Canon Nawata

Urodzony 28 wrz 1988 · Japan

Japanese actor Canon Nawata was born on September 28, 1988 in Osaka, Japan. She came to Tokyo at the age of 18 to begin her acting career. She worked mostly on stage and in 2014 she became the heroine in the stage play "The Adventures of Kobo Abe" directed by the film producer and director Genjiro Arato. She then made her screen debut in the Wayne Wang's film "While The Woman Are Sleeping" in 2016, and in 2019 she starred in Hisashi Saito's film "Love Dart," in which she played the role of a woman who self-mutilates to fill a hole in her heart and sleeps with anyone she can. She acted in Sion Sono's Hollywood debut film " Prisoners of the Ghostland" in 2019, which also marked her own Hollywood debut, and in 2021 she was discovered by director Mike Figgis and acted in his film "Mother Tongue" filmed in Hong Kong. She is well versed in the classical Japanese martial arts ( kobudo ) and has studied at the class (dojo) of Eiji Takakura, a legendary master of kobudo who also worked with Toshiro Mifune. She got a second grade and has studied a wide variety of martial arts, including karate, iai, naginata, jyo, and samurai dance. She can also ride a horse.