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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. She graduated from Hosei University in ...
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.
From there her career started off. She modeled along with her sister Aki Maeda when they were young until she was 16/17 years old, when she starred in many movies and TV series. Maeda is skilled in the piano, Tate (fighting battles on the movie set) and the English language (Ai studied abroad in Canada for a year in 2000).
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".
Despite the characters being middle school students, Aki Maeda, Yukihiro Kotani, Takayo Mimura, and Yukari Kanasawa were the only four who were aged 15 to 16 years old. The other members of the cast had all graduated from secondary education, and Tarō Yamamoto and Masanobu Andō were the oldest among the actors, aged 25. [14]
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]
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The Cat Returns (Japanese: 猫の恩返し, Hepburn: Neko no Ongaeshi, lit. ' The Cat's Repayment ') is a 2002 Japanese anime fantasy film [2] directed by Hiroyuki Morita from a screenplay by Reiko Yoshida, based on the 2002 manga Baron the Cat by Aoi Hiiragi.