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For her 2022 thriller The Deep Well , she learned to play the biwa (a traditional Japanese lute) for six months, not just for the fingering, but to understand the "emotional weight" of the instrument. For the 2024 historical epic The Silken Thread , she reportedly lost 15 kilograms and lived in a replica Edo-period farmhouse without electricity for two weeks prior to filming.

Her entry into the industry was accidental. While attending a local university for literature, a location scout for an independent film noticed her reading a script upside down at a café (she was memorizing lines from a play she was writing, not acting in). That serendipitous moment led to her debut in the low-budget indie The Station's Whistle (2019). Though the film received limited release, her performance as a grief-stricken convenience store clerk caught the eye of veteran director Kenji Morimoto. Hana Shirato