2011
Toho Cinderella
Receives the New Generation Award.
FLM.REDMINAMI
HAMABE
มินามิ ฮามาเบะ
From a coming-of-age drama to postwar Godzilla
The Japanese actor behind Sakura Yamauchi and Noriko Oishi.
Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
A career across Japanese film and television
Minami Hamabe is a Japanese actor born in Ishikawa Prefecture on 29 August 2000. Her work spans coming-of-age drama, television and genre cinema.
In 2011, Hamabe received the New Generation Award at the seventh Toho Cinderella audition. Her agency’s profile records subsequent roles across film and television.
She played Sakura Yamauchi in the live-action film Let Me Eat Your Pancreas (2017). The performance brought her the Japan Academy Film Prize’s Newcomer of the Year award.
In Shin Kamen Rider (2023), Hamabe played Ruriko Midorikawa. That year she also appeared as Noriko Oishi in Godzilla Minus One, a film set in the difficult years after the Second World War.
These roles move from a close personal story to films built around heroes and disaster. Her performances help connect those larger settings to the relationships and choices of individual characters.
Selected performances
2017
Let Me Eat Your Pancreas
Plays Sakura Yamauchi.
2023
Shin Kamen Rider
Plays Ruriko Midorikawa.
2023
Godzilla Minus One
Plays Noriko Oishi.
Performance readings are FLM.RED editorial interpretation.
Films in FLM.RED
Titles in this collection; not a complete filmography.
Sources & image notes
- Toho Entertainment — official profile and roles
- Talent Databank — birth and newcomer award
- Ishikawa Prefecture — 2017 film and Sakura
- Profile — Shin Kamen Rider and Godzilla Minus One roles
- IMDb — selected credits
Portrait illustration: FLM.RED.