About Kyōko Saitō
Kyōko Saitō (Japanese: 齊藤京子, Hepburn: Saitō Kyōko; born September 5, 1997) is a Japanese actress, television presenter, singer, and model, represented by Toho. She co-hosts the talk show Kyoccorohee on TV Asahi and made her international acting debut as the star of Love on Trial (2025), screened at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Saitō began her career as a founding member of the girl group Hinatazaka46 (formerly Hiragana Keyakizaka46) from 2016 to 2024. She made her acting debut in the group's drama Re:Mind (2017), and has since starred in Muddy Dining Table (2023), Sudden Marriage (2025), and Suspicious Partner (2025); she has also provided the Japanese dub voice for the character April O'Neil since Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023). As a singer, she was the lead performer for Hinatazaka46's 2022 single "Tsuki to Hoshi ga Odoru Midnight" and has held solo concerts in 2022 and 2023 in collaboration with MTV Japan. She was also a regular model for the fashion magazine Ar from 2019 to 2024. Her fans are known as the Kyonkois (きょんこいず, Kyonkoizu). In May 2022, Saitō performed a solo cover of the Hinatazaka46 seventh single "Boku Nanka", which would be released the next month, on the YouTube channel The First Take. Her first solo song, "Igokochiwaruku Otona ni natta" (居心地悪く大人になった; lit. 'Uncomfortably Became an Adult'), was released on Hiragana Keyakizaka46's 2020 debut album Hashiridasu Shunkan.
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