Ito Sari stars in the NHK morning drama "Wings of the Tiger" (General TV, Monday to Saturday, 8:00 am and others). Starting from the 24th week "Will Three Women Ruin Your Estate?", which begins on September 9th, Ikeda Akana will appear as Shiomi Kaoru.
Ikeda was born on October 31, 2001, and is 22 years old and from Gunma Prefecture. She played on a local baseball team for seven years from the first grade of elementary school, and attracted attention as a "Reiwa era baseball girl" for her performance in the "All-out Girl" series of commercials for the game app "August Cinderella Nine".
As an actor, she has appeared in NHK Taiga dramas "Idaten: Tokyo Olympic Banashi" (2019), "Aoi Ten wo Tsuke" (2021), the serial dramas "Koko wa Ima Kara Rinri Desu." (same channel, 2021), and "August Night Batting Center De." (TV Tokyo, same channel). Her performance in "Tokyo Tower" (TV Asahi, 2024) also drew attention.
In "Wings of the Tiger," she plays Kaoru, the eldest daughter of Shiomi (Hirano Seizo) and "Hyang-chan" Hyangsook (Ha Yeon-soo). She is a university student who is absorbed in student activism.
"Wings of the Tiger" is an original story based on the life of Mibuchi Yoshiko (1914-1984), Japan's first female lawyer and later a judge. It is legal entertainment that depicts the heroine and her friends forging a path where none existed in difficult times and saving lost children and cornered women.
