Mayu Hotta
{{Short description|Japanese actress}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Mayu Hotta
| native_name=堀田 真由
| image = Hotta Mayu from "He Won't Kill, She Won't Die" at Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo International Film Festival 2019 (49013656336).jpg
| caption = Hotta in 2019
| imagesize =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1998|4|2|mf=yes}}
| birth_place = Shiga Prefecture, Japan
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 2014–present
| credits = {{plainlist|
- Welcome to the Occult Forest
- Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
- Blue Thermal
}}
}}
{{nihongo|Mayu Hotta|堀田 真由|Hotta Mayu|born April 2, 1998, in Shiga Prefecture}} is a Japanese actress. She has played lead roles in the 2022 live-action television and film adaptations of Welcome to the Occult Forest, and voiced the lead role of Tamaki Tsuru in the 2022 animated film Blue Thermal. Her supporting roles include Ai Hayasaka in the 2019 film Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, and Hina in the 2022 NHK taiga drama The 13 Lords of the Shogun.
Early life
Hotta was born on April 2, 1998, in Shiga Prefecture.{{cite web|url=https://www.amuse.co.jp/artist/A8680/|title=堀田真由：Hotta Mayu|website=Amuse|language=ja|access-date=2022-10-30|archive-date=2022-10-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221030004132/https://www.amuse.co.jp/artist/A8680/|url-status=live}} After going to Tokyo to participate in a group audition for the lead role in the drama Solomon's Perjury but failing to win the role, she received additional acting training at the Toei Company Tokyo studio,{{cite news|url=https://eiga.com/news/20150504/1/|work=Eiga.com News|title=新星・堀田真由、仲里依紗の妹役で女優デビュー！|trans-title=New Star Mayu Hotta debuts in the role of Riisa Naka's younger sister|language=ja|date=2015-05-04|access-date=2022-11-04|archive-date=2022-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104220432/https://eiga.com/news/20150504/1/|url-status=live}} then in 2014 she participated in another audition event held by the Amuse agency, winning an award from satellite broadcaster Wowow.{{cite news|url=https://mdpr.jp/interview/detail/1726092|title=「わろてんか」ヒロイン妹役で注目度上昇の堀田真由ってどんな子？|trans-title=What kind of person is Mayu Hotta, who is drawing attention as the heroine's younger sister in Warotenka?|work=Modelpress|language=ja|date=2017-11-11|access-date=2022-10-30|archive-date=2022-10-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221029055335/https://mdpr.jp/interview/detail/1726092|url-status=live}}
Career
Hotta's first role came in the 2014 Wowow 4-episode drama Themis' Sentence, playing the younger sister of the lead character. After a series of minor appearances in television shows, in 2017 she joined the cast of the NHK asadora Warotenka as Rin Fujioka, the younger sister of the lead character, who was played by Wakana Aoi. Hotta followed these appearances with a series of supporting roles in film adaptations of popular Japanese manga. She played the girlfriend of one of the main characters in the 2018 film adaptation of the manga Rainbow Days,{{cite news|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/290181|title=映画「虹色デイズ」舞台挨拶に佐野玲於ら、4人の次回作は"モノクロデイズ"？|trans-title=Rei Sano and others at the press event for the movie Rainbow Days, is their next project Monochrome Days?|work=Natalie|language=ja|date=2018-07-07|access-date=2022-11-04|archive-date=2022-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104220431/https://natalie.mu/comic/news/290181|url-status=live}} took on the role of Ai Hayasaka in the 2019 film adaptation of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War{{cite news|url=https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/332224|work=Natalie|title=「かぐや様」に池間夏海、浅川梨奈ら出演、佐藤二朗はゴッドハンドとナレーション担当|trans-title=Kaguya-sama's Natsumi Ikema, Nana Asakawa, and others make an appearance, Jiro Sato handles the narration and hidden interventions|language=ja|date=2019-05-21|access-date=2022-11-04|archive-date=2022-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407224432/https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/332224|url-status=live}} and its 2021 sequel Kaguya-sama Final: Love Is War,{{cite news|url=https://www.cinemacafe.net/article/2021/08/26/74447.html|work=CinemaCafe.net|title=『かぐや様は告らせたい』King & Prince主題歌特別映像完成、初公開シーンも|trans-title=Kaguya-sama Love is War Theme Song by King & Prince and video with scenes from the movie have been completed|language=ja|date=2021-08-26|access-date=2022-11-04|archive-date=2022-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104220424/https://www.cinemacafe.net/article/2021/08/26/74447.html|url-status=live}} appeared in the 2019 film He Won't Kill, She Won't Die,{{cite news|url=https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/355638|title=「殺カレ死カノ」骨折中の間宮祥太朗、桜井日奈子らにいじられ「粉骨砕身ですね」|trans-title=He Won't Kill, She Won't Die's Shotaro Mamiya, who has a broken bone, teased by costar Hinako Sakura for working himself too hard|work=Natalie|language=ja|date=2019-11-15|access-date=2022-11-04|archive-date=2022-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104220430/https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/355638|url-status=live}} played Ikumatsu in the 2019 film Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning,{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/5b326117d4a42cca1b35f3011f3b2ffca6798faa|title=「るろうに剣心 最終章 The Beginning」キャスト・キャラ・登場人物|trans-title=Rurouni Kenshin The Beginning's cast, characters, and personalities|work=Eiga.com|via=Yahoo.com|language=ja|date=2021-10-21|access-date=2022-11-04|archive-date=2022-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104220431/https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/5b326117d4a42cca1b35f3011f3b2ffca6798faa|url-status=live}} joined the cast of the 2020 film adaptation of Liar × Liar,{{cite news|url=https://www.cinemacafe.net/article/2020/09/11/68940.html|title=小関裕太＆堀田真由、松村北斗×森七菜W主演『ライアー×ライアー』に出演|trans-title=Yuta Koseki and Mayu Hotta to appear with Hokuto Matsumura and Nana Mori in Liar x Liar|work=CinemaCafe.net|language=ja|date=2020-09-11|access-date=2022-11-04|archive-date=2022-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104220431/https://www.cinemacafe.net/article/2020/09/11/68940.html|url-status=live}} and played Serina Kanno in the 2021 Shochiku film adaptation of Honey Lemon Soda.{{cite news|url=https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0125037|title=『ハニーレモンソーダ』ラウール・吉川愛ら6人のクランクアップ写真が公開|trans-title=Honey Lemon Soda wrap photos with Raul, Ai Yoshikawa and other castmates|work=Cinema Today|language=ja|date=2021-07-29|access-date=2022-11-04|archive-date=2022-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104220424/https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0125037|url-status=live}}
Hotta's first lead role in a film came in the 2019 dramatic film Prison 13, based on the Stanford Prison Experiment, in which she played a guard in a prison-like scenario concocted by an online content creator.{{cite news|url=https://mdpr.jp/cinema/detail/1844927|title=堀田真由、映画「プリズン13」主演決定 密室サスペンス描く|trans-title=Mayu Hotta to star in locked room suspense film Prison 13|work=Modelpress|language=ja|date=2019-06-18|access-date=2022-11-04|archive-date=2022-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104220425/https://mdpr.jp/cinema/detail/1844927|url-status=live}} The following year she became a regular model for Non-no, appearing in the magazine for the first time in the March 2020 issue and on the cover for the first time in the November 2021 issue.{{cite news|url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2207282/full/|title=堀田真由『non-no』初カバーモデル|trans-title=First time Non-no cover model Mayu Hotta|work=Oricon News|language=ja|date=2021-09-17|access-date=2022-11-04|archive-date=2022-11-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105003948/https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2207282/full/|url-status=live}} Hotta returned to NHK with her portrayal of Shizu in the 2020 NHK asadora Yell,{{cite news|url=https://mantan-web.jp/article/20200416dog00m200073000c.html|title=エール：堀田真由"志津"の正体が判明|trans-title=True identity of Mayu Hotta's character Shizu revealed|language=ja|work=Mantan Web|date=2020-04-17|access-date=2022-10-29|archive-date=2022-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104220425/https://mantan-web.jp/article/20200416dog00m200073000c.html|url-status=live}} and appeared as Hina in the 2022 NHK taiga drama The 13 Lords of the Shogun.