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Capital: Tokyo
Population: 126.450.000 (10th)
Continent: Asia
Capital: Tokyo
Population: 126.450.000 (10th)
Continent: Asia
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- Tokyo born Araki Yuuko came to the mortal coil as Ishii Yuko on 15.12.1993. She was born in the capital city, but lived in Kanagawa for a couple of years. She is managed by Stardust Promotion and was recruited while in fifth-grade and eleven years old at Takeshita street of Harajuku in 2004. Her debut leading film role was Ikari O Nagero in May 2008 and her first leading television serial role was Fuji Television's Love Love Alien in 2016. She became an exclusive model for the magazine Non-No. She released her first photograph book, entitled Girlfriend, in 2017. She attended both Ferris and Keisen Universities. She was adored for her fans also because she promised to reply to all messages on her blogs. She loves Momoiro Clover Z, Angerne and Morning Musume. She has been a member of the cult group Happy Science since childhood. Consequently, she has never been on a date with any man, which is perhaps ironic became the religion claims its mission is to make everybody happy.
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Sumire Matsubara, better known for her stage name Sumire, is a Japanese actress, singer and fashion model known for The Shack (2017). She was born on July 15, 1990 and is the daughter of entertainers Junichi Ishida and Chiaki Matsubara. Sumire attended Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.- Actress
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Marina Inoue was born on 20 January 1985 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Attack on Titan (2013), Gurren Lagann (2007) and Darling in the Franxx (2018).- Actress
Born in Tokyo, Japan Tsuchiya Tao received her first break in Tokyo Sonata, which would go on to become a popular movie and even win the Un Certain Regard - Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008. Prior to that she had appeared in a 2007 commercial for Gamesoft. She was chosen for the commercial after auditioning at 2005's Super Heroine Audition Miss Phoenix. Renbutsu Misako won the contest, Sekido Yuki and Mizutani Riho were runners-up, but Tao ranked third, alongside Takagi Koto and Kawaharada Maari, which accorded her a management contract. She attended an all-girl high school. She continued to act in movies and on television including the Rurouni Kenshin adaptation where she played a boyish heiress to a dojo and in NHK's Mare in 2015 where they reportedly picked her out of over 2,000 auditioning actresses. She was romantically linked to co-star Yamazaki Kento in 2016 and 2017, but a relationship was not confirmed. They remained silent after being photographed together outside a barbecue restaurant late one night. She was awarded the Newcomer Of The Year award at the 39th Japan Academy Prize in 2016 for her role in Orange. She has a blog she updates daily. It became news when one day in 2016 she did not update it with a post. She was the dancer in Sia's Arrive video and sang the theme song for the Ballerina anime in 2017. Tao has had surgery for ankyloglossia in order to speak and enunciate better. She lists playing the flute, piano and shamisen as well as dancing as skills and loves to ski, read and watch films. Her younger brother is actor Tsuchiya Shimba who is two years younger than her. She herself is two years younger than her sister. Her given name was inspired by a dream her mother had while pregnant, which included a girl with the unusual name Tao. Tao means 'Phoenix,' which she took as an omen when auditioning in 2005.- Actress
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Tao Okamoto born in Chiba, Japan on May 22, 1985, known professionally as Tao, is a Japanese actress and model. In 2009, she was one of the faces of Ralph Lauren. She made her film debut in 2013 as Mariko Yashida, the female lead, in The Wolverine (2013). She also had recurring roles in the television series Hannibal (2013), The Man in the High Castle (2015) and Westworld (2016). . She started modeling as a teenager in Japan, when she was 14 years old. In 2006, she made a decision to move to Paris and develop her career on an international level. Soon after that, Tao made her debut on the European