Moka Kamishiraishi

is a Japanese actress, voice actress, and singer. As a singer, her stage name is Adieu (stylized in all lowercase). She is the younger sister of actress Mone Kamishiraishi.

Kamishiraishi entered the entertainment industry after winning the Toho Cinderella Audition in 2011 and is represented by Toho Entertainment. She made her acting debut in 2012, and has since appeared in films such as Haruta & Chika (2017) and A Forest of Wool and Steel (2018), for which she won a Newcomer of the Year award at the 42nd Japan Academy Film Prize. Her voice acting works include Mirai (2018) and Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle (2020), and she has also appeared in numerous television dramas, including the NHK taiga drama Idaten (2019) and The Files of Young Kindaichi (2022). She released her first music single in 2015, and made her full music debut as Adieu in 2019 under the Sony Music Records label.

Early life Kamishiraishi was born and raised in Kagoshima Prefecture. She lived in Mexico with her family for three years from the first grade of elementary school.

Career

2011–2014: Joining Toho, television and modelling debut In 2011, when Kamishiraishi was in the fifth grade of elementary school, she applied for the 7th Toho Cinderella Audition, following her older sister Mone. and became a member of Toho Entertainment's Cinderella Room along with Mone, who won the Judges' Special Award. She began her career as an exclusive model for the fashion magazine Pichi Lemon in the September 2011 issue. She travelled back and forth between Kagoshima and Tokyo for work until she moved to Tokyo in her second year of middle school.

Kamishiraishi made her television series debut in the 2012 drama Bunshin, broadcast on Wowow.

2015–2017: Music and theater debut, Kirin commercial series, Haruta & Chika Kamishiraishi made her CD debut in June 2015 with the theme song "Su-ma-i-ru" ("Smile") for the NHK Educational TV animated series Hanakappa. Two years later, she sang the theme song "Narratage" for the film of the same title, written and composed by Yojiro Noda of Radwimps, under the stage name "Adieu". Adieu was described only as "a 17-year-old girl attending a high school in Tokyo" and her face was obscured in all promotional materials. It was released as a single on October 4, 2017 and the music video was directed by Isao Yukisada.

In August 2016, Kamishiraishi made her first stage play appearance in the Tours Musical troupe production of Anne of Green Gables, becoming the youngest actress ever in the troupe to play main character Anne Shirley, who had also been portrayed by Mone the previous year. The next year, she made her feature film debut in Haruta & Chika and became friends with female lead Kanna Hashimoto. She also starred in the musical adaptation of Kiki's Delivery Service as main character Kiki,

Kamishiraishi appeared in a series of commercials for Kirin Company's Gogo no Kocha bottled tea, titled , from 2016 until 2018. The series featured her character covering popular songs, such as "Yasashii Kimochi" by Chara, "Kabutomushi" by Aiko, "Kaede" by Spitz, and "366 Days" by HY.

2018: A Forest of Wool and Steel and Mirai Kamishiraishi co-starred in a film with her sister for the first time in A Forest of Wool and Steel. For this film, she won a 42nd Japan Academy Film Prize for Newcomer of the Year.

The animated film Mirai, in which Kamishiraishi voiced main character Kun Ota, was selected for the Directors' Fortnight at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, and she attended the official screening. The film would also be nominated in the animated film categories of the 91st Academy Awards and 76th Golden Globe Awards. Director Mamoru Hosoda later directed the new title sequence of the Nippon TV program Friday Road Show!, with the concept of a girl who is visiting a salon in a foreign country and Kamishiraishi performing its theme song "Era".

Kamishiraishi also appeared in the TBS drama Stepmom and Daughter Blues as the adopted daughter of the main character. She cited the series in a 2021 interview as her "turning point", as she felt it pulled her out of her shyness at the time.

In November, Kamishiraishi sang a new version of "Paprika" arranged by Yoko Kanno, which was released on NHK's website and YouTube. It was used in the NHK BS1 broadcast of Legends on Ice on November 11, commemorating the 40th NHK Trophy.

2019: NHK historical drama, Adieu full debut Kamishiraishi made her first appearance in an NHK taiga drama as Olympic gold medalist Hideko Maehata in Idaten. In addition to practicing swimming for the role, she underwent physical transformation to an athlete's body shape by gaining 7 kg in weight. The same year, she also portrayed high school swimmer Reina Kageyama in the drama series .

