Mayu Tsuruta

Mayu Tsuruta (鶴田 真由, born April 25, 1970 in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan) is an actress. In 1996 she was nominated by the Award of the Japanese Academy for Best Supporting Actress in the film Kike wadatsumi no koe Last Friends. Following the chaos of Kenya's 2007 presidential election, on March 30, 2008, she visited thousands of internal refugees at Kenya's Nakuru ASK grounds, as a goodwill ambassador for Tokyo International Conference on African Development. While surveying the situation at the refugee camp, she spent time with several families and helped distribute food aid.

Filmography

• 卒業旅行　ニホンから来ました (Sotsugyo ryoko: Nihon kara kimashita) (1994)
• きけ、わだつみの声　Last Friends (Kike wadatsumi no koe Last Friends, 1995)
• Owls' Castle (梟の城, 1999)
• Mr. Rookie (ミスター・ルーキー, 2002)
• Half a Confession (Hanochi, 2004)
• Year One in the North (北の零年, 2005)
• Katenkoru (2005)
• Marumo no Okite
• The Ravine of Goodbye (2013)
• Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura (2017)
• Umi wo Kakeru (2018)
• Katsu Fūtarō!! (2019)

External links

• (in Japanese) tsurutamayu.com
• (in English) Mayu Tsuruta at IMDb
• (in Japanese) JMDb profile