Best Japanese Actress Over 30

Periwinkle Feb 15, 2022
24 People Loves 10 Voters Report
  • Ayase Haruka

    1. Ayase Haruka

    Japanese
    698 points by 7 voters
    Ayase Haruka is a popular Japanese actress, model and singer. Her immediate family consists of her father, mother and one brother. As a youth, Haruka was active in sports, playing basketball in ...more
  • Horikita Maki

    2. Horikita Maki

    Japanese
    484 points by 5 voters
    Horikita Maki is a former Japanese actress. She debuted in 2003 and has starred in numerous Japanese television dramas, television and magazine advertisements, and movies. Horikita's popular roles include the introverted high ...more
  • Matsu Takako

    3. Matsu Takako

    Japanese
    393 points by 4 voters
    Matsu Takako, born June 10, 1977 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese stage and screen actress and pop singer/songwriter. She was born into a traditional Buyo house, and her Buyo name is ...more
  • Koike Eiko

    4. Koike Eiko

    Japanese
    385 points by 4 voters
    Koike Eiko, born November 20, 1980 in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese idol. Outside of Japan, her best-known work is the film 2LDK. She has worked as a ringside commentator and ...more
  • Shibasaki Ko

    5. Shibasaki Ko

    Japanese
    384 points by 4 voters
    Shibasaki Ko is a Japanese actress and singer who started her career at the age of 14 when she was discovered by a star agent. She became known for her performance in ...more
  • Ishihara Satomi

    6. Ishihara Satomi

    Japanese
    297 points by 3 voters
    Ishihara Satomi is a Japanese actress managed by HoriPro talent agency. She began her career at the age of 17 in 2003 by starring in different supporting roles both for TV and ...more
  • Aoi Yu

    7. Aoi Yu

    Japanese
    294 points by 3 voters
    Aoi Yu is a Japanese actress and model. She made her film debut as Shiori Tsuda in Shunji Iwai's 2001 film All About Lily Chou-Chou. She subsequently portrayed Tetsuko Arisugawa in Hana ...more
  • Kimura Fumino

    8. Kimura Fumino

    Japanese
    275 points by 3 voters
    Kimura Fumino is a Japanese actress. She was previously married to an acting instructor. The two divorced in 2019. On March 12, 2023, it was announced that she would be getting married ...more
  • Inoue Mao

    9. Inoue Mao

    Japanese
    195 points by 2 voters
    Mao Inoue is a Japanese actress. She debuted as a U-15 idol in 1999. She is best known to Japanese television drama audiences as Akane Imai in Kids War and as Makino ...more
  • Toda Erika

    10. Toda Erika

    Japanese
    192 points by 2 voters
    Toda Erika is a Japanese actress born in Nada-Ku, Kobe City, Hyogo prefecture. Toda began her performing arts activities in the fifth grade of elementary school and debuted as a gravure model ...more
  • Tabe Mikako

    11. Tabe Mikako

    Japanese
    189 points by 2 voters
    Tabe Mikako is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. Starting acting in her teens with a role in the Sailor Moon musicals, she has developed into a lead actress in film and television, ...more
  • Ono Machiko

    12. Ono Machiko

    Japanese
    186 points by 2 voters
    Ono Machiko is a Japanese actress. Born in a rural area of Nara Prefecture, Ono was spotted by the film director Naomi Kawase cleaning out the shoeboxes at her junior high school ...more
  • Mitsushima Hikari

    13. Mitsushima Hikari

    Japanese
    185 points by 2 voters
    Mitsushima Hikari is a Japanese actress, singer and model, born in Okinawa, Japan. She debuted as a singer and as an actress in 1997 in the movie "Mothra 2: The Undersea Battle". ...more
  • Nagasawa Masami

    14. Nagasawa Masami

    Japanese
    185 points by 2 voters
    Nagasawa Masami, born in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actress. She is also known as "Ma-chan" or, as Yamashita Tomohisa calls her, "Maa-tan". On her radio show, she introduces herself ...more
  • Sawajiri Erika

    15. Sawajiri Erika

    Japanese
    182 points by 2 voters
    Sawajiri Erika is a Japanese actress who is also active as a model and singer. She was born to a Japanese father and an Algerian born-French mother. She became one of Fuji ...more
  • Matsushima Nanako

    16. Matsushima Nanako

    Japanese
    178 points by 2 voters
    Matsushima Nanako, born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, is a Japanese actress and model. She is known outside Japan for her role in the horror film Ring. She was also the main character ...more
  • Matsuyuki Yasuko

    17. Matsuyuki Yasuko

    Japanese
    175 points by 2 voters
    Yasuko Matsuyuki (松雪 泰子, born in Saga Prefecture) is a Japanese actress and singer signed to Stardust Promotion.
    In 1989, while she was in high school, Matsuyuki entered the Men's ...more
  • Takeuchi Yuko

    18. Takeuchi Yuko

    Japanese
    172 points by 2 voters
    Takeuchi Yuko, born in Saitama, Saitama, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She made her big break with NHK's television series Asuka and JT Green's commercial. She had gone on to star in ...more
  • Kitagawa Keiko

    19. Kitagawa Keiko

    Japanese
    170 points by 2 voters
    Kitagawa Keiko, born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actress and former model. She grew up in Kobe and lost many friends in the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995. As a ...more
  • Maki Yoko

    20. Maki Yoko

    Japanese
    98 points by 1 voters
    Maki Yoko, born in Inzai, Chiba, is a Japanese actress who made her film debut at the age of 19 in the 2001 film "Drug". Her film career sprung when receiving a ...more
  • Ichikawa Mikako

    21. Ichikawa Mikako

    Japanese
    97 points by 1 voters
    Ichikawa Mikako is a Japanese fashion model and actress born in Tokyo. She belongs to Suurkiitos. She became an exclusive model for the Japanese fashion magazine "Olive" in 1994. She left the ...more
  • Aragaki Yui

    22. Aragaki Yui

    Japanese
    85 points by 1 voters
    Aragaki Yui is a Japanese idol, model, actress, singer, seiyuu and occasional radio show host of Ryukyuan ancestry. She is particularly recognized for her pleasant face and her movie projects. Aragaki's career ...more
  • Yoshitaka Yuriko

    23. Yoshitaka Yuriko

    Japanese
    84 points by 1 voters
    Yoshitaka Yuriko, born in Tokyo, is a Japanese actress who is represented by the Japanese agency Amuse. Yoshitaka made her acting debut in 2006. She was given the lead role in the ...more
  • Fukada Kyoko

    24. Fukada Kyoko

    Japanese
    81 points by 1 voters
    Fukada Kyoko is a Japanese singer and actor. In Japan, her name is sometimes contracted to the nickname Fukakyon. She won the award for Best Actress at the Yokohama Film Festival for ...more

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