--- name: "Haru Kuroki" canonical: "https://film.one/person/haru-kuroki" roles: ["Actor"] born: "14 March 1990" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T06:49:33.475622+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." --- # Haru Kuroki Actor. Born 14 March 1990 in Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 14 March 1990, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan - **Also known as:** 黒木 華, هارو کوروکی - **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11678345, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4429739/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1054260 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*Wolf Children*](https://film.one/film/wolf-children.md) (81) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Haru Kuroki > Haru Kuroki plays women who have decided to keep something to themselves, and lets the audience watch the deciding. It is a small, exact gift, mostly used in quiet rooms. We would like to see it tested in a louder one. In *Wolf Children* (2012), Yuki begins as a small girl who eats what she should not and keeps snakes in jars, voiced by Momoka Ohno as pure appetite. Then school arrives, the years pass, and the voice changes hands. Haru Kuroki takes over once Yuki has learned to sit still and keep her secret, and she also narrates the whole film as the grown woman looking back. That handover is the neatest description of what Kuroki does that we know of: she plays the moment after the noise stops, when a woman has worked out what she is not going to say. Her live-action career is built on that moment. She started on stage in 2010 and in film with *Tokyo Oasis* (2011), and was noticed in 2013 in supporting parts in *The Great Passage*, as Midori Kishibe, and *A Chair on the Plains*. *The Little House* (2014), for Yoji Yamada, gave her a lead as Taki Nunomiya, a housemaid who watches a family's secrets and holds them, and it is the film that made her name outside Japan. Since then she has taken the leads in *A Bride for Rip Van Winkle* (2016) for Shunji Iwai and *Every Day a Good Day* (2018), in which her Noriko ages across decades, and has gone back to Mamoru Hosoda three times for voices, including *Mirai* (2018), alongside television and stage work. The craft is minimal and physical. Of the tea ceremony in *Every Day a Good Day* she has said, "By repeating the same actions, I managed to make my body move naturally without thinking," and that is how she works in general: the acting is in the hands and the posture, and the face is left to hold whatever is left over. The obvious worry is sameness. She has been cast often enough in period settings, and as a certain sort of composed Showa-era woman, that the composure could harden into a habit, and a director who wanted her to shout would be doing her a service. We have reviewed only one of her films, and only for her voice, so our evidence is narrow. Still, her narration in *Wolf Children* moved us more than a voice-over usually manages. It is calm about things a child would have wept over, and the calm is the point: this is a woman who has already reckoned what her childhood cost her mother and is telling us gently, so that we will not have to. It is a small part, and she does not try to make it larger. Start with *Wolf Children*, where the whole method is audible in a few minutes of narration, and then find *The Little House*. Then wait, as we are, for someone to hand her a part where sitting still is not an option. ## Biography Haru Kuroki (黒木 華) is a Japanese actress. She was born on 14 March 1990 in Takatsuki, Osaka. Kuroki trained at Kyoto University of Art and Design. She made her screen debut in 2011 and gained early recognition for roles in *The Great Passage* (2013) and *The Little House* (2014). She provided the voice of Yuki in the animated film *Wolf Children* (2012). Her performance in *The Little House* earned her the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. She has also voiced characters in *The Boy and the Beast* (2015) and *Mirai* (2018), and appeared in films such as *A Bride for Rip Van Winkle* (2016) and *The Asadas!* (2020). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Wolf Children* (2012), Fi1m 81, as Yuki (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/wolf-children.md) ## Also known for - *The Boy and the Beast* (2015), Young Ichirohiko (voice) - *Mirai* (2018), Mirai (voice) - *The Case of Hana & Alice* (2015), Satomi Ogino (voice) - *The Asadas!* (2020), Wakana - *The Last 10 Years* (2022), Kikyo Takabayashi - *Legal High* (2012), Jane Honda - *Rebooting* (2023), Rena - *A Bride for Rip Van Winkle* (2016), Nanami Minagawa --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/haru-kuroki