Hinano Yoshikawa

Hinano Yoshikawa (吉川ひなの, born Ai Takeda) is a Japanese fashion model, and a cinema and TV series actress.

Life & career

She was born on December 21, 1979 in Tokyo, Japan. She started her fashion model career at the age of 14 and still is a model. She made headlines when, at the age of 19, she married cross-dresser Izam of visual kei band Shazna on February 24, 1999. The two were divorced on September 29, 1999.

She made her actress debut in 1997 in Moonlight Serenade (Setouchi munraito serenade). The following year she made her international debut in Jean-Pierre Limosin's Tokyo Eyes, a Franco-Japanese film, where she played as Hinano. This movie earned her the Best Debut Actress award at the Japanese Professional Movie Awards 1999.

The first TV series she played in was The Last Song (Seikimatsu no uta) broadcasted on 1998.

Filmography

Cinema

• Moonlight Serenade (1997, film) (Setouchi munraito serenade), 1997
• Tokyo Eyes, 1998
• Inu no eiga (lit. Dog's Movie), 2005
• Who's Camus Anyway? (Kamyu nante shiranai''), 2005
• Haunted Highway (Death Ride), 2006

TV series

• The Last Song (TV series) (Seikimatsu no uta), 1998
• Waratte iitomo, 2000-2002
• Golden Bowl (Gōruden bouru), 2002

Trivia

• She's 168cm and her three-size is 78-54-80.