is a Japanese

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from

Yokohama is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of To ...

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. She is the younger sister of actress Hitomi Miwa.

Biography

Asumi Miwa was born as the second of three daughters in

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. She became interested in acting while in junior high school, when her older sister Hitomi started working as an

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on TV shows. She began taking acting lessons at an acting school and in 1996 starred in a commercial for the

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. She made her acting debut in 1998 in the leading role of Hideaki Anno's ''

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''. The movie's theme song "Ano Subarashii Ai wo Mou Ichido" was sung by Miwa and released as a single on December 22, 1997. For her performance in ''Love & Pop'' she won the Best New Talent award at the 20th Yokohama Film Festival in 1999. She has also worked as a

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actress. She provided the motion capture for the character

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in the ending movie of the 2002 video game

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. In the 2004

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movie '' Appleseed'', she performed the motion capture for the character Deunan.

Personal life

Miwa married a 42-year-old

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and restaurant owner on May 5, 2003. She gave birth to their first child in November 2003. Their second daughter was born in November 2007 and their first son was born in November 2008. Miwa's older sister is the actress Hitomi Miwa ( 三輪ひとみ). The two have appeared together in several movies. Her younger sister is former actress Megumi Miwa ( 三輪恵未), who was active as an actress for a short time in the early 2000s.

Selected filmography

* ''

'' (1998) - Hiromi Yoshii * '' Ju-On: The Curse'' (2000) - Kanna Murakami * ''

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'' (2000) - Shiho Ishikawa * ''

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'' (2000) - Naoko Kamikishiro * ''Love Ghost'' (2001) - Suzue Tanaka * ''Shadow of the Wraith'' (2001) - Nahoko Nakada * ''

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'' (2002) - Muuko * ''Sayonara, Kuro'' (2003) - Machiko Yokokawa * '' Appleseed'' (2004) - Deunan (motion capture) * ''

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'' (2005) - Rokurokubi

References

External links

Official Blog
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Miwa, Asumi 1982 births Living people Actresses from Yokohama Japanese film actresses