Akane Sakanoue

Akane Sakanoue is one of those performers whose resume tells you less than her body does. Born in Kumamoto in 1995 and first signed to Amuse, she is best known abroad for playing Asuna Yamase in Ultraman X, a role that leaned on her gymnastics background. That detail matters more than it sounds. In Japanese tokusatsu, the camera is unforgiving and the schedule brutal; an actor who can actually move, land, and recover gives a director options that a purely dramatic performer cannot. Western viewers sometimes dismiss the Ultra Series as children's television, but it functions as a proving ground, and the people who survive it tend to carry a certain unflappability into everything after. Her public profile is deliberately sparse, which I read as a choice rather than an absence. I would rather follow a career like this one, built quietly on craft, than one built on visibility alone.

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Name (English)

Akane Sakanoue

Name (Japanese)

坂ノ上茜

Reading

さかのうえ あかね

Born

December 5, 1995 (age 30)

Origin

Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

Height

162 cm

Occupation

actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Boar

Blood type

O

Agency

N.D.Promotion

Active years

2009 -

Works summary

Appearances

95 (2015–2025)

By year (titles with a known year)

2015: 2, 2016: 6, 2017: 5, 2018: 4, 2019: 15, 2020: 13, 2021: 18, 2022: 11, 2023: 10, 2024: 4, 2025: 4, year unknown: 3

Debut work

Ultraman X

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttp://artist.amuse.co.jp/artist/sakanoue_akane/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/sakanoueakane_official/
• Xhttps://x.com/sakanoueakane
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akane%20Sakanoue
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9D%82%E3%83%8E%E4%B8%8A%E8%8C%9C
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11424757

Tags

• Kumamoto Prefecture
• actor

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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