{{cite news|url=https://realsound.jp/movie/2022/08/post-1108925.html|title=『鎌倉殿の13人』堀田真由、梶原善、金子大地、高岸宏行|trans-title=13 Lords of the Shogun's Mayu Hotta, Zen Kajihara, Daichi Kaneko, Hiroyuki Takagishi|language=ja|work=Real Sound|last=片山|first=香帆|date=2022-08-22|access-date=2022-11-04|archive-date=2022-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104220431/https://realsound.jp/movie/2022/08/post-1108925.html|url-status=live}} She again worked with Wowow on the 2022 television drama True Identity, an adaptation of a Tamehito Somei novel.{{cite news|url=https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/462415|title=「連続ドラマW 正体」追加キャストに堀田真由、濱田崇裕ら、亀梨和也は金髪に|trans-title=Mayu Hotta, Takahiro Hamada join cast of series True Identity, Kazuya Kamenashi goes blonde|work=Natalie|language=ja|date=2022-01-20|access-date=2022-11-04|archive-date=2022-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104220431/https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/462415|url-status=live}} Hotta played the lead role of Miho Ichikawa, an assistant director working on a horror film, in Welcome to the Occult Forest, a 6-episode 2022 Wowow drama that was also edited to film length and released in theaters.{{cite news|url=https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/491326|title=大人版グーニーズ？堀田真由×白石晃士のPOVホラー「オカルトの森へようこそ」初日|trans-title=Goonies for Grownups? Opening day for Mayu Hotta and Kōji Shiraishi's POV horror film Welcome to the Occult Forest|language=ja|work=Natalie|date=2022-08-27|access-date=2022-11-04|archive-date=2022-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104220426/https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/491326|url-status=live}} She also took on her first voice acting role as the lead character Tamaki Tsuru in the 2022 anime adaptation of Blue Thermal, a story about members of a glider club.{{cite news|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/467522|title=「ブルーサーマル」堀田真由の演技に小松未可子が太鼓判|trans-title=Mayu Hotta's performance in Blue Thermal gets Mikako Komatsu's stamp of approval|language=ja|work=Natalie|date=2022-02-28|access-date=2022-11-04|archive-date=2022-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104220427/https://natalie.mu/comic/news/467522|url-status=live}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"| Notes ! class="unsortable"| {{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}} |
|---|
| 2018
| Yukiko "Yukirin" Asai | |
| rowspan="3"| 2019
| Ai Hayasaka | |
| He Won't Kill, She Won't Die
| Kyapiko | |
| Prison 13
| Mari | Lead role |
| rowspan="4"| 2021
| Kaguya-sama Final: Love Is War | Ai Hayasaka | |
| Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
| Ikumatsu | |
| Liar × Liar
| Maki Noguchi | |
| Honey Lemon Soda
| Serina Kanno | |
| rowspan="2"| 2022
| Tamaki Tsuru (voice) | Lead role |
| Welcome to the Occultic Woods
| Miho Ichikawa | Lead role |
| rowspan=3|2023
| Tsugaru Lacquer Girl | Miyako Aoki | Lead role |
| The Forbidden Play
| Maya Hiraoka | |
| Fly Me to the Saitama: From Biwa Lake with Love
| Miko Ōmi | |
| rowspan=2|2024
| Love You as the World Ends: The Final | Aoi Hatori | |
| In an Isolated Cottage on a Snowy Mountain
| Atsuko Kasahara | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"| Notes ! class="unsortable"| {{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}} |
|---|
| 2015
| Themis' Sentence | Honoka Hirakawa | |
| 2016
| Cold Case | Young Hijiri Seya | Episode 7 |
| 2017
| Rin | Asadora |
| 2019
| Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom | Karen Kumazawa | |
| 2020
| Yell | Shizu | Asadora |
| rowspan="2"| 2022
| Welcome to the Occultic Woods | Miho Ichikawa | Lead role |
| The 13 Lords of the Shogun
| Hina |
| rowspan="4" | 2023
| |
| Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
| Yukiha Igami | |
| Code Japan: The Price of Wishes
| Saki Miyake | |
| Every Precious Moment
| Miri Kōno | Lead role |
| rowspan="2" | 2024
| Antihero | Asuka Shinomiya | |
| Colors of Sisterhood
| Ryo Machida | Lead role |
| 2025
| Mr. Mikami's Classroom | Yuzuru Mayama | |
Awards
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Award ! Category ! Work(s) ! Result ! {{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}} |
|---|
| rowspan=2|2024
| Best Newcomer | Tsugaru Lacquer Girl | {{won}} |
| 48th Elan d'or Awards
| Herself | {{won}} |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|7321199}}
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Category:21st-century Japanese actresses