Mako Ishino


Mako Ishino, is a Japanese singer and actress. After being discovered by the talent-search show Star Tanjō!, she received a newcomer award at the 20th Japan Record Awards. She has been selected to compete twice on the NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen.
Born in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, she is the elder sister of actresses Yōko Ishino and.
Ishino is affiliated with From First Production Co., Ltd.
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Curriculum vitae

Childhood to 1977 debut

Born to a family of five, two younger sisters. Her parents ran a company that manufactured handbags made with beads. She enrolled at the Catholic school in April 1973, situated in Amagasaki, Hyōgo. After school she helped out with the home business. When she was 3rd year in junior high, she started taking lessons once a week at 's music school.
She moved on to Yuri Gakuin High School in April 1976. The father set a strict 4:30 pm curfew and needed to phone if running late due to extracurricular club activities. After being recruited to become singer, she transferred to Horikoshi High School starting from the 3rd trimester of the 3rd year of high school.
She submitted her application to try out on the Star Tanjō! show in the 1st year of High School at the recommendation of a music school teacher, with the permission from the father who was certain she would not qualify anyway. Ishino made her TV appearance in Star Tanjō! in February 1977, singing Danièle Vidal's Tenshi no rakugaki, and becoming Osaka regional champion, with an overwhelming score of 530 points. Then in the national grand tournament that aired in April 1977, she became grand champion, which was followed by various agencies' offers to sign her. She decided to join Burning Production, which had already offered to sign her even she didn't become national champion.

As idol: 1978-1981

Ishino debuted with the song were both choreographed by
Her signature facial feature since debut was notably her yaeba and tare-me, and her double-teeth image endured on, even though she had corrective dental surgery to align her teeth by 1985.
On August 27, she held a concert at Seibuen, Shukdai nanka kowaku nai/1-man nin daishūkai.
Her Shitsuren kinenbi her third single, which won her the newcomer award at the year's-end 20th Japan Record Awards .。
Other accolades leading up to this are the newcomer award at the Japan Music Awards in November, gold medal at the Shinjuku Music Festival on October 12, and the newcomer award at the on October 25.
She also received her first film role in the film adaptation of the Akutagawa Prize-winning 's novel . Playing opposite, she performed a kissing scene; but as she was not familiar with men and never kissed before, it was quite trying, and though the scene was ok'd at the first cut, she was welling with tears afterwards.
She was cast in the TV series .
Her subsequent discography includes,,, .
She won "Golden Dove" for best second year achievement at the 5th Annual Nippon Television Music Festival in August 1979, having co-won the rookie award the previous year.
She appeared in the Kōhaku Uta Gassen tournament on New Year's Eve, 1979, singing "Jurī is the rival" as the first contestant.
Her, with 160,000 in sales was her all-time best hit, followed by, which achieved her highest Oricon chart ranking at 15th place.
In March she graduated from Horikoshi High School, having been held back 1 year. She was cast in the TV series where 3 generations of proprietresses were portrayed by Isuzu Yamada, Etsuko Ichihara and Ishino.
Ishino replaced female host Ikue Sakakibara opposite Yosuke Tagawa for the NHK music show in April 1980, staying on til March 1981.
She was cast in the slot for Oyomechan, co-starring So Yamamura,, script by Nobuhiro Orito, directed by, and legendary as producer.
Her appeared.
She was again recipient at the 6th Annual Nippon Television Music Festival in August 1980, this time garnering the Top Idol prize.
She released followed by .
She was selected for the Kōhaku Uta Gassen for the second year in a row, singing Hāto de shōbu.
She released, followed by,
Mid March 1981, Ishino and Kyu Sakamoto became the new emcees for the "Star Tanjō!" talent-seeking show.

Retirement as idol

In June 1981, she announced her intent to marry singer Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi and retire as singer by the end of August.
She released, followed by which will be her last as idol.
She performed her farewell tour down and across the country, starting from Kanazawa, Ishikawa on July 26, culminating in the final concert of August 30 at Shibuya Public Hall in Tokyo, which was telecast live.
Ishino married Nagabuchi in Hawaii in January 1982, but the marriage did not last. She separated in March 1983 and officially divorced in May.

