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Anna Tsuchiya is a Actor and Theme Song Performance Japonaise born on 11 march 1984 at Tokyo (Japon)

Anna Tsuchiya

Anna Tsuchiya
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Nationality Japon
Birth 11 march 1984 (40 years) at Tokyo (Japon)

Anna Tsuchiya (土屋 アンナ, Tsuchiya Anna, born March 11, 1984) is a Japanese singer, actress, and semi-retired model. Since 2005, she is primarily known as a singer.

Biography

Early life
Tsuchiya was born in Tokyo to a Japanese mother and an American father of Polish descent from Buffalo, New York. In her earliest years, she spoke English and Japanese. Tsuchiya's parents divorced when she was seven. She has an older sister, Angela.


Modeling career
Tsuchiya's modeling career began at the age of fourteen after her older sister Angela, a former fashion model, suggested it. She entered her sister's former agency, and was picked up by an agent who specialized in magazine-modeling, and her first jobs consisted of modeling for an open collection in Kobe and for Japanese Seventeen in 1998. Demand for her grew, and by 2002, she was doing television ads for Uniqlo and Edwin.

Tsuchiya spent her mid-teens modeling, and made friends, notably Yoshika, and soon she began to stay at their apartments. It has been reported that she also began smoking and drinking around this time.


Inspiration for "Ichigo"
Her best known role in acting was as "Ichigo Shirayuri" - a rural-delinquent biker-gang girl turned fashion model - in the 2004 movie Kamikaze Girls. Ichigo as a model was portrayed as one with tendencies for violent behavior and delinquency. This Blue Ribbon Award-winning role, quite different from one in the original work written by author and designer Nobara Takemoto, was loosely based on Tsuchiya's actual story which she later revealed after the movie's release.

During her time as a model, she tried hard to lose weight. At 1.67 meters (5 feet 6 inches) and 44 kilograms (97 pounds), she was considered overweight for a model in Japan. At this time, she experienced mental and physical agony, being bullied by other models. According to a contemporary, those who teased Tsuchiya had recognized her as "tough" while other "overweight" models, like Kaela Kimura, were always called by extremely vulgar nicknames. Just a few, but some, praised Tsuchiya afterwards, saying things like "well done." When she was fifteen, she awoke one morning starving to find that she could not move her legs, a result of severe malnutrition, and she was forced to drag herself by hand to the refrigerator.

Tsuchiya has also confessed that when drunk, she often picked on "fatter" models herself, especially foreigners who came to work for fashion magazines such as Elle, Vogue, SPUR and Pre Numéro, publications she considered sub-stream. These models, unable to understand Japanese, were oblivious to Tsuchiya's abuse and always just smiled back to whatever what she said. Tsuchiya would also often speak to them in English using offensive words related to obesity, as many models in their teens do, and would often further assault them when they reacted negatively to her verbal abuse.


Retirement
Tsuchiya retired from modeling at 18. She has said that she realized she could no longer compete with "gifted ones" like Emi Suzuki. She remains in demand for fashion and lifestyle magazines like Kera, Soup, and Zipper.

On June 2, 2007, Tsuchiya attended the official retirement ceremony for the sumo wrestler Kyokushuzan held in Ryogoku Kokugikan and presenting him with a bouquet, and appeared in his memorial photobook released on June 4, 2007.


Use of dialects
Although born and raised in Tokyo, she sometimes uses Kyushu or Okinawa slang and speaks in southern dialects especially when she is drunk and on the radio. She has explained that the majority of models she encountered were from the southern islands or the north, so she learned slang from them. This helped the development of her character Ichigo, the Bōsōzoku delinquent, in Kamikaze Girls.


Music career
Tsuchiya sang in her school choir and has been involved in the music industry since age 16. At 18, she terminated her contract with Japanese Seventeen, and supposedly decided to leave show business altogether. However, after an offer by former Oblivion Dust member K.A.Z, she invested in her music career In mid-2002, she formed the rock duo Spin Aqua with K.A.Z. Tsuchiya has said her influences have changed over the years, from Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, Cyndi Lauper, Bette Midler and Mariah Carey, to Bon Jovi and Guns N' Roses.

