ACTOR

Ryōko Hirosue

1980 - Today

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Ryōko Hirosue (広末 涼子, Hirosue Ryōko, born 18 July 1980) is a Japanese actress and singer, best known to international audiences for her roles in the Luc Besson-produced Wasabi and the Academy Award-winning Japanese film Departures. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ryōko Hirosue has received more than 529,085 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Ryōko Hirosue is the 5,538th most popular actor (up from 5,655th in 2019), the 1,389th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,331st in 2019) and the 107th most popular Japanese Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 530k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Ryōko Hirosue ranks 5,538 out of 13,578. Before her are Barbro Kollberg, Sara Gilbert, Lori Petty, Peggy Wood, Stefano Accorsi, and Grace Park. After her are Krystyna Feldman, Marge Champion, Charles Cyphers, Andrei Panin, Soumitra Chatterjee, and Todd Armstrong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1980, Ryōko Hirosue ranks 108. Before her are Alistair Overeem, Nick Carter, Nikola Žigić, Eliza Dushku, Juan Carlos Navarro, and Katrine Lunde. After her are Chris Owen, Laura Prepon, Amauri, Zachary Levi, Sarah Connor, and Joanna Angel.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ryōko Hirosue ranks 1,389 out of 6,245. Before her are Nobuo Kishi (1959), Yoshinori Ishigami (1957), Ken Sugimori (1966), Daijiro Kato (1976), Toshimitsu Motegi (1955), and Koichi Wakata (1963). After her are Tamotsu Suzuki (1947), Shidzue Katō (1897), Seiichiro Kashio (1892), Masao Harada (1912), Nobuyuki Aihara (1934), and Chieko Hase (1956).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Ryōko Hirosue ranks 107. Before her are Kaori Momoi (1951), Kikuko Inoue (1964), Shin-ichiro Miki (1968), Rokurō Naya (1932), Yoshiko Tanaka (1956), and Romi Park (1972). After her are Masi Oka (1974), Sachiko Hidari (1930), Rikiya Koyama (1963), Rica Matsumoto (1968), Yukiko Okada (1967), and Yuichi Nakamura (1980).

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Television and Movie Roles

Wasabi
Yumi Yoshimido
Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.
Oct 31o 20016.648 / 10
Departures
Mika Kobayashi
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.
Sep 13o 20087.85 / 10
Goemon
Chacha Asai
Follow the infamous ninja bandit named Ishikawa Goemon (Yosuke Eguchi) in an epic story. One night while looting treasure from Nanban (Southern Barbarians), Goemon finds a mysterious box hidden inside a secret grave. A forgotten relic from the past containing untold powers.
Mar 17o 20096.8 / 10