Honoka Matsumoto

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Biography

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").

Known For

Ride Your Wave

Yoko Hinageshi (voice)

Love Like the Falling Petals

Ariake Misaki

After the Rain

Yui Nishida

Over the Sky

Mio Miyamasu (voice)

Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight

Sanae Kamiya

His

Misato Yoshimura

You Are the Apple of My Eye

Komatsubara Utako

Sunny: Our Hearts Beat Together

Nami's daughter

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2026	Tatsuki: Too Kind for School TV	Shizuku Aomine
2026	Angel Flight THE MOVIE MOVIE	Self
2026	50-Punkan no Koibito TV	Naho Karashima
2025	昭和から騒ぎ MOVIE	Self
2025	She Taught Me Serendipity MOVIE	Natsuho
2025	Slow Train MOVIE	Yahagi Kanna
2024	Usotoki Rhetoric TV	Urabe Kanoko
2024	fukusuke MOVIE	Self
2024	95 TV	Kishi Seira
2024	The Beast of Comedy MOVIE	Self
2023	Spinning Around My Whirl TV	Yono Miyako
2023	Impersonating Miwa TV	Kubota Miwa
2023	Recommendations for a Rough Life TV	Mieko Shida
2023	Angel Flight TV	Takagi Rinko
2023	Taiga Dorama ga Umareta Hi MOVIE	Self
2023	Liaison TV	Tono Shiho
2023	Thorns of Love MOVIE	Momo Tomita
2022	It's in the Woods MOVIE	Eri Kitami
2022	Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight MOVIE	Sanae Kamiya
2022	Lost Man Found TV	Tabata
2022	Love Like the Falling Petals MOVIE	Ariake Misaki
2022	I Got Hooked on My Pet and Quit the Company MOVIE	Donoue Satomi
2021	Musicophilia MOVIE	Self
2021	Kenjusho: Mitsukuni and I TV	Self
2021	DIVOC-12 MOVIE	Self
2021	A Story of "Grappler Baki" and Me TV	Akane Kojima
2021	Kareinaru ichizoku TV	Manpyo Tsugiko
2021	FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS TV	Woman Traveling in Space with Shrimp
2020	Over the Sky MOVIE	Mio Miyamasu (voice)
2020	A Day-Off of Ryoma Takeuchi TV	Niina Yamamoto
2020	Deliveries from the Heart –True stories from Mercari– TV	Self
2020	Scary Picture Book TV	Self
2020	Mio's Cookbook MOVIE	Mio
2020	Blue, Painful, Fragile MOVIE	Asami Amano
2020	My Name Is Yours MOVIE	Yukari / En
2020	Path of the Dragons TV	Misa Yoshie
2020	A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad's an Alcoholic MOVIE	Saki Tadokoro
2020	His MOVIE	Misato Yoshimura
2020	What Is Love? TV	Yoshimura Misato
2020	Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room TV	Kojima Mashiro
2019	Mio on the Shore MOVIE	Mio Miyakawa
2019	Ride Your Wave MOVIE	Yoko Hinageshi (voice)
2019	My Father, the Bride MOVIE	Toka
2019	Heisei Monogatari TV	Self
2019	You Shine in the Moonlight MOVIE	Naruko
2019	Chiwawa-chan MOVIE	Kuma
2019	Astral Abnormal Suzuki MOVIE	Suzuki Rara
2019	JOKER×FACE TV	流川
2019	JOKERxFACE TV	Rukawa
2018	You Are the Apple of My Eye MOVIE	Komatsubara Utako
2018	Sunny: Our Hearts Beat Together MOVIE	Nami's daughter
2018	In This Corner of the World TV	Suzu Hojo
2018	The Name MOVIE	Self
2018	The World's Longest Photograph MOVIE	Nanae Miyoshi
2018	After the Rain MOVIE	Yui Nishida
2018	After the Rain: Wish in a Pocket TV	Yui Nishida
2018	SICK'S Jo no Shou TV	Kotomi Nakamichi
2018	Kuinige Killer MOVIE	Chiaki Takase
2017	Music Of My Life MOVIE	Self
2017	Kuruibana MOVIE	Yoko Fujii
2017	Blanket Cats TV	Etsuko Sasaki
2017	MATSUMOTO TRIBE MOVIE	Herself
2017	Hiyokko TV	Sumiko Nabatame
2017	Shopping Street War ~Suchico~ from Yoshimoto Shinkigeki MOVIE	Nina Samejima
2016	Cold Case ~Shinjitsu no Tobira~ TV	Self
2016	Ten Dark Women TV	Akiko
2016	Bitter Sweet MOVIE	Self
2016	Yell for the Blue Sky MOVIE	Shiraoi High School Brass Band Member
2016	Atypical Crime Investigator, Hinako Todo TV	Self
2016	Love That Makes You Cry TV	Matsukawa
2015	The Lion Standing in the Wind MOVIE	Satoko Kojima (young)

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