--- name: "Haruka Ayase" canonical: "https://film.one/person/haruka-ayase" fi1m_id: "haruka-ayase" imdb_id: "nm1480573" tmdb_id: 83526 wikidata_id: "Q1206963" roles: ["Actor"] born: "24 March 1985" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-21T02:10:58.824579+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." --- # Haruka Ayase ## Identity Haruka Ayase - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/haruka-ayase - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** haruka-ayase - **IMDb ID:** nm1480573 - **TMDB ID:** 83526 - **Wikidata ID:** Q1206963 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruka_Ayase, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1206963, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1480573/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/83526 Actor. Born 24 March 1985 in Hiroshima, Japan. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 24 March 1985, Hiroshima, Japan - **Also known as:** Aya Tademaru, Ayase Haruka, Харука Аясэ, 綾瀬 はるか, هاروکا آیاسه - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruka_Ayase, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1206963, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1480573/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/83526 ## Fi1m on Haruka Ayase > Haruka Ayase's gift is for watching herself: a woman who has decided to believe and cannot stop observing the decision. Hirokazu Kore-eda has built two films on it. Given a passive part and nobody looking closely, she can go quiet in the wrong way. Early in *Sheep in the Box* (2026) there is a family meal at which nobody mentions the thing everyone is thinking about. A robot copy of a dead boy is at the table. Kore-eda leaves the camera on Haruka Ayase and lets the scene run, and her face does what the script has declined to do. She plays Otone Komoto as a woman who has decided to believe and is watching herself do it, and we were moved by that table more than we expected to be by anything in a film we otherwise found soft and unwilling to think hard. She is the best thing in it, and it is not close. She has been a lead for a long time. She began as a model and gravure idol after a special jury prize at the 2000 Horipro Talent Scout Caravan, made her television debut in 2001, and broke through as the lead in *Crying Out Love in the Center of the World* (2004). From the mid-2000s she has been a leading actress in Japanese television and film: the title role in *ICHI* (2008), a blind masseuse in a historical action film; the cyborg in *Cyborg She* (2008), a science-fiction comedy; Saki Tachibana in the Edo-period medical series *Jin* (2009); Niijima Yae in the NHK taiga drama *Yae's Sakura* (2013); Balsa in *Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit*, which had her doing stage combat. Then Sachi Kōda, the eldest of the sisters in *Our Little Sister* (2015), for Kore-eda, and Otone for him again. The physical parts tell you one thing about her, which is that she does the work. But what we value is the other thing, the stillness, the sense of a person observing her own decision, and it comes at a price. She has drawn the criticism, for *Real* (2013), that handed a largely passive role she could not put much life into it, and without having reviewed the film we can see how that would happen. A performer whose method is watching needs something worth watching. Give her a script that only asks her to receive and she can look as if she is waiting for the scene to begin. Kore-eda understands this. He shoots households and lets faces do the talking, and in *Sheep in the Box* Ryuto Kondo's soft daylight puts her and the machine child in the same warm room, so the strangeness has to come from her and not from the lighting. It does. Start with that film, for her, and forgive what is around her. Then hope somebody other than Kore-eda notices what he has now noticed twice. ## Biography Haruka Ayase is a Japanese actress and singer. Born Aya Tademaru on 24 March 1985 in Hiroshima Prefecture, she won the 25th HORIPRO Talent Scout Caravan in 2000 and was given her stage name. She began her career as a model and made her acting debut in 2001. Ayase is known for roles in films including *Cyborg She* (2008), *ICHI* (2008), *Our Little Sister* (2015) and the 2026 science fiction drama *Sheep in the Box*, in which she plays Otone Komoto, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Sheep in the Box* (2026), Fi1m 54, as Otone