Miki Sakai

Japanese actress and J-pop idol singer

Actress
singer

Years active1991–presentNotable creditHakusen NagashiChildren1

Miki Sakai (Sakai Miki, 酒井美紀), born 21 February 1978 in Aoi-ku, Shizuoka,^[1] Japan is an actress and J-pop idol singer.

As a teenager she made her feature film debut in the 1995 Shunji Iwai film Love Letter playing the role of Itsuki Fujii as a young girl. The film was a huge box-office success and Miki picked up a number of awards for her role including a Japanese Academy Award for 'Newcomer of the Year'.^[2]

She also starred in Hagusen nagashi (1996) on TV as well as in numerous other television series and movies. Miki's portrayal of the character Tomie in the 2001 horror movie Tomie: Re-birth was one of the more popular interpretations of the role.

In January 2008, Miki Sakai appeared in the 10-hour long TV historical drama Tokugawa Fūunroku Hachidai Shōgun Yoshimune.

Personal Life

On October 19, 2008, she married a doctor working at a university hospital who is four years older than her.^[3] In October 2009, she announced on her official blog that she was pregnant with her first child, and gave birth to her first son in 2010.^[4]

In 2019, while continuing her acting career, she announced that she had enrolled in a private graduate school in Tokyo.^[5] On March 2023, she reported that she had completed her Master's degree in International Cooperation Studies at Toyo Eiwa University.^[6]

Filmography

Film

Love Letter (1995), young Itsuki Fujii
Himeyuri no Tō (1995)
Nagareita shichinin (1997)
Abduction (1997), Mayo
To Love (1997), Mitsu Morita
Juvenile (2000), Noriko Kinoshita^[7]
Tomie: Re-birth (2001), Tomie Kawakami
Samayou Yaiba (2009), Wakako Kijima^[8]
Kamen Rider OOO Wonderful: The Shogun and the 21 Core Medals (2011)
Tomie: Unlimited (2011), Tomie (cameo)
You Are Brilliant Like a Spica (2019)
Talking the Pictures (2019)
Akira and Akira (2022)^[9]

Television

Hakusen Nagashi (1996), Sonoko Nanakura
Hakusen Nagashi: Spring at Age 19 (1997), Sonoko Nanakura
Hakusen Nagashi: The Wind at Age 20 (1999), Sonoko Nanakura
Aoi Tokugawa Sandai (2000), Tokugawa Masako
Hakusen Nagashi: The Poem of Travels (2001), Sonoko Nanakura
Hakusen Nagashi: Age 25 (2003), Sonoko Nanakura
Hakusen Nagashi: The Final – Even as the Times of Dreaming have Passed (2005), Sonoko Nanakura
Tokugawa Fūunroku Hachidai Shōgun Yoshimune (2008)
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju (2018), Oei
Because We Forget Everything (2022)^[10]

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Work(s)	Result	Ref.
1996	19th Japan Academy Film Prize	Newcomer of the Year	Love Letter and Himeyuri no Tō	Won	^[11]
1996	17th Yokohama Film Festival	Best New Talent	Love Letter	Won	^[12]
1997	10th Nikkan Sports Film Award	Best Newcomer	Abduction, To Love and Nagareita shichinin	Won	^[13]
1998	21st Japan Academy Film Prize	Best Supporting Actress	Abduction	Nominated	^[14]
1999	23rd Elan d'or Awards	Newcomer of the Year	Herself	Won	^[15]

References

^ Internet Movie Database - Miki Sakai
^ Internet Movie Database - Awards of the Japanese Academy 1996
^ "酒井美紀が4歳年上医師と挙式「これがスタートライン」と入籍報告" [Miki Sakai marries doctor four years older than her, reports marriage registration as "this is the starting line"]. eltha. Oricon. 2008-10-19. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
^ "俳優の酒井美紀さんが男児を出産／都内の病院で" [Miki Sakai gives birth to a baby boy at a hospital in Tokyo]. Shikoku Shimbun. 2010-03-20. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
^ "酒井美紀、女優＆母親＆大学院進学の三刀流で人生２度目の「頑張る時期」" [Miki Sakai, actress, mother, and graduate school student, in her second "time to work hard" in life]. Sanspo. Sankei Digital. 2019-03-09. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
^ "酒井美紀、大学院修士課程の修了を報告「涙がこみあげてきました」　育児＆仕事と並行し研究…「詰め込みすぎな4年間」" [Miki Sakai reports on completion of her master's degree: "Tears welled up in my eyes" - "Four years packed with activities" as she juggles childcare and work]. Oricon News. Oricon. 2023-03-18. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
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^ "竹内涼真×横浜流星「アキラとあきら」特報解禁、計22名の新キャストも明らかに". Natalie. Retrieved April 16, 2022.
^ "「すべて忘れてしまうから」阿部寛の恋人役は尾野真千子「どんな姿で現れるかな～???」". Oricon. Retrieved September 15, 2022.
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^ "第17回ヨコハマ映画祭: 1995年日本映画個人賞" (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival homepage. 2005-10-30. Archived from the original on 2012-09-28. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
^ "日刊スポーツ映画大賞歴代受賞者・作品". Nikkan Sports. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
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