Suzu Hirose

Born: 1998-06-19

Suzu Hirose (広瀬 すず Hirose Suzu, born 19 June 1998 in Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, Shizuoka) is a Japanese actress and model. Hirose performed the role of Suzu Asano, the titular little sister, in Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2015 live action adaptation of the manga Umimachi diary, originally written and illustrated by Mangaka Akimi Yoshida. In Our Little Sister she stars as a football playing teenager who gets adopted into the Kamakura home of her elder half-sisters after the death of their alienated father. The Kouda sisters first meet her at the funeral in the town where he settled for his second marriage. The film was screened in competition for the Palme d'Or enabling Hirose to attend the Cannes Film Festival. For her performance as Suzu she was awarded the Japan Academy Prize for "Newcomer of the Year" and received the "Best New Actress" award from Kinema Junpo, among other accolades. Hirose and Koreeda collaborated again for The Third Murder. In March 2016 Hirose first appeared as a competitive karuta and Ogura Hyakunin Isshu poetry obsessed high school student in part one of Norihiro Koizumi's (小泉徳宏 Koizumi Norihiro) Awesome film series, performing the lead role of Chihaya Ayase in his big-screen, live-action, adaptation of cartoonist Yuki Suetsugu's comic strip, better known in English under its romanised Japanese title Chihayafuru. Her performance in the first part, poetically titled Chihayafuru: Kami no ku, or "upper phrase" was followed in a second part, titled Shimo no ku, in April that same year and earned her "Best Actress" nominations. Hirose reprised her role in a third part, titled Chihayafuru: Musubi, the conclusion of the film trilogy, for which principal photography wrapped in June 2017 and which is scheduled for release in Japanese theatres in Heisei 30, the following year.


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The Boy and the Beast

as Kaede (voice)
Released: 2015-07-11

Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary...

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Fireworks

as Nazuna Oikawa (voice)
Released: 2017-08-18

Moshimo, Japan. The annual fireworks festival is about to take place and a group of schoolboys,...

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Lupin III: The First

as Laetitia (voice)
Released: 2019-12-06

The iconic "gentleman thief" Lupin III returns in an action-packed, continent-spanning...

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The Third Murder

as Sakie Yamanaka
Released: 2017-09-09

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what...

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My Teacher

as Hibiki Shimada
Released: 2017-10-28

Hibiki Shimada, a normal 17-year-old high-school student, still does not know how to fall in...

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Our Little Sister

as Suzu Asano
Released: 2015-06-13

Three sisters live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father – absent...

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Crows Explode

as uncredited
Released: 2014-04-12

A month after Genji Takiya graduates, a new battle for supremacy at Suzuran All-Boys High School...

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Rage

as Izumi Komiya
Released: 2016-09-17

A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their...

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Your Lie in April

as Kaori Miyazono
Released: 2016-09-10

Arima Kousei won numerous piano competitions while under the strict watch of his mother. He was...

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The Untold Tale of the Three Kingdoms

as Diaochan
Released: 2020-12-11

A new interpretation of "Records of the Three Kingdoms," which is historical text of the three...

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Kyrie

as Itsuko Ichijo / Maori
Released: 2023-10-13

Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak....

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Laplace's Witch

as Madoka Uhara
Released: 2018-05-04

An environmental analyst is asked by the police to determine if two deaths by hydrogen sulfide...

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Last Letter

as Ayumi / Young Misaki
Released: 2020-01-17

It is only at their sister's and mother's funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years....

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The Water Flows to the Sea

as Chisa Sakaki
Released: 2023-06-09

High school student Naotatsu travels to live at his uncle's house. In the pouring rain, he is...

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Chihayafuru: Part II

as Chihaya Ayase
Released: 2016-04-29

After successfully won the Tokyo qualifying tournament, Chihaya and her friends are set to go on...

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Not Quite Dead Yet

as Nanase Nobata
Released: 2020-03-20

After Nanase's father drops dead due to a drug that causes temporal death for 2 days, she is...

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The Apology King

as uncredited
Released: 2013-09-28

Ryoro Kurojima (Sadao Abe) is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others...

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Nemesis the Movie: Mystery of Golden Spiral

as Mikami Anna
Released: 2023-03-31

Set two years after the drama series "Nemesis," Naoki Kazama works for Nemesis Detective Agency...

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Chihayafuru: Part I

as Chihaya Ayase
Released: 2016-03-19

When Chihaya Ayase was in the 6th grade of elementary school, she met Arata Wataya. Arata Wataya...

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Yasuko, Songs of Days Past

as Yasuko Hasegawa
Released: 2025-02-21

The story of the love triangle of real-life actress Hasegawa Yasuko, poet Nakahara Chuya, and...

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Chihayafuru: Part III

as Chihaya Ayase
Released: 2018-03-17

Story takes place 2 years after "Chihayafuru Part 2" and Chihaya is now a high school senior.

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Let's Go, Jets!

as Hikari Tomonaga
Released: 2017-03-11

Female students, including Hikari Tomonaga, from a high school cheerdance club follow strict...

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A Morning of Farewell

as Mayo Hoshino
Released: 2021-05-21

Sawako worked as an emergency physician at a university hospital. Due to to a situation, she...

