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Aki Maeda (前田 亜季, Maeda Aki, born 11 July 1985) 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.
Maeda is notable for performing Shiori Kitano in the 2003 film Battle Royale II: Requiem, as well as for voicing the title role in the anime series Kino's Journey (for which she also performed a theme song to the series, "The Beautiful World"). Her younger sister is Aki Maeda.
The film stars Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarō Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama, Kou Shibasaki, Masanobu Andō, and Beat Takeshi. It follows a group of junior high school students forced to fight to the death by a totalitarian Japanese government.
Linda Linda Linda (リンダ リンダ リンダ, Rinda Rinda Rinda) is a 2005 Japanese film directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita.It stars Bae Doona, Aki Maeda, Yu Kashii, and Shiori Sekine (of the band Base Ball Bear) as teenagers who form a band to cover songs by the Japanese punk rock band the Blue Hearts; the film's title comes from the hit Blue Hearts song "Linda Linda".
Ai Maeda and Aki Maeda portray twin sisters watching Mothra flying over Kagoshima, paying homage to the monster's twin fairies in her eponymous 1961 film. Cameo appearances include Godzilla 2000 (1999) star Takehiro Murata as a pilot, Kōichi Kawakita as a JASDF officer, and Masaaki Tezuka as a JSDF officer.
Their lead singer, Mina, left the group in 2002 due to pregnancy and was replaced by Aki Maeda who assumed the stage name Aki. Aki left the group in August 2008 to pursue a solo career. Original member Mina returned to the group on October 28, 2008 ushering in the group's comeback after a two-year hiatus. [1]
The film was released on July 20, 2002, as the highest-grossing domestic film at the Japanese box office in 2002 [8] and the 7th highest-grossing film of the year overall. [9] As of January 5, 2015, it is the 86th highest-grossing film in Japan, with ¥6.46 billion. [10] The film grossed a total of $65 million at the box office. [1]
A list of Japanese films that were released in Japan in 2013. 591 Japanese films were released, earning ¥117 billion (US$1.14 billion) and accounting for 60.6% of the total box office in Japan. 34 earned over ¥1 billion (US$9.68 million), with the highest-grossing being The Wind Rises with ¥12 billion (US$116 million).