Stills of Hinako Kikuchi, who plays Fumiko Kuroda (nicknamed Para) in the film "Kakushigo to", co-starring Daiken Okudaira and Natsuki Deguchi, were released on April 28th.
The film is a youth love story based on the novel by Yoru Sumino, author of "I Want to Eat Your Pancreas," depicting the precious days of five men and women who "can see people's feelings a little." " Ae! group" members Shoya Sano and Iku Hayase also star in the film.
Para, played by Kikuchi, is a character who is always at her own pace and unpredictable, while watching over Naoko Miki (aka Mickey, played by Deguchi), who has a bottomlessly cheerful personality and wants to be a hero rather than a heroine. She is torn between her true self and the person she wants to be, and there are many layers of gradation between the two, making this the most difficult role of the five.
Kikuchi was born on February 3, 2002 and is 23 years old and from Fukuoka Prefecture. In 2021, she made her screen debut in the movie "What am I fighting against?" (directed by Toshio Lee), and in the movie "Phase of the Moon" released in 2022, she played the daughter of Yo Oizumi and Ko Shibasaki, and won the Newcomer Actor Award at the 46th Japan Academy Awards.
The photos released this time show her in a cheerful pose in the classroom, gazing at someone with tearful, earnest eyes, and gazing out the window with a fragile look that somehow suggests the precarity of a young girl.
Director Nakagawa Shun, who directed the film, commented on Kikuchi's acting, "I felt the energy, and I think she reached a world that cannot be reached by just thinking with her head."
