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interview of the young japanese actress Shioli Kutsuna

interview by KAZUMI ASAMURA HAYASHI
photography by OLIVIER ZAHM
style by ANNABELLE JOUOT
make-up by GEORGINA GRAHAM
hair by WENDY ILES

 

Shioli Kutsuna appeared at the interview wearing oversized blue-rimmed glasses on her translucent skin. The 19-year-old actress had just come back to Shibuya from piercing-cold Hokkaido, where she was filming the remake of Unforgiven, an Oscar-winning 1992 Hollywood film. The Japanese remake takes place in the era when the samurai lost their power. In the film, Shioli plays a prostitute whose face is severely cut by a customer. Japanese audiences are familiar with her from her role in Kaseifu no Mita (I’m Mita, Your Housekeeper), a TV drama that scored unusually high audience ratings at a time in Japan when such series are increasingly unpopular. She played the eldest sister in…