---
name: "Anna Yamada"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/anna-yamada"
fi1m_id: "anna-yamada"
imdb_id: "nm6046412"
tmdb_id: 1732473
wikidata_id: "Q24868730"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "8 January 2001"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-30T08:39:57.376572+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Anna Yamada

## Identity

Anna Yamada

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/anna-yamada
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** anna-yamada
- **IMDb ID:** nm6046412
- **TMDB ID:** 1732473
- **Wikidata ID:** Q24868730
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Yamada, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24868730, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6046412/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1732473

Actor. Born 8 January 2001 in Saitama, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 8 January 2001, Saitama, Japan
- **Active:** 2025–present
- **Also known as:** やまだ あんな, Yamada Anna, آنا یامادا
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Yamada, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24868730, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6046412/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1732473

## Coming up

- *Super Mob Ninja* (2027-02-19), as Ion Mimura

## Fi1m on Anna Yamada

> Anna Yamada gives watchful young women strength without making a display of it. We value that restraint, though her parts too often require her to witness the trouble rather than cause it.

Anna Yamada often plays the young woman watching while violence or confusion gathers around her. She can convey strength without overt dramatics, and we value the restraint. The risk is that casting directors keep asking her to be the serious witness and give her too little to initiate. A character can spend a whole film seeing clearly and still deserve something more to do.

*Liverleaf* (2018), her first starring film, put her in a violent revenge story. The gentler coming-of-age film *Little Love Song* (2019) widened her profile; she later played Rin in *Mountain Woman* (2023). Playing Asirpa in *Golden Kamuy* (2024) brought wider recognition and showed her ability to anchor an ensemble.

In Yasuhiro Aoki’s *ChaO* (2025), the task changes: Yamada has to help make an animated courtship convincing. She voices Chao opposite Ōji Suzuka’s Stephan, in a film whose peculiar designs and comic energy do much of the work. She has described trying onomatopoeia to match Chao’s movements and make the character charming. That attention to individual sounds is a useful detail about her approach, though it cannot tell us what the couple find in each other.

We were frustrated by *ChaO* because its comic situations kept arriving before the relationship had become persuasive. We wanted longer with the pair, without another burst of activity interrupting the courtship. The screenplay develops their attraction too thinly, so we should be careful about treating the resulting weakness as a verdict on either voice performer. The expressive animation earns an evening for enthusiasts, but this is a limited introduction to what Yamada can do when a character has room to develop. We would like her next serious young woman to be allowed to cause some of the trouble.

## Biography

Anna Yamada (山田杏奈) is a Japanese actress represented by Amuse Inc. Born on 8 January 2001 in Saitama Prefecture, she won the Grand Prix at the Ciao Girl 2011 Audition and subsequently modelled for the magazine *Ciao*.

She made her screen debut in television dramas from 2013 and her first lead film role in *Liverleaf* (2018). She is known for playing Asirpa in *Golden Kamuy* (2024) and its sequels, and for voicing the title character in the animated film *ChaO* (2025). In 2026 she appeared as Chika Toyama in the series *Hakone Ekiden: Our Story*.

Yamada won the Best Newcomer Award at the 41st Yokohama Film Festival for her performance in *Little Love Song* (2019). She released her first photo book in the same year.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, sankei.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *ChaO* (2025), Fi1m 68, as Chao (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/chao.md)

