Born in Tokyo on December 11, 1943. When she was in high school, she appeared in the drama "Tokyo Tower wa Shitteiru" and this began her acting career.

In 1962 she made her debut on the big screen in the movie "Namida wo shishi no tate kami ni". After that, she appeared in numerous movies and in 1980, in the movie "Yugure made" earned her the Blue Ribbon for Best Supporting Actress as well as in 1981 in the movie "Doro no Kawa" where she received the Kinema Junpo Best Supporting Acress award.

In 1965, she played the lead role in the play "Ondine" directed by Keita Asari, which was a big sensation. Recently she has appeared in many TV dramas such as "Watashi no Aozora", "Toshie to Matsu", "Mori Motonari" and many more. With her appearances on variety shows, she is able to show her sensitivity as well as her lifestyle and her fascinating stories attract people from a wide age group.

The Italian restaurant "Chianti" was the start of what connected me to Roppongi. The first time I went there was around 1960 when I was 16, just before my debut as an actress. I was invited by the Kawazoe boys when we were at the Aoyama bowling alley. "Why don't you come to the opening of our family's restaurant"? I had no idea what kind of restaurant it was but when I went, there were prominent people from high society like Kenzo Tange, Toshiro Mayuzumi, Yukio Mishima and the head of the Fujima family, to name a few. As a teenage girl, I was full of curiosity and this "cultural baptism" hit me like a storm. It was fascinating just listening to their exchange of outspoken comments and opinions. The owners, Mr. and Mrs. Kawazoe (Hiroshi and Kajiko) were wonderful. Even though they knew I could only pay for one cup of coffee with my allowance, they let me stay for hours. They treated the bigwigs and me, a no name girl equally. This was a valuable place where I could get real life lessons.

Besides, after the restaurant closed, when I visited the Kawazoe's house in Azabukougaicho, Kajiko would skillfully make me pasta. She just wore a T-shirt and showed her legs... The anklet she was wearing would shake. It was so cool. There are no words in the dictionary to describe her kind of "sophistication".

The two of them had a big influence on when I went to Paris to study when I was 20. Hiroshi had studied in Paris before and Kaijiko had studied under the famous Italian sculptor, Emilio Greco, so they both knew a lot about Europe and they had a lot of connections there. They introduced me to Yves Saint-Laurent, Francoise Sagan, and Francois Roland Truffaut. I even got to wear Chanel Haute Couture. It was an amazing experience for me. But you know, the Kawazoes gave me so many opportunities so if I didn't make something of myself, it would have been a shame. At some point, you have to make the move. It's important to do something you are interested in without hesitating, especially when you are young and curious.

When we talk about the 1960s, people still ask me what kind of group the "Yajukai" was but I wasn't actually in that group. In those days, people who hung out in Roppongi were said to be part of the "Roppongi Family", it was the talk of the town and I was said to be one of them. So that's why people got confused. But if I remember correctly, wasn't the "Yajukai" a group that was formed by one of the Presidents of an Entertainment production for young stars to be a hot topic? So I really don't know exactly what kind of people belonged to that group or what they did. Besides, even if I was part of the "Roppongi Family ", I made my debut when I was 17 years old and I only went to "Chianti" on the way home from work and I never went from one bar to another. I also never met anyone who was said to be a member of the Yajukai. Well, it was a good thing for me so I didn't really mind what people thought either way.

Other restaurants I went to in Roppongi were Master Noboru Kurisaki, Kuri chan's "Nishi no Ki" and "Sushi-Cho"of that time. There was the anticipation that whichever restaurant you went to, you could meet someone interesting, there was the ambience of a salon. Oh, and my brother ran a Western Bar "James" right at the Roppongi crossing in the mid 1970s. But it was right in the center of town and to tell you the truth, I didn't really like Western music so I didn't go there much. I heard that Monsieur Kamayatsu sometimes sang there on the spur of the moment.

These days, we go to watch pre-release movies from the independent movie distributor, GAGA corporation, and we like to go out for something good to eat after that: "Maquereau" and of course "Chianti". I still haven't been to Roppongi Hills. Which reminds me, I heard they were redeveloping the site of the Japan Defense Agency, and they will be building a the Suntory Museum of Art there. I hope they build more cultural institutions in Roppongi, theater related in particular. It's sad that the only theater left is the "Haiyuza".

Eventually, it's too bad that the good restaurants where people get together will close down or change owners and just disappear. And now, the restaurants have those, you know, private divisions so you don't see the other customers. It feels like people have become very private. In our day, it was the opposite. We went to restaurants because we wanted to meet people. But times have changed. So that's why we have to take the initiative to create places where the younger generation can enjoy meeting and talking together with new people.