Return to showbiz

Ishino returned to the entertainment business in 1983, at first mainly as an actress, appearing in Nēchan no natsu
Ishino played the middle of three sisters in the TV drama, where the eldest sister played by Asami Kobayashi was the lead role.
She released her first single after a 4-year hiatus with .
She was cast in the part of the younger sister of the lead actress in, the year-long NHK Taiga drama for that year. Ishino portrayed Sachi, who had a crippled leg from a Tokyo air raid. In later years, the rerun of Inochi became a huge hit in Cuba with an 80% rating, and Ishino became the most well-known Japanese personality in that country.
On July 21, 1987, she released, followed on October 21 by .
Her second marriage in 1990 to lasted until 1996.
Ishino was cast in the role of Swan Shiratori in the original Japanese Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger. The show was remade into the American version Power Rangers S.P.D. soon after, and back-imported into Japan, dubbed, in 2011, with Ishino as the voice of the narrator.
Ishino returned in the role of Swan in the 2024 feature film.

Discography

Albums

Smile Mako II Mako Live I Mako III Koi no Disc Jockey MAKO IV Watashi no Shiawase MAKO 5 Twenty MAKO 6 Jeans ni Hakikaete MAKO 7 BYE BYE MAKO LIVE ~ 8 tsuki no taiyō yori moete ~ Saffron Truth Memories of the Sea Mako Revival Mirai Love Merry-go-round Watashi no Shiawase
  • ''Life Is Beautiful''

Singles

  • "Ōkami nanka kowaku nai"
  • "Watashi no Don"
  • "Shitsuren kinenbi"
  • "Nichiyōbi wa Stranger"
  • "Pretty Pretty"
  • "Wonder Boogie"
  • "Julie ga Rival"
  • "Haru La! La! La!"
  • "Heart de shōbu"
  • "Memai"
  • "Kare ga hatsu koi"
  • "Foggy Rain / Koi no Happy Date"
  • "Omoikkiri Samba"
  • "Irodori no toki"
  • "Koi no Summer Dance"
  • "Burning Love"
  • "Watashi no shiawase PART II"
  • "Ashita ni nareba"
  • "Meguri ai"
  • "Glass no kanransha"
  • "Sora ni Canvas"
  • "Kira Kira ∞"
  • "Eve"
  • "Pointing at Me"
  • "My Friend ~Go on a Journey~"

Videos

Singact 2009 Pan・Dora ~Mako's Breakthrough~ Band Tour 2010 Life Is Beautiful ~First Live Tour in 29 Years~
  • ''Mako Ishino Live & Document 2009 at Shinagawa Church Gloria Chapel ~My Happy Guitar~''

Selected filmography

Television

The Kindaichi Case Files – Yumiko OnoTokusou Sentai Dekaranger – Swan Shiratori/Deka SwanBoys Over Flowers – Makino ChiekoGunshi Kanbei – Konishi "Magdalena" WakusaLost Man Found – Satoru's motherDear Radiance – Fujiwara no Mutsuko

Film

Hachiko Monogatari – Chizuko UenoTokusou Sentai Dekaranger The Movie: Full Blast Action – Swan ShiratoriTokusou Sentai Dekaranger vs. Abaranger – Swan ShiratoriMilk White Mahou Sentai Magiranger vs. Dekaranger – Swan ShiratoriTokusou Sentai Dekaranger: 10 Years After – Swan ShiratoriBittersweet Neet Neet Neet Love and the Grand Tug-of-war The Pearl Legacy – Mitsuyo ŌgameTokusou Sentai Dekaranger: 20th: Fireball Booster – Swan Shiratori
  • True Beauty: Before
  • ''True Beauty: After''

Dubbing

Power Rangers S.P.D. – Narrator