She grew up in Kobe and lost many friends in the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995. As a child, she wanted to be a doctor, but by the time she reached high school, she was uncertain as to whether she could do that, and not sure what to do in the future. At around this time, she was scouted by a talent agency, and she decided to try the entertainment world. Her parents were initially opposed, but they gave their permission, on two conditions: that she gives up if she was making no progress within a year, and that she put her studies first and graduate from university. She majored in Commerce at Meiji University and graduated from the school in March of 2009.
She was an exclusive model for the Japanese Seventeen magazine from late 2003 to mid-2006 and left modeling when she left the magazine.
She has appeared in several films, including The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) and Handsome Suit (2008), and has played leading roles in the TV Dramas Mop Girl (2007), Homeroom on the Beachside (2008), Buzzer Beat (2009) and Lady Saigo no Hanzai Profile.
She describes herself as a stay-at-home person, and likes watching DVDs, listening to music, and reading books. When asked what she would do if the world was going to end tomorrow, she said: "Read books." She also likes swimming, particularly backstroke. She has a tomcat called Jill.
On January 11, 2016, she announced her marriage to DAIGO, a fellow actor. The two began dating a few years after acting together in "LADY". Their first daughter was born on 7 September 2020. On January 31, 2024 it was announced that they have welcomed their second child, a baby boy.
She is represented by Stardust Promotions.
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He has been nominated for six Japanese Academy Awards, winning the Popularity Award in 1996 for Love Letter, and Newcomer of the Year in 1993 for Kira Kira Hikaru. He won the award for the best supporting actor at the 20th Hochi Film Award for Love Letter, No Way Back, and Hanako.
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Sometani was a child actor. He has worked in both film and television, gaining his first leading role in Pandora's Box, a 2009 film adaptation of a Dazai Osamu novel.
In 2011, he received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his work in Himizu along with his co-star Nikaido Fumi.
He appeared in Aoyama Shinji's 2011 film Tokyo Park, Wakamatsu Koji's 2012 film The Millennial Rapture, and starred in Ishii Gakuryu's 2012 film Isn't Anyone Alive?.
Sometani married actress Kikuchi Rinko on December 31, 2014. In October 2016, Kikuchi gave birth to their first child. In December 2018 Kikuchi announced her second pregnancy via her husband official website.
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In 2013, Ayano starred in two of his highest-profile roles to date: as George "Joe" Asakura in "Gatchaman" and as Ishikawa Goemon in "Lupin III". In 2016, Ayano appeared as the lead character, Nyx Ulric, in the feature film "Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV."
On January 1, 2023, it was announced that he and actress Sakuma Yui had tied the knot.
On March 30, 2024, it was announced that they had welcomed their first child.
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Higashide graduated from Saitama Prefectural Asaka High School. He practiced kendo daily when he was young because his father is a kendo teacher. His father is also a cook of the Japanese cuisine.
He married Anne Watanabe on January 1, 2015. Their twin daughters were born in May 2016. Their son was born in November 2017.
Masahiro Higashide is a part of the first big Japanese entertainment scandal of the year 2020, where it revealed that he was in a secret relationship from 2017 with actress Erika Karata. Shūkan Bunshun revealed that Higashide had been having an extramarital affair with the actress since 2017 when his wife was pregnant with their third child. The report was later confirmed by his agency. The incident has caused Higashide to lose several endorsement deals.
As of July 31, 2020, he and Watanabe Anne are officially divorced.
Talent agency humanité terminates contract with Higashide Masahiro on Feb 14, 2022. The agency stated that since Jan 2020 they had tried their best to stand by him but his ill-considered actions last autumn led them to the difficult decision that they can no longer work together.
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He made his debut on February 11, 1983, in the movie "Shonben Rider" directed by Somai Shinji.
In 1991, he appeared in the movie "Musuko", and won the Japan Academy Prize, Blue Ribbon Award, Kinema Junpo, and Nikkan Sports Film Awards for Best Supporting Actor, and Mainichi Film Awards and Hochi Film Awards for Best Actor.
