Mako Ishino
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Born in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture,[1] she is the elder sister of actresses Yōko Ishino and Template:Interlanguage link.[2]
Ishino is affiliated with From First Production Co., Ltd.[1]
Curriculum vitae
Childhood to 1977 debut
Born to a family of five, two younger sisters. Her parents ran a company that manufactured handbags made with beads.[3] She enrolled at the Catholic school Template:Interlanguage link in April 1973, situated in Amagasaki, Hyōgo. After school she helped out with the home business.[4] When she was 3rd year in junior high, she started taking lessons once a week at Template:Interlanguage link's music school (then Hirao Masaaki kayō gakuin, Osaka campus).[5][6]
She moved on to Yuri Gakuin High School in April 1976. The father set a strict 4:30 pm curfew and needed to phone if running late due to extracurricular club activities.[7] After being recruited to become singer, she transferred to Horikoshi High School (showbiz course) starting from the 3rd trimester of the 3rd (graduating) year of high school.[3][8]
She submitted her application to try out on the Star Tanjō! show in the 1st year of High School at the recommendation of a music school teacher,[3] with the permission from the father who was certain she would not qualify anyway.[3] Ishino made her TV appearance in Star Tanjō! (Osaka) in February 1977, singing Danièle Vidal's Tenshi no rakugaki ("Script error: No such module "Lang"."),[3] and becoming Osaka regional champion,[7] with an overwhelming score of 530 points[9] (1000 points are divided among 4 contestants). Then in the national grand tournament (Tokyo) that aired in April 1977, she became grand champion,[7] which was followed by various agencies' offers to sign her. She decided to join Burning Production,[3] which had already offered to sign her even she didn't become national champion.[3]
As idol: 1978-1981
Ishino debuted with the song Template:Interlanguage link (Template:Lit."Who's afraid of the big bad wolf",Template:Refn March 25, 1978, Victor Records, lyrics by Yū Aku; composed by Takurō Yoshida; cover jacket photo by Kishin Shinoyama.[8][10][11] This and her second single Template:Interlanguage link ("My mob boss") were both choreographed by Template:Interlanguage link[3]
Her signature facial feature since debut was notably her yaeba (double-teeth upper canines) and tare-me (drooping eyed-ness),[12] and her double-teeth image endured on,[13] even though she had corrective dental surgery to align her teeth[14] by 1985.Template:Refn
On August 27, she held a concert at Seibuen, Script error: No such module "Nihongo"..[15]
Her Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[2] (October 5, 1978)[11] her third single,[16] which won her the newcomer award at the year's-end 20th Japan Record Awards (December 31, 1978).[17][2]Template:Refn。
Other accolades leading up to this are the newcomer award at the Japan Music Awards (Template:Translit) in November,[18] gold medal at the Shinjuku Music Festival on October 12,[8] and the newcomer award at the Template:Interlanguage link on October 25.[8]
She also received her first film role in the film adaptation of the Akutagawa Prize-winning Template:Interlanguage link's novel Template:Interlanguage link (released December).[8] Playing opposite Template:Interlanguage link, she performed a kissing scene; but as she was not familiar with men and never kissed before, it was quite trying, and though the scene was ok'd at the first cut, she was welling with tears afterwards.[19][20]
She was cast in the TV series Template:Interlanguage link (aired February 1979).[8]
Her subsequent discography includes Template:Interlanguage link ("Sunday is a stranger", 4th single, January 25, 1979), Template:Interlanguage link (5th song, April 5), Template:Interlanguage link (6th song, July 5), Template:Interlanguage link ("Jurī aka Kenji Sawada is the rival", 7th song, September 25).[13][11]
She won "Golden Dove" for best second year achievement at the 5th Annual Nippon Television Music Festival in August 1979,[21] having co-won the rookie award the previous year.[15][22]Template:Efn
She appeared in the Template:Interlanguage link Kōhaku Uta Gassen tournament on New Year's Eve, 1979, singing "Jurī is the rival" as the first contestant.[23][24]
Her Template:Interlanguage link ("Spring la la la!l", 8th single, January 1, 1980),[13] with 160,000 in sales was her all-time best hit, followed by Template:Interlanguage link ("My heart is my game",Template:Efn 9th single, April 5, 1980), which achieved her highest Oricon chart ranking at 15th place.[25][11]
In March she graduated from Horikoshi High School, having been held back 1 year.[26] She was cast in the TV series Template:Interlanguage link ("Compassion hill inn", aired starting March 21) where 3 generations of proprietresses were portrayed by Isuzu Yamada, Etsuko Ichihara and Ishino.[27]
Ishino replaced female host Ikue Sakakibara opposite Yosuke Tagawa for the NHK music show Template:Interlanguage link in April 1980,[28] staying on til March 1981.
