Ai Maeda (前田 愛 Maeda Ai?, born 4 October 1983 in Tokyo) is a Japanese actress, singer and model. She plays Shiori Kitano in Battle Royale II: Requiem. Maeda is skilled in playing the piano, Tate (fighting battles on the movie set) and the English language (Ai studied abroad in Canada for a year in 2000). She starred in the 3-D Ghost horror film Shock Labyrinth 3D,[1] which was directed by Takashi Shimizu.[2] She is a graduate of Aoyama Gakuin University (Faculty of Economics, International Politics and Communications). In 2009, Maeda married Kabuki actor Nakamura Kankurō VI.