Been enjoying a bit of fun nostalgia rewatching the excellent drama “Suteki Na Sen Taxi” (with Yutaka Takenouchi as the stalwart driver of the cab that can take you back in time if you have the nerve to try…and the money to pay!), and as I was going over some of the wonderful secondary actors who make up the show, I said, “What I wanna know is, who is THIS girl in the Yoshida Yo episode playing the unnamed girl who tells off the two-faced Yoshihiko Hakayamada?
Mystery girl calling out Hakayamada as a Marriage-Meeting Crasher who only comes to get free sex from participants...
"N-Now, Now...don't be silly..." he sheepishly tries to save face....
But the feisty girl calls him out and in letting Yoshida Yo know what she's in for if she falls for this creep's traps!
Hakayamada is adamant, but Yoshida sees him for the lowlife he is, thanks to the mysterious whistleblowing woman!
When I had originally seen it, I thought she looked like a very tanned and bronzed Mao Inoue, but looking closer I realized is was some other girl altogether! Going onto Dramawiki didn’t help as they only listed the “main” guest stars. Who WAS this girl?
Well, it took only a day until we discovered: She is... TATE MISATO!”
Tate Misato! So now we had a name, and looking up her wiki, I was stunned to find that now only did she have a long career in the business, but her very first role was a guest in one of my ALL-TIME favorite J-dramas, LONG VACATION!
Running off to my collection of older dramas, I stuck in my copy of Long Vacation, and SURE ENOUGH, she was INDEED that “bitchy” spoiled girl who gives Minami a hard time and calls her “Baba”!
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| Long Vacation 1996 |
Minami DARING this girl to call her "BABA" again! (she does!)
Hahaha, Imagine THIS being her first drama!
While Misato Tate hasn't quite made it to a major star, the amount of guest starring roles she has is staggering, and I was further stunned to find she’s appeared in a BUNCH of dramas I watched! Here are just a FEW of the roles she’s played:
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| JOKER~ Yurusarezaru Sosakan (2010) |
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| Himitsu Chouhouin Erika (2011) |
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| BOSS2 (2011) |
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| Hungry! (2012) |
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| Perfect Report (2010) |
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| FACE-MAKER (2010) |
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| Jotei (2007) |
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| Massugu Na Otoko (2010) |
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| Yamada-Kun 7-Nin No Majo (2013) |
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| Shiawase Ni Naruyo (2011) |
Isn’t that amazing? Lotta Nurse roles, LOL!
She even appeared in dramas like the Keiko Kitagawa/Sho Sakurai Detective shops “Nazotoki wa Dinner no Atode” and the Miho Kanno show “Mitsu No Aji”, but try as I might, I just couldn’t spot her in the episodes so was unable to screencap 'em!
Hope to continue seeing her in dramas, but her output has been quite minimal as of late. The most recent thing she’s done was in the latest Kamen Rider show “Kamen Rider ZI-0” as an…OL?! Haha, I’d love to see that!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