Soon after she debuted as a singer, she was sometimes dubbed "The Second Nanase" because of her resemblance to Nanase Aikawa. Spin Aqua released three singles, one album, and a video collection, without commercial success. In 2004, Tsuchiya became pregnant, and the group disbanded.

In 2005, Tsuchiya announced plans to begin a solo career. On August 24 of that year, she released her first mini-album, Taste My Beat on Avex Group's sub-label, Mad Pray Records. Her first single was "Change Your Life", followed by a second single entitled "Slap that Naughty Body" / "My Fate". After these releases, Tsuchiya released her first remix album, Taste My Xxxremixxxxxxx!!!!!!!! Beat Life! Her third single, "Rose" was used as the opening theme for Nana; Olivia Lufkin's "Starless Night" was used as the ending theme. This boosted Tsuchiya's music career, as "Rose" reached No. 6 on the Oricon charts and become her first Top Ten Hit.

In July 2006, Tsuchiya made her first overseas appearance at the Japan Expo in Paris, France. During this time, to boost her popularity, Tsuchiya also debuted her album Strip Me?

In early 2007, after a short hiatus, she returned to the music scene with a new single called "Kuroi Namida". This song would also be featured in the Nana anime. This was followed by the third Nana anime opening single, "Lucy" in early February. This would also directly precede a second full-length Nana album, titled Anna Tsuchiya Inspi' Nana (Black Stones) which contained singles from the show and new songs. A quasi-soundtrack album called Nana Best was then released, which included popular and unreleased songs by both her and Olivia Lufkin from the TV series. In March 2007, both Lufkin's and Tsuchiya's songs from these albums were played at Shibuya AX in Tokyo in March 2007. On June 30 of the same year, Tsuchiya performed at Anime Expo in the Long Beach, California, followed performances on July 27 at Pentaport Rock Festival in South Korea, and on July 29 at Formoz Festival in Taiwan. Called Tsichiya's "World Fez Tour", the series of performances concluded with a summer tour in Japan, which included a performance for a second time at Summer Sonic Festival. Shortly after the conclusion of the tour, Tsuchiya released her single "Bubble Trip" / "Sweet Sweet Song" on August 1.

The single "Cocoon" was released on January 30, 2008, followed in June by the single "Crazy World" which was a collaboration with the Japanese EMI Music recording artist AI. Tsuchiya released a third single in September 2008, "Virgin Cat", which was used to promote the show The L Word in Japan.

In October 2008, she released her third full-length album, the sexually explicit Nudy Show!.

In 2009 Tsuchiya performed a set with a full orchestra at the New Classic Gig in Tokyo, revealing herself a fan of Chopin and his Revolutionary Etude in particular. The orchestra included 70 members and the show was broadcast in 38 countries.

In May 2010, Tsuchiya's remix of her Nudy Show! album was released titled Nudy xxxremixxxxxxx!!!!!!!! Show!.

Tsuchiya's song 'Guilty' was featured in the ending credits of the film Resident Evil: Degeneration.

On November 23, 2011 she released "Switch On!" her thirteenth single. It is the opening theme for the Kamen Rider Series Kamen Rider Fourze. She decided to record the song because her son was a fan of the previous series Kamen Rider OOO. She herself watched earlier versions while growing up. On August 22, 2012 she released another Kamen Rider single: Voyagers, the theme song to Kamen Rider Fourze the Movie: Space, Here We Come!.


Acting career
Tsuchiya made her acting debut in 2004 in Novala Takemoto's adapted hit Kamikaze Girls as the girl biker punk yankī "Ichigo Shirayuri". This role brought her both immediate attention and critical success, with Tsuchiya winning several awards in Japan.

Tsuchiya's success in acting continued with various movie performances and appearances in dramas such as Katsuhito Ishii's The Taste of Tea which played at Cannes, the 2007 live-action remake of Dororo and as the voice of Lindsay Lohan's character "Maggie Peyton" in the Japanese dub of Herbie: Fully Loaded. In February 2007's Sakuran she played the rebellious but beautiful courtesan Kiyoha in a live action adaptation of the manga.

