Anna Yamada

Anna Yamada
Anna Yamada
山田杏奈
	Yamada at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2022
Born	January 8, 2001 (age 23); Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2011–present
Agent	Amuse Inc.
Website	www.amuse.co.jp/artist/A8357/
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Anna Yamada (山田杏奈, Yamada Anna, born January 8, 2001) is a Japanese actress represented by Amuse.^[1]

Career

In 2011 Yamada won the Grand Prix at Ciao Girl 2011 Audition, and joined the talent agency Amuse Inc.^[1] She attended the audition because she wanted the Nintendo 3DS, which was the prize of the Grand Prix.^[2] Since then, she has been active as a model for the magazine Ciao.

In 2013 she played the role of Emi Natsume in Keiji no Manazashi, which was broadcast on TBS, and made her first appearance in a TV drama.^[3] In the comic JS・JC Moderu Monogatari published in the same year, the story of how she became active as a Ciao Girl was written by Mea Sakisaka and published under the title of Fairy Smile ~ Anna Yamada Monogatari ~.^[4]

In 2015, Yamada starred as Yui in the live-action drama of Nao Maita's original manga Age 12.^[5]

She made her first appearance in the movie Too Young to Die! released in 2016.^[6]

In the January 23, 2017 issue of Weekly Playboy, released in 2017, she was featured as one of the eight "Sugokawa 2017".^[7]

She starred in the movie Liverleaf, released in 2018.^[8] The same year, she starred in the TV drama Sachiiro no One Room.^[9]

She released her first photo book in 2019. The same year, she won the Best Newcomer Award at the 41st Yokohama Film Festival for her performance in her movie Chiisana Koi no Uta.^[10]

In 2020, she participated in the #SaveWithStories project by Save the Children by storytelling the picture book Tebukuro wo Kaini.^[11] In December of the same year, she released her first calendar.^[12]

In 2021, she ranked 3rd in the Next Break Female Talent BEST 10 by Talent Power Ranking. In March of the same year, she participated in the photo exhibition Vol.3 of Watashi no Toritakatta Joyū-ten under the nomination of photographer Takahiro Sakai.^[13]

Filmography

Movies

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2012	Detective Conan: The Eleventh Striker	(voice)		^[14]
2016	Too Young to Die!	Manami		^[6]
2017	Saki	Mako Someya		^[15]
2017	Wilderness Part One	Mari		^[16]
2018	Leading Roles	Chisato Sakai		^[17]
	Liverleaf	Haruka Nozaki	Lead role	^[8]
	Missions of Love	Mami Mizuno		^[18]
2019	21st Century Girl	Kiku	Lead role; anthology film	^[19]
	Little Love Song	Mai Fukumura		^[20]
	5 Million Dollar Life	Asuka Tachibana		^[21]
	Murders at the House of Death	Mifuyu Shizuhara		^[22]
2020	Georama Boy, Panorama Girl	Haruko Shibuya	Lead role	^[23]
2021	The Master Plan	Yocchi		^[24]
	The Cinderella Addiction	Chinatsu Fukuura		^[25]
	Suicide Forest Village	Hibiki Amazawa	Lead role	^[26]^[27]
	Unlock Your Heart	Ai Kimura	Lead role	^[28]
	What She Likes...	Sae Miura		^[29]
2022	Homestay	Akira Fujieda		^[30]
2023	Mountain Woman	Rin	Lead role; American-Japanese film	^[31]
2024	Golden Kamuy	Asirpa		^[32]

Television drama

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2013	The Detective's Gaze	Emi Natsume		^[33]
2015	Burning Flower	Hisa's friend	Episode 1; Taiga drama	^[34]
2015	Wasurenai… ni i-chan no randoseru	Hide Yonezu		^[35]
2016	Sumika Sumire	Tomoka Kurihara	Episode 7	^[33]
	Tales of the Unusual: Autumn 2016	Aya	Short drama	^[36]
	Saki	Mako Someya		^[37]
2018	Missions of Love	Mami Mizuno		^[18]
2018	A Little Room for Hope	Sachi	Lead role	^[38]
2019	Tales of the Unusual: Rain 2019	15-year-old Nozomi Haruta	Short drama	^[39]
2020	The Secrets	Hitomi Shirakawa		^[40]
2020	O Maidens in Your Savage Season	Kazusa Onodera	Lead role	^[41]
2022	Blue Box Briefing	Sappūkei	Lead role; mini-series	^[42]
	Teen Regime	Sachi Sagawa	Mini-series	^[43]
	10 Count to the Future	Akari Mizuno		^[44]
	New Nobunaga Chronicle: High School Is a Battlefield	Miyabi Kusakabe		^[45]
	Uzukawamura Jiken	Misaki	Mini-series	^[46]
2023	Tax Solver	Hanako Dōmeki		^[47]
2024	Golden Kamuy: Hokkaido Tattooed Prisoners Scramble Arc	Asirpa		^[48]

Japanese dub

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2024	Despicable Me 4	Poppy Prescott		^[49]

Originals

Age 12 (September and December 2015) as Yui Aoi^[50]

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Work(s)	Result	Ref
2020	41st Yokohama Film Festival	Best Newcomer	Little Love Song	Won	^[51]
2021	34th Nikkan Sports Film Awards	Best Newcomer	Unlock Your Heart and the others	Nominated	^[52]

References

External links

Anna Yamada at IMDb

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