Mitsu Dan

is the professional name of , a Japanese actress, gravure idol, and writer. She has played multiple lead roles in television and film, including Naoko in the 2013 erotic thriller Amai Muchi, for which she received a Newcomer of the Year award at the 37th Japan Academy Prize ceremony.

Early life and education Mitsu Dan was born on December 3, 1980, in Akita Prefecture, Japan. The next year she played a lead role in the 2013 erotic thriller , which was directed by Takashi Ishii. At the 37th Japan Academy Prize ceremony Dan was recognized as a Newcomer of the Year for her performance in Amai Muchi.

Over the next few years Dan appeared in numerous television dramas, variety programs, movies, and advertising campaigns, including the kaiju parody , the 90th NHK asadora Hanako to Anne, a 2015 recruiting commercial for the Japan Self-Defense Forces, the 2016 Hulu Japan drama Crow's Blood, and the 2017 film Sekigahara. In 2018 Dan became a weekly host of the radio program Makoto Ōtake Golden Radio! The next year she appeared in the 99th NHK asadora Manpuku.

In July 2017 Dan starred in an official tourism promotion video for Miyagi Prefecture that was created using 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami reconstruction funds and published online. Female members of the Miyagi Prefectural Assembly, along with members of the public, claimed that the video was sexually suggestive and demanded that it be taken down. Miyagi governor Yoshihiro Murai initially defended the video on the grounds that it successfully brought attention to the prefecture, but after receiving hundreds of complaints in a month he ordered the video withdrawn.

Dan has written books in multiple genres, including the autobiographical book , advice books and , and the food essay collection . She made her fiction debut in 2016 with a story in the Bungeishunjū literary magazine . Since April 2017 she has written a monthly advice column for Otokemachi, an online publication of Yomiuri Shimbun. In March 2018 her story was published in the literary magazine Bungakukai.

Personal life In a January 2013 interview with Shukan Post, Mitsu Dan confirmed her bisexuality, stating she had affections for a woman before her first relationship with a man and expressing ongoing attraction to both men and women.

Dan married manga artist in November 2019.

Recognition 2014: 37th Japan Academy Prize for Newcomer of the Year

Works , Shōgakukan, 2013, , Daiwashobō, 2013, , Magajinhausu, 2016, , Shinchosha, 2017,

Filmography

Films Be My Slave, 2012 Amai Muchi, 2013 Taishibōkei Tanita Shain Shokudō, 2013 Figure na Anata, 2013 Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend, Chikyū Bōei Mibōjin, 2014 Sekigahara, 2017 Eating Women, 2018 Mashin Sentai Kiramager the Movie, 2021 A Dog Named Palma, 2021 Bad City, 2023

Television Tokumei Tantei, TV Asahi, 2012 Otenki Oneesan, TV Asahi, 2013 Hanzawa Naoki, TBS, 2013 Hanako to Anne, NHK, 2014 Black President, Fuji TV, 2014 Ore no Dandyism, TV Tokyo, 2014 Arasa-chan Mushūsei, TV Tokyo, 2014 Crow's Blood, Hulu Japan, 2016 Manpuku, NHK, 2019