Mari Yamamoto
Actor · Born February 4, 1986 (40) · Tokyo, Japan
Mari Yamamoto is a Japanese actress and journalist. Born in Japan, Yamamoto would move with her family to London in 1991, before eventually returning to live in Tokyo in 1994 at the age of 8. She described the experience as akin to being an outsider, where she'd be considered "very Japanese everywhere in the world" but "wasn’t quite Japanese enough" in Japan itself. Yamamoto would study international relations at the International Christian University in Tokyo, where she would obtain her Bachelor of Arts, before moving to New York City to study method acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. During this time she was also part of The Bats acting company at The Flea Theater. She returned to Tokyo following this, and began working in journalism, writing articles for The Daily Beast alongside American journalist Jake Adelstein. Adelstein's book Tokyo Vice was being adapted into a television series for HBO Max, which would see Yamamoto recruited to work on the show's writing staff. She would become a producer on the series in its second season. In 2022, Yamamoto starred in a recurring role in the Apple TV+ series Pachinko as Hana. That same year she would join the cast of Apple's Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. In March 2024, she was cast to star opposite Brendan Fraser in the film Rental Family.
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Biography from TMDB.
- February 4, 1986 (40)
- Tokyo, Japan
- Actor
- 7 on MovieCove · 13 credits in all
What are Mari Yamamoto's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 4
Light 3 · Serious 0 · Dark 1
Grounded 3 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 1
Gentle 0 · Charged 3 · Intense 1
Steady 2 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 1 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 1
A split, not a type: Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 1
Casual 0 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 1
Resolved 2 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet2
- Ambiguous2
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Mari Yamamoto's films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 7 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Mari Yamamoto's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
13 credits, 7 with a MovieCove page.
Rental Family(2025)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all shows
Story Game(2020)
Midcredits score: 15th percentile of all films
Tokyo Vice(2022)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all shows
Pachinko(2022)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows
Kate(2021)
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
Not to Be Unpleasant But We Need to Have a Serious Talk (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Surfer's Paradise (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Coin Lunch (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Jimami Tofu (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
The Last Dream (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Bourek(2015)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
Allure (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Career shape
Star power in the 86th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 13 titles from 2014 to 2025; peak year 2025.
Biggest box office
Rental Family (2025)
Highest rated
Rental Family (2025)
Most popular right now
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023)
Film career
Peak 2025 · steadily prominent in film for years. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 2021Screen debut· Kate
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Mari Yamamoto's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 64th percentile, the median of all 4; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 51st percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 50th to 74th3
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
4 of their 7 titles are Universally Loved.
- Universally Loved4
- Crowd Pleaser1
- Mixed2
Reviewers score the acting 71/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 79, detractors 37. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Mari Yamamoto's work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 3 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Mari Yamamoto work with?
People who share at least 2 of Mari Yamamoto's MovieCove titles; Takehiro Hira shares the most, 2.
- Takehiro HiraShared titles: Rental Family (2025), Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Takehiro Hira
