Chizuru Ikewaki
Acting
Biography
Chizuru Ikewaki (池脇 千鶴, Ikewaki Chizuru, November 21, 1981) is a Japanese actress from Osaka prefecture. She belongs to Yoshimoto Creative Agency (formerly SSM). She is nicknamed Chi-chan.
Born: November 21, 1981
Place of Birth: Higashiosaka, Osaka, Japan
Known For
The Ghost Writer's Wife
In Meiji-era Matsue, a fallen samurai’s daughter and a lonely foreign teacher connect through ghost stories and an unlikely friendship.
Lipstick
Hayakawa Ai commits a crime which lands her in a correction facility for juveniles. There she meets & becomes firm friends with four other delinquents & falls in love with one of the wardens, Ariake Yu, an artist with secrets.... (dramawiki)
Sono Onna, Jiruba
40-year-old Usui Arata had worked as a salesperson for her dream company but right before her marriage, she is betrayed by her fiancée. Not only is her engagement broken off, she is demoted to work at the logistics warehouse in the name of restructuring. Arata’s future is bleak. She has no dream, savings or boyfriend and wonders whether her life will end just like this? This day is her 40th birthday but no one celebrates it with her. The only thing she receives are e-mails from online shopping sites. On her way to the workplace from the company dormitory on a typical dull morning, Arata notices an elderly woman crouching by the side of the road. There is no one in this corner of the city to help her. It feels as if she is seeing herself 40 years later and she instinctively extends a hand to the woman.
Across a Gold Prairie
Meet NIPPORI Ayumu, an 80 year-old man, who, due to a serious heart condition, has spent sixty years of his life confined to his house. One morning, he wakes up believing himself to be twenty again. In his mind, he has become the youthful young man that he once was. However, reality fails to keep up with his illusion, and everything around him seems to be quite different from what he is used to. So, he decides that he is simply dreaming. As his reality becomes his dream, his unhappy world turns into a life enriched with happiness and expectations for the future. Ayumu is now enjoying his life to the full again.
Don't Lose Heart
Depicts the life of best-selling Japanese poet Toyo Shibata. Toyo Shibata first began writing poems at the age of 92 and published her first collection of poems "Kujikenaide" (″Don't lose heart″) in 2009, which sold over 1.5 million copies.
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. The adult Mitsuo, Tora-san’s nephew, who runs into Izumi, his first love, whom he had once promised to marry. The familiar faces of Kurumaya Cafe, which Tora-san’s family ran in Shibamata, also return. Catching up with old friends, it is always their dearest memories of Tora-san which everyone shares on such occasions…
Ooku
The mini-series revolves around the harem of a shogun in the Edo Period in Japan. The women jostle and compete with one another and with their lord and on occasion even wield more power than their master.
Shoplifters
In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence begins to unravel. As the family grows attached to her, buried secrets surface, forcing them to confront the true meaning of love, belonging, and what makes a family.
Sunset Sunrise
In 2020, the world is forced into lockdown by the COVID pandemic. As remote work is popularized in order to keep the infection rate under control, a young man employed by a company in Tokyo moves to a country town on the Sanriku Coast in Miyagi Prefecture, where he could enjoy fishing, in search of a new lifestyle. But gradually, we found that there were problems such as "empty houses" in the local area.
Penance
The murder of a young girl shocks a small Japanese village, and the victim's mother is distraught when the classmates her daughter was playing with all claim not to remember the identity of the killer. In her anger, she puts a curse on them.
Filmography
as Matsuno Fumi
as Mochida Hitomi
as Noriko Zakiyama
as Mother
as Hiroshi's wife
as Akane Otaki
as Kie Miyabe
as Kawai Wakana
as Asuka
as Furusawa Mizue
as Yoko Omiya
as Banba
as Naomi Tozai
as Chinatsu Oshiro
as Kuramoto's Mother
as Manami Sakuraba
as Yoko Fujii
as Mihoko takamori
as Yuka Ogawa
as Remi Miyoshi
as Hisae Nagai
as Yuka Ogawa
as Megumi Shiozaki
as Naomi Touzai
as Yuki Goto
as Rio
as Tomo
as Shiho Miura
as Megumi
as Mami Manabe
as Sachiko Tamura
as Yuko Inoue
as Karin Kogure
as Reiko Ichinose (voice)
as Satoko
as Mio Sasaki
as Shiori Fujiyama
as Sarah Zabiarov (voice)
as Ichiko
as Chiyo
as Joze / Kumiko
as Haru Yoshioka (voice)
as Konoha Yamanaka
as Chika Shinoda（篠田 知佳）
as Narisu Kodai
as 門倉純
as Ikawa Mashiro
as Shimotsuki Wakana