She was cast in the Template:Interlanguage link slot for Oyomechan ("little bride girl", aired starting May 25, 1980), co-starring So Yamamura, Template:Interlanguage link, script by Script error: No such module "Nihongo".,[29] directed by Template:Interlanguage link,[30] and legendary Template:Interlanguage link as producer.[31]Template:Refn
Her Template:Interlanguage link ("Vertigo", 10th single, July 5, 1980) appeared.[13][11]
She was again recipient at the 6th Annual Nippon Television Music Festival in August 1980, this time garnering the Top Idol prize.[32][2]Template:Refn
She released Template:Interlanguage link ("He's my first love", 11th single, September 21, 1980) followed by Template:Interlanguage link (12th single, September 21, 1980).[13][11]Template:Efn
She was selected for the Template:Interlanguage link Kōhaku Uta Gassen for the second year in a row, singing Hāto de shōbu.[33]
She released Template:Interlanguage link ("Samba with all I've got", 13th single, February 5, 1981), followed by Template:Interlanguage link ("Season of coloration", 14th single, April 21, 1981),[13][11]
Mid March 1981, Ishino and Kyu Sakamoto became the new emcees for the "Star Tanjō!" talent-seeking show.Template:Efn[34]
Retirement as idol
In June 1981, she announced her intent to marry singer Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi and retire as singer by the end of August.[35]
She released Template:Interlanguage link (15th single, June 21, 1981), followed by Template:Interlanguage link (16th single, July 21, 1981)[13][11] which will be her last as idol.
She performed her farewell tour down and across the country,[36] starting from Kanazawa, Ishikawa on July 26,[37] culminating in the final concert of August 30 at Shibuya Public Hall in Tokyo,[38] which was telecast live.[37][36]
Ishino married Nagabuchi in Hawaiʻi in January 1982, but the marriage did not last. She separated in March 1983 and officially divorced in May.[35]
Return to showbiz
Ishino returned to the entertainment business in 1983, at first mainly as an actress, appearing in Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[31]
Ishino played the middle of three sisters in the TV drama Template:Interlanguage link, where the eldest sister played by Asami Kobayashi was the lead role.[39]
She released her first single after a 4-year hiatus with Template:Interlanguage link[40] ("Encounter", 19th single[13] released June 21, 1985).
She was cast in the part of the younger sister of the lead actress in Template:Interlanguage link ("Life", started January 5, 1986), the year-long NHK Taiga drama for that year. Ishino portrayed Sachi, who had a crippled leg from a Tokyo air raid.[41] In later years, the rerun of Inochi became a huge hit in Cuba with an 80% rating, and Ishino became the most well-known Japanese personality in that country.[42][43]
On July 21, 1987, she released Template:Interlanguage link ("Glass Ferris Wheel"),[44] followed on October 21 by Template:Interlanguage link ("Glass Ferris Wheel").[45]
Her second marriage in 1990 to Template:Interlanguage link[46] lasted until 1996.
