Hana Sugisaki, who plays the lead role in “Ichiko” for the first time, gives a “true-to-life” performance, not only with tears, but also by simply standing still and letting her “soul cry out”.

Actor Hana Sugisaki played her first starring role in the movie “Ichiko,” which is currently in theaters. In this film, she plays the role of

“I poured my heart and soul into this film until I ran out of energy.

Her performance has been a shock to the audience.

Ichiko (Sugisaki) disappears the day after her boyfriend of three years, Hasegawa (Wakaba Tatsuya), proposes to her. As Hasegawa follows her whereabouts and pursues the people who have been involved with Ichiko, the sad and spectacular life of Ichiko with her harsh destiny comes to light.

In order to make her presence in his mind, he accompanies her on location scouting trips. In order to be Ichiko, who is somehow unfulfilled, Sugisaki loses weight and wears no makeup for the shoot. She confessed that there were many moments when she could encounter Ichiko’s emotions that she “didn’t even know she had. The actress’s performance is remarkable in the way she conveys a sense of the epic life she has led without speaking, just by the way she looks at the viewer.

One scene that was not included in the scenario was when Ichiko received the marriage certificate from Hasegawa and burst into tears. She said she couldn’t stop crying because she had lived as an unregistered child without a birth certificate, and she felt as if she was going to burst into tears.

However, this is not the first time that Sugisaki’s tears have taken over my heart.

In the movie “The Love So Hot It Makes Your Water Boil (2004),” for which she won the Japan Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Best New Actor, she hid her uniform from an insidious bully and told her mother (Miyazawa Rie), “You can’t run away. She is told by her mother (Rie Miyazawa), “Don’t run away. You have to stand up to them.” Yasumi (Sugisaki), who seems to be torn apart by sorrow, cries, “I don’t have the courage to stand up to them,” as if she is trying to squeeze out her voice.

In 2009, she played the heroine in the morning drama “Oshima” (Oshima is a woman with a heart of gold). In “Ochoyan” (NHK), a morning drama in which she played the heroine, Chiyo (Sugisaki) loses everything in an air raid in Osaka, goes to share her food with others, and is met with heartless words. I can feel a kind of gravitational pull in Sugisaki’s tears that draws the viewer in,” said a producer from the production company.

This film is based on “For Ichiko Kawabe,” the inaugural performance of “Cheese Theater,” a theater company led by director Akihiro Toda. It won the Best Screenplay Award at the Sunmall Studio Selection Awards 2015. It is also a much talked-about work that has received enthusiastic support from audiences and has been performed again twice.