: Winter Tales
- * 2000: Boys be... original soundtrack
- * 2005: we are PARAN MAUM -- Paran Maum
- * 2005: Linda Linda Linda original soundtrack ''''
Singles
- * 1999: Gomen Ne
- * 2000: Daijōbu
- * 2000: Genki no SHOWER
Awards
- * 2001: Newcomer of the Year, Awards of the Japanese Academy: Battle Royale