Kyoka Shibata

Acting

Kyoka Shibata

Born

1999-08-30 (27)

Place of birth

Tōkyō, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

38 titles

Kyōka Shibata (柴田 杏花, Shibata Kyōka, born 30 August 1999) is a Japanese actress born in Tōkyō, Japan. Shibata is represented by Stardust Promotion's Section 3. Also known as Kyoka (杏花).

Known for

Absolute Zero poster
7.8

Izumi Sakuragi is a new police sergeant with the Special Investigations Office, which was set up within the Metropolitan Police in November last year. The new investigation team uses DNA analysis and the latest in forensics science to investigate cold cases as well as cases suspected to involve missing persons.

Absolute Zero

2010

Emergency Room 24 Hours poster
7.4

Dr. Shindo seems cold, but is a competent surgeon. He is also an ER doctor capable of accurate decisions and treatment, who always tries to see things from the patient’s side. Although once retired from his profession, he one day discovers someone in need of help, who he treats and rushes to the Kohoku Medical University Emergency Center. This incident encourages him to once again work as an ER doctor. Confrontation erupts between female doctor Tamaki, and Shindo, now a just-arrived ER doctor. While this human drama depicts the relationships among doctors and nurses, it appeals emotionally to viewers on the subject of life.

Emergency Room 24 Hours

1999

Drawing Closer poster
8.4

With only a year left to live, 17-year-old Akito finds new meaning in life by bringing joy to a terminally ill girl who has just six months remaining.

Drawing Closer

2024

GATE24: The Border poster
5.4

A newly formed airport task force overcomes institutional barriers and uses an eccentric officer's extraordinary observational skills to protect Japan's borders from international crimes.

GATE24: The Border

2026

Where Does the Sea Begin poster
8.1

A love story depicting the connection between parents and their children in various forms.

Where Does the Sea Begin

2024

Penance poster
7.7

The murder of a young girl shocks a small Japanese village, and the victim's mother is distraught when the classmates her daughter was playing with all claim not to remember the identity of the killer. In her anger, she puts a curse on them.

Penance

2012

Film credits

2020s · 9 titles

Drawing Closer poster
8.4

With only a year left to live, 17-year-old Akito finds new meaning in life by bringing joy to a terminally ill girl who has just six months remaining.

Drawing Closer

2024

Dreaming in Between poster
6.5

Facing an unacceptable reality, a teacher is trying to reclaim relationships with his family, students and former friends. Reassessing his past, he contemplates how to go on with his life.

Dreaming in Between

2023

M.I.S.S.I.O.N. Opera Undercover Agent poster
NR

Matsumi Kanata, a brilliant but antisocial Tokyo police detective, is tasked with a secret mission: infiltrate Tsubakino University of the Arts to identify the culprit behind a series of drone bombings. Because the institution was recently an all-women's university and remains predominantly female, Kanata is forced to disguise himself as a woman to blend in. During his undercover assignment, he crosses paths with three distinct students: Haruna, the vocal department's star performer; Misuzu, who grows hostile after losing a musical role to Kanata; and Riko, who discovers his true identity but becomes his investigative partner. As Kanata immerses himself in student life, he gets so swept up in rehearsals for the upcoming musical production that he begins neglecting his mission. Everything comes to a head on the day of the performance when a sudden dramatic turn forces Kanata to balance saving the musical with finally uncovering the bomber's true identity.

M.I.S.S.I.O.N. Opera Undercover Agent

2026

Mori Hanae Butterfly Beyond poster
7.0

TV Asahi's special drama to celebrate the 100th birthday of Hanae Mori, the first female Asian haute couture designer.

Mori Hanae Butterfly Beyond

2026

Oasis poster
3.0

Once close friends, an incident led them to different lives and to become enemies.

Oasis

2024

Ogre Reduction poster
NR

The government launches a brutal campaign to eradicate the Kijo, half-human, half-demon hybrids. Their method: hunting and severing the horns of demons…

Ogre Reduction

2025

God of Novels poster
5.9

Ichiya Chitani (Taiki Sato) made his debut as a novelist when he was in middle school. His novels received severe criticisms and were not popular. Now, Ichiya Chitani is a high school student. His confidence as a writer is shot. One day, an editor proposes that Ichiya Chitani collaborate with his classmate Shiina Koyurugi (Kanna Hashimoto), who is a popular writer, on a novel. The editor wants a novel that can touch the hearts of people around the world. Ichiya Chitani and Shiina Koyurugi have completely different personalities and reside on different levels in terms of popularity as writers, collaborate on a new novel.

God of Novels

2020

Goodbye, Bad Magazines poster
7.0

Shiori, a young woman aspiring to work as a fashion magazine editor, is hired by the publishing house of erotica for men. There, she finds herself surrounded by salacious photos and indecent language. However, some of Shiori's earlier enthusiasm is regained through editor-in-chief Ms. Sawaki and pornographic actress-cum-columnist Haru; with their help, she develops an interest in erotica that she uses to hone her writing talent. One day a blunder that could spell the company's end tests the limits of Shiori's mental state. Physically exhausted from the high demand of the job, she is subject to one last shock that pushes her close to the edge.

