is a Japanese

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 actress, and J-Pop

J-pop

, an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s music, such as The Beatles, and replaced kayōkyoku in the Japanese music scene...

 singer in the 1990s.
Born in Hiroshima

Hiroshima

is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...

 and raised in Tokyo

Tokyo

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, she made her J-Pop

J-pop

, an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s music, such as The Beatles, and replaced kayōkyoku in the Japanese music scene...

 debut on 19 August 1995. She starred in the Japanese original of The Grudge

Ju-on: The Grudge

is a 2003 Japanese horror film written and directed by Takashi Shimizu. The film is the third entry in the Ju-on series and is the first film theatrically released...

.
She married Susumu Fujita in January 2004, however they divorced on 22 July 2005.
Megumi's latest movie was a remake of a 2004 Thai film, Shutter

Shutter (2008 film)

Shutter is a 2008 American remake of the 2004 Thai horror film of the same name. The remake was directed by Masayuki Ochiai, and was released on March 21, 2008.-Plot:...

. It was released March 21, 2008, despite the fact that in 2007, she stated that she was retiring from the entertainment business. She portrayed ghost Megumi Tanaka.

Around March 12, 2009, she announced that she was 4 months pregnant and planning on marrying her boyfriend of two years, a businessman.http://virtualreview.org/japan/zoom/970340/entertainment--pregnant-actress-megumi-okina-to-marry-ordinary-businessman

Albums

• 1995/09/21 : Blossom
• 1996/05/21 : illusion
• 1997/03/20 : gradation
• 1998/04/01 : i・n・g
• 1998/09/01 : Stairs -The Best Songs-

Singles

• 1995/08/19 : この悲しみを乗り越えて
• 1996/04/23 : そんなの悲しいね
• 1996/09/21 : あなたのそばで
• 1997/02/25 : 今でも...あなたが好きだから
• 1997/05/28 : 淑女の夢は万華鏡 (ending theme from Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo
  Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo
  , full title , is a long-running comedy manga by Osamu Akimoto. It has been continuously serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since September 1976, with over 1700 chapters published, making it the longest-running manga series in history...
  
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• 1997/10/29 : それでも愛してる
• 1998/02/25 : ゆらゆら
• 1998/08/21 : Eternity

Movies

• 2009: Tsumi toka batsu toka
• 2008: Shutter
  Shutter (2008 film)
  Shutter is a 2008 American remake of the 2004 Thai horror film of the same name. The remake was directed by Masayuki Ochiai, and was released on March 21, 2008.-Plot:...
  
  (aka Spirits)
• 2006: Inugamike no Ichizoku
• 2006: Ulysses
• 2003: Ju-on: The Grudge
  Ju-on: The Grudge
  is a 2003 Japanese horror film written and directed by Takashi Shimizu. The film is the third entry in the Ju-on series and is the first film theatrically released...
  
  
• 2001: Red Shadow: Akakage
  Red Shadow
  is a fictional Japanese superhero featured in several manga, tokusatsu, anime and live movies and TV shows since his first appearance in the 1967 TV series, Red Shadow, The Masked Ninja, produced by Toei Company Ltd..- Character :...
  
  
• 2001: Otogirisō (St John's Wort)
• 2000: Sebunzu feisu (Seven's Face)
• 2000: Tales of the Unusual
• 1995: Naito heddo (adapted from Night Head
  Night Head
  is an anime television series adapted from a 1992 Japanese TV drama, . It began airing on the anime television network Animax on July 27, 2006.The series has been licensed on February 14, 2008 for a North American release by Media Blasters.-Premise:...
  
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Dramas

• Takusan no Ai wo Arigato (たくさんの愛をありがとう) (NTV, 2006)
• Aibou 5 (TV Asahi, 2006, ep1)
• Wakatoryo to Kyuunin no Ko (NHK, 2006)
• Oishii Koroshikata (BS Fuji, 2006)
• Jikou Keisatsu (TV Asahi, 2006, ep5)
• Konya Hitori no Bed de as Jumonji Azusa (TBS, 2005)
• Kyohansha (NTV, 2003)
• Beginner (Fuji TV, 2003)
• Boku ga Chikyu wo Suku as Tsukishima Kyoko (TBS, 2002)
• Koisuru Top Lady as Hasegawa Mizuki (Fuji TV, 2002)
• Shin Hoshi no Kinka (NTV, 2001)
• Wakaresaseya
  Wakaresaseya
  ; are Japanese businesses that specialize in breaking up relationships, often by drawing one of the partners into an affair or by producing other incriminating evidence. For a fee, a customer names a target, and an undercover employee of the company then attempts to initiate an affair with the...
  
  as Mizusawa Chiharu (YTV, 2001)
• Hanamura Daisuke (Fuji TV, 2000, ep11-12)
• Suna no ue no Koibitotachi (Fuji TV, 1999)
• Tengoku no Kiss as Mitarai Asumi (TV Asahi, 1999)
• Tengoku ni Ichiban Chikai Otoko as Tsuyuzaki Koharu (TBS, 1999)
• Genroku Ryoran (NHK, 1999)
• Hashire Komuin (Fuji TV, 1998)
• Ao no Jidai (TBS, 1998)
• Shinryonaikai Ryoko (NTV, 1997)
• Futari (TV Asahi, 1997)
• Kimi ga Jinsei no Toki (TBS, 1997)
• Wakaba no Koro (TBS, 1996)
• Kinjirareta Asobi (NTV, 1995)

External links

• Okina Megumi Official Site
• JMDb profile