Fumi Nikaido takes Rising Star Award at the 13th Annual New York Asian Film Festival
Fumi Nikaido adds another honor to her growing list of awards after a special appearance at the 13th Annual New York Asian Film Festival in New York City.
Nikaido was presented with the Rising Star Award for her role as Hana Kusarino in My Man (Watashi no Otoko [私の男] ) a romantic drama where after losing everything in the earthquake and tsunami Hana falls in love with Jungo the relative who had taken care of her. The film, based on Kazuki Sakuraba’s Watashi no Otoko novel, was released on June 14th, 2014 in Japan and has already netted Tadanobu Asano the award for Best Actor at the 36th Moscow International Film Festival for his role as Jungo Kusarino. Asano is best known in the West for his role as Hogun in Marvel Comics Thor and Thor: The Dark World.
Nikaido greeted the cheering crowd in English after accepting the award from Mark Adams of Screen International “Hello everyone, I’m Fumi Nikaido from Japan. I am honored to recieve this award.” The New York Asian Film Festival is North America’s largest film festival celebrating Asian films and presents its Rising Star Award to young actors who make a significant contribution to Asian cinema. Previous winners include Takayuki Yamada and Masami Nagasawa.
Nikaido shares “New York is a special city for me. I’ve lived here for two months, it’s the hometown of some of my favorite actors Steve Buscemi and Adrien Brody and the great film director John Cassavetes shot a lot of his work here.” she continues “When I first met the director (Kazuyoshi Kumakiri) I fell in love with his vision of the movie. It touches on a taboo and it is an amazingly scripted movie.”
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