On September 6, Kamishiraishi revealed herself as Adieu and announced the commencement of her music career in earnest under that name. Kamishirashi herself described singing as an expression of her "true self" and expressed a desire for her music to provide companionship during moments of "loneliness and darkness". She performed the ending theme "Ao" for the TV anime Granblue Fantasy The Animation Season 2, which started airing on October 4. Adieu is the first ever performer featured on the YouTube channel The First Take, singing "Narratage" in a video published on November 15; as of February 2025, she has appeared five times on the channel. Her first mini-album adieu 1 was released on November 27 and she held her first live event "adieu secret show case [unveiling]" at the Daikanyama Loop club in Tokyo on December 19.

2020–present: One Summer Story, NHK asadora and other television dramas On June 30, 2021, Adieu released her second mini-album adieu 2. It was produced by Yaffle, who had also been the co-producer of "Narratage" in 2017.

In August 2021, Kamishiraishi portrayed Minami Sakuda in the film One Summer Story, adapted from the manga by Retto Tajima. Since the character is a backstroke swimmer and she has portrayed a breaststroke swimmer in Idaten and front crawl swimmer in Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom, she remarked that if she portrayed a butterfly stroke swimmer in the future, she would achieve a unique "medley" of having portrayed characters of all four competitive swimming styles. She then co-starred in the fifth installment of The Files of Young Kindaichi television series (2022) as Miyuki Nanase, the childhood friend of main character Kindaichi (played by Shunsuke Michieda), becoming the first actress to portray Miyuki after playing a criminal role in a Kindaichi series in 2014. the previous year, her older sister Mone had starred in the previous asadora, Come Come Everybody.

In 2023, Kamishiraishi appeared in several drama series, playing detective Nao Mizuki in Outsider Cops,

Kamishiraishi appeared in several films in 2025, including 366 Days, based on the same HY song she had covered for the 2018 Gogo no Kocha commercial.

In 2026, Kamishiraishi starred in the Nippon TV terrestrial drama series We're Worse at Love Than Pandas as Ichiyo Shibata, her first starring role in a terrestrial television drama. She also performed in the stage play Daichi no Ko at the Meiji-za theater in Tokyo.

Personal life Kamishiraishi lives with her older sister by two years, Mone Kamishiraishi. She gets along well with her sister and considers her both a rival and comrade. Their father is a social studies teacher and their mother is a former music teacher and piano instructor. She went to a high school that required rigorous regular examinations and credits, aiming to commit to both her studies and work. In 2018, she enrolled in Meiji Gakuin University, where she majored in humanities and studied art theory, sociology, and photography history;

Her interests include singing, running, photography, and visiting museums. Around the third year of junior high school, she became interested in analog cameras and was taught by Yuina Kuroshima, with whom she co-starred in the dramas Goodbye, Debussy and Chimudondon.

Kamishiraishi has been interested in marine life since childhood and has considerable knowledge on the subject. She has revealed that she would have pursued an academic career in fisheries science if she did not enter the entertainment industry.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 2017 Haruta & Chika Taeko Yonezawa Real Girl Sumie Ayado 2020Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the JungleKoko (voice) 2021 One Summer Story Minami Sakuta Lead role Akira and Akira Kanna Mizushima 2023 We're Millennials. Got a Problem?: The Movie Kaori Mochizuki 2025 366 Days Miu Tamashiro Ya Boy Kongming! The Movie Eiko Tsukimi Romantic Killer Anzu Hoshino Lead role The Obsessed Pechka (voice)

Dubbing

Television dramas Year Title Role Notes 2014 The Files of Young Kindaichi Neo Chiemi Yusa Episode 1 2018 Stepmom and Daughter Blues Miyuki Miyamoto Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom Reina Kageyama 2021 Solomon's Perjury Ryōko Fujino Lead role The Files of Young Kindaichi Miyuki Nanase Chimudondon Utako Higa Asadora Outsider Cops Nao Mizuki Pending Train Sae Hatano Ya Boy Kongming! Eiko Tsukimi 2024 Stepmom and Daughter Blues Final (2024 Happy New Year Special) Miyuki Miyamoto Television film Messou mo Nai Matsuoka 2025 Ignite Mari Inoo 2026We're Worse at Love Than PandasIchiyo ShibataLead role

Television programs Year Title Role Notes 2024 Wan Nyan Ninoland Narrator

Discography

Singles YearTitlePeak chart positionsNotesJPN Oricon 2015"Su-ma-i-ru"—Credited as Moka Kamishiraishi 2017"Narratage"19Theme song for the film Narratage 2025"Genki?"70th anniversary commemoration of the Kanro confectionery company

EPs YearTitlePeak chart positionsNotesJPN Oricon 2024adieu 434 2026adieu 5— 2026 Daichi no Ko Jiang Yue Mei (江月梅)

Awards YearAwardCategoryWork20117th Toho Cinderella AuditionGrand PrixHerself 201842nd Japan Academy Film PrizeNewcomer of the YearA Forest of Wool and Steel