is a Japanese actress and

model A model is an informative representation of an object, person, or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin , . Models can be divided in ...

. Monō did spots for, amongst others,

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, before

Hiroyuki Nakano is a Japanese film director. Filmography * ''Watching People'' (1989) * ''Spiritual Earth: Aloha Wave'' (1995) * ''Samurai Fiction'' (1998) * ''Pop Group Killers'' (2000) * ''Red Shadow (2001 film), Red Shadow'' (2001) * ''Stereo Future'' (2001 ...

caught sight of her in a video clip and cast her in ''

Samurai Fiction is a 1998 comedy-samurai film directed by Hiroyuki Nakano. It is almost entirely black-and-white, and follows a fairly standard plotline for a comedy and ''jidaigeki'' samurai film, but the presence of Tomoyasu Hotei's rock-and-roll soundtrack se ...

'', her film debut. She has since worked with Nakano in his ''

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'' and the short film '' Slow is Beautiful''.

Filmography

*''

'' (1998) *''Stereo Future'' (2001) *''Kakuto'' (2003) *'' Lost in Translation'' (2005) *''Colors'' (2006) *''Youkai Kidan'' (2007) *''Baumkuchen'' (2007) *''Konna Otonano Onnanoko'' (2007) *''

United Red Army The (URA) was a militant organization that operated in Japan between July 1971 and March 1972. The URA was formed as the result of a merger that began on 13 July 1971 between two extremist groups, the Marxist–Leninist–Maoist , led in 1971 ...

'' (2007) *''Anna No Monogatari'' (2007) *''After School'' (2008) *''Heaven's Door'' (2009) *''The Code/Angou'' (2009) *''

Yatterman is a Japanese anime television series broadcast from January 1, 1977 to January 27, 1979, comprising 108 episodes. It is the second and longest show in the ''Time Bokan'' series by Tatsunoko Productions. The series succeeded ''Time Bokan'' a ...

'' (2009) *'' Tetsuo: The Bullet Man'' (2010) *''Ugly'' (2011)

References

External links

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Akiko Monou's JMDb Listing (in Japanese)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mono, Akiko 1976 births Living people Japanese actresses Japanese female models