runways, breaking barriers as one of the very few prominent East Asian models of that era. Through her long catwalk career, she has walked for numerous top brands, including Alexander Wang, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, Louis Vuitton, Michael Kors, Miu Miu, Ralph Lauren, and Yves Saint Laurent. In 2009, Tao moved to New York City and made waves in the industry by donning a unique bowl haircut. It became an inspirational look and even prompted designer Phillip Lim to model the hairstyle of his entire Fall/Winter 2009 show's cast after Tao's cut.] Tao has been involved with various advertising and editorial projects. She has fronted campaigns such as Dolce & Gabbana with Mario Testino, Emporio Armani by Alasdair McLellan, Kenzo with Mario Sorrenti, and Tommy Hilfiger with Craig McDean. Editorially, she has shot for i-D Magazine, V Magazine, W Magazine, and various international editions of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. The November 2009 issue of Vogue Nippon (Japanese Vogue) is dedicated to Tao, with her featured exclusively inside as well as on the cover - the first Japanese model to do so in nearly a decade. Tao is widely recognized as one of the top models to ever come from Japan, having won honors such as "Model of the Year" from the Japan Fashion Editor's Club and being dubbed as one of Vogue Nippon's "Women of the Year" in 2010. In 2013, Tao made her film debut as the female lead, Mariko Yashida, opposite Hugh Jackman, in 20th Century Fox's The Wolverine (2013), also known in some parts of Asia as Wolverine: Samurai. In October 2014, it was announced that Tao had joined the cast of Hannibal (2013) as Chiyoh, Hannibal Lecter's family servant. In January 2015, it was announced that Tao would be starring in the film Crossroads (2015) with Filipino actress/cosplayer Alodia Gosiengfiao In 2015, Tao starred in The Man in the High Castle (2015) as Betty Kasoura, wife of lawyer Paul Kasoura and a customer at Robert Childan's American Artistic Handcrafts. Tao played Mercy Graves in the 2016 film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016).- Actress
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Kang Jiyoung, born on Paju (Gyeonggi-do), South Korea at January 18, 1994. Jiyoung is the youngest between her other two sisters. She attended Bongilcheon Middle School and Muhak Women's High School where she graduated in February, 2012. In 2008, with only 14 years old, Jiyoung joined the south Korean girl group Kara on it's second formation, and debuted as singer and maknae. On January, 2014 was announced that Jiyoung was going to leave the group, after 5 years as member. After her contract with DSP ended in April, 2014 Jiyoung left Korea and went to London to study english and acting. In August, 2014 Jiyoung signed with the Japanese agency SweetPower to work as actress and model. Her first job as actress in Japan was in the live action Hell Teacher Nube, as Yukime. With this job, Jiyoung got her first nomination to an award as supporting actress at the 83rd Drama Academy Awards.- Shioli Kutsuna was born in Australia, but moved to Japan at age 14 in order to pursue a career in acting.
Shioli won the 11th Japan Bishojo Contest in 2006. This award honors the most beautiful young girl in Japan. Her first role came the following year when she was a member of the cast of 3 Nen B Gumi Kinpachi Sensei 8, which was a TBD TV school drama. Two years later she achieved a main character role for the serial Tsugumi Nitobe in 7 Mannin Tantei Nitobe. In that year she also appeared in her first movie, Guardian Angel. Her appearance in Back Pages garnered her the 85th Kinema Junpo Award for Best Actress in 2010.
Shioli graduated from Horikoshi High School in Tokyo in 2011, but dropped out of Asia University, where she was starting Arts, in 2013 in advance of her third year due to the pressures of acting, thus breaking an earlier vow to persist no matter what.
She has won several other awards since her earlier ones including 9th Clarino Beautiful Legs Award in the teen category in 2011 and Newcomer Of The Year, which came in 2014, some five years after she began her career, at the 37th Japan Academy Prize. She was one of four girls on the road in Petaru Dansu and was cast in the Hollywood production for a Deadpool sequel, scheduled for release in 2018.
