Mao Inoue (井上 真央, Inoue Mao), is a Japanese actress. She is best known to Japanese television drama audiences as Makino Tsukushi in the Boys Over Flowers series and as Sugi Fumi (ja) in the 54th taiga drama Burning Flower. She has also appeared in several films, including I Give My First Love to You, Rebirth, and The Snow White Murder Case.