Mana Ashida (芦田 愛菜, Ashida Mana; born 23 June 2004) is a Japanese actress, talent and singer. Her first appearance was in Asahi Broadcasting Corporation's ABC Short Movie 2, though she rose to prominence after acting in the television drama Mother. She became the youngest lead star in Japanese drama history when she starred in Sayonara Bokutachi no Youchien. She was the youngest lead actress in a television serial drama by appearing in the serial drama Marumo no Okite in the spring of 2011. She also appeared in Japanese films such as Confessions and Bunny Drop. Ashida and her co-actor Fuku Suzuki sang the 2011 hit song "Maru Maru Mori Mori", the theme song for the television drama Marumo no Okite.

Filmography

• 2026Chimney Town: Frozen in Time — Lubicchi (voice)
• Extraordinary Attorney Minami — Minamida Minami
• 2026MYSTERY ARENA — Ichiko
• Unrequited Love — Yui Sugawara
• 2025Not Me That Went Viral — Sakura
• 2025Scarlet — Scarlet (voice), Theme Song Performance
• 2025Totto no Ketsuraku Seishunki
• 2024Cells at Work! — Niko Urushizaki
• Sayonara, Maestro! — Hibiki Natsume
• The Greatest Teacher — Ugumori Kanau
• 2022BL Metamorphosis — Urara Sayama
• 2022Ending Cut — 迫田结
• Ending Cut
• 2022Lonely Castle in the Mirror — Wolf Queen (voice)
• 2021The House of the Lost on the Cape — Yui (voice)
• 2020Child of the Stars — Chihiro
• 2020Poupelle of Chimney Town — Lubicchi (voice)
• 2019Children of the Sea — Ruka Azumi (voice)
• Sunday Art Museum
• 2019TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
• 2018Haruko's Doll — Haruko
• Mampuku — Narrator
• 2018Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us — Largo (voice)
• OUR HOUSE
• Ginnikan — Maho – Child
• 2014Hana's Miso Soup
• 2014The Round Table — Kokko
• Tomorrow, Mom Won't Be Here — Post
• 2013Don't Lose Heart — Toyo Shibata (child)
• 2013Pacific Rim — Young Mako
• 2013The Partner — Sakura
• Alice in Liar Game — Alice
• Beautiful Rain — Kinoshita Miu, Theme Song Performance
• 2012Liar Game: Reborn — Alice
• 2012Magic Tree House — Annie
• 2012The Floating Castle — Chidori
• Antarctica — Haruka Furutachi
• 2011Bunny Drop — Rin Kaga
• 2011Goodbye to Our Kindergarten — Kanna Yamazaki
• 2011Hankyu Railways - A 15-Minute Miracle — Ami Hagiwara
• 2011Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Summer Special 2011
• 2011In a Corner of This World
• Marumo's Story — Kaoru Sasakura, Theme Song Performance
• Princess Go — Sen (child)
• 2011Toire no kamisama — Kana Uemura [Child]
• 2010Confessions — Manami Moriguchi
• 2010Looking Up at the Half-Moon — Miku Natsume
• Mother — Michiki Reina
• NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen — Judge
• The Apothecary Diaries — Maomao

Appearances as themselves (3)

• Golden SixTONES — Self
• Sandwichman to Ashida Mana no Hakase Chan — Self
• 2017Takayuki Yamada in 3D — Herself