Konatsu Kato

Konatsu Kato, born June 26, 1999 in Tokyo, is a Japanese actress and model. On paper that is a familiar career shape in Japan, where acting and fashion work often run in parallel from a young age. What makes her interesting to me is how her name traveled abroad: she provided the likeness and voice for Hinako Shimizu in the video game Silent Hill f, and that role introduced her to an international audience essentially overnight. Think about how strange and modern that path is. A generation ago, a Japanese performer reached global viewers through a festival film or a drama that happened to get licensed. Now a horror game can do it, and the audience arrives already attached to a character she embodied. I find that genuinely exciting, and slightly precarious too, because a signature role that big can define how people see an actor before they have chosen their own direction. Her public profile is still thin in places, which to me reads less like a lack of substance and more like a career that has not shown its full hand yet. I am curious what she picks next.

Name (English)

Konatsu Kato

Name (Japanese)

加藤小夏

Reading

かとう こなつ

Born

June 26, 1999 (age 27)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rabbit

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Height

164 cm

Occupation

actor / model / fashion model

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konatsu%20Kato
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8A%A0%E8%97%A4%E5%B0%8F%E5%A4%8F
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30930990

Tags

• Tokyo
• actor
• model
• fashion model

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.