Her latest performance in a film is starring in the live-action adaptation of the manga The Legend of Kamui.

In addition to acting, she has also been known for her impersonation skills, of many martial artists and wrestlers, most notably Wanderlei Silva, Melvin Manhoef and Jun Kasai.


Personal life
In 2004, Tsuchiya announced her engagement to model and actor Joshua Niimura, the younger brother of model Friedia Niimura (Rin Kozue). On November 19, 2004, Tsuchiya gave birth to their first child, a son named Sky (澄海, Sukai) who is featured in a photobook with his mother, titled, Happy Days – Anna, Mama ni Naru!. In July 2006, it was announced that Tsuchiya and Niimura had divorced. In May 2008, Niimura died of heart failure at the age of 25.

In September 2009, Tsuchiya wrote on her blog that she was pregnant and had married her long-time stylist, Yamato Kikuchi, three years her senior. The two had begun dating in 2007. On March 26, 2010, Tsuchiya gave birth to her second son, Simba (心羽, Shinba).


Controversy
In a 2008 interview in the The Japan Times, Tsuchiya explained: "It is cool being wild and broken-down, but drinking at nighttime is enough for me. I believe when you make rock music, it might not be cool if you behave not so cleverly. Actually, I've been rather earnest. When I drink a bit, I can get crazy, but not too much. The happiest thing for me is my family."

Tsuchiya often describes herself as a nasty person. On the other hand, she has been referred to as a very good-hearted and open-minded person even in reference to larger women.

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Eita
Eita
(3 films)
Kō Shibasaki
Kō Shibasaki
(3 films)
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Filmography of Anna Tsuchiya (10 films)

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Actress

Gonin Saga
Gonin Saga (2015)

