Age: 28
female
Suzu Hirose (広瀬 すず Hirose Suzu, born 19 June 1998 in Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, Shizuoka) is a Japanese actress and model. Hirose performed the role of Suzu Asano, the titular little sister, in Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2015 live action adaptation of the manga Umimachi diary, originally written and illustrated by Mangaka Akimi Yoshida. In Our Little Sister she stars as a football playing teenager who gets adopted into the Kamakura home of her elder half-sisters after the death of their alienated father. The Kouda sisters first meet her at the funeral in the town where he settled for his second marriage. The film was screened in competition for the Palme d'Or enabling Hirose to attend the Cannes Film Festival. For her performance as Suzu she was awarded the Japan Academy Prize for "Newcomer of the Year" and received the "Best New Actress" award from Kinema Junpo, among other accolades. Hirose and Koreeda collaborated again for The Third Murder. In March 2016 Hirose first appeared as a competitive karuta and Ogura Hyakunin Isshu poetry obsessed high school student in part one of Norihiro Koizumi's (小泉徳宏 Koizumi Norihiro) Awesome film series, performing the lead role of Chihaya Ayase in his big-screen, live-action, adaptation of cartoonist Yuki Suetsugu's comic strip, better known in English under its romanised Japanese title Chihayafuru. Her performance in the first part, poetically titled Chihayafuru: Kami no ku, or "upper phrase" was followed in a second part, titled Shimo no ku, in April that same year and earned her "Best Actress" nominations. Hirose reprised her role in a third part, titled Chihayafuru: Musubi, the conclusion of the film trilogy, for which principal photography wrapped in June 2017 and which is scheduled for release in Japanese theatres in Heisei 30, the following year.
When Brielle becomes the first woman recruited onto an elite all-men’s basketball team, she’s prepared for dirty looks, brutal practices, and having to prove herself every single day. What she isn’t prepared for is Nick. Cocky, infuriating, and convinced her spot on the team is some kind of publicity stunt, Nick makes it clear from day one that he thinks she doesn’t belong. Brielle hates everything about him—his arrogance, his smug attitude, and the way he always knows exactly how to get under her skin. But hatred turns dangerously addictive when arguments become flirting, tension becomes temptation, and late-night practices lead to a secret friends-with-benefits arrangement neither of them can seem to quit. There’s just one problem: relationships between teammates are strictly forbidden. If the team, sponsors, or management find out, everything they’ve worked for could fall apart. But the secrecy only makes it harder to stay away from each other. The risk becomes part of the thrill, and every stolen touch, whispered argument, and hidden moment pushes them closer to disaster. As competition intensifies on and off the court, Brielle and Nick are forced to decide if what they have is only physical—or if somewhere between the rivalry and the rules, they’ve fallen for the one person they were never supposed to want.
