日本学院奖2016 最佳女配角《投靠女与出走男》 (提名)2013 最佳女配角《北方的金丝雀》 (提名)2012 最佳女配角 (提名)2011 最佳女配角 (提名) 亚洲电影大奖2012 最佳女配角 (提名) 金马俊坡奖2010 最佳女配角 (获奖)
The short-haired Mitsushima Hikari was born in Okinawa, which is Japan's southernmost prefecture and mostly occupied by the American military since World War II. Mitsushima's grandmother was French-American. Her siblings are a model, a basketball player and an actor. Hikari began her entertainment career in the band Folder and all-girl Folder 5 between 1997 and 2003. before beginning acting intermittently. She did some gravure modelling. She began taking on consistent acting roles in 2009 with Pride and Sion Sono's exotic Love Exposure. Her performance in Love Exposure won her accolades. Hikari starred in the comedy Sawako Decides (2010), which was written and directed by Yuya Ishii, whom she subsequently married in late 2010. They divorced less than six years later. Hikari won the award for Best Actress at the Fantasia Film Festival. The film itself won the award for Best Feature.
Her grandmother is French-American.
Sister of actor Shinnosuke Mitsushima.