is a Japanese actress, singer, and songwriter.
Career
In 1997 she debuted as an actress in the television drama '. The next year she played the role of Chisa Noda in the
Hideaki Anno film ''
Love & Pop
is a 1998 Japanese experimental coming-of-age film directed and co-written by Hideaki Anno, based on the novel ''Topaz II'' by Ryū Murakami''.'' It was Anno's first live action feature-length film. The film was shot almost entirely on hand-held ...
''. Kirari wrote "Last Piece" as the end theme for the
anime series ''
Great Teacher Onizuka'', and she played Nanako in the
first live TV version of GTO. Her cover of
Martika's ''
Toy Soldiers'' reached number 18 on the
Oricon charts in May 2000.
Shortly afterward she put her career on hold and withdrew from Japanese public life.
Personal life
Fifteen years later she revealed that she had been ill with cervical cancer, and after recovery had moved to Taiwan, married her husband, and had a child.
References
External links
Personal blog
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1980 births
Japanese actresses
Japanese expatriates in Taiwan
Japanese women pop singers
Living people
People from Okinawa Island
Musicians from Okinawa Prefecture
People from Okinawa Prefecture
21st-century Japanese singers
21st-century Japanese women singers