Chara is a Japanese singer, actress and video jockey. She debuted in 1991 with the single Heaven. She is most well known for her song "Swallowtail Butterfly (Ai no Uta)", the theme song for the 1996 Shunji Iwai film Swallowtail Butterfly (in which she starred), her 1997 hit single "Yasashii Kimochi", and her collaboration with Judy and Mary vocalist Yuki, "Ai no Hi Mittsu Orange". Chara later formed a band with Yuki, called Mean Machine.

Filmography

• Because We Forget Everything
• Saihate kara, Toho 5-fun — Theme Song Performance
• 2021ZOKKI — Music, Theme Song Performance
• An Invisible Cradle — Theme Song Performance
• 2016Yen Town Space in Inujima
• 2012Fusé: Memoirs of a Huntress — Omichi (voice), Theme Song Performance
• From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke — Theme Song Performance
• 2008Snakes and Earrings — Theme Song Performance
• Telepathy Shoujo Ran — Theme Song Performance
• 2007Freesia: Bullet Over Tears — Theme Song Performance
• 1996Picnic — Coco
• 1996Swallowtail Butterfly — Glico
• 1996円都 YEN TOWN

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2010m-flo 10 Years Special Live "we are one" — Self
• 2007m-flo Tour 2007 COSMICOLOR at Yokohama Arena — Self