She is particularly recognized for her pleasant face and her movie projects.
Aragaki's career started when her sister volunteered to turn in an audition profile for her after being informed that the junior fashion magazine nicola is looking for a new face. Aragaki won the Grand Prix and officially became an exclusive model for the magazine or a nicomo. In 2001, her fellow nicomo Ayako Enamoto nicknamed her Gakky.
Aragaki expanded her modelling career into gravure in 2004. She also appeared on variety shows and commercials, her commercials for Pocky being the most popular. A year later, she officially graduated from the magazine and subsequently acted in the TBS drama, Dragon Zakura alongside fellow Japanese idol, Tomohisa Yamashita and actress Masami Nagasawa, marking her breakthrough in show business. Since then, Aragaki has been cast in various dramas like Gal Circle and My Boss, My Hero. Despite graduating from 'nicola', she still appears in the magazine occasionally. She currently holds the record for appearing the most number of times as its cover girl.
In 2007, she starred in Waruboro with Shota Matsuda and Yuu Shirota. Afterwards, she was cast alongside Hiroshi Tachi and Shigeaki Kato in the TBS' summer drama, Papa to Musume no Nanokakan where Aragaki plays a high school student who exchanges bodies with her father, a middle-aged salaryman.
Aragaki was also cast in the movie Koisuru Madori (Tokyo Serendipity), with Ryuhei Matsuda. Later that year, she appeared in the tragic drama Koizora with Haruma Miura which won Aragaki her first acting award.
Outside acting, she also released her first album, Sora, and the single heavenly days, a song from Koizora.
In 2007, she starred in three films and a drama and recorded a debut album. But she became ill from work-related stress.
To date, Aragaki has won five Newcomer awards for the movies Waruboro, Tokyo Serendipity and Koizora/Sky of Love. Her fifth award was in honour of her role in the ¥3.6 billion-grossing movie, Sky of Love.
Memories, the theme song for Tokyo Serendipity, was included in her debut album. She also performed her at Budokan.
She also released two singles in 2008, Make My Day and Akai Ito. Make My Day was used in the NHK drama Hachi-One Driver, while Akai Ito is a cover of a song written and performed by Kobukuro during their indie days, in commemoration of the duo's tenth anniversary in the Japanese music industry.
In August 2008, Aragaki played intern Megumi Shiraishi in the medical drama Code Blue: Doctor Heli Kinkyuu Kyuumei, with Tomohisa Yamashita and Erika Toda. At the same time, she made the movie Fure Fure Shojo. She also appeared in Ballad, with Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, as a feudal princess. She released her fifth single PIECE in February 2009.
Aragaki also hosts GIRLS LOCKS!, part of the Japanese radio program, SCHOOL OF LOCKS!, together with other U-20 idols Maki Horikita, Chiaki Kuriyama and Nana Eikura. She also works as a voice actor.
In 2021, Aragaki married singer, songwriter and actor Gen Hoshino, her co-star in the television series Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/j6zlO_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kuroki Haru", "alternateName": "黒木華", "birthDate": "March 14, 1990", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Kuroki Haru is a Japanese actress from Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture, who is known as a very talented Japanese actress who can portray a wide range of roles. She graduated from Kyoto University of the Arts, Faculty of Arts, Department of Film, Actor Course. She belongs to Papado.
After graduating high school, she hoped to go on to a university where she could study filmmaking and acting and went to the actor course in the film department of the Faculty of Arts, Kyoto University of the Arts.
In 2011, she advanced to video works and made her first appearance in the movie "Tokyo Oasis". In the latter half of 2012, she appeared in the NHK serial TV novel "Jun to Ai"..The following year, in 2013, she made regular appearances in TV dramas
and movies and won a total of seven rookie awards at major Japanese film awards such as the Kinema Shunho Best Ten, the Japan Academy Prize, and the Blue Ribbon Awards.
