Birthplace: Okinawa, Japan

Height: 162 cm

Blood type: A

Hikari Mitsushima is a Japanese film actress and singer. She began her music career in 1997 as a teenage idol singer in the J-pop groups Folder and Folder 5. Although she made her acting debut in 1997 with Rebirth of Mothra II, she did not start acting regularly until 2005.

She appeared in manga-based thriller film Death Note (2006) and the well-received drama Love Exposure (2008), directed by Sion Sono. Her performance in the latter brought her critical attention and won her several awards.

Since then she has had starring roles in Kakera: A Piece of Our Life (2009) and Sawako Decides (2010), written and directed by Yuya Ishii, whom she subsequently married in late 2010. They divorced 2016 and since then she dates her colleague, actor Kento Nagayama.

Hikari is the sister of actor Shinnosuke Mitsushima.

(Source: Wikipedia)