An haife ta ne a yankin Kanagawa, Makita ta fara wasan kwaikwayo tun tana shekara 7. A cikin shekara ta 2012, ta fito a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na TV Going My Home wanda Hirokazu Kore-eda ya jagoranta kuma tun daga lokacin ya fara aiki a finafinansa Bayan Ruwa (shekara ta 2016), Kisa na Uku (shekara ta 2017), da Shoplifters (shekara ta 2018). Ta lashe kyauta mafi kyau a sabon fim a Hochi Film Award a cikin shekara ta 2018 don Shino Ba zai iya faɗi Sunanta ba, wanda Hiroaki Yuasa ya jagoranta. Daga nan ta ci lambar yabo ta Film Mainichi ta 2020 don Kyakkyawar Mataimakiyar Jaruma haka kuma ta sami kyautar Hochi Film don mafi kyawun goyan bayan 'yar wasa saboda rawar da ta taka a matsayin matashiya mai ciki a cikin Uwayen Uwar Na'omi Na Kawase, wanda aka zaba don 2020 Cannes Film Festival . Ayyukanta a cikin fim sun sami yabo daga irin waɗannan masu bita kamar waɗanda ke cikin The Guardian, a Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter, da South China Morning Post .