It was reported that she was dating actor Shôta Matsuda in 2013. Shioli has done quite a bit of corporate advertising for companies such as Epson, MOS Burger and Pocky and others. She suffered some blow-back for the Pocky work due to the popularity of her predecessor, Yui Aragaki. She is represented by Oscar Promotion. - Deliciously lithe, busty, and enticing brunette knockout Hiromi Oshima was born on January 6, 1980 in Tokyo, Japan. Oshima has a B.A. in communications and speaks fluent English, Spanish, and Japanese. She eventually moved to Miami Beach, Florida and first tried out for "Playboy" magazine scouts for the 50th Anniversary Playmate Hunt. After posing for a couple of newsstand special editions and being featured in a pictorial in the December, 2003 issue of the famous men's magazine, Hiromi was chosen to be the Playmate of the Month for June, 2004. Oshima has the distinction of being the first Japanese woman to be a Playmate. She went on to pose for a few more newsstand special editions and has appeared in several "Playboy" videos. Moreover, Hiromi was the January girl in the 2005 "Playmates at Play at the Playboy Mansion" swimsuit calendar. Outside of modeling, Oshima has also worked as a photo production coordinator, stylist, and producer for a number of magazine covers and photo shoots. She appeared as herself both in the comedy film "The House Bunny" and on the realty TV series "The Girls Next Door." Hiromi is featured in the music video for "Shake Ya Tailfeather" by Nelly, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, and Murphy Lee. She has small roles in the movies "Bchelor Party 2: The Last Temptation" and "Race to Witch Mountain."
- Keiko Kitagawa, very commonly known as Sailor Mars in the live action series of Sailor Moon, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (PGSM), is a seventeen magazine model turned actress and singer. Born on August 22nd 1986 in Hyogo Perfecture, Japan, Keiko has a lived an unexpected life. From growing up in Kobe and losing many friends in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake to being uncertain about her childhood dream of being a doctor. Fortunately, fate had other plans for Keiko when she was scouted by a talent agency who recognized her as a born star. Approval from her parents was not an easy task because their main concern was her studies and having her graduate from a university. In the end, Keiko proved to be victorious winning Miss Seventeen 2003 and landing a modeling contract until 2006. During that time, Keiko won the role of Rei Hino aka Sailor Mars in the live action series of Sailor Moon, her first acting role. After that famous role, she starred in a numerous of movies. One in particular was Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, in which she had a small role but had a chance to come to the United States for filming and premiers. This journey to the US prompted her to study the English language and now she is fluent in English. Keiko continues her studies and is majoring in Commercial Science at Meiji University in Tokyo. In 2007 she is working on 5 new projects and one of them is a new drama series, Mop Girl now playing on Asahi TV.
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Gina Hiraizumi recurs on Season 3 of the hit HBO Max series, Doom Patrol (2019). An adaptation of the DC Universe series, she brings to life "The Quiz," a passionate, fearless enigma that viewers are alternately introduced to as the Japanese speaking "Sachiko." The most powerful force of the Sisterhood of the Dada, her storyline spans the Spanish Flu in the early 1900's to modern day. The show has been renewed for another season on HBO Max in 2022.
Doom Patrol (2019) Writer/Producer, Shoshana Sachi quotes: "I remember seeing her audition and being so captivated. Every subtle shift in her emotion is played with such careful deliberation. She embodied 'The Quiz' so wonderfully and made my words so much more special and nuanced - speaking them like the contemplative artist, The Quiz is."
On the season premiere of Dynasty (2017) on The CW, Hiraizumi plays the wealthy and sophisticated, "Barbara." Inside the upscale atmosphere of the Carrington Manor, playing a Venture Capitalist businesswoman came a natural fit - her real life ancestry stems from all entrepreneurs and business professionals.
Other 2021 TV credits include the AMC/Shudder series, Creepshow (2019) by Showrunner Greg Nicotero of the hit AMC series, The Walking Dead (2010) followed by the NBC series, Mr. Mayor (2021) and Good Girls (2018). Hiraizumi also guested on one of the last episodes of the final season of Hawaii Five-0 (2010) on CBS.
