Lika Minamoto

Date of birth: 1982, Tokyo, Japan

As a model, she based in Paris and worked all over Europe. Because of her short hight, she mainly worked for tv comercials, prints, music videos, magasines, especially for the beauty, including La Roche Posay, Wella, Goldwell, Schwarzkopf, Garnier.

She has trained in ballet, jazz and tap dance. In Paris where she came to study the ballet, she was scouted by a French model agency and decided to continue her modeling career in Paris as well as in Tokyo. Immediately, her modeling career spread all over Europe, and she ended up giving up her dance.

For INJU, the director Barbet Schroeder was smitten at the single sight of her audition, but it took 18 months for Lika to win out this principal role against the hard competition with many local Japanese celebrities.