Mieko Harada
Acting
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.
Born: December 26, 1958 · Toshima, Tokyo, Japan
Filmography (46)
Romantics Anonymous
2025
House of the Owl
2024
A Hundred Flowers
2022
My Story Is Long
2019
Lear on the Shore
2017
If Cats Disappeared from the World
2016
Kekkonshiki no Zenjitsu ni
2015
A Samurai Chronicle
2014
Our Family
2014
Mozart in the Jungle
2014
The Hours of My Life
2014
Trespassing Bergman
2013
Kumokiri Nizaemon
2013
The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky
2012
Dearest
2012
Helter Skelter
2012
Leonie
2010
Shinzanmono
2010
Clouds Over the Hill
2009
School Days with a Pig
2008
The Eleventh Hour
2008
Dororo
2007
Suite Dreams
2006
The Samurai I Loved
2005
Hinokio: Inter Galactic Love
2005
Otakus in Love
2004
Half a Confession
2004
Inuyasha the Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass
2002
Out
2002
After the Rain
2000
Haunted School 4
1999
A Sleeping Forest
1998
Village of Dreams
1996
SMAP×SMAP
1996
My Sons
1991
Dreams
1990
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1988
House on Fire
1986
Ran
1985
Dreamy Fifteen
1980
The Inferno
1979
The Fall of Ako Castle
1978
The Youth Killer
1976
Lullaby of the Earth
1976
Mizuiro no toki
1975
Love Is in the Green Wind
1974