Lika Minamoto

is a Japanese actress and it played at Cannes. Minamoto fell in love at first sight with Academy Award-nominated director Barbet Schroeder, and despite the objections of the Japanese producer, who insisted on using a local celebrity, she won the role 18 months after her audition and after several callbacks. At the 2008 Venice Film Festival, her performance received praise from the New York Times, who called Minamoto "delectable" and the Italian daily La Repubblica who wrote:

The film, however, was generally panned. She was the first full-blooded Japanese person to appear in a Kenzo advertisement, and the ad helped Flower perfume reach third place in sales in France.

She has continued to work in a wide range of fields, appearing in the English-language Korean film Final Recipe (2013), produced by Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh, and the 2011 French-language Love and Bruises by Chinese director Lo Ye, who has appeared regularly at the world's three major film festivals.

Filmography

Feature films 2008: Inju: la Bête dans l'ombre dir. Barbet Schroeder: Tamao (principal role) 2010: Switch dir. Frédéric Schoendoerffer: participation 2011: Love and Bruises dir. Lou Ye: Isako 2012: 30° Couleur dir. Lucien Jean-Baptiste: Ayako 2013: Final Recipe (en) dir. Gena Kim: Kaori 2014: Ablations de Arnold dir. Parscau: Mikako 2018: Tout le monde debout dir. Franck Dubosc: Rachida 2023: À la belle étoile dir. Sébastien Tulard: Cheffe Satomi 2024: Else dir. Thibault Emin: Setsuko

Short films 2016: Kudelski dir. Mike Figgis: pleasure X 2018: Tout le monde debout dir. Franck Dubosc: Rachida 2019: Les Saints de Kiko dir. Manuel Marmier: Kiko 2021: PURPLEMIND dir. Emy LTR: Silver/Freya

Television 2011: Comme chez soi: Jade 2012: Lili David dir. Christophe Barraud: Rose Osawa 2013: No Limit dir. Alain Figlarz and David Morley (season 2): Lynn Pan 2015: Le Passager dir. Jérôme Cornuau: Junko 2018: Nina (season 4): guest, Akiko