On June 2, 2017, he was appointed as the Iyo Tourism Ambassador of Ehime Prefecture. On February 13, 2020, he was selected as a group runner to run on the route of Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Holy Fire Relay.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/4861Q_5c.jpg" } ], "director": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ishii Gakuryu", "alternateName": "石井岳龍", "birthDate": "January 15, 1957", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Ishii’s career divides into two distinct halves: the brash early films, which earned him a reputation as a punk filmmaker, and the slower, pictorial, sometimes meditative work of his mature period. His early features were the fruit of the amateur short films he directed, while still a student, on 8 and 16mm; at Nikkatsu’s invitation, he remade one of them, Panic High School (Kōkō daipanikku, 1977; remade 1978) in feature-length form. Dramatizing a rebellion by students after one of their number commits suicide because of academic pressure, this revealed anti-establishment leanings sustained in Ishii’s next features. His graduation film, Crazy Thunder Road (Kuruizaki sandā rōdo, 1980), which also earned theatrical distribution, was a rowdy account of gang warfare in the streets of Tokyo; its raw intensity was some compensation for its lack of finish.
The success of these student films earned Ishii the opportunity to direct two further features in the same wild style. Burst City (Bakuretsu toshi, 1982) intertwined the story of a group of punk rockers protesting against the construction of a nuclear power plant with that of two bikers seeking revenge for a murder. Crazy Family (Gyakufunsha kazoku, 1984) was a scattershot satire on the Japanese nuclear family, whose characters respectively personified the underlying militarist tendencies of the elder generation, the materialism of the postwar generation, and the academic pressure on the young. Ishii’s best-known film abroad, it was certainly subversive, but suggested the limitations of the director’s early manner. The apparent madness of the family made them seem too extreme a case to be representative, and while superficially arresting, the film was less penetrating than Yoshimitsu Morita’s similarly themed Family Game (Kazoku gēmu, 1983).
Its domestic failure left Ishii unable to finance further features for ten years, but his comeback, Angel Dust (Enjeru dasuto, 1994), was an eerie thriller
which displayed a new stylistic discipline and psychological depth in its story of a psychiatrist who begins to
feel implicated in a series of murders committed by a former lover. Its themes of urban and pre-millenial angst were also central to August in the Water (Mizu no naka no hachigatsu, 1995), in which Ishii returned to his native Fukuoka to narrate a curious story of adolescent emotions set against the backdrop of an apocalyptic plague. Ultimately inconsequential, the film still had a certain beauty, its shimmering images conveying the feel of stifling summer heat. Ishii next made Labyrinth of Dreams (Yume no ginga, 1997), like Angel Dust a story of a woman’s equivocal fascination with a murderer. This, too, was a highly atmospheric film, shot imaginatively in a monochrome which reflected the visual textures of the cinema of
the fifties, when its story was set. Although these films lacked the satiric edge of Ishii’s early work, their elegant, small-scale approach seemed fruitful. By contrast, Gojoe (Gojō reisenki, 2000), Ishii’s first jidai-geki, was a cavalier reworking of Japanese history, visually striking, but marred by trite elements of fantasy. It proved a costly flop, which bankrupted the company of producer Takenori Sentō.
Apart from his feature films, Ishii has also sustained a career as a director of shorts, experimental works, and music videos for such Japanese punk banks as Anarchy and The Stalin. Among his avant-garde films, Shuffle (Shaffuru, 1981), Electric Dragon 80,000V (2001) and Dead End Run (2003) all rejected narrative detail for a near-abstract distillation of generic plots, used mainly as a vehicle for formal experimentation. In Mirrored Mind (Kyūshin: 3D Saundo kanzenpan, 2005), he seems to have combined this formalism with a renewed interest in character, focusing on an alienated actress and her emotional regeneration during a trip to Bali. Since even Ishii’s commercial films have revealed a consistent interest in innovation and experimentation, one may expect that his oeuvre will continue to develop in unpredictable directions.
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