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Hikari Mitsushima in Death Note: The Last Name (2006)

Takeshi Kaga, Miyuki Komatsu, Ikuji Nakamura, Hikari Mitsushima, Sota Aoyama, Michiko Godai, Shin Shimizu, and Tatsuhito Okuda in Death Note: The Last Name (2006)

Tatsuya Fujiwara and Hikari Mitsushima in Death Note (2006)

Hikari Mitsushima and Takeru Shibuya in Tormented (2011)

Kôji Yakusho, Ebizô Ichikawa, and Hikari Mitsushima in Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)

Hikari Mitsushima and Takahiro Nishijima in Love Exposure (2008)

Hikari Mitsushima in Love Exposure (2008)

Atsurô Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Hikari Mitsushima, and Takahiro Nishijima in Love Exposure (2008)

Hikari Mitsushima, Takahiro Nishijima, and Sakura Andô in Love Exposure (2008)

The short-haired Mitsushima Hikari was born in Okinawa, which is Japan's southernmost prefecture and mostly occupied by the American military since World War II. Mitsushima's grandmother was French-American. Her siblings are a model, a basketball player and an actor. Hikari began her entertainment career in the band Folder and all-girl Folder 5 between 1997 and 2003. before beginning acting intermittently. She did some gravure modelling. She began taking on consistent acting roles in 2009 with Pride and Sion Sono's exotic Love Exposure. Her performance in Love Exposure won her accolades. Hikari starred in the comedy Sawako Decides (2010), which was written and directed by Yuya Ishii, whom she subsequently married in late 2010. They divorced less than six years later. Hikari won the award for Best Actress at the Fantasia Film Festival. The film itself won the award for Best Feature.

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