Mitsu Dan

Mitsu Dan
壇 蜜
Mitsu Dan at a baseball game in 2013
Born	齋藤 支靜加 (1980-12-03) December 3, 1980 (age 44)
Nationality	Japanese
Alma mater	Showa Women's University
Occupation(s)	Actress, gravure idol, writer
Years active	2010–present
Notable work	Be My Slave Amai Muchi
Spouse	Tōru Seino ​ (m. 2019)​
Awards	37th Japan Academy Prize
Website	dan-mitsu.jp

Mitsu Dan (壇 蜜, Dan Mitsu, born December 3, 1980) is the professional name of Shizuka Saitō (齋藤 支靜加), a Japanese actress, gravure idol, and writer.^[1] She has played multiple lead roles in television and film, including Naoko in the 2013 erotic thriller Amai Muchi, for which she received a Newcomer of the Year award at the 37th Japan Academy Prize ceremony.

Early life and education

Mitsu Dan was born on December 3, 1980, in Akita Prefecture, Japan.^[2] After graduating from Showa Women's University, she earned a teaching certificate, worked in a funeral parlor, tried but failed to start a sweets shop, and worked as a hostess in a Ginza club before becoming a gravure idol in 2010.^[3][4]

Career

Dan became known for her role in the BDSM-themed erotic thriller movie Be My Slave (2012), a performance that Giovanni Fazio of The Japan Times summarized as "a starlet is born."^[5] The next year she played a lead role in the 2013 erotic thriller Amai Muchi (甘い鞭, Sweet Whip), which was directed by Takashi Ishii.^[6] At the 37th Japan Academy Prize ceremony Dan was recognized as a Newcomer of the Year for her performance in Amai Muchi.^[7]

Over the next few years Dan appeared in numerous television dramas, variety programs, movies, and advertising campaigns, including the kaiju parody Chikyû bôei mibôjin (地球防衛未亡人, Earth Defense Widow),^[8] the 90th NHK asadora Hanako to Anne,^[9] a 2015 recruiting commercial for the Japan Self-Defense Forces,^[10] the 2016 Hulu Japan drama Crow's Blood,^[11] and the 2017 film Sekigahara.^[12] In 2018 Dan became a weekly host of the radio program Makoto Ōtake Golden Radio!^[13] The next year she appeared in the 99th NHK asadora Manpuku.^[14]

In July 2017 Dan starred in an official tourism promotion video for Miyagi Prefecture that was created using 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami reconstruction funds and published online.^[15] Female members of the Miyagi Prefectural Assembly, along with members of the public, claimed that the video was sexually suggestive and demanded that it be taken down.^[16] Miyagi governor Yoshihiro Murai initially defended the video on the grounds that it successfully brought attention to the prefecture, but after receiving hundreds of complaints in a month he ordered the video withdrawn.^[15] Later that year the Japanese Ministry of the Environment appointed Mitsu Dan as a public ambassador to promote home energy conservation.^[17]

Dan has written books in multiple genres, including the autobiographical book Mitsu no aji (蜜の味, A Taste of Honey), advice books Erosu no osahō (エロスのお作法, The Rules of Love) and Dōshiyō (どうしよう, What Should I Do?), and the food essay collection Tabetai no (たべたいの, I Want to Eat).^[4][18][19] She made her fiction debut in 2016 with a story in the Bungeishunjū literary magazine Ooru Yomimono (オール読物, All Reading).^[20] Since April 2017 she has written a monthly advice column for Otokemachi, an online publication of Yomiuri Shimbun.^[2] In March 2018 her story "Takumiharahara" (タクミハラハラ) was published in the literary magazine Bungakukai.^[21]

Personal life

Dan married manga artist Tōru Seino [ja] in November 2019.^[22]

Recognition

• 2014: 37th Japan Academy Prize for Newcomer of the Year^[23]

Works

• Mitsu no aji (蜜の味, A Taste of Honey), Shōgakukan, 2013, ISBN 9784093637350
• Erosu no osahō (エロスのお作法, The Rules of Love), Daiwashobō, 2013, ISBN 9784479771845
• Dōshiyō (どうしよう, What Should I Do?), Magajinhausu, 2016, ISBN 9784838728329
• Tabetai no (たべたいの, I Want to Eat), Shinchosha, 2017, ISBN 9784106107412

Filmography

Films

• Be My Slave, 2012^[24]
• Amai Muchi, 2013^[25]
• Taishibōkei Tanita Shain Shokudō, 2013^[26]
• Figure na Anata, 2013^[27]
• Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend,^[28]
• Chikyū Bōei Mibōjin, 2014^[8]
• Sanbun no Ichi, 2014^[29]
• Sekigahara, 2017^[12]
• Hoshimeguri no Machi, 2018^[30]
• Eating Women, 2018^[31]
• Mashin Sentai Kiramager the Movie, 2021^[32]
• A Dog Named Palma, 2021^[33]
• Bad City, 2023^[34]

Television

• Tokumei Tantei, TV Asahi, 2012^[35]
• Otenki Oneesan, TV Asahi, 2013^[36]
• Hanzawa Naoki, TBS, 2013^[37]
• Hanako to Anne, NHK, 2014^[9]
• Coffee-ya no Hitobito, NHK, 2014^[38]
• Black President, Fuji TV, 2014^[39]
• Ore no Dandyism, TV Tokyo, 2014^[40]
• Arasa-chan Mushūsei, TV Tokyo, 2014^[41]
• Crow's Blood, Hulu Japan, 2016^[42]
• Manpuku, NHK, 2019^[14]
• Mikazuki, NHK, 2019^[43]

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External links

• Mitsu Dan at IMDb
• Official website
• Mitsu Dan official blog