Welcome to Maki Sekaijuu!
This is a website dedicated to the beautiful young Japanese actress and model, Horikita Maki!

Warning: Some of the texts are not written by us since we are not English speakers,
but we put the credits when it is the case.

Horikita Maki's biography

Born October 6th, 1988 in Tokyo (Japan), in the town of Kiyose, Horikita Maki got into showbiz when she was 14.

A talent scout, who had seen her out and about, came knocking at her door.

“They wanted me to audition for a movie, even though I had never done any acting. My parents were very surprised when I passed the audition and got the role. They weren't really sure I could make it in show business. It wasn't until I started to make a lot of appearances in magazines and on TV that they finally accepted it as my career.”


Since 2003, the busy Horikita has appeared in a stream of movies and TV dramas, winning several awards along the way, including best newcomer at the 2008 Japan Academy Awards for "Always: Sunset on Third Street," and best actress at the 2008 Television Academy Awards for "Hanazakari no Kimitachi e."

In 2007, Vogue named her as one of 11 recipients of Women of the Year, and last year, she was chosen as "Best Leathernist" for looking the best in leather.


On TV, Horikita has appeared in commercials for such companies as NTT DoCoMo, Shiseido, Honda, Suntory, Fujifilm, Nintendo and many, many more.


“The best thing about my job is that I get to know my own weaknesses.”
“Everyone can see my work, so there is the pressure. I feel motivated to work harder and grow.”


Horikita's voice is in demand, too. She has done voice acting for Doraemon animated films and the Professor Layton video game series (as Luke), the most recent of which was December's animated feature "Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva."

“I really love the video game series. The challenging part is that I have to act out the child's cuteness, his carelessness and his naivety through my voice. Although I have been doing the voices for the video game series since 2006, an animated feature requires me to be more particular about the way I speak.”


Horikita has just completed her most ambitious project to date – a movie in which nearly half her dialogue is in English. "Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesia" is directed by Hans Canosa ("Conversations With Other Women") and co-stars Anton Yelchin (of "Star Trek" and "Terminator 4" fame) and Emma Roberts ("Unfabulous"). Horikita plays a student at an international school in Tokyo, who falls down the stairs and loses four years of her memory.

“Learning English was tricky at first; I had to get used to scripts that were written horizontally rather than vertically. There was a lot of memorizing and I worked hard since I could not say no. I had some help from a dialogue coach, who was Japanese. Overall, it was a challenging few months but I feel a sense of achievement.”


On the rare days when she is not working, Horikita says she likes to indulge her hobby of photography, go shopping in Shibuya or just hang out at home.
She keeps in touch with her fans on her blog throughout the day whenever she has time.

Of the news issues which concern her most, Horikita's answer is the weather.
Not climate or global warming?

“No, the weather, because that affects my day-to-day routine. If I have to do an outdoor shoot, and it's raining, that makes a difference.”


Written by Chris Betros @Japan Today

Memories :























- When she was young, she wanted to become Sailormoon, a female ninja, a policewoman, and a rich person.
- In her junior school years, she served as student council vice-president and vice-captain of the basketball club.
- As she became more active in the entertainment industry, she put her club and council activities on hold. Being unable to meet her many commitments, she finally withdrew from her school activities after much deliberation.
- In middle school, she had a boyfriend of three years.
- In middle school, she was described as the “Boss of 3-C”.
- On her days off, she generally spends it outdoors. Shopping with friends or going to the karaoke for example.
- Her household consists of 5 people: her father, mother and her two younger sisters. She treasures her family and enjoys spending time with them.
- When her father was in high school, he was part of the football (soccer) club and sumo club. While still a junior school student, he joined a female football team that was created for the sake of tournament. He also has swimming school experience.
- While she was in junior school, she preferred to play Dragon Ball with the boys more than playing with the girls. (This was because with the girls, she couldn’t play the princess the way she wanted in the princess make-believe games)
- In middle school, she enjoyed playing basketball or baseball with her friends on holidays.
- She’s bad at things like variety show talks, and one could see that she’s often at a loss for a response.
- She has poor eyesight, and because she uses contact lens she has said that her eyes get dry from things like photographic sessions.
- She has a preference for Japanese food.
- Her hobby is reading, and she really enjoys reading from authors like Ekuni Kaori, Onda Riku, and Alex Shearer. Her favourite manga is “Seito Shokun!” (She doesn’t usually read manga. In primary school, her friend invited her to join the manga club which ended up being a regrettable episode in her childhood.)
- She has an independent character, one that refuses to lose under any circumstance.
- She’s really bad at the Yamanote-sen Game. (The Yamanote-sen Game basically has a group of people and one person starts off by deciding a topic. After that, participants name elements relating to that topic in turn. The person who takes too long or repeats an answer loses.)
- Her favourite subject is English. She’s not very good with mathematics.
- She’s highly capable of reading the questioner’s mind, making her see through the answers in multiple-choice tests. She has mentioned that she can score 40 points on multiple-choice questions alone. (A good proportion of the correct answers in the national language test are “u”, according to her)****
- She’s under the same agency as Kuroki Meisa and is good friends with her. A year and a half since graduating from middle school, they were on living terms at the agency’s dormitories. (from SPA!) She is highly appreciative of Meisa’s leading stage roles in “Atami Satsujin Jiken (Atami Murder Case)” and “Azumi”.*****
- She is fond of peace overall, she loves yukatas and kimonos, and having them on in photographs and such makes her appear extremely happy.
- She’s weak at drawing pictures and was told by Yamashita Tomohisa that she has “no artistic drawing talent”. She also drew a picture in “SCHOOL OF LOCK!”
- She likes the artists, SMAP, EXILE, Hirai Ken, SPITZ, Gospellers, and such.
- She was brought together with Yamashita Tomohisa and Kamenashi Kazuya at one time through Nobuta. wo Produce, and enjoys watching SUMMARY (Johnny’s Agency Entertainment Show). She has on occasions gone to see EXILE, Hirai Ken and D-51 lives.

These information come from D-addict.