Trivia

She won the Japanese Academy Award for New Actor in 1988. This was when she started out acting.

She won an award for best actress at the 11th Yokohama Film Festival for the movie 'A Sign Day's'.

She was classmates with Yuuya Uchida and Misa Watanabe while attending Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music.

First cousin once removed of Jerry Itô.