Ishino was cast in the role of Swan Shiratori in the original Japanese Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger (2004–2005). The show was remade into the American version Power Rangers S.P.D. soon after, and back-imported into Japan, dubbed, in 2011, with Ishino as the voice of the narrator. [47] Ishino returned in the role of Swan in the 2024 feature film Template:Interlanguage link.[48]
Discography
Albums
- Smile (July 25, 1978)
- Mako II (December 5, 1978)
- Mako Live I (June 1, 1979)
- Mako III (August 25, 1979)
- Koi no Disc Jockey MAKO IV (March 5, 1980)
- Watashi no Shiawase MAKO 5 (July 21, 1980)
- Twenty MAKO 6 (February 21, 1981)
- Jeans ni Hakikaete MAKO 7 (July 5, 1981)
- BYE BYE MAKO LIVE ~ 8 tsuki no taiyō yori moete ~ (October 5, 1981)
- Saffron (October 21, 1985)
- Truth (October 25, 2003)
- Script error: No such module "Nihongo". (2004)
- Mako Revival (2005)
- Mirai (2006)
- Love Merry-go-round (August 20, 2008)
- Watashi no Shiawase (2008)
- Life Is Beautiful (2010)
Singles
- "Ōkami nanka kowaku nai" (狼なんか怖くない) (1978) (Oricon: 17)
- "Watashi no Don" (わたしの首領) (1978) (Oricon: 26)
- "Shitsuren kinenbi" (失恋記念日) (1978) (Oricon: 24)
- "Nichiyōbi wa Stranger" (日曜日はストレンジャー) (1979) (Oricon: 19)
- "Pretty Pretty" (プリティー・プリティー) (1979) (Oricon: 26)
- "Wonder Boogie" (ワンダー・ブギ) (1979) (Oricon: 22)
- "Julie ga Rival" (ジュリーがライバル) (1979) (Oricon: 24)
- "Haru La! La! La!" (春ラ!ラ!ラ!) (1980) (Oricon: 16)
- "Heart de shōbu" (ハートで勝負) (1980) (Oricon: 15)
- "Memai" (めまい) (1980) (Oricon: 24)
- "Kare ga hatsu koi" (彼が初恋) (1980) (Oricon: 22)
- "Foggy Rain / Koi no Happy Date" (フォギー・レイン/恋のハッピー・デート) (1980) (Oricon: 27)
- "Omoikkiri Samba" (思いっきりサンバ) (1981) (Oricon: 42)
- "Irodori no toki" (彩りの季節) (1981) (Oricon: 35)
- "Koi no Summer Dance" (恋のサマー・ダンス) (1981) (Oricon: 41)
- "Burning Love" (バーニング・ラブ) (1981) (Oricon: 38)
- "Watashi no shiawase PART II" (私のしあわせ PART II) (1981) (Oricon: 56)
- "Ashita ni nareba" (明日になれば) (1982) (Oricon: 52)
- "Meguri ai" (めぐり逢い) (1985)
- "Glass no kanransha" (ガラスの観覧車) (1987)
- "Sora ni Canvas" (空にカンバス) (1987)
- "Kira Kira ∞" (2001)
- "Eve" (2005)
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- Script error: No such module "Nihongo". (2010)
Videos
- Script error: No such module "Nihongo". (2010)
- Script error: No such module "Nihongo". (2010)
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Selected filmography
Television
- The Kindaichi Case Files (1995) – Yumiko Ono
- Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger (2004) – Swan Shiratori/Deka Swan
- Boys Over Flowers (2005) – Makino Chieko
- Gunshi Kanbei (2014) – Konishi "Magdalena" Wakusa
- Lost Man Found (2022) – Satoru's mother[49]
- Dear Radiance (2024) – Fujiwara no Mutsuko[50]
Film
- Hachiko Monogatari (1987) – Chizuko Ueno
- Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger The Movie: Full Blast Action (2004) – Swan Shiratori
- Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger vs. Abaranger (2005) – Swan Shiratori
- Milk White (2004)[51]
- Mahou Sentai Magiranger vs. Dekaranger (2006) – Swan Shiratori
- Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger: 10 Years After (2015) – Swan Shiratori
- Bittersweet (2016)
- Neet Neet Neet (2018)
- Love and the Grand Tug-of-war (2021)[52]
- The Pearl Legacy (2023) – Mitsuyo Ōgame[53]
- Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger: 20th: Fireball Booster (2024) – Swan Shiratori
- True Beauty: Before (2025)[54]
- True Beauty: After (2025)[55]
Dubbing
- Power Rangers S.P.D. (2005, 2011) – Narrator
Explanatory notes
References
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External links
- Script error: No such module "Official website".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Victor Entertainment) Template:In lang
- Official blog Template:In lang
- Profile at From First Production Co., Ltd. Template:In lang
- Template:Trim/ Mako Ishino at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- JMDb profile Template:In lang
- Pages with script errors
- Japanese idols
- 1961 births
- Living people
- Actresses from Hyōgo Prefecture
- Singers from Hyōgo Prefecture
- 20th-century Japanese women singers
- 20th-century Japanese singers
- 21st-century Japanese women singers
- 21st-century Japanese singers
- 20th-century Japanese actresses
- 21st-century Japanese actresses
- Singing talent show winners