Miako Tadano

Miako Tadano is the kind of creative person who makes you feel quietly embarrassed for ever thinking you had to pick just one thing. She came up as an actress — her breakout in the 1998 film French Dressing nabbed her a Mainichi Film Concours newcomer prize — and then, rather than ride that lane forever, she pivoted to writing novels, penning screenplays, and eventually stepping behind the camera to direct her own feature. Three Years Pregnant, which she both wrote and directed, won the Young Director Grand Prix at the Takasaki Film Festival in 2006, which is not a small deal for a first-time director. Tama Art University-trained and rooted in that Tokyo arts scene, she has this low-key but unmistakable authorial fingerprint across everything she touches. What I find genuinely interesting is how little noise she makes about it — no massive social media footprint, no tabloid drama — just a steady, serious body of work that spans acting, fiction, and film. Quietly formidable.

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Miako Tadano (born October 2, 1973, in Tokyo) is a Japanese actress, novelist, screenwriter, and film director. She graduated from Tama Art University. Represented by QuarterTone, she has acted since 1994, won the Mainichi Film Concours Sponichi Grand Prix Newcomer Award for French Dressing (1998), and directed her first feature, Three Years Pregnant, in 2005.

Name (English)

Miako Tadano

Name (Japanese)

唯野未歩子

Reading

ただの みあこ

Born

October 2, 1973 (age 53)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Height

161 cm

Occupation

Actress / Novelist / Screenwriter / Film Director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Ox

Agency

QuarterTone

Active years

1994 - present

University

Tama Art University

Works summary

Appearances

56 (1998–2026)

By year (titles with a known year)

1998: 3, 1999: 2, 2000: 3, 2001: 1, 2002: 5, 2003: 3, 2004: 4, 2005: 2, 2006: 1, 2007: 1, 2008: 1, 2010: 2, 2012: 1, 2013: 2, 2018: 1, 2019: 1, 2020: 2, 2021: 1, 2022: 2, 2023: 1, 2024: 2, 2025: 1, 2026: 1, year unknown: 13

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%94%AF%E9%87%8E%E6%9C%AA%E6%AD%A9%E5%AD%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11418723

Tags

• From Tokyo
• Actress
• Novelist
• Screenwriter

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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