Goodbye, Bad Magazines

2022

Shibuya2036 poster
NR

Shibuya, the year is 2036. In contrast to the front face of the city with its huge skyscrapers, the backside of Shibuya is a home ground for WeTubers. Mitsuru (played by Daichi Kaneko) and Kakeru (played by Kotaro Daigo), who grew up together as orphans, live a life at the bottom of the ladder with no family, education, or money, but they dream of a great turnaround in their lives by becoming popular WeTubers. One day, they encounter a mannequin uncle (played by Shôhei Uno). When he releases a video of his encounter with the suspicious mannequin uncle, the number of views on their channel increase dramatically. Viewers begin asking him for advice, and they decide to help solve their problems. However, they soon find their selves caught up in a puzzling case.

Shibuya2036

2021

2010s · 10 titles

Have a Song on Your Lips poster
6.7

A young piano prodigy, Yuri Kashiwagi, returns to her hometown after several years and joins a middle school to mentor the choir group.

Have a Song on Your Lips

2015

Blue Spring Ride poster
6.7

In middle school, Futaba Yoshioka was madly in love with Tanaka Kou but he moves away with his mother. She is reunited with him later in life but he is not the same person anymore.

Blue Spring Ride

2014

Penance poster
7.1

The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim not to remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do penance for their silence.

Penance

2013

Baseball Players Acting On The Stage! poster
NR

At the baseball club of Yame Kita High School in the southern part of Fukuoka Prefecture, fierce competition for positions was always fought. In the qualifying that led to the spring selection tournament (Koshien), the team was beginning to get jerky due to the unexpected defeat. At that time, the main players such as Ace are ordered by the director to go to the drama club. Repulsive players. However, there is a memory of the sad scars of the unexpected seniors.

Baseball Players Acting On The Stage!

2018

Samurai Pirates poster
NR

Long ago, Japan was home to several navies. The Murakami Navy, said to be the strongest of them all, once defeated even Nobunaga, and refused to join Hideyoshi, choosing to pursue their love of freedom and the sea. The man who led these samurai of the sea was the great pirate lord Takeyoshi Murakami. And now Kaede Murakami, a descendant of Takeyoshi, is an elementary schooler living on an island. On her 12th birthday, Kaede discovers a flute in her family's storehouse that has been passed down through the Murakami family for generations. The flute holds the key to finding the Murakami Navy's buried treasure. This adventure story tells the tale of an ancient pirate and his descendant forming a connection that transcends time, uniting the island.

Samurai Pirates

2013

Saki poster
6.6

Story follows high school student Saki Miyanaga and her classmates as they become absorbed in the game of mahjong. They target an upcoming national competition.

Saki

2017

A Pierrot Praying for the Moon poster
NR

Shizuru Tamai lives in a small mountain town in rural Japan with her mother and grandmother. Her grandmother is partially unable to move, and Shizuru has to care for her with her mother, who tries to keep Shizuru shackled at every opportunity. Shizuru’s days are filled with endless monotony. She works as a receptionist at her former classmate’s hospital, and one day goes to buy picture books for the waiting room. It’s then that she recalls a book from her childhood ‘The Pierrot Prays to the Moon’. Wanting to read the book again, Shizuru finds it on an online auction site. Once it finally arrives and she begins to read it, a small slip of paper gently falls from its pages. On the paper are what appear to be instructions for a recipe. The recipe prompts Shizuru to contact Tobuse, the man who sent her the book.

A Pierrot Praying for the Moon

2014

Dokurogeki 2: atoaji no warui sasupensu poster
7.0

Misuzu Murai had a hobby of divination in college, Yokoyama often lets Misuzu do divination, one day, Yokoyama's grandson got sick and needed surgery, Yokoyama hopes to do something for grandson and let Misuzu do divination, something terrible happened to divination this time.

Dokurogeki 2: atoaji no warui sasupensu

2012

Go to see Pinkerton poster
6.0

Yuko, a former leader of the five-member idol group Pinkerton, with the help of man named Matsumoto, tries to reunite the now-disbanded group.

Go to see Pinkerton

2018

4 / Cat-Nekobun no Yon poster
NR

A short omnibus created by four young creators on the theme of "drawing the people of Ichii who use a certain station where a cat lives".

4 / Cat-Nekobun no Yon

2015

Series credits

Absolute Zero poster
7.8

Izumi Sakuragi is a new police sergeant with the Special Investigations Office, which was set up within the Metropolitan Police in November last year. The new investigation team uses DNA analysis and the latest in forensics science to investigate cold cases as well as cases suspected to involve missing persons.

