Suzu Hirose

Suzu Hirose (広瀬 すず, Hirose Suzu, born 19 June 1998) is a Japanese actress and model. Her films included Our Little Sister, Gakkō no Kaidan and Chihayafuru. She starred in Natsuzora, the 100th NHK asadora. She was named as a Newcomer of the Year at the 39th Japan Academy Prize ceremony, the 37th Yokohama Film Festival and the 41st Elan d'or Awards. She won the Best Supporting Actress prize at the 41st Japan Academy Prize.

Career

Hirose played 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 played a football player 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 and Hirose attended the Cannes Film Festival. For her performance, she won the Japan Academy Prize for "Newcomer of the Year" and received the "Best New Actress" award from Kinema Junpo, among other accolades. Hirose and Kore-eda collaborated again for The Third Murder.

In March 2016, Hirose played 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 was scheduled for release in Heisei 30.

Personal life

Her sister, Alice, is an actress and model.

Awards