Hamabe at the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival in October 2023
Born
(2000-08-29) August 29, 2000 (age 23)
Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
Occupation
Actress
Years active
2011–present
Agent
Toho Entertainment
Website
minami-hamabe.net
Minami Hamabe (浜辺 美波, Hamabe Minami, born August 29, 2000) is a Japanese actress. Having starred in various blockbusters and popular television shows since her teenage years, she is one of Japan's most prominent figures in the modern-day entertainment industry.
Hamabe won the New Generation Award at the 2011 Toho Cinderella Audition and subsequenly began her film career the following year. She gained fame by playing Meiko Honma in the live-action version of the TV series Anohana (2015), and later made her breakthrough playing the lead in the romance film Let Me Eat Your Pancreas (2017); with the latter earning her Newcomer of the Year at the 41st Japan Academy Prize. Hamabe subsequently starred in The Great War of Archimedes (2019), Cursed in Love, The Promised Neverland (both 2020), Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler Part 2 (2021), and One Day, You Will Reach the Sea (2022). In 2023, she co-starred with Ryunosuke Kamiki in the television drama Ranman and Takashi Yamazaki's kaiju epic Godzilla Minus One. Her acting in Godzilla Minus One along with Shin Kamen Rider attained her international recognition and she won Best Supporting Actress at the 66th Blue Ribbon Awards.
film in the franchise's Reiwa era. The film stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, MinamiHamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando and Kuranosuke...
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the monster when it surfaces in Tokyo. The supporting cast includes MinamiHamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando, and Kuranosuke...
provided the voice for a supporting character. In 2023, he co-starred with MinamiHamabe in the TV drama series Ranman and Takashi Yamazaki's Godzilla Minus...
Toshinori Omi Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom Kotono Watanabe Kento Kaku, MinamiHamabe, Hiroshi Kamiya, Miyuki Sawashiro, Subaru Kimura, Keiko Toda The Lump...
Admiral / Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto Tasuku Emoto as Ensign Shōjirō Tanaka MinamiHamabe as Kyōko Ozaki Min Tanaka as Vice Admiral Tadamichi Hirayama Jun Kunimura...
2019. It features the same actors from the television drama, and stars MinamiHamabe as the protagonist Yumeko Jabami, along with Mahiro Takasugi, Aoi Morikawa...
Ando – Monster Haruka Ayase – Revolver Lily Hana Sugisaki – Ichiko MinamiHamabe – Godzilla Minus One Sayuri Yoshinaga – Mom, Is That You?! Best Supporting...
and activist August 24 – Griffin Gluck, American actor August 29 – MinamiHamabe, Japanese actress August 31 – Mia Jenkins, English actress September...
novel, titled Let Me Eat Your Pancreas, starring Takumi Kitamura and MinamiHamabe in the lead roles premiered in Japan on July 28, 2017. The film was...
Filmworks dub.Ep. 1 credits In the live-action drama, she is portrayed by MinamiHamabe. Mary Saotome (早乙女 芽亜里, Saotome Meari) is a student in Yumeko and Ryota's...