Anna Ishii Explained

Anna Ishii
Native Name:石井 杏奈
Native Name Lang:ja
Birth Date:11 July 1998
Birth Place:Tokyo, Japan[1]
Nationality:Japanese
Years Active:2010–present
Agent:LDH
Height:1.63 m
Awards:58th Blue Ribbon Best Newcomer Award (Girls Step, Solomon's Perjury)

[1] is a Japanese dancer, actress and model. She is a former member of E-girls and represented by LDH.

Early life

Ishii was born on July 11, 1998, in Tokyo, Japan. She has an elder brother, a younger brother, and a younger sister named Chino Ishii, who is currently listed under Kizzy, an all-female dance group composed of EXPG students. Ishii started dancing when she was in her second year of primary school at her mother's encouragement.[2] She was later scouted to join the Exile Professional Gym (EXPG) in her fifth grade when she took part in a dance competition.[2] [3] [4] [5] She debuted as a model in the U-15 fashion magazine nico☆puchi in 2010 before joining E-girls.

Career

Music career

In 2011, she was chosen through a nationwide audition process called "EXILE Presents VOCAL BATTLE AUDITION 3 ~For Girls~" in the dance performance category to be a member of a yet-to-debut dance and vocal group, bunny.

In October 2012, she officially joined E-girls line-up for their third single "Follow me".

In June 2014, due to scheduling conflicts with filming for Solomon's Perjury, Ishii announced that she would not participate in E-girls' first national tour, which was held between July and August that year.[6]

On December 22, 2019, with the announcement of E-girls' disbandment set for around the end of 2020, it was revealed that Ishii would focus on acting and modeling activities afterwards.[7]

Acting career

Ishii's acting debut was a cameo appearance in the first episode of Shiritsu Bakaleya Koukou, a Nippon TV drama which premiered in April 2012.

In 2014, she portrayed a blind piano prodigy in Koibumi Biyori, a drama starring 10 members of E-girls and a live-action adaptation of a manga of the same name authored by George Asakura. She then auditioned for a role in Solomon's Perjury, a 2015 film directed by Izuru Narushima. The audition was held nationwide and attracted approximately 10,000 aspiring young actors and actresses.[8] [9] Ishii was chosen to play the role of Miyake Juri, a vengeful and low self-esteemed girl who was bullied by a group of school delinquents for having bad skin.

Ishii landed her first starring role in a film, Girls Step which hit theaters in September 2015.[10] This marked the first time that a member of E-girls had a lead role in a film.[11] For her roles in Girls Step and Solomon's Perjury, Ishii won the 58th Blue Ribbon Best Newcomer Award.[12] In 2016, her portrayal of Nagisa Arima, the passionate and earnest leader of the brass band club in Aogeba Tōtoshi, earned her the 5th Confidence Drama Best Newcomer Award.[13] She also appeared in a live-action adaptation of Your lie in April where she played the role of Tsubaki Sawabe. The film was released on September 10, 2016.

In 2017, Ishii took on the role of Ayami Gotō, a problematic 17-year-old youth with family problems in an NHK drama, Okāsan, Musume wo Yamete ii desu ka?. Her next project was a four-episode NHK BS Premium mini drama starring Kenta Suga, Uso nante Hitotsu mo nai no.[14] Kyota Fujimoto and Kentaro Hagiwara, who had previously teamed up for Shiseido's Maquillage face powder commercial short movie "Snow Beauty" starring Fumi Nikaido and Gen Hoshino, were respectively in charge of the screenplay and the direction of the drama.[15] She also starred alongside Takayuki Yamada in a short film directed by Naomi Kawase, Parallel World, which premiered at the Short Shorts Film Festival & ASIA on June 1, and took on the role of Natsuki Nitō in a live-action adaptation of The Anthem of the Heart, which hit theaters on July 22.

In 2020 Ishii was announced to take part in her first stage play, the reading drama BOOK ACT "Entertainer Exchange Diary (Geinin koukan nikki)" alongside fellow LDH artists. She will also star in the film The Ashes of My Flesh and Blood is the Vast Flowing Galaxy (Kudake Chiru Tokoro wo Miseteageru) as Hari Kuramoto, a bullied first-grade high school student, alongside Taishi Nakagawa. The film was directed by Sabu and will be released on May 8, 2020. Furthermore, she will play the role of Satomi Sekiguchi in the remake of the popular 90s drama Tokyo Love Story which will be released in spring.[16] [17]

Endorsements

Ishii has appeared in a number of commercials, the most notable ones being her appearance as a countryside girl alongside Nana Komatsu in NTT DoCoMo d-Video CM directed by Tetsuya Nakashima, and in Japan Post CM with Masataka Kubota and Yoshiyoshi Arakawa.[18]

