Hinako Saeki

Hinako Saeki (佐伯 日菜子, Saeki Hinako) is a Japanese actress who was born on February 16, 1977, in Nara, Japan. Probably her best-known role was as Sadako Yamamura in Rasen, the 1998 sequel to the horror film Ring.

Hinako Saeki
Born	(1977-02-16) February 16, 1977 (age 48) Yamatokoriyama, Nara, Japan
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1994–present
Website	http://www.nifty.com/hinako/

She has also appeared in a handful of other popular Japanese horror films including Uzumaki (2000) which was based on a Junji Ito manga of the same name, and Eko Eko Azaraku: Misa the Dark Angel (1998). In addition, she played a featured role as the character Colonel in Mamoru Oshii's Assault Girls (2009). She also portrayed in Ultraman X as the Underground Woman/Ryoko Mabuse.

She is also familiar in China for her role as Sadako in the sequel to the Hong Kong TV drama series, My Date with a Vampire II.

Personal life

She was previously married to football player Daisuke Oku, though that marriage ended in divorce. He died in a traffic collision on October 17, 2014.^[1]

Filmography

Films

• It's a Summer Vacation Everyday (1994)
• A Quiet Life (1995)
• Eko Eko Azaraku: Misa the Dark Angel (1998)
• Rasen (1998) as Sadako Yamamura
• Uzumaki (2000)
• Assault Girls(2009)
• Aesop's Game (2019)
• Kamaishi Ramen Monogatari (2023)^[2]
• Nightmare Resort (2023)^[3]
• Confetti (2024)^[4]
• Stigmatized Properties 2 (2025)^[5]

Television

• Eko Eko Azarak (1997)^[6]
• My Date with a Vampire II (2000) as Sadako
• Sand Whale and Me (2017) as KFC