Suzu Hirose

Suzu Hirose 広瀬 すず Hirose Suzu born 19 June 1998 in Shimizuku Shizuoka Shizuoka is a Japanese actress and model Hirose performed the role of Suzu Asano the titular little sister in Hirokazu Koreedas 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 halfsisters 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 dOr 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 Koizumis 小泉徳宏 Koizumi Norihiro Awesome film series performing the lead role of Chihaya Ayase in his bigscreen liveaction adaptation of cartoonist Yuki Suetsugus 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