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Sunny: Our Hearts Beat Together

as Young Nami
Released: 2018-08-31

A group of friends from high school days reunite for once more time before one of them dies from...

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Wandering

as Kanai Sarasa
Released: 2022-05-13

In a park on a rainy evening, a 19-year-old university student, Fumi, offers an umbrella to a...

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Kataomoi Sekai

as Misaki
Released: 2025-04-04

Three young women live together in an old house in a corner of Tokyo. They are not related by...

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Tales of the Bizarre: 2020 Fall Special

as Saki Harada
Released: 2020-11-14

Coin Laundry Story: Hashimoto Manabu is a temporary worker who has been laid off and has no...

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Tsuda Umeko: Osatsu ni Natta Ryugakusei

as Ume Tsuda
Released: 2022-03-05

Tsuda Umeko was born in December 31, 1864 and became a pioneer in women's eductation. In 1871,...

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At the Bench

as Riko
Released: 2024-11-15

At the Bench is an anthology film showing glimpses of the everyday life of various people that...

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Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord

as No-hime (Nobunaga's wife)
Released: 2021-03-26

Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto...

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Air Girl

as Sano Komari
Released: 2021-03-20

Komari Sano's parents ran a small Tokyo factory that manufactured aircraft parts. With her...

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The Man of the Tokyo Olympics

as Mary Mariko Wada
Released: 2014-10-11

After the end of the second world war, Fred Wada Isamu (Osawa), an American of Japanese descent...

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Ghost Band

as uncredited
Released: 2013-12-10

Nishioka, a musician who has lost his passion for music and is living a life of self-indulgence,...

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Hero's Island

as Yamako
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Set in post-war Okinawa, Japan, Gusuku had 3 close childhood friends: On, Yamako and On's...

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Hōkago Tachi

as Rinko
Released: 2013-01-01

An omnibus movie that centered on "tutors"

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Tatsuro Yamashita - Christmas Eve 30th Anniversary Short Movie

as uncredited
Released: 2013-11-20

A short Christmas Eve love story which came with the special 30th Anniversary Edition of Tatsuro...

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Natsuzora

as Okuhara Natsu
First aired: 2019-04-01

Okuhara Natsu was born in Tokyo in 1937. In 1945, she loses both parents to war and becomes an...

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Bitter Blood

as Sahara Shinobu
First aired: 2014-04-15

A rookie detective assigned to the Ginza Police Station finds himself partnered with his...

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Ghostly Girl

as Yuzuki Asuka
First aired: 2013-04-09

Junior high school teacher Koyama Akira has the ability to sense ghosts, and his new school has...

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Hold My Hand at Twilight

as Asagi Soramame
First aired: 2023-01-17

Having spent her entire life in the remote Japanese countryside, Asagi Soramame takes a giant...

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Luca on the Road

as Itsuko Ichijo "Ikko" / Maori
First aired: 2024-07-25

A young girl named Ruka, who had been living a wandering life in Osaka, is taken in by Fumi, an...

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Back of Father

as Koizumi Shinobu
First aired: 2014-07-13

A 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and...

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The Phantom Thief YAMANEKO

as Mao Takasugi(高杉 真央)
First aired: 2016-01-16

Yamaneko is notoriously elusive, but wherever he shows up, enormous amounts of money gets...

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We Are Rockets!

as Hikari Tomonaga
First aired: 2018-07-13

Wakaba is a 2nd grade high school student in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. When Wakaba was little,...

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Take Five: Should we Steal for Love?

as Sasahara Rui [Young]
First aired: 2013-04-19

Up till 20 years ago, together with his father and 3 other people, Homura Masayoshi was part of...

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Asura

as Sakiko
First aired: 2025-01-09

In 1979 Tokyo, four distinct sisters uncover their aging father's affair, causing their happy...

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Nemesis

as Mikami Anna
First aired: 2021-04-11

Kazama Naoki is a crack detective at the private investigation firm Nemesis in Yokohama. He has...

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Chihayafuru: Connect

as Ayase Chihaya
First aired: 2018-02-20

This series connects the story of the second movie, "Chihayafuru Part II", with the third movie,...

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anone

as Harika Tsujisawa
First aired: 2018-01-10

A solitary young woman and a lonely widow make a tentative connection as a pile of fake money...

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Torrent~Do You Remember Me?

as Takako [Young]
First aired: 2013-06-25

Five former middle school classmates receive an email from a girl who was their classmate, but...

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The Girl's Speech

as Tsubame Haruna
First aired: 2015-01-09

Haruna Tsubame, an inconspicuous high school girl, is always sensitive to people’s moods and...

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Travel FUKUYAMA

as uncredited
First aired: 2019-11-01

Tabi Fukuyama - Travel show of Masaharu Fukuyama

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Living

as uncredited
First aired: 2020-05-30

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An no Lyric -Sakuragi An, Haiku Hajimetemimashita-

as An Sakuragi
First aired: 2021-02-27

An Sakuragi is a college student with no friends, she enjoys admiring "words" on her...

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Who Saw the Peacock Dance in the Jungle?

as Komugi Yamashita
First aired: 2025-01-24

University student Komugi Yamashita teams up with lawyer Yoshiteru Matsukaze to uncover the...

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