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born January 31, 1961, is a Japanese singer and actress. After being discovered by the talent-search show Star Tanjō!, she received a newcomer award at the 20th Japan Record Awards (1978). She has been selected to compete twice on the NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen.
Born in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, she is the elder sister of actresses Yōko Ishino and .
Ishino is affiliated with From First Production Co., Ltd.
She moved on to Yuri Gakuin High School in April 1976. The father set a strict 4:30PM curfew and needed to phone if running late due to extracurricular club activities. After being recruited to become singer, she transferred to Horikoshi High School (showbiz course) starting from the 3rd trimester of the 3rd (graduating) year of high school.
She submitted her application to try out on the Star Tanjō! show in the 1st year of High School at the recommendation of a music school teacher, with the permission from the father who was certain she would not qualify anyway. Ishino made her TV appearance in Star Tanjō! (Osaka) in February 1977, singing Daniele Vidal's Tenshi no rakugaki ("Aime ceux qui t'aiment"), and becoming Osaka regional champion, with an overwhelming score of 530 points (1000 points are divided among 4 contestants). Then in the national grand tournament (Tokyo) that aired in April 1977, she became grand champion, which was followed by various agencies' offers to sign her. She decided to join Burning Production, which had already offered to sign her even she didn't become national champion.
Her signature facial feature since debut was notably her yaeba (double-teeth Maxillary canine) and tare-me (drooping eyed-ness), and her double-teeth image endured on, even though she had corrective dental surgery to align her teeth by 1985.
On 27 August, she held a concert at Seibuen, extra="Who's afraid of the homework/10,000 person grand assembly".
Her extra="Jilted love memorial day" (5 October 1978) her third single, which won her the newcomer award at the year's-end 20th Japan Record Awards (31 December 1978). 。
Other accolades leading up to this are the newcomer award at the Japan Music Awards () in November, gold medal at the Shinjuku Music Festival on 12 October, and the newcomer award at the on 25 October.
She also received her first film role in the film adaptation of the Akutagawa Prize-winning 's novel (released December). Playing opposite , she performed a kissing scene; but as she was not familiar with men and never kissed before, it was quite trying, and though the scene was ok'd at the first cut, she was welling with tears afterwards. Bessatsu Kindai Eiga 別冊近代映画. (Autumn issue: Mako Ishino Special Issue 秋の号 石野真子特集号), 25 December 1978.
She was cast in the TV series (aired February 1979).
Her subsequent discography includes ("Sunday is a stranger", 4th single, 25 January 1979), (5th song, 5 April), (6th song, 5 July), ("Jurī aka Kenji Sawada is the rival", 7th song, 25 September).
She won "Golden Dove" for best second year achievement at the 5th Annual Nippon Television Music Festival in August, 1979, having co-won the rookie award the previous year.
She appeared in the Kōhaku Uta Gassen tournament on New Year's Eve, 1979, singing "Jurī is the rival" as the first contestant.
Her ("Spring la la la!l", 8th single, 1 January 1980), with 160,000 in sales was her all time best hit, followed by ("My heart is my game", 9th single, 5 April 1980), which achieved her highest Oricon chart ranking at 15th place.
In March she graduated from Horikoshi High School, having been held back 1 year. She was cast in the TV series ("Compassion hill inn", aired starting 21 March) where 3 generations of proprietresses were portrayed by Isuzu Yamada, Etsuko Ichihara and Ishino.
Ishino replaced female host Ikue Sakakibara opposite Yosuke Tagawa for the NHK music show in April 1980, staying on til March 1981.
She was cast in the slot for Oyomechan ("little bride girl", aired starting 25 May 1980), co-starring So Yamamura, , script by 折戸伸弘, directed by , and legendary as producer.
Her ("Vertigo", 10th single, 5 July 1980) appeared.
She was again recipient at the 6th Annual Nippon Television Music Festival in August, 1980, this time garnering the Top Idol prize.
She released ("He's my first love", 11th single, 21 September 1980) followed by (12th single, 21 September 1980).
She was selected for the Kōhaku Uta Gassen for the second year in a row, singing Hāto de shōbu.
She released ("Samba with all I've got", 13th single, 5 February 1981), followed by ("Season of coloration", 14th single, 21 April 1981),
Mid March 1981, Ishino and Kyu Sakamoto became the new emcees for the "Star Tanjō!" talent-seeking show.
She released (15th single, 21 June 1981), followed by (16th single, 21 July 1981) which will be her last as idol.
She performed her farewell tour down and across the country, starting from Kanazawa, Ishikawa on 26 July, culminating in the final concert of 30 August at Shibuya Public Hall in Tokyo, which was telecast live.
Ishino married Nagabuchi in Hawaii in January 1982, but the marriage did not last. She separated in March 1983 and officially divorced in May.
Ishino played the middle of three sisters in the TV drama , where the eldest sister played by Asami Kobayashi was the lead role.
She released her first single after a 4 year hiatus with ("Encounter", 19th single released 21 June 1985).
She was cast in the part of the younger sister of the lead actress in ("Life", started 5 January 1986), the year-long NHK Taiga drama for that year. Ishino portrayed Sachi, who had a crippled leg from a Tokyo air raid. In later years, the rerun of Inochi became a huge hit in Cuba with an 80% rating, and Ishino became the most well-known Japanese personality in that country.,
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On 21 July 1987 she released ("Glass Ferris Wheel"), followed in 21 October by ("Glass Ferris Wheel").
Her second marriage in 1990 to lasted until 1996.
Ishino was cast in the role of Swan Shiratori in the original Japanese Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger (2004–2005). The show was remade into the American version Power Rangers S.P.D. soon after, and back-imported into Japan, dubbed, in 2011, with Ishino as the voice of the narrator. Ishino returned in the role of Swan in the 2024 feature film .
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