In 1997, Chizuru Ikewaki participated in Japan's TV Tokyo program ASAYAN's second "CM Beautiful Girl Project Okamura Takashi's Sister" and was selected by Japanese director Junshou Ichikawa. She stood out among 8,000 candidates and became the eighth generation "
Mitsui House Rehouse" commercial beauty girl and officially debuted.
He performed in the same series for the next three consecutive years.
In 1998, he made his first appearance in the second episode of the Japanese NHK TV drama "Tokugawa Yoshiki", playing the role of Yuki; from August to October, he appeared in the sequel "Cotton Handkerchief 2? Light" in the NHK-BS2 TV series "The Story of Cotton Handkerchief? Lights"
"The Story of Yuko", in which she plays the role of Yuki Kimura; she appeared in the 7th episode of the 45th anniversary program "Poetry of the End of the Century" by Nippon Television, and played the role of Ryoko Ishida in the play.
In 1999, Ikewaki starred in the film "Osaka Story", directed by Ichikawa, as Wakana Shimotsuki, a kind-hearted and lively girl who grew up in a family of comedians. Ikewaki, who was born in Osaka, brought this character to life and won praise.
As a result, she won the Newcomer Award in various film awards such as the Japan Mainichi Film Awards, the Japan Film Weekly Awards, the Japan Academy Awards, and the Hochi Film Awards. This was her first film debut; subsequently, Ikebashi also
Starred in the movie "Blonde Prairie" directed by Isshin Inudo (released in 2000); appeared in the 8th episode of the TV series "24 Hours at the Hospital", playing the role of Ohara Naoko; from July to September, appeared in the 2nd episode of "Lipstick"
12 episodes, playing the role of Mashiro Ikawa in the drama; the prologue of the Kim Yao entertainment drama "The Creepy Ghost Sutra Part 1" starring Ikewaki was broadcast on August 27; the Kim Yao drama "Beauty" starred in was broadcast on TBS from October to 12
It was broadcast on the TV station and played Kadokura Jun in the play.
On January 1, 2000, Ikewaki starred in Kuniko Mukoda's New Year's drama "あ?うん", which was broadcast on TBS TV station, and played the role of Yuko Mizuta in the drama; on February 28, the starring Kanaba Shuman finally returned to "Strawberry"
"White Paper ~ Hearing the Sound of the Birth of the Earth" was broadcast on Nippon TV, in which he played the role of Sakakita Akira; on April 13, he starred in the special version of the TV series "The Dew in the Wind" at the Tezuka Osamu Theater of TV Asahi; it was broadcast from July to 9
In August, in the TBS TV series "Summer Snow", she challenged the 17-year-old unmarried and pregnant girl Chika Shinoda; and won the 40th "ACC CM FESITVAL" with an advertisement for "CM Beautiful Girl Project" shot for Mitsui Company
Starring Award.
In 2001, Ikewaki starred in the NHK serial TV novel "Gourmet Life", playing the role of Yamanaka Konoha; on January 8, the special episode of Shingo's Mom TV series "c" was broadcast on Fuji TV; on March 6, he starred in Nippon Telecom
The special episode of the touching TV series "The Sea of ????Okoshi" was broadcast, and he played the role of Chiaki; on March 12, he starred in the special episode of the Yoyo drama "The Unqualified Mother", which was broadcast on TBS, and played the role of Inoue Nozomi; on March 24
On March 27, he starred in the Toyo Theater's "Ten no Hitomi 2" which was broadcast on TV Asahi, in which he played the role of Keiko Omura; on March 27, he starred in "The School's Ghost Talk about Spring, the Monster, the Monster, "He's the One", which was broadcast on TV Asahi.
It was broadcast on Western TV, and she played the protagonist Maki in the play.
On January 1, 2002, Ikewaki starred in the New Year drama special "Tetsudo Yuan Youth Edition" which was broadcast on Asahi TV, playing the role of Yukiko in the drama; subsequently, he starred in the Canon special drama "Kitano Takeshi's Colorful Journey? True Mito"
"色をquestめて?" was broadcast on TV Asahi; from July to August, she starred in Toshiba Nikko Theater's "Season of the Sun" which was broadcast on TBS, and won the 34th Japanese Drama Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Izumi Eiko.
Supporting role and the Best Newcomer Award at the 10th Hashida Awards; on November 19th, the 9th episode of the Huoyao period drama "Kaidan Hundred Years Story" was broadcast on Fuji TV, playing the role of the ghost Ah Chu; on December 24th,
The Christmas Eve special episode of the TV series "Her Girl's Day" was broadcast on Fuji TV, and she played the role of Shibata Yumiko in the drama; on December 25, she starred in the final special episode of "Agreement Season 1" on Asahi
broadcast on Taiwan, playing the role of Kawabata Ranko; she also voiced the protagonist Haru Yoshioka in Studio Ghibli's feature-length animated film "The Cat Returns" directed by Hiroyuki Morita, which was her first attempt at voice acting work; and starred in the movie "
Makeup Artist".
In 2003, Ikeri starred in Jose, a slightly neurotic disabled girl, in the movie "Jose and the Tigers and Fishes" directed by Isshin Inudo. The passionate sex scene with her husband Satoshi Tsumabuki also became a hot topic at the time. With this film, Ikeri
She won the Best Actress Award at the 18th Takasaki Film Festival; on December 31 of the same year, she co-starred with actor Yoshinori Okada in the Huoyao period drama "Oku" SP1-3, playing the role of Aman in the drama.
Appeared in the second episode of the special edition of the TBS TV series "LOVERS", playing the role of Miyu.
In 2004, Ikewaki once again co-starred with Satoshi Tsumabuki in the movie "Farewell to Youth Before Sunrise".
From July to August, he starred in the NHK comprehensive TV series "Firehouse Komachi", in which he played Natsuko Minami.