![]() ![]() A singer and dancer in Arashi (Storm), one of Japan’s most popular male idol bands (and the Japanese love their idol bands). This wisp of a 23-year-old has been in the business since he was 14. An unknown actor to American audiences, his face was perfect for Eastwood’s Everyman.īut in Japan, Ninomiya is a mega-star, a face you can’t avoid. Through his eyes we see battle, its cynicism, fear, the hatreds and pity. Tokyo - KAZUNARI Ninomiya’s face is unblemished, almost fragile, a porcelain slate of innocence onto which director Clint Eastwood projects the emotional toll of war in “Letters From Iwo Jima.” Ninomiya plays Saigo, an apolitical baker conscripted into the doomed defense of the island, fighting not for the generals or the emperor but only to survive and return to his wife and infant daughter.
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