She gained international recognition by winning Silver Bear (Best Actress Award) at Berlin International Film Festival in 2014, for her remarkable performance in Yamada Yoji's film "The Little House".", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/1wdRE6_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kikuchi Rinko", "alternateName": "菊地 凛子", "birthDate": "January 6, 1981", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Kikuchi Rinko is a Japanese actress. Kikuchi is the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years. She is currently Japan's only living female Academy Award nominee in acting categories.
She debuted in 1999 under her birth name, Yuriko Kikuchi, with the Kaneto Shindo-directed film Ikitai. Soon after, in 2001, she starred in the acclaimed Kazuyoshi Komuri-directed film Sora no Ana, which was featured across several international film festivals, including the Rotterdam Film Festival. In 2004, she appeared in the critically acclaimed Katsuhito Ishii-directed film Cha no Aji, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival.
In 2006, she appeared in the critically acclaimed Alejandro González Iñárritu-directed film Babel, where she played Chieko Wataya, a deaf-mute teenage girl, in a role for which she was critically acclaimed and nominated for numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She won several, such as the National Board of Review Award for Best Breakthrough Female Performance (tying with Jennifer Hudson) and the Gotham Award for Best Breakthrough. Kikuchi is also the fifth actress in Academy Award history to be nominated for an award for a role in which she does not speak a word. (The others were Jane Wyman, Patty Duke, Holly Hunter, and Samantha Morton). Kikuchi has appeared in two Mamoru Oshii movies: 2008's The Sky Crawlers and Assault Girls (2009).
Kikuchi married actor Shota Sometani on December 31, 2014. They welcomed their first child on October 8, 2016. In December 2018 she announced her second pregnancy via her husband's official website.
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Matsuda was born in Tokyo to Matsuda Yusaku, a Japanese actor, and Matsuda Miyuki, a Japanese actress. He has two siblings, one of whom is Japanese actor Shota Matsuda. Yusaku Matsuda was half-Korean, thus Shota and Ryuhei are a quarter Korean His father died from bladder cancer in 1989 when Ryuhei was six years old. He attended Horikoshi High School, a Japanese high school that caters to celebrity students but did not graduate.
At the age of 15, Matsuda was offered the role of the desirable young samurai Kanou Souzaburou in Nagisa Oshima's 1999 film Gohatto. The role helped boost him from an entirely unknown actor to a film star.
Since appearing in Gohatto, Matsuda has played a wide range of roles, from the high school student Kujo in the 2001 film Blue Spring to the rock star Ren Honjo in the 2005 film Nana.
On January 11, 2009, Matsuda married Ohta Lina, a Russian-Japanese model. Their first child, a baby girl, was born on July 4, 2009. They divorced in December 2017. On October 20, 2021, Matsuda married Mala Morgan (モーガン茉愛羅, Mōgan Maara), a British-Japanese model. Their son was born on March 13, 2022.
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He graduated from Hiroshima City Municipal Funerary High School. Harada Shinji was his high school classmate. After joining Nippon Television in 1981 after graduating from Nihon University College of Arts he was involved in the production of TV dramas. After assisting the director of "Ikei Naka 80 kilo", he produced many works such as "Koi no vacation", "I love hot soup", "psycho doctor", and he also served concurrently as a producer. In addition, he was involved in the production of various variety programs for a while.
In 2006 he served as the first film director for "Hanada Youth History Ghost and Secret Tunnel."
In 2010, he won the 65th The Television Drama Academy Awards Director Award for "Mother."
As of June 1, 2014, he is a specialty director of Nippon Television Network Production Bureau. Previously, he was Chief Director (Director / Film Director) and Producer of Movie Business Division of Content Business Bureau, Deputy Director of Production Bureau Expert Bureau, Senior / Chief Creator.
In 2014, he was awarded the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology Award Broadcasting Division for the direction of "Woman."
As of June 1, 2016, he is the Nippon Television Network Executive Officer · Director of Production Bureau.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/RZ2exc.jpg" } ]
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