Miki Sakai (Sakai Miki, 酒井美紀), born 21 February 1978 inAoi-ku, Shizuoka,^[1]Japan is anactress andJ-popidol singer.

As a teenager she made her feature film debut in the 1995Shunji Iwai filmLove Letter playing the role of Itsuki Fujii as a young girl. The film was a huge box-office success and Miki picked up a number of awards for her role including aJapanese Academy Award for 'Newcomer of the Year'.^[2]

She also starred inHagusen nagashi (1996) on TV as well as in numerous other television series and movies. Miki's portrayal of the character Tomie in the 2001 horror movieTomie: Re-birth was one of the more popular interpretations of the role.

In January 2008, Miki Sakai appeared in the 10-hour long TV historical dramaTokugawa Fūunroku Hachidai Shōgun Yoshimune.

On October 19, 2008, she married a doctor working at a university hospital who is four years older than her.^[3] In October 2009, she announced on her official blog that she was pregnant with her first child, and gave birth to her first son in 2010.^[4]

In 2019, while continuing her acting career, she announced that she had enrolled in a private graduate school in Tokyo.^[5] In March 2023, she reported that she had completed her master's degree in international cooperation studies atToyo Eiwa University.^[6]

• Love Letter (1995), young Itsuki Fujii
• Himeyuri no Tō (1995)
• Nagareita shichinin (1997)
• Abduction (1997), Mayo
• To Love (1997), Mitsu Morita
• Juvenile (2000), Noriko Kinoshita^[7]
• Tomie: Re-birth (2001),Tomie Kawakami
• Samayou Yaiba (2009), Wakako Kijima^[8]
• Kamen Rider OOO Wonderful: The Shogun and the 21 Core Medals (2011)
• Tomie: Unlimited (2011), Tomie (cameo)
• You Are Brilliant Like a Spica (2019)
• Talking the Pictures (2019)
• Akira and Akira (2022)^[9]
• Shinpei (2025), Ms. Kōda^[10]
• Mt. Fuji and Happiness Code (2025), Aya Ando^[11]

• Hakusen Nagashi (1996), Sonoko Nanakura
• Hakusen Nagashi: Spring at Age 19 (1997), Sonoko Nanakura
• Hakusen Nagashi: The Wind at Age 20 (1999), Sonoko Nanakura
• Aoi Tokugawa Sandai (2000),Tokugawa Masako^[12]
• Hakusen Nagashi: The Poem of Travels (2001), Sonoko Nanakura
• Hakusen Nagashi: Age 25 (2003), Sonoko Nanakura
• Hakusen Nagashi: The Final – Even as the Times of Dreaming have Passed (2005), Sonoko Nanakura
• Tokugawa Fūunroku Hachidai Shōgun Yoshimune (2008)
• Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju (2018), Oei
• Because We Forget Everything (2022)^[13]

• Official profile(in Japanese)
• Miki Sakai atIMDb

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