Mirai Yamamoto

Mirai Yamamoto is the daughter of Kansai Yamamoto, the designer behind the outrageous costumes David Bowie wore in his Ziggy Stardust years. Start there and you expect the child to inherit the volume. She did not. She became a film actress working in a register far quieter than anything her father ever sent down a runway, and I find that choice more interesting than any loud rebellion would have been. Growing up beside that much personality usually produces an imitator or a refusal. She looks to me like a third option: someone who simply walked into a different room and got on with the work. Even her given name, Mirai, meaning future, carries his fingerprints, so she has never been able to step entirely out of his frame. The honest part of this entry is how thin the record is. Public material on her is sparse and small details differ between sources, which usually describes a performer who never traded on her private life to stay visible. That is a defensible way to build a career and a frustrating one to document. Not being talked about is not the same as not working, and I would rather say that plainly than pad the page with things I cannot verify.

Name (English)

Mirai Yamamoto

Name (Japanese)

山本未來

Reading

やまもと みらい

Born

April 11, 1974 (age 52)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Tiger

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

actor / film actor

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirai%20Yamamoto
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E6%9C%AC%E6%9C%AA%E4%BE%86
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q432963

Tags

• Tokyo
• actor
• film actor

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.