Rinka Kumada

Kumada's career kicked off in 2017 with Mixed Doubles — not a bad place to start, though she was a teenager navigating an industry that doesn't always give young actresses room to grow at their own pace. The following year, 2018, was notably productive: Blue Summer and Girls Don't Cry both landed in the same calendar year, which for someone still in her mid-teens is a workload that signals a deliberate push from her team and, presumably, a genuine appetite on her part to keep working. The years between 2018 and 2023 aren't extensively documented in available sources, but 2023 marked a clear inflection point. Otona Najimi gave her the lead role of Kagaya Kaede — and if you've seen the film, the scenes where Kaede has to reconcile her adult self with a childhood friendship that never quite resolved itself are the kind of material that separates actors who can handle emotional ambiguity from those who can't. She handles it. That same year, You Made My Dawn added another feature credit, and by 2024 she was appearing in The Reason We Fall in Love and Hide from the Rain while also headlining the TV series Go Home (Rakuten Viki). 2025 looks like her most ambitious year yet — Mieruko-chan (an adaptation of the popular horror-comedy manga), It Takes More Than a Pretty Face to Fall in Love, and the TV series DOPE Mayaku-torichimari-bu Tokusô-ka are all listed as 2025 projects (IMDb). That's a lot of irons in the fire, spanning horror, romance, and crime drama. Her acting career, now spanning roughly eight years since that 2017 debut, has moved from early supporting work through to genuine lead status across multiple genres — which, for someone who's only 24, is a trajectory worth paying attention to.