Honoka Matsumoto

Actor · born 5 February 1997 · Osaka, Japan

One of Vogue Japan's Women of the Year in 2018, Honoka Matsumoto is a rising star who first made a name for herself in the popular NHK morning drama "Hiyokko" two years ago. Interest in the Osaka-native has continued to grow since and she's now very much an actress in demand, particularly after playing the female lead in the 2018 live adaptation series of the popular wartime anime "In This Corner of the World" ("Kono Sekai no Katasumi Ni").

Where to start: Ride Your Wave (2019).

As actor 32

First Voice

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As actor 32

First Voice

She Taught Me Serendipity

Slow Train

The Beast of Comedy

Thorns of Love

It's in the Woods

Even If This Love Disappears Tonight

Love Like the Falling Petals

I Got Hooked on My Pet and Quit the Company

Musicophilia

DIVOC-12

Over the Sky

Mio's Cookbook

Blue, Painful, Fragile

My Name Is Yours

A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad's an Alcoholic

His

Mio on the Shore

Ride Your Wave

My Father, the Bride

You Shine in the Moonlight

Chiwawa-chan

You Are the Apple of My Eye

Sunny: Our Hearts Beat Together

The Name

The World's Longest Photograph

After the Rain

Kuinige Killer

Kuruibana

Bitter Sweet

Yell for the Blue Sky

The Lion Standing in the Wind

TV shows 26

Tatsuki: Too Kind for School

Lunch Break Lovers

Usotoki Rhetoric

95

Spinning Around My Whirl

Impersonating Miwa

Recommendations for a Rough Life

Angel Flight

Liaison

Lost Man Found

Kenjusho: Mitsukuni and I

A Story of "Grappler Baki" and Me

Kareinaru ichizoku

The Fate, I Will Deliver: True Story of Mercari

Scary Picture Book

Path of the Dragons

Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room

JOKER×FACE

JOKERxFACE

In This Corner of the World

After the Rain: Wish in a Pocket

SICK'S Jo no Shou

Hiyokko

Cold Case: Door of Truth

Ten Dark Women

Love That Makes You Cry

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