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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.
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".
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 Japanese totalitarian government.
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]
Romance of Darkness was adapted into a live-action feature film directed by Kenji Gotō and released in theaters in Japan on May 27, 2006. [6] [7] It starred Aki Maeda of Battle Royale fame as Rikka Nikaido, and Keiko Kitagawa of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift fame as Rikka Mizuchi.
Nishihara Aki as Kota's mother (ep.1) Kiara Minegishi as Masaki (ep.1) Anna Yamada as Yuina Sugawara (ep.2) Asuka Kurosawa as Sugawara Maki (ep.2) Kotone Nakajima as Mai Ishiyama (ep.3) Saki Takenoya as Miyu Ichikawa (ep.3) Aki Maeda as Shiori Ichikawa (ep.3) Saki Takamatsu as Akari Oishi (ep.4) Jun Murakami as Oishi san (ep.4) Elen as Kaoru ...
School Ghost Stories 3 (Japanese: 学校の怪談3, Hepburn: Gakkō no Kaidan 3), also known as Haunted School 3, is a 1997 Japanese film directed by Shūsuke Kaneko. [1] The film is about elementary school children who are taken to an alternate universe through a school mirror.