Photo: Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Mariko Tsutsui is often called a late bloomer, and I think that misses the point. She came out of Waseda into the Daisan Butai theatre company in the early 1980s and then worked steadily for decades, including a national-audience role in NHK's morning drama Hanako to Anne. Then, in her fifties, Koji Fukada cast her in Harmonium, a film that took a jury prize in Cannes' Un Certain Regard, and she became unavoidable, collecting the Mainichi Film Award for best actress. She reunited with Fukada for A Girl Missing. Nothing arrived overnight. A director finally asked her for everything she had already built.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Mariko Tsutsui
- Name (Japanese)
- 筒井真理子
- Born
- October 13, 1962 (age 63)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Tiger
- Origin
- Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
- Occupation
- actor / pornographic actor
2. Background
- University
- Waseda University
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://marikotsutsui.com/
- Xhttps://x.com/m_tsutsui_news
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AD%92%E4%BA%95%E7%9C%9F%E7%90%86%E5%AD%90
Frequently asked questions
When was Mariko Tsutsui born?
Born October 13, 1962 (age 63).
Where is Mariko Tsutsui from?
Mariko Tsutsui is from Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.
What does Mariko Tsutsui do?
Mariko Tsutsui works as actor, pornographic actor.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-07-26
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.