Filmography

To see her appearances with E-girls, see E-girls

TV series

YearTitleRoleNetworkNotesRef.
2015 Live! LoveSing! Ikite Itoshite Utau Koto Asami Mizushima Lead role [19]
2016 Aogeba Tōtoshi Nagisa Arima [20]
2017Okaasan, Musume wo Yamete ii desu ka?Ayami GotoNHK[21]
Uso nante Hitotsu mo nai noMakoto YamazakiNHK BS Premium[22]
Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Summer Special AyamiFuji TV[23]
2018We Are Rockets!Shiori KiryūTBS[24] [25]
2020Tokyo Love StorySatomi SekiguchiFOD and Amazon Prime Video[26]
2021Laid-Back Camp (season 2)Ayano TokiTV Tokyo[27]
Girl Gun LadyMatsuko KadowakiMBS[28]
2022Fishbowl WivesNetflix[29]
2023The Crimes of Those WomenRiko KumazawaNTV[30]

Films

YearTitleRoleDirectorNotesRef(s).
2012 Gekijō-ban Shiritsu Bakaleya Koukou Takashi Kubota [31]
2013 Daijōbu 3-kumi Anna Kinoshita [32]
2015 Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion Juri Miyake Izuru Narushima[33] [34] [35]
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
Girl's Step Azusa Nishihara Yasuhiro Kawamura Lead role [36]
2016 Live! LoveSing! Ikite Itoshite Utau Koto Gekijō-ban Asami Mizushima Tsuyoshi Inoue Lead role [37]
If Cats Disappeared from the World Mika Akira Nagai [38]
Your Lie in April Tsubaki Sawabe Takehiko Shinjō
2017Spring Has ComeRiko TokitaRyūhei YoshinoLead role[39]
The Blue HeartsAnna AkiyamaLee Sang-il[40] [41]
Tatara Samurai O-kuniYoshinari Nishikori[42]
The Anthem of the HeartNatsuki NitoNaoto Kumazawa[43] [44]
Cinema Fighters - Parallel World -MayaNaomi KawaseShort film[45] [46]
2018Utamonogatari - Cinema Fighters Project - "Kuu"AnnIsamu HirabayashiShort film[47] [48]
2020The Craft of MemoriesKarenChihiro IkedaLead role[49]
2021My Blood & Bones in a Flowing GalaxyHari KuramotoSabuLead role[50] [51]
Homunculus1775Takashi Shimizu[52]
2022 The Broken Commandment Shiho Kazuo Maeda [53]

Stage

!Year!Title!Ref.
2020Reading drama Book Act "Entertainer Exchange Diary / Geinin koukan nikki"[54]

Internet programs

!Year!Title!Network!Ref.
2019–presentE-girls meets Dance Battle DocumentaryHikari TV Channel +[55]

Commercials

YearTitleRef.
2012
2013 ABC-Mart adidas adihoney in heel
NTT DoCoMo d-Video powered by BeeTV [56] [57]
2014 Benesse Shinken Zemi
Benesse Shinken Zemi Kōkōkoza
2015 Recruit Rikunabi Shingaku [58]
Sangetsu "Kiiro no Restaurant" [59]
2017Japan Post[60]
Nissin Foods' Cup Noodle "Hungry Days" Girls of the Alps (as Heidi)[61] [62]
2018JT Omouta "Aisuru hito wo omou"[63]
2019JT Omouta "Shimai wo omou"[64]

Music videos

YearSongArtist
2011Rising SunExile
Each Other's Way ~Tabi no Tochū~
2015Unfair WorldSandaime J Soul Brothers
2017Y.M.C.A.Generations from Exile Tribe

Runways

!Year!Title!Season!Ref.
2012Girls AwardAutumn/Winter[65]

Awards

YearAwardCategoryWorkResultRef.
201558th Blue Ribbon AwardsBest NewcomerSolomon's Perjury,Girls Step
20165th Confidence Drama AwardsBest NewcomerAogeba Tōtoshi

External links

Notes and References

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  28. Web site: 白石聖、石井杏奈、大原優乃が真夏の撮影を回想「ガールガンレディ」オンライン発表会. October 20, 2021. Natalie.
  29. Web site: 岩田剛典がドラマ「金魚妻」で篠原涼子と不倫愛、安藤政信や長谷川京子ら11名解禁. October 20, 2021. Natalie.
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  35. Web site: E-girls石井杏奈"衝撃"ショット初公開. ja. Modelpress. 27 Nov 2014. 5 Sep 2016.
  36. Web site: E-girlsメンバー、グループ初の映画主演決定「自分のできる最大限の力を込めて演じたい」. ja. Modelpress. 1 Dec 2014. 5 Sep 2016.
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