Komoto — [page](https://film.one/film/sheep-in-the-box.md) ## Complete filmography (72) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *First Voice* (2026), as Michiko Asahi - *Sheep in the Box* (2026), as Otone Komoto — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/sheep-in-the-box.md) - *One Last Love Letter* (2026), as Nazuna Terada - *Scary True Stories: Summer Special 2025* (2025), Actor - *I Want to Die Alone* (2025), series, as Narumi Yamaguchi - *Unbound* (2025), series, as Narration (voice) - *Route29* (2024), as Tonbo / Noriko Nakai - *Revolver Lily* (2023), as Yuri Ozone - *THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY* (2023), as Nōhime - *Yes, I Can't Swim* (2022), as Shizuka Usuhara - *Will of Ex-Boyfriend* (2022), series, as 劍持麗子 - *Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie* (2021), as Nami Isayama / Kumi - *Anata no Soba de Ashita ga Warau* (2021), series, as Ao Mashiro - *Heaven and Hell: Soul Exchange* (2021), series, as Mochizuki Ayako - *Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story* (2019), series, as 春野Suya - *綾瀬はるか『戦争』を聞く～語らなかった女たち～* (2018), Actor - *Stepmom and Daughter Blues* (2018), series, as Akiko Iwaki - *Color Me True* (2018), as Miyuki - *Caution, Hazardous Wife* (2017), series, as Nami Isayama - *Honnouji Hotel* (2017), as Mayuko Kuramoto - *Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"* (2016), as Yuki Kunioka - *The Kodai Family* (2016), as Kie Hirano - *Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit* (2016), series, as Balsa - *Never Let Me Go* (2016), series, as Hoshina Kyoko - *Galaxy Turnpike* (2015), as Noe - *Ishibumi* (2015), as Narrator / Host - *Our Little Sister* (2015), as Sachi Kôda - *I'm Taking the Day Off* (2014), series, as Aoishi Hanae - *All-Round Appraiser Q: The Eyes of Mona Lisa* (2014), as Riko Rinda - *Real* (2013), as Atsumi - *Yae's Sakura* (2013), series, as Yae Niijima - *Akko's Secret* (2012), as Atsuko Kagami - *Dearest* (2012), as Naoko Hamasaki - *Hotaru the Movie: It's Only a Little Light in My Life* (2012), as Hotaru Takano - *Antarctica* (2011), series, as Miyuki Takaoka - *Princess Toyotomi* (2011), as Princess Toyotomi - *The Incite Mill* (2010), as Shoko Suwamei - *にゃんこ THE MOVIE 4* (2010), as Narrator(voice) - *Jin* (2009), series, as Saki Tachibana - *Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror* (2009), as Haruka (voice) - *Rookies the Movie: Graduation* (2009), as Kyoko Mikoshiba - *MR.BRAIN* (2009), series, as Kazune Yuri - *Oppai Volleyball* (2009), as Mikako Terashima - *The Sun in Kurobe* (2009), series, as Sachie Takiyama - *Happy Flight* (2008), as Etsuko Saito - *ICHI* (2008), as Ichi - *The Magic Hour* (2008), as Natsuko Shikama - *Cyborg She* (2008), as Cyborg - *Rookies* (2008), series, as Kyoko Mikoshiba - *The Fantastic Deer-Man* (2008), series, as Michiko Fujiwara - *Hero* (2007), as Ririko Izumiya - *Hotaru no Hikari: It's Only a Little Light in My Life* (2007), series, as Amemiya Hotaru - *Just One Love* (2006), series, as Nao Tsukioka - *HERO SP* (2006), as Ririko Izumiya - *Into the White Night* (2006), series, as Yukiho Karasawa - *Satomi Hakkenden* (2006), series, as Hamaji - *Red Fate* (2005), as Naoko Shimazaki - *Samurai Commando Mission 1549* (2005), as Nohime - *Aikurushii* (2005), series, as Michiru Mashiba - *River of First Love* (2004), as Sayuri Takakura - *Jam Films S* (2004), Actor - *Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World* (2004), series, as Hirose Aki - *極限推理コロシアム* (2004), Actor - *Fuyuzora ni Tsuki wa Kagayaku* (2004), Actor - *It was sudden, like a storm...* (2004), series, as Saho Makino - *Prince of Happiness* (2003), series, as Mitsuishi Mayu - *男湯* (2003), series, Actor - *Say Hello to Black Jack* (2003), series, Actor - *The Way I Live* (2003), series, as Sugita Megumi - *Jam Films* (2002), Actor - *品庄内閣* (2001), series, Actor - *The Files of the Young Kindaichi* (1995), series, as Tomoko Ninomiya ## Gallery - ![Shinsaibashi Shopping Arcade, Shinsaibashi, Osaka](https://film.one/media/person/94979/gallery-5ad8311bc515.jpg) Shinsaibashi Shopping Arcade, Shinsaibashi, Osaka — Fabio Achilli from Milano, Italy, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/2018_Shinsaibashi_Shopping_Arcade%2C_Shinsaibashi_%2843477561214%29.jpg/1280px-2018_Shinsaibashi_Shopping_Arcade%2C_Shinsaibashi_%2843477561214%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - 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