A fan favorite for Lifetime Television, Gina has starred in over 15 Television movies - most notably The Wrong Real Estate Agent (2021) where she plays CEO to a mortgage firm, and best friend to Vivica A. Fox.
The eldest of 3 sisters, Hiraizumi grew up in Los Angeles, CA while spending summer education in Tokyo in her childhood. Bilingual with an unparalleled eloquence in English and Japanese, she attended regular American school plus 2 private Japanese schools 6x a week. From pre-school to 12th grade, being raised under an extreme, Japanese-style discipline and work ethic has paid off immeasurable dividends in her adult career. Also a classically trained Pianist, she trained for over 10 years at Yamaha Music. Hiraizumi's classical background eventually led her to The Juilliard School, where she honed her passion for vocal performance.
While living in New York City, she sang the the National Anthem at Madison Square Garden, and eventually led her to Los Angeles Clippers at The Staples Center and for Los Angeles Dodgers at The Dodger Stadium.
Coming from a multigenerational lineage of successful entrepreneurs, her father was CEO of a travel agency for over 40 years, allowing the family to live an international lifestyle. Her parents owned several companies, and growing up in mature business settings by default allowed her to gain a visceral knowledge of entrepreneurship from a young age.
Hiraizumi is a passionate advocate around the subject of Infertility and IVF, completely transparent and unashamed in sharing her story of multiple miscarriages, in trying to conceive naturally with her husband. Joining the many other celebrities that continue to be an advocate - she hopes her story will continue to remove the stigma, to support the millions of women in similar situations, that they are not alone. She gave birth to a healthy baby girl, Brooke in 2021.- Actress
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Sora Amamiya is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Tokyo, Japan. She is affiliated with the talent agency Music Ray'n. After passing an audition held by Music Ray'n, she made her voice acting debut in 2012. She played her first main role as Kaori Fujimiya in the 2014 anime television series One Week Friends. Some of her anime roles include Elizabeth Liones in The Seven Deadly Sins, Touka Kirishima in Tokyo Ghoul, Asseylum Vers Allusia in Aldnoah.Zero, Chizuru Mizuhara in Rent-A-Girlfriend, Akame in Akame ga Kill!, Aqua in KonoSuba, Isla in Plastic Memories, Mayuri in Date A Live: The Movie - Mayuri Judgement, Hitomi Uzaki in Killing Bites, Miia in Monster Musume, and Ayame Himuro in Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It. She also performed theme songs for various anime she has acted in. In 2015, she received the Best Rookie Actress Award at the 9th Seiyu Awards. Amamiya is a member of the music unit TrySail, along with voice actresses Momo Asakura and Shiina Natsukawa. She is also active as a solo singer, having released three albums, two compilation albums, and one cover album as of 2022. Her music career has been influenced by various inspirations, including among others CD covers and foreign styles of music.- Actress
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Chiaki Kuriyama was born on October 10, 1984 in Tsuchiura, Japan. She was a popular model during Japan's child model boom in the mid-90s. In 1997, she appeared in the photo books Girl of Myth & Girl's Residence, which were photographed by Kishin Shinoyama. Girl of Myth became a best-seller but as it contained some nudity, it was discontinued by the publisher in 1999 after the institution of new anti-child pornography laws. She also posed as a model for the child fashion magazines Nicola & Pichi Lemon.- Actress
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Ko Shibasaki was born on August 5, 1981 in Tokyo. Her real name is Yukie Yamamura (Ko Shibasaki is a main character of her favorite manga). She started her career at 14 when her talent was discovered by a star agent. She has worked in many TV shows and commercials, starting to become more famous thanks to her excellent performance in the movie Battle Royale (2000) as Mitsuko Soma. She has reached a star status not only in Japan, but all over East Asia. She has also been singing since 2002, releasing her first single, "Trust My Feelings". However, her singing skills were only recognized with her second single, "Tsuki no Shizuku", a song used for the movie Yomigaeri (2002) that was one of the best J-Pop hits of 2003. She is considered one of the glamorous queen of drama, earning millions of yens and going out with bad boys.- Actress
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Grace Asakura was born in Japan. She is an actress and writer, known for NCIS: Los Angeles (2009), Dear Mr. Wrong (2017) and Family Business (2015).- Actress
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Sonoya Mizuno's a Japanese-born English actress, model & ballet dancer. She was born on July 1, 1986 in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from the Royal Ballet School.
