--- name: "Rumi Hiiragi" canonical: "https://film.one/person/rumi-hiiragi" fi1m_id: "rumi-hiiragi" imdb_id: "nm0383708" tmdb_id: 19587 wikidata_id: "Q2500252" roles: ["Actor"] born: "1 August 1987" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T19:05:43.329896+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." --- # Rumi Hiiragi ## Identity Rumi Hiiragi - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rumi-hiiragi - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** rumi-hiiragi - **IMDb ID:** nm0383708 - **TMDB ID:** 19587 - **Wikidata ID:** Q2500252 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi_Hiiragi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2500252, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0383708/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19587 Actor. Born 1 August 1987 in Tokyo, Japan. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 1 August 1987, Tokyo, Japan - **Also known as:** Rumi Hiragi, Руми Хираги, 柊 瑠美 - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi_Hiiragi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2500252, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0383708/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19587 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*Spirited Away*](https://film.one/film/spirited-away.md) (92) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Rumi Hiiragi > Rumi Hiiragi lets us hear how hard a child is trying. Her voice performance in *Spirited Away* is quietly affecting because confidence comes gradually, without making Chihiro sound as though she has stopped being a child. Listen to the effort in Chihiro’s responses in *Spirited Away* (2001): Rumi Hiiragi lets her sound unsure even when she is finding ways to cope. Her growing confidence is persuasive because the voice still belongs to an inexperienced child, not somebody who has suddenly acquired an adult’s composure. Hayao Miyazaki gives her work to do in a spirit bathhouse, and Hiiragi makes that resourcefulness feel learnt rather than conveniently supplied by the story. We were moved by Chihiro working there, because her effort matters and is never made to look easy. Before Chihiro, Hiiragi had played the young lead in the television drama *Suzuran* (1999) and appeared in its film spin-off in 2000. Her subsequent work moves between live-action television and further voice roles for Studio Ghibli. She played Kasumi Aoi in *Nobuta wo Produce* (2005), then returned to Hayao Miyazaki to voice a young mother in *Ponyo* (2008). In *From Up on Poppy Hill* (2011), directed by Goro Miyazaki, she voices Sachiko Hirokoji. The return to animation was in smaller roles, so Chihiro remains the performance on which we would base a recommendation, rather than making sweeping claims for everything she has done. Our reservation concerns the film around her: *Spirited Away* wanders, and its pace asks for patience. Chihiro’s immediate need to manage the task in front of her gives us something to follow through that wandering, with Hiiragi keeping her uncertainty understandable. The fantasy can be frightening, but her performance keeps our concern with the inexperienced child who has to get on with things. She does not need to make Chihiro precocious to hold our attention. Start with Chihiro, and allow the film the time it asks for. ## Biography Rumi Hiiragi is a Japanese actress. Born on 1 August 1987 in Tokyo, she began her career as a child actress, appearing in numerous commercials from the age of six. She gained early recognition for her role as the young Moe Tokiwa in the NHK asadora *Suzuran* (1999) and its 2000 theatrical spin-off. Hiiragi is best known for voicing the lead character Chihiro in Hayao Miyazaki's *Spirited Away* (2001). She later provided voices for *Ponyo* (2008) and *From Up on Poppy Hill* (2011), and appeared in the television series *Nobuta wo Produce* (2005). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Spirited Away* (2001), Fi1m 92, as Chihiro (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/spirited-away.md) ## Complete filmography (20) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *A World Without Cherry Blossoms* (2022), Actor - *Ruined* (2021), as Asumi - *藝大の怪談* (2021), Actor - *Dr.STOЯKS* (2015), series, as Izumi Mikami - *Bayside Shakedown THE FINAL: The New Hope* (2012), as Policewoman - *From Up on Poppy Hill* (2011), as Sachiko Hirokoji (voice) - *CSI: Crime Scene Talks* (2011), series, Actor - *Yakuza-Busting Girls: Final Death-Ride Battle* (2010), Actor - *Ponyo* (2008), as Young Mother (voice) - *Four Lies* (2008), series, Actor - *Producing Nobuta* (2005), series, as Kasumi - *Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi* (2004), series, as Yagi Nozomi (segment "Yuugure no maigo") - *Sky High* (2003), series, Actor - *世にも奇妙な物語 秋の特別編* (2001), Actor - *Spirited Away* (2001), as Chihiro (voice) — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/spirited-away.md) - *The Nippon Television Special of Spirited Away* (2001), Actor - *Return Of Happiness* (2000), as Moe Tokiwa - *Suzuran* (1999), series, as Young Moe Tokiwa - *Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen* (1990), series, Actor - *Kamen Rider* (1971), series, as Ai --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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