Haruka Kinami is a Japanese actress who was born on August 9, 1985, in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She studied at Kokugakuin University, graduating in 2008. She first made a name for herself in the world of entertainment in 2002, when she was selected to become a member of the all-female acting idol group TV Asahi Angel Eye 2002. She featured in the TV drama adaption of the hit manga series “Akihabara@Deep” in 2006 and has since gone on to appear in a large number of film and TV titles, including the dramas “Massan” (2015) and “Princess Jellyfish” (2018).

Haruka Kinami

Standards have been slipping at the elite Eitoku Academy. A student group named Correct 5 decides to act, with Haruto Kaguragi (Hirano Sho) taking the helm. The group’s aim: Identify deadbeat students and force them out of school! This rings the alarm bells for Oto Edogawa (Sugisaki Hana), a student who’s trying to hide the fact that her family is in dire financial straits. She is also trying to hide her engagement to her fiancé Tenma Hase (Taishi Nakagawa), a boy from a rival school. But problems begin to emerge for all involved when Oto Edogawa discovers an embarrassing secret about the Correct 5 kingpin! This drama is the sequel to the hit series “Boys Over Flowers.” This 2018 Japanese drama series was based on a manga series by Yoko Kamio and directed by Yasuharu Ishii.

BOYS OVER FLOWERS Season 2 (2018)

From F4 to C5 It's a Snap 💕

Fuji TV

Tsukimi Kurashita (Kyoko Yoshine) lost her mother to illness while she was still a young girl. Her enduring memory of her mother is jellyfish – after an emotional visit to an aquarium with her mother. Ever since, she has been completely obsessed with these aquatic creatures.

She lives in a Tokyo apartment with a group of young women on the fringes of society, most of whom have little or no romantic experience, shun outsiders, and are unemployed.

Tsukimi Kurashita dreams of escaping this dreary apartment and her housemates. She wants to retreat into her own world and become an illustrator.

But her life is sent on a brand new course on the fateful day when she quarrels with an uppity pet store clerk about a jellyfish, which she believes may be on the verge of death.

A remarkable looking stranger intervenes: a stunning beauty queen (who later turns out to be a cross-dressing man): Kuranosuke Koibuchi (Koji Seto). The stranger buys the jellyfish for Tsukimi Kurashita, who repays the favor by letting this exotic beauty stay with her at the apartment – much to the disdain of her housemates.

But the chaos has only just begun, as both Koibuchi Kuronosuke and his brother Koibuchi Shu (Asuka Kudo) slowly begin to fall for Tsukimi Kurashita…

This drama was based on a hit manga series of the same name, and also spawned an animated series and a 2014 live-action film.

“Princess Jellyfish” is a 2018 Japanese drama series that was directed by Ishikawa Junichi.

Princess Jellyfish

Jellycious Team

Leon (Ren) is a young shoe repair worker whose life is wracked with guilt. Two years ago, his actions led to a man being hit by a car – and ending up paralyzed from the waist down. Leon blames himself entirely for what happened, and has wallowed in misery ever since. He follows the same routine every day, working at the shop along with Kokaze (Fumiko Aoyagi) – and seemingly utterly unaware that she has a crush on him. He spends his lunchtimes eating alone in a public park – on the same bench.

But one day, his lunchtime routine is shaken when he finds a young woman named Suna (Hanae Kan) on the bench, asleep and recovering from a heavy drinking session. As she wakes and stumbles away, she breaks the heel off her shoe. But fate reunites them when she comes to Leon’s shop to fix the shoe. This seemingly innocuous encounter sparks a chain of consequences, however – but could it lead the sadness-filled Leon to happiness...or love?

“Their Distance” is a 2016 Japanese movie that was directed by Imaizumi Rikiya.

Their Distance

 📫Bench Club🌅

Kansai TV

Osaka Loop Line runs through the town of Osaka where ordinary people live their lives. Each series features ten stories revolving around ten stations about the ups and downs of ordinary people in not-so ordinary lives.

Osaka Loop Line

Suzuki Saya (Emi Takei) works in an office that plans events for a major hotel. Her 29-year-old manager Tsuge Susumu (Okura Tadayoshi) is a cold, strict man who constantly reprimands her for being late and castigates her in front of her coworkers for failing to abide by his ultra-high standards. Nothing she ever does appears to make him happy, and the scoldings never seem to end! But one day, seemingly in the middle of a scolding, he suddenly asks her to date him – and even suggests that they might get married if she agrees.

They finally agree to try dating, but at first, everything is quite awkward between them. At times, it seems to Suzuki Saya that she is in a relationship with a strict teacher. Furthermore, love rivals begin to appear on the scene, intent on breaking up their relationship. But – against all odds – the more time they spend together, the more they learn about themselves. And as they get to know one another better, the buds of a real romance slowly begin to appear!

“Clover” is a 2014 Japanese movie that was directed by Furusawa Takeshi.

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