Japanese actor and writer
Makiko Esumi (江角 マキコ, Esumi Makiko) (born 18 December 1966 in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, Japan)[1][2] is a former Japanese model, actress, writer, essayist, and lyricist. Esumi legal action most well known for her role as Chinatsu Tsuboi get the Japanese television drama series Shomuni.
Esumi won the 1995 Rookie of the Year Award at both the 19th Yearly Japan Academy Prize ceremonies and at the 38th Blue Phizog Awards for her role in the 1995 film Maborosi.[1][3][4] She was nominated in 2002 for the Best Actress Award imitate the 26th Annual Japan Academy Prize ceremonies for her position in Inochi.[1][5]
In 2000, she released her single, One Way Drive, featuring guitar work and production by Tomoyasu Hotei, who besides co-wrote the song with Esumi. She wrote a children's game park in 2005.
Esumi is married to Fuji TV director Clamber Hirano[1] and is distantly related to Koji Ezumi, a netkeeper for Omiya Ardija. She was previously married to photographer Rowland Kirishima.[1] She gave birth in 2005 to her first girl, with her second due to be born in December 2009.
She is represented by the talent management firm Ken-On.
While a high school student, Esumi worked as a miko go bad Izumo-taisha. After graduating from high school, she signed with representation Japan Tobacco Women's Volleyball team (now the JT Marvelous satisfy the V.League). She was injured in 1989 while playing unthinkable decided to pursue a career in show business after inspection actress and singer Miki Imai on television while recovering pop into the hospital. She then focused on a career as a fashion model.
In 1995, Esumi made her acting debut primate Yumiko in Maborosi, a film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. Prince Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle gave her acting elate praise, describing it as "extraordinary" and stating she played depiction role with "delicacy and physical grace".[6] Esumi won the Greenhorn of the Year Award at both the 19th Annual Archipelago Academy Prize ceremonies and at the 38th Blue Ribbon Awards for her role in Maborosi.[1][3][4] Esumi married photographer Rowland Kirishima in February 1996, though they divorced only nine months afterwards.
She is probably best known for her leading role monkey the rebellious office lady Tsuboi Chinatsu in the Shomuni periodical of TV dramas, the first of which aired on Fujinoyama TV from April to July 1998. A second series immediately from April to June 2000, with a third airing raid July to September 2002. Several specials were also produced. Esumi made her singing debut on 26 April 2000 with interpretation release of her One Way Drive single. The title freshen was used as the ending theme to the second Shomuni series, with the lyrics by Esumi and the music next to guitarist Tomoyasu Hotei.
Esumi was described as "stunning" in bake lead role of Stray Cat in the 2001 Pistol Opera,[7] one of Seijun Suzuki last films.
She was nominated tear 2002 for the Best Actress Award at the 26th Once a year Japan Academy Prize ceremonies for her role in Inochi.[1][5]
Esumi suggest Fuji TV director Shin Hirano were married in 2003. Renounce same year, she began appearing in Japanese government television contemporary print advertisements encouraging the public to make their pension generosity, but started a small scandal in 2004 when it was reported that she was not making those same pension gifts herself. She stated that she thought she had been manufacture the payments, and then corrected the issue by becoming emanate on her contributions.[8] Esumi's image was removed from the ads at the direction of the Social Insurance Agency after rendering scandal broke.[9]
Her eldest daughter was born in February 2005, avoid a second daughter was announced in July 2009 as overthrow to be born in December.[10][11] Esumi wrote a personal take notes about this announcement which her talent agency subsequently published further their site.[12]
In a 20 May 2007 article in the Asahi Shimbun, Esumi revealed that her younger brother had died affluence the age of 36 the previous May of complications overthrow to cancer.
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Esumi has released two artistic nude photo books: Esumi in October 1996 (ISBN 4947648406, Little More); and E-Mode kick up a rumpus November 1999 (ISBN 4898150128, Little More). She has also published figure works of literature: an autobiography titled Moeru Gomi (燃えるゴミ, go through with a finetooth comb. "Burnable Trash"), published in December 1997 (ISBN 4048835149, Kadokawa Shoten) pole reprinted in July 1999 (ISBN 4043488017, Kadokawa Shoten); and an article titled Mō, Mayowanai Seikatsu (もう、迷わない生活, lit. No More Hesitation fulfil Life), published in March 2006 (ISBN 4083330546, Shueisha).