Mayu Hotta

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.

Mayu Hotta
堀田 真由
Hotta in 2019
Born (1998-04-02) April 2, 1998
Shiga Prefecture, Japan
OccupationActress
Years active2014–present
Notable credits

Early life

Hotta was born on April 2, 1998, in Shiga Prefecture.[1] 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,[2] then in 2014 she participated in another audition event held by the Amuse agency, winning an award from satellite broadcaster Wowow.[3]

Career

Hotta's first role came in the 2014 Wowow 4-episode drama Themis' Sentence, playing the younger sister of the lead character.[2] 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.[3] 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,[4] took on the role of Ai Hayasaka in the 2019 film adaptation of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War[5] and its 2021 sequel Kaguya-sama Final: Love Is War,[6] appeared in the 2019 film He Won't Kill, She Won't Die,[7] played Ikumatsu in the 2019 film Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning,[8] joined the cast of the 2020 film adaptation of Liar × Liar,[9] and played Serina Kanno in the 2021 Shochiku film adaptation of Honey Lemon Soda.[10]

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.[11] 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.[12] Hotta returned to NHK with her portrayal of Shizu in the 2020 NHK asadora Yell,[13] and appeared as Hina in the 2022 NHK taiga drama The 13 Lords of the Shogun.[14] She again worked with Wowow on the 2022 television drama True Identity, an adaptation of a Tamehito Somei novel.[15] 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.[16] 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.[17]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2018 Rainbow Days Yukiko "Yukirin" Asai [4]
2019 Kaguya-sama: Love Is War Ai Hayasaka [5]
He Won't Kill, She Won't Die Kyapiko [7]
Prison 13 Mari Lead role [11]
2021 Kaguya-sama Final: Love Is War Ai Hayasaka [6]
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning Ikumatsu [8]
Liar × Liar Maki Noguchi [9]
Honey Lemon Soda Serina Kanno [10]
2022 Blue Thermal Tamaki Tsuru (voice) Lead role [17]
Welcome to the Occultic Woods Miho Ichikawa Lead role [16]
2023 Tsugaru Lacquer Girl Miyako Aoki Lead role [18]

Television
Year Title Role Network Notes Ref.
2015 Themis' Sentence Honoka Hirakawa Wowow [2]
2017 Laugh It Up! Rin NHK Asadora [3]
2020 Yell Shizu NHK Asadora [13]
2022 Welcome to the Occultic Woods Miho Ichikawa Wowow Lead role [16]
The 13 Lords of the Shogun Hina NHK Taiga drama [14]
2023 Ōoku: The Inner Chambers Tokugawa Iemitsu NHK [19]
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero Yukiha Igami Fuji TV [20]

References
  1. "堀田真由：Hotta Mayu". Amuse (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  2. "新星・堀田真由、仲里依紗の妹役で女優デビュー！" [New Star Mayu Hotta debuts in the role of Riisa Naka's younger sister]. Eiga.com News (in Japanese). 2015-05-04. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  3. "「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？" [What kind of person is Mayu Hotta, who is drawing attention as the heroine's younger sister in Warotenka?]. Modelpress (in Japanese). 2017-11-11. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  4. "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"？" [Rei Sano and others at the press event for the movie Rainbow Days, is their next project Monochrome Days?]. Natalie (in Japanese). 2018-07-07. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  5. "「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" [Kaguya-sama's Natsumi Ikema, Nana Asakawa, and others make an appearance, Jiro Sato handles the narration and hidden interventions]. Natalie (in Japanese). 2019-05-21. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  6. "『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" [Kaguya-sama Love is War Theme Song by King & Prince and video with scenes from the movie have been completed]. CinemaCafe.net (in Japanese). 2021-08-26. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  7. "「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」" [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]. Natalie (in Japanese). 2019-11-15. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  8. "「るろうに剣心 最終章 The Beginning」キャスト・キャラ・登場人物" [Rurouni Kenshin The Beginning's cast, characters, and personalities]. Eiga.com (in Japanese). 2021-10-21. Retrieved 2022-11-04 – via Yahoo.com.
  9. "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" [Yuta Koseki and Mayu Hotta to appear with Hokuto Matsumura and Nana Mori in Liar x Liar]. CinemaCafe.net (in Japanese). 2020-09-11. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  10. "『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" [Honey Lemon Soda wrap photos with Raul, Ai Yoshikawa and other castmates]. Cinema Today (in Japanese). 2021-07-29. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  11. "堀田真由、映画「プリズン13」主演決定 密室サスペンス描く" [Mayu Hotta to star in locked room suspense film Prison 13]. Modelpress (in Japanese). 2019-06-18. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  12. "堀田真由『non-no』初カバーモデル" [First time Non-no cover model Mayu Hotta]. Oricon News (in Japanese). 2021-09-17. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  13. "エール：堀田真由"志津"の正体が判明" [True identity of Mayu Hotta's character Shizu revealed]. Mantan Web (in Japanese). 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
  14. 片山, 香帆 (2022-08-22). "『鎌倉殿の13人』堀田真由、梶原善、金子大地、高岸宏行" [13 Lords of the Shogun's Mayu Hotta, Zen Kajihara, Daichi Kaneko, Hiroyuki Takagishi]. Real Sound (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  15. "「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" [Mayu Hotta, Takahiro Hamada join cast of series True Identity, Kazuya Kamenashi goes blonde]. Natalie (in Japanese). 2022-01-20. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  16. "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" [Goonies for Grownups? Opening day for Mayu Hotta and Kōji Shiraishi's POV horror film Welcome to the Occult Forest]. Natalie (in Japanese). 2022-08-27. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  17. "「ブルーサーマル」堀田真由の演技に小松未可子が太鼓判" [Mayu Hotta's performance in Blue Thermal gets Mikako Komatsu's stamp of approval]. Natalie (in Japanese). 2022-02-28. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  18. "バカ塗りの娘". eiga.com. Retrieved March 29, 2023.
  19. "堀田真由、『大奥』家光役は「代表作になると確信している」福士蒼汰との共闘を明かす". Real Sound. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  20. "堀田真由、ジャニーズWEST・濵田崇裕ら『風間公親－教場0－』新キャストに決定 前作より小林薫＆小日向文世も出演". Crank-in!. Retrieved March 12, 2023.
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