She has starred in Ex Machina (2014), Annihilation (2018) & Devs (2020). She had minor roles in La La Land (2016), Beauty and the Beast (2017) & Crazy Rich Asians (2018). She also starred in Maniac (2018) & is set to appear in House of the Dragon (2022).- Actress
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Known best for her work on Disney's "Hannah Montana" as Miley's snobby socialite friend, Traci Van Horn. As a voiceover artist, Hiromi has spanned the networks, portraying characters for Nickelodeon, MTV, Disney, Warner Brothers, Lego and DC. She started her career in Seattle, where she was nominated for a regional Emmy as a teen reporter. Hiromi was born on an American naval base in Yokosuka, Japan.- Actress
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Tamlyn Tomita was born on 27 January 1966 in Okinawa, Japan. She is an actress and writer, known for The Day After Tomorrow (2004), The Karate Kid Part II (1986) and The Eye (2008). She is married to Daniel Blinkoff.- Haruka Ayase was born Aya Tademaru in Hiroshima on March 24, 1985. She's a former gravure idol who has gone on to become a mainstream model, singer & actress. She was athletic during her school days & participated in several sports. She began acting with an appearance in NTV TV's "The Files of the Young Kindaichi 3 (2001)" starring Jun Matsumoto in 2001, the short film Justice in 2002, the feature-length Jam Films of 2002 and finally Amemasu No Kawa in 2004. Her debut single, called Piriodo, was released in 2006, making the Japanese charts' top 10. She has subsequently appeared in diverse roles such as a teacher in Oppai Volleyball, as a cyborg in My Girlfriend Is A Cyborg, a blind masseuse in the historical action film Ichi and as a nurse in the Edo period drama, Jin.
Due to the roles as well as her physical appearance, she has become a popular figure in Japan, the subject of photo books, a corporate spokesperson & hostess of many TV shows. She has won several awards & has been nominated for more.
She's signed to the Horipro Talent Agency, where she got her start after competing in the 25th Horipro Talent Scout Caravan upon moving to Tokyo. She cites karaoke as one of her favorite pastimes. - Actress
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Kugimiya Rie is a Japanese seiyuu and singer. She is legendary having been a top seiyuu since just a few years after her debut for 2 decades. She began her career as a Seiyuu in 1998. In 2008, she won Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 2nd Seiyuu Awards alongside Saiga Mitsuki. In 2009, she won Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 3rd Seiyuu Awards. She is recently known for portraying Kotarou Satou in Kotaro Lives Alone , Happy in Edens Zero , and Aguri "Cure Ace" Madoka in the Pretty Cure anime franchise, but she is She is most known for being featured as Tsundere protagonists such as Taiga Aisaka in Toradora! (for which she won the Best Actress award at the Seiyuu Awards), Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière in The Familiar of Zero and Shana in Shakugan no Shana. Her versatility has allowed her to interpret other types of characters with equal mastery, including Happy in Fairy Tail, Ronnie Anne Santiago in the Japanese-dubbed Version of The Loud House, Nagi Sanzenin in Hayate the Combat Butler, Keenan Crier in Digimon Data Squad, Alphonse Elric and Catherine Elle Armstrong in Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, among many others.