Directed by Takashi Ishii
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Masanobu Ando, Masahiro Higashide, Anna Tsuchiya, Jinpachi Nezu, Rila Fukushima, Naoto Takenaka
Roles Asami Kikuchi
Rating54% 2.716722.716722.716722.716722.71672
Hayato et Daisuke ont perdu leurs pères respectifs dix-neuf ans plus tôt dans une fusillade entre yakuzas. Si, grâce à sa mère, Hayato n’a pas suivi les traces de son paternel, Daisuke fait lui partie du milieu et est devenu garde du corps de Shikine Seiji , jeune chef yakuza du clan Gosei. Ils font un jour la rencontre d’un journaliste ayant lui-même perdu son père lors de l’incident et découvrent les vraies raisons de la fusillade. Commence alors à germer en eux, l’idée de vengeance…
S: The Last Policeman: Recovery of Our Future, 2h
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Osamu Mukai, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Nao Ōmori, Kazue Fukiishi, Joe Odagiri, Hiroyuki Hirayama
Roles Aki Yokokawa
Rating53% 2.663492.663492.663492.663492.66349
Le NPS (National Police Safety Rescue), dont le but est d'attraper vivants les criminels les plus dangereux, devient le centre d'attention du public. Un sit-in de démonstration a lieu et les membres du NPS, dont Ichigo Kamikura, se rendent sur le site. Pendant ce temps, un navire de transport est détourné dans l'océan Pacifique.
Kamui
Kamui (2009)
, 2h
Directed by Yoichi Sai
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films
Actors Kenichi Matsuyama, Koyuki Katō, Kaoru Kobayashi, Koichi Sato, Hideaki Itō, Suzuka Ōgo
Roles Ayu
Rating56% 2.8102052.8102052.8102052.8102052.810205
The young Kamui is a runaway ninja who has abandoned his clan, now constantly pursued by assassins. His travels bring him to a seashore village where he meets Hanbei, a fisherman who shares the former ninja's sense of honor. Though Hanbei's wife is wary of the stranger, the fisherman and Kamui become good friends. Life at the seaside seems idyllic but Kamui does not get to enjoy the peace for very long when his past life is catching up on him, and everything and everyone is not as it seems. Now he must draw upon his shadowy arts if he hopes to escape with his life.
Paco and the Magical Book, 1h45
Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Kōji Yakusho, Ayaka Wilson, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Ryō Kase, Eiko Koike, Anna Tsuchiya
Roles Tamako
Rating68% 3.4374253.4374253.4374253.4374253.437425
The movie is set in a hospital where "strange" people are sent. One of the older, gruffer patients, is Onuki, a business owner who is sent to the hospital after a heart attack, thinks little of the other hospital patients, and hopes to die without being remembered by such "worthless" people. Another patient, a young girl named Paco, is in the hospital due to a memory disorder- she can only remember the events of one day at a time. Each day she reads a pop-up children's book, and often asks Onuki to read to her. Each day it is a new story for her.
Dororo
Dororo (2007)
, 3h5
Directed by Akihiko Shiota
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kō Shibasaki, Kiichi Nakai, Yoshio Harada, Eita, Mieko Harada
Roles Sabame Lady
Rating64% 3.208533.208533.208533.208533.20853
The film's storyline has some major differences from that of the manga, most notably Dororo being a young woman, as envisioned in the video game, assuming the identity of a man. In spite of others seeing through her brash and often violent exterior, Dororo rarely concedes to her true emotions and refuses to be a "proper" woman. Hyakkimaru is also younger than his namesake in the manga, and less bitter about his circumstances, as well.
Dororo
Dororo (2007)
, 2h19
Directed by Akihiko Shiota
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Satoshi Tsumabuki, Eita, Kō Shibasaki, Kiichi Nakai, Yoshio Harada, Mieko Harada
Roles Sabame Lady
Rating64% 3.208533.208533.208533.208533.20853
Après la guerre contre la famille Kanayama, Kagemitsu Daigo arrive dans le Pavillon de l'Enfer et fait un pacte avec les 48 démons contre 48 parties du corps de Hyakkimaru, son fils, afin de conquérir le monde. Après la naissance de Hyakkimaru, ses parents ont tenté de le tuer mais ils l'abandonnent finalement dans un seau sur la rivière. Un médecin le retrouve et lui crée les parties du corps manquantes.
Memories of Matsuko, 2h10
Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Psychologie, Musical films
Actors Miki Nakatani, Eita, Yūsuke Iseya, Teruyuki Kagawa, Anna Tsuchiya, Gori
Roles Prisoner 3
Rating77% 3.897353.897353.897353.897353.89735
The story begins with Sho cleaning out the remaining belongings of his recently deceased aunt Matsuko. Sho gradually learns many details of his aunt's life, and it is through his investigations that the audience learns the story of Matsuko's past.
The Taste of Tea, 2h23
Directed by Katsuhito Ishii
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Tadanobu Asano, Tomokazu Miura, Anna Tsuchiya, Rinko Kikuchi, Tomoko Nakajima, Kenichi Matsuyama
Roles Aoi Suzuishi
Rating75% 3.797183.797183.797183.797183.79718
The film is concerned with the lives of the Haruno family, who live in rural Tochigi Prefecture, the countryside north of Tokyo. Nobuo is a hypnotherapist. He teaches his son, Hajime, Go. Hajime becomes an excellent Go player, but he has a rough time with girls and puberty. Yoshiko refuses to be an average housewife and works on animated film projects at home. She uses assistance from grandfather Akira, an eccentric old man who is a former animator and occasional model.

Sound

Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FINAL: Build & Ex-Aid with Legend Riders, 1h32
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Actors Shu Watanabe, Sōta Fukushi, Gaku Sano, Ryosuke Miura, Tomokazu Seki
Roles Theme Song Performance
Rating71% 3.593873.593873.593873.593873.59387
Le film commence après la bataille de Ex-Aid et de Para-DX contre Build dans Kamen Rider Ex-Aid the Movie: True Ending . Build apparaît et prive les Ex-Aid de leurs pouvoirs, tandis Sento croit que tout ceci n'était qu'un rêve. Misora construit alors deux nouveaux Fullbottles.