Favorite Actresses

Inoue Mao

Japanese

I fell in love with Inoue in Hana Yori Dango and I've seen some of her other works. She's good. She gives her characters life, and even though every time I see her for the first time in another movie or drama I think of Makino (can't help it, Hanadan is my love), in just a few minutes she can make me believe she's another person.

Sugisaki Hana

Japanese

First of all, I had seen two movies of her and didn't even notice it was the same person playing the characters. I found out because I wanted to see who was Rukia's actress in the Bleach Live Action and can you imagine my surprise when I found out that Rukia was the girl from Hana Nochi Hare AND that girl from Blade Immortal. 

Kudos for the versatility.

Also, she was excellent in Bleach. At first I didn't enjoy her characterization so much but when I was able to see her in the film I was shocked.

I don't think she was an exact copy of Rukia but she did do Rukia's character justice. Her chemistry with Sota was amazing (sparring scenes, I'm looking at you), and there is one particular scene in the movie that was not my favorite, but was amazing that is... 

SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED THE MOVIE 

... when she's talking to Ichigo before taking her powers back. That was a very emotional scene and you could see it in her eyes that although her mouth was saying she was so sick of him and humans, her eyes said she would miss him and that she was sad he was going to forget about her.