Absolute Zero

2010

Emergency Room 24 Hours poster
7.4

Dr. Shindo seems cold, but is a competent surgeon. He is also an ER doctor capable of accurate decisions and treatment, who always tries to see things from the patient’s side. Although once retired from his profession, he one day discovers someone in need of help, who he treats and rushes to the Kohoku Medical University Emergency Center. This incident encourages him to once again work as an ER doctor. Confrontation erupts between female doctor Tamaki, and Shindo, now a just-arrived ER doctor. While this human drama depicts the relationships among doctors and nurses, it appeals emotionally to viewers on the subject of life.

Emergency Room 24 Hours

1999

GATE24: The Border poster
5.4

A newly formed airport task force overcomes institutional barriers and uses an eccentric officer's extraordinary observational skills to protect Japan's borders from international crimes.

GATE24: The Border

2026

Where Does the Sea Begin poster
8.1

A love story depicting the connection between parents and their children in various forms.

Where Does the Sea Begin

2024

Penance poster
7.7

The murder of a young girl shocks a small Japanese village, and the victim's mother is distraught when the classmates her daughter was playing with all claim not to remember the identity of the killer. In her anger, she puts a curse on them.

Penance

2012

My Beloved Flower poster
9.0

The story revolves around the love, friendship and relationships between four characters who meet by chance.

My Beloved Flower

2023

I"s poster
8.3

High schooler Ichitaka Seto is in love with classmate Iori Yoshizuki, but is too shy to tell her. Again and again, he plans to tell her his true feelings, but each time something – usually a misunderstanding of some kind – gets in the way. Things complicate further when Itsuki Akiba – whom Ichitaka was friends with in their childhood before she moved to the United States – returns, her crush on him still intact.

I"s

2018

Sakura no Oyakodon poster
7.0

Sakura runs a secondhand bookstore in Tokyo with a hidden "meeting place" where those in need can gather, share their stories, and enjoy a free meal. Offering comfort and support, Sakura creates a space for healing and connection.

Sakura no Oyakodon

2017

Final Cut poster
NR

When Keisuke Nakamura was a high school student, his mother was accused of killing a girl and then his mother committed suicide. 12 years later, Keisuke Nakamura tries to find the girl's real killer and also take revenge upon those responsible for his mother's suicide. He targets people from the media who covered the case and he crosses paths with sisters who hold a key to what happened. Keisuke Nakamura falls in love with one of the sisters.

Final Cut

2018

Ghostly Girl poster
5.0

Junior high school teacher Koyama Akira has the ability to sense ghosts, and his new school has a ghost named Akane who used to be a teacher.

Ghostly Girl

2013

Then You Try Making It! poster
7.7

A woman loses herself by playing the "perfect girlfriend," cooking elaborate meals for her partner, while her old-fashioned boyfriend assumes women should cook. After a smooth college romance and cohabitation, they break up right after his proposal. Through cooking, they rethink stereotypes and rebuild their love in this rom-com.

Then You Try Making It!

2025

When Spring Comes poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

When Spring Comes

2024

Nani ka okasii poster
7.6

No synopsis available yet.

Nani ka okasii

2022

Hagane no Onna poster
6.5

Haga Ineko stopped being a school teacher for she was about to get married. When she is suddenly dumped by her to-be husband, she loses her way, and starts drinking. One day, an old friend approaches with a job offer. She would be a substitute teacher in a class on which several teachers gave up without an apparent reason. She reluctantly takes the job only to discover that there are several brutal bullying cases inside the class. Even she eventually starts being anonymously threatened due to her opposing posture against such cases. She now has to identify and reprimand them while at the same time protecting weaker students. The word "Hagane" on the title is a nickname which comes from Haga (her surname) and Ne (from Ineko, her name), but is actually a pun with the actual word hagane (which means steel, denoting how she must be in order to resist as a teacher). (d-addicts.com)

Hagane no Onna

2010

And Then, Yuriko Was Alone poster
7.8

At Yurigahara High School, the occult legend of "Yuriko-sama" has been handed down for generations. The existence of "Yuriko-sama" who reigns at the top of the school and brings misery to those who stand against her. The only condition to become a "Yuriko-sama" is to have the name Yuriko. In the new semester, a new "Yuriko-sama" fight begins. In order to save Yasaka Yuriko, her best friend, Shimakura Mizuki stands up and challenges the truth behind the legend.

And Then, Yuriko Was Alone

2020

Is It Too Late for Sushi? poster
7.0

After devoting 14 years to raising her son following her husband’s sudden death, Minato finally faces life on her own as he enters the workforce. Unsure how to spend her newfound freedom, she discovers a new passion by enrolling in a sushi academy, learning the art of sushi and rediscovering herself along the way.

Is It Too Late for Sushi?

2026

Sono otoko, ishiki takai kei poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sono otoko, ishiki takai kei

2015

Shishosetsu: Hattatsu Shogai no Boku ga Junai Shosetsuka ni Nareta Riyu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Shishosetsu: Hattatsu Shogai no Boku ga Junai Shosetsuka ni Nareta Riyu

2023