## Complete filmography (59)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Super Mob Ninja* (2027), as Ion Mimura
- *Hakone Ekiden: Our Story* (2026), series, as Chika Toyama — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/tv/hakone-ekiden-our-story.md)
- *New Group* (2026), as Ai
- *Zenigata Heiji* (2026), as Tsubame
- *Zenigata Heiji* (2026), series, as Tsubame
- *Lost and Found* (2026), series, as Yuka Uchida
- *Golden Kamuy -The Abashiri Prison Raid-* (2026), as Asirpa
- *No Matter What, I Love You* (2025), as Kei Yosuga
- *Synanthrope* (2025), series, as Kotomi Mizumachi
- *ChaO* (2025), as Chao (voice) — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/chao.md)
- *As for Me* (2025), as Maiko Honda
- *Home Sweet Home* (2025), as Yoshioka Misuzu
- *In Lilac Bloom, The Path to a Veterinarian* (2025), series, as Satori Sashimoto
- *Faceless* (2024), as Mai
- *Golden Kamuy -The Hunt of Prisoners in Hokkaido-* (2024), series, as Asirpa
- *Golden Kamuy* (2024), as Asirpa
- *Zeicho: There's a Reason for "I Can't Pay"* (2023), series, as Doumeki Hanako
- *Mountain Woman* (2023), as Rin
- *What She Likes* (2022), as Miura Sae
- *Blue Box Briefing* (2022), series, as Sappukei
- *On Summer Sand* (2022), as Yuko Kawakami
- *The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Spin-off* (2022), series, as Kusakabe Miyabi
- *Uzukawamura Incident* (2022), series, as Furutani Misaki
- *The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors* (2022), series, as Miyabi Kusakabe
- *Teen Regime* (2022), series, as Sagawa Sachi
- *Ten Count to the Future* (2022), series, as Akari Mizuno
- *Homestay* (2022), as Akira Fujieda
- *Unlock Your Heart* (2021), as Ai Kimura
- *How About Coffee?* (2021), series, as Miyabi Daimon / "Pink-chan"
- *Suicide Forest Village* (2021), as Hibiki Amasawa
- *The Cinderella Addiction* (2021), as Chinatsu Fukuura
- *The Master Plan* (2021), as Yotchi
- *Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later* (2021), series, as Yocchi
- *Can't Write! ~A Life Without Scenario~* (2021), series, as Erika Yoshimaru
- *Georama Boy Panorama Girl* (2020), as Haruko Shibuya
- *O Maidens in Your Savage Season* (2020), series, as Kazusa Onodera
- *Oeda Ghost Story* (2020), series, as Oyou
- *MIU404* (2020), series, as Kaori Maki
- *Secret of 10* (2020), series, as Hitomi Shirakawa
- *Murders at the House of Death* (2019), as Kirei Mifuyu Shigehara
- *Let's Have a Meal Together!* (2019), series, as Tsukishiro Sachi
- *Five Million Dollar Life* (2019), as Asuka Tachibana
- *Poison Daughter, Holy Mother* (2019), series, as Noa Himura
- *Tales of the Bizarre: 2019 Rain Special* (2019), as Nozomi Haruta (15 years old)
- *Little Love Song* (2019), as Mai Fukumura
- *21st Century Girl* (2019), as (segment "Love Desiccant")
- *Eerie: Invisible Face* (2018), series, as Shiori Shinoda
- *Good Doctor* (2018), series, as Sugawara Yuina
- *A Little Room for Hope* (2018), series, as Sachi
- *Missions of Love* (2018), as Mami Mizuno
- *Liverleaf* (2018), as Nozaki Haruka
- *Missions of Love* (2018), series, as Mami Mizuno
- *Baseball Players Acting On The Stage!* (2018), as Chisato Sakai
- *Akira and Akira* (2017), series, as Ai Kitamura (Young)
- *Hokuto: Some Murderer's Conversion* (2017), series, as Haruka Sekimoto
- *Saki* (2017), as Mako Someya
- *Saki* (2016), series, as Someya Mako
- *Cold Case: Door of Truth* (2016), series, as Minamoto Miki (Young)
- *Tales of the Bizarre: 2016 Fall Special* (2016), as Aya

## Gallery

- ![Anna Yamada](https://film.one/media/person/6814983/gallery-1a0b056dde58.jpg) Anna Yamada — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Yamada_Anna_from_%22Mountain_Woman%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2022_%2852460900276%29.jpg/1280px-Yamada_Anna_from_%22Mountain_Woman%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2022_%2852460900276%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![第35回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 山田杏奈 (山女) (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/6814983/gallery-e26fadb58a88.jpg) 第35回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 山田杏奈 (山女) (2022) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Yamada_Anna_from_%22Mountain_Woman%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2022_%2852461432263%29.jpg/1280px-Yamada_Anna_from_%22Mountain_Woman%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2022_%2852461432263%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![第35回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 山田杏奈 (山女) (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/6814983/gallery-342845b256b4.jpg) 第35回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 山田杏奈 (山女) (2022) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Yamada_Anna_from_%22Mountain_Woman%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2022_%2852461163894%29.jpg/1280px-Yamada_Anna_from_%22Mountain_Woman%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2022_%2852461163894%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![第35回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 山田杏奈 (山女) (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/6814983/gallery-766a12095ebb.jpg) 第35回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 山田杏奈 (山女) (2022) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Yamada_Anna_from_%22Mountain_Woman%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2022_%2852460381502%29.jpg/1280px-Yamada_Anna_from_%22Mountain_Woman%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2022_%2852460381502%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Anna Yamada](https://film.one/media/person/6814983/gallery-095cbf77ca2d.jpg) Anna Yamada — Image via TMDB
- ![Anna Yamada](https://film.one/media/person/6814983/gallery-3f96ea706e5f.jpg) Anna Yamada — Image via TMDB
- ![Anna Yamada](https://film.one/media/person/6814983/gallery-286ed6386be8.jpg) Anna Yamada — Image via TMDB
- ![第35回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 山田杏奈 (山女) (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/6814983/gallery-8ca87e07f514.jpg) 第35回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 山田杏奈 (山女) (2022) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Yamada_Anna_from_%22Mountain_Woman%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2022_%2852460381337%29.jpg/1280px-Yamada_Anna_from_%22Mountain_Woman%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2022_%2852460381337%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![第35回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 山田杏奈 (山女) (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/6814983/gallery-ac9530408af4.jpg) 第35回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 山田杏奈 (山女) (2022) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Yamada_Anna_from_%22Mountain_Woman%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2022_%2852461432738%29.jpg/1280px-Yamada_Anna_from_%22Mountain_Woman%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2022_%2852461432738%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Anna Yamada](https://film.one/media/person/6814983/gallery-9630806f7ec2.jpg) Anna Yamada — Image via TMDB

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