is a Japanese actress, singer, and fashion model. As a singer, her stage name is Adieu (stylized in all lowercase). She is the younger sister of actress Mone Kamishiraishi.
Kamishiraishi entered the entertainment industry after winning the Toho Cinderella Audition in 2011 and is represented by Toho Entertainment. She made her acting debut in 2012, and has since appeared in films such as Haruta & Chika (2017) and A Forest of Wool and Steel (2018), for which she won a Newcomer of the Year award at the 42nd Japan Academy Film Prize. She has also done voice acting, such as in Mirai (2018) and Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle (2020), and appeared in television dramas, including the NHK taiga drama Idaten (2019) and The Files of Young Kindaichi (2022). She released her first music single in 2015, and made her full music debut as Adieu in 2019 under the Sony Music Records label.
Early life
Kamishiraishi was born and raised in Kagoshima Prefecture. She lived in Mexico with her family for three years from the first grade of elementary school.
Career
2011–2014: Joining Toho, television and modelling debut
In 2011, when Kamishiraishi was in the fifth grade of elementary school, she applied for the 7th Toho Cinderella Audition, following her older sister Mone. At the age of 10, she was selected as the youngest ever Grand Prix winner out of 44,120 applicants and became a member of Toho Entertainment's Cinderella Room along with Mone, who won the Judges' Special Award. She began her career as an exclusive model for the fashion magazine Pichi Lemon in the September 2011 issue. She travelled back and forth between Kagoshima and Tokyo for work until she moved to Tokyo in her second year of middle school.
Kamishiraishi made her television series debut in the 2012 drama Bunshin, broadcast on Wowow. In 2014, she appeared in the first episode of the fourth Kindaichi series installment, The Files of Young Kindaichi Neo, as serial killer Chiemi Yusa.
2015–2017: Music and theater debut, Kirin commercial series, Haruta & Chika
Kamishiraishi made her CD debut in June 2015 with the theme song "Su-ma-i-ru" ("Smile") for the NHK Educational TV animated series . Two years later, she sang the theme song "Narratage" for the , written and composed by Yojiro Noda of Radwimps, under the stage name "Adieu". Adieu was described only as "a 17-year-old girl attending a high school in Tokyo" and her face was obscured in all promotional materials. It was released as a single on October 4, 2017 and the music video was directed by Isao Yukisada.
In August 2016, Kamishiraishi made her first stage play appearance in the Tours Musical troupe production of Anne of Green Gables, becoming the youngest actress ever in the troupe to play main character Anne Shirley, who had also been portrayed by Mone the previous year. The next year, she made her feature film debut in Haruta & Chika and became friends with female lead Kanna Hashimoto. She also starred in the musical adaptation of Kiki's Delivery Service as main character Kiki, and played the lead character in an original stage sequel of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.
Kamishiraishi appeared in a series of commercials for Kirin Company's Gogo no Kocha bottled tea, titled , from 2016 until 2018. The series featured her character covering popular songs, such as "Yasashii Kimochi" by Chara, "Kabutomushi" by Aiko, "Kaede" by Spitz, and "366 nichi" by HY.
2018: A Forest of Wool and Steel and Mirai
Kamishiraishi co-starred in a film with her sister for the first time in A Forest of Wool and Steel. For this film, she won a 42nd Japan Academy Film Prize for Newcomer of the Year.
The animated film Mirai, in which Kamishiraishi voiced main character Kun Ota, was selected for the Directors' Fortnight at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, and she attended the official screening. The film would also be nominated in the animated film categories of the 91st Academy Awards and 76th Golden Globe Awards. Director Mamoru Hosoda later directed the new title sequence of the Nippon TV program Friday Road Show!, with the concept of a girl who is visiting a salon in a foreign country and Kamishiraishi performing its theme song "Era".
Kamishiraishi also appeared in the TBS drama Stepmom And Daughter Blues as the daughter-in-law of the main character. She cited the series in a 2021 interview as her "turning point", as she felt it pulled her out of her shyness at the time.
In November, Kamishiraishi sang a new version of "Paprika" arranged by Yoko Kanno, which was released on NHK's website and YouTube. It was used in the NHK BS1 broadcast of Legends on Ice on November 11, commemorating the 40th NHK Trophy.