On May 30, 2022 (her 43rd birthday), she opened a Twitter account. Her second tweet featured a photo with fellow seiyuu Imai Asami and Numakura Manami. She is also a member of the seiyuu idol unit "BRIGHT DIAMOND" related to "THE IDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE!" game franchise and a member of the seiyuu idol unit "765PRO ALLSTARS" which are both related to The "iDOLM@STER" mixed media project. She was a member of the seiyuu idol duo TeamAA with Sakura Ayane related to the anime Aria the Scarlet Ammo AA (2015). She was a member of the seiyuu idol duo BibleArt with Suwa Ayaka related to the anime Trinity Seven. She was a member of the seiyuu idol unit "Samurai Girls" related to the anime of the same name (2010). She was a member of the seiyuu idol unit "Atena" related to the anime Burn Up Scramble (2004).- Actress
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From Tokyo, Japan. Her father being a journalist, she had an international childhood living in Washington D.C., Brussels, and Tokyo. Mayumi Yoshida is known for her role as Crown Princess (The Man in The High Castle) which got her a nomination for Best Emerging Actor at UBCP Awards. Her other recent acting credits include The Terror: Infamy (AMC) and The Good Doctor (ABC). She is also an award winning writer/director. Her latest film TOKYO LOVERS has won Best Performance Award at Vancouver Asian Film Festival, and her directorial debut film AKASHI has won Outstanding Writer at NBCUniversal Short Film Festival, Best Female Director at Vancouver Short Film Festival, Matrix Award at the Vancouver Women in Film Festival and many more internationally. She recently received 2019's Newcomer award at Vancouver Women in Film Festival's Spotlight awards for her success in multiple fields. She just finished her Harold Greenberg funded short film "In Loving Memory" co-directed with Diana Bang and written/starring Andrea Bang.- Actress
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Kudoh Yuki is an accomplished Japanese singer, former teen idol and actress whose resume includes more than half a dozen records, starring roles in Japanese, Japan-Iran and Japan-Canada films, stage and anime productions. She was only seventeen when she was working overseas, in the USA, filming a movie called Mystery Train, a film she has cited as her favourite role. Born on January 17th, 1971, Kudoh won acclaim as early as 1984 as the Best Newcomer at the sixth Yokohama Film Festival for her first feature length appearance, which was for the film The Crazy Family. Kudoh has spoken both about feminism and breaking free from Japan's male-dominated culture and simultaneously pleaded in favour of distinct Japanese values and aesthetics in film and culture.- Actress
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Aoi Yûki was born on 27 March 1992 in Chiba, Japan. She is an actress, known for Your Name. (2016), Erased (2016) and A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016).- Aya Takanashi was born on 18 March 1963 in Chiba, Japan. She is an actress, known for Mr. Baseball (1992), Wangan Midnight Final: GTR Densetsu ACT 1 (1994) and Wangan Midnight Final: GTR Densetsu ACT 2 (1994).
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Miyuki Sawashiro was born on 2 June 1985 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Kamen Rider Decade (2009), Kamen Rider Movie War 2010: Kamen Rider vs. Kamen Rider W & Decade (2009) and Lupin the Third: The Gravestone of Daisuke Jigen (2014).- The short-haired Mitsushima Hikari was born in Okinawa, which is Japan's southernmost prefecture and mostly occupied by the American military since World War II. Mitsushima's grandmother was French-American. Her siblings are a model, a basketball player and an actor. Hikari began her entertainment career in the band Folder and all-girl Folder 5 between 1997 and 2003. before beginning acting intermittently. She did some gravure modelling. She began taking on consistent acting roles in 2009 with Pride and Sion Sono's exotic Love Exposure. Her performance in Love Exposure won her accolades. Hikari starred in the comedy Sawako Decides (2010), which was written and directed by Yuya Ishii, whom she subsequently married in late 2010. They divorced less than six years later. Hikari won the award for Best Actress at the Fantasia Film Festival. The film itself won the award for Best Feature.