Mio Imada

Mio Imada (今田 美桜, Imada Mio, born 5 March 1997) is a Japanese actress and model from Fukuoka. Imada began her acting and modelling career in 2015 after being labelled “Prettiest Girl in Fukuoka” by a local advertising agency. Her acting big break was in 2018 when she was cast as Airi Maya for notable Japanese drama series Boys Over Flowers Season 2.^[1]

Mio Imada
今田美桜
Born	(1997-03-05) March 5, 1997 (age 27) Fukuoka, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupations	Actress model
Years active	2013—present
Agents	Contents3 (2016—present) Cover Girl Entertainment (2013—2016)
Website	imadamio.com

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2015	The Edge of Sin	Satomi Sugimoto		[2]
2017	Comeback Night		Hong Kong film	[1]
	Double Mints			[2]
	Bus Jack Returns	Sanae Shiratori		[3]
	Kalanchoe no Hana	Tsukino Ichinose	Lead role; short film	[4]
	Demekin	Aki		[5]
2019	You Shine in the Moonlit Night	Riko Hirabayashi		[6]
	My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising	Slice (voice)		[7]
2020	Stolen Identity 2	Ryōko Niwa		[8]
	Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku	Yūki Morita		[9]
2021	Tokyo Revengers	Hinata Tachibana		[10]
2023	As Long as We Both Shall Live	Miyo Saimori		[11]
	Tokyo Revengers 2: Bloody Halloween Part 1	Hinata Tachibana		[12]
	Tokyo Revengers 2: Bloody Halloween Part 2	Hinata Tachibana		[13]
2024	Doctor-X: The Movie	Masako Ohma		[14]
	At the Bench		Lead role; anthology film	[15]
2025	Trillion Game: The Movie	Kirika Kokuryu		[16]

Television drama

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2015	Watashi wa Chichi ga Kirai Desu	CM talent		[17]
	Kowabon	Kaori (voice)	Episode 8	[18]
2017	Fugitive Boys	Mami Hoshino		[2][19]
	Detective Yugami	Ikumi Mori	Episode 2	[20]
	The Public Enemy	Riko		[21]
2018	Kioku	Hana Adachi		[22]
	Boys Over Flowers Season 2	Airi Maya		[23]
	Honkowa: True Horror Stories: Summer 2018	Yuko Fujimoto	Short drama	[24]
	Suits	Sari Tanimoto		[25]
2019	Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom	Yuzuki Suwa		[26]
	Don't You Think Girls Who Talk in Hakata Dialect Are Cute?	Herself	Single-episode drama	[27]
2019–21	Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon	Masako Ohma	Seasons 6 and 7	[28]
2020	Hanzawa Naoki: Episode 0	Hitomi Hamamura	Television film	[29]
	Hanzawa Naoki	Hitomi Hamamura	Season 2	[29]
	Daddy is My Classmate	Hiroko Yamamoto		[30]
2021	Love Deeply	Aika Miyamae		[31]
	Welcome Home, Monet	Riko Marianna Jinno	Asadora	[32]
2022	Bad Girl: Glass Ceiling Crushers	Maririn Tanaka	Lead role	[33]
2023	The Last Man: The Blind Profiler	Yūki Agatsuma		[34]
	Trillion Game	Kirika Kokuryu		[35]
2025	Anpan	Nobu Asada	Lead role; Asadora	[36]

Video games

• Professor Layton and The New World of Steam (TBC), Luke Triton^[37]

Other television

• World Baseball Entertainment Tamacchi! (2018–19, Fuji TV)^[38]
• Imada Mio no Prefere (2018–19, TV Aichi)^[39]

Web series

• #Koe Dake Tenshi (January – March 2018, AbemaTV), Megumi^[40]

Commercials

• Marinoa City (2013–2015)^[1]
• Hiraki (2014–2016)^[1]
• Fukuoka Prefecture, Yanagawa Tourism idols "Sagemon Girls" (2016)^[1]
• Toogakuen High School (2017)^[1]
• Aoyama Trading Co., Ltd - Yofuku no Aoyama (2017)^[1]
• Shionogi Health Care - Sedes (2017)^[1]
• McDonald's (2017)^[1]
• Asahi Wonda (2017)^[1]
• Kyushu Electrical Safety Inspection Association (2017)^[41]
• Dai-ichi Life - Just (2018)^[42]
• SoftBank - Cyber Sunday (2018)^[43]
• Kosé - Beauty Calendar (2022)^[44]

Music videos

• Yoshitaka Taira – Hataraku Hitotachi (2015)
• The Love – Hajimari no Uta (February 28, 2016)
• Generations from Exile Tribe – Namida (June 4, 2016)
• Maco – Sweet Memory (November 9, 2017)^[45]

Dubbing

Live-action

• Men in Black: International, Molly Wright / Agent M (Tessa Thompson)^[46]

Animation

• Lightyear, Izzy Hawthorne^[47]

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Award	Nominee/Work	Result	Ref.
2018	22nd Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix	Best Supporting Actress – Spring	Boys Over Flowers Season 2	Nominated	[48]
	97th Television Drama Academy Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Boys Over Flowers Season 2	Nominated	[49]
	Yahoo! Search Awards	Actress Category	Herself	Won	[50]
	#MVI – Most Valuable Instagrammer in Japan	Trend Category		Won	[51]
2022	45th Japan Academy Film Prize	Newcomer of the Year	Tokyo Revengers	Won	[52]
2024	48th Elan d'or Awards	Newcomer of the Year	Herself	Won	[53]

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External links

• Official Website
• Mio Imada on YouTube
• Mio Imada at IMDb
• Instagram