Keiko Kitagawa Photo Shoot at Paradise Kiss Live Action (2011)

As an actress, she was given the role of Rei Hino in the live action television series of Sailor Moon, which began her acting career. Her first significant film role was in Mamiya Kyōdai, and as result of the influence of the director, Yoshimitsu Morita, she decided to concentrate on acting rather than modeling.[6] She initially concentrated on films, including the leading roles in Cherry Pie and Dear Friends.[9] In late 2007, she had her first leading role in a TV drama, in the late-night drama Mop Girl.[9] In 2008, she was given the role of the heroine in Homeroom on the Beachside, Fuji Television's Monday 9pm drama for the summer season. As this is the headline drama slot for a major network, it represented a major step forward for her career.[6]

She moved to Tokyo when she started working as an actress and model, and has lived there since. She traveled to California for the filming of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and returned there to study English for a couple of months early in 2006.[10] At this time, she started a blog, which she continued until June 2007; the blog was deleted in July 2007.[11] From May to December 2007, she wrote a column entitled Keytan Hakusho for the Japanese weekly television listings magazine Weekly The Television.[9] ("Kii-tan" was her nickname at elementary school.[12] "Hakusho" means "white paper".) She started a new blog at the end of May 2008, shortly before her role in Homeroom on the Beachside was announced.





Movies

* Paradise Kiss Live Action (2011)
* Matataki / Blink as Sonoda Izumi (2010)
* Shikeidai no Elevator / Elevator To The Gallows (2010)
* Hana no Ato / After The Flowers as Ito (2010)
* Watashi Dasuwa / It's On Me (2009)
* Manatsu no Orion / Orion in Midsummer as Shizuko/Izumi (2009)
* Handsome Suit as Hoshino Hiroko (2008)
* Southbound as Uehara Youko (2007)
* Sono Toki wa Kare ni Yoroshiku / Say Hello For Me as Katsuraki Momoko(2007)
* Heat Island as Nao (2007)
* Dear Friends as Rina (2007)
* Cherry Pie as Kiyohara (2006)
* The Fast and The Furious 3: Tokyo Drift as Reiko (2006)
* Mamiya Kyoudai as Honma Yumi (2006)
* Mizu ni Sumu Hana/Romance of Darkness as Mizuchi Rikka (2006)
* Kirari Super Live as Hino Rei/Sailor Mars (2004)