<figure id="attachment_407704" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-407704" style="width: 2462px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="7f01db36"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/01/dc48f8171c943faf665ba5f5d28a7718.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-407704" class="wp-caption-text">For his role in &#8220;Tokyo Salad Bowl,&#8221; he dyed his hair a high-toned green. She says it was well received by her friends and fans.</figcaption></figure>
 Looking back on the year &#8217;24, I feel that I was involved in some impressive dramas right from the start, and the scene of &#8220;Haru ni nara ni tara&#8221; (produced by Kansai Television) in January was what I had in mind as an ideal, with all the actors and staff looking in the same direction. It was my ideal.
 In the subsequent productions of &#8220;I want to punch that bum&#8221; (TBS) and &#8220;Tokyo Salad Bowl&#8221; (NHK), the producer of both saw me playing the daughter of Noritake Kinashi (62), who played the father who had been told he did not have long to live in &#8220;Haru ni nara shita&#8221; and offered me a chance to appear in the drama. It was a great start to the year, and it led me to a new job.&#8221;
 For Nao (29), 2012 was a year of breakthroughs. She starred in a total of four dramas and movies, the most in her career, and was cast in two new commercials. When asked why he was so successful, he replied, &#8220;Why is that? I was very surprised myself,&#8221; she continued.
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 I am very surprised myself. I feel happy and strange at the same time, because I think it&#8217;s an unstable job where you never know when the offers will stop coming in. My manager and I may not have analyzed it properly yet.
 However, the experience of performing in &#8220;Medicine Medicine,&#8221; which ran from May to June of 2012, was significant. The story was difficult to follow, and even one week before the performance, I was still unable to give the performance required by the director. &#8230;&#8230; I remember crying in the car on the way home after rehearsals.
 But it was a very happy experience for me to be able to suffer to the fullest with the wonderful members of the company, and my acting changed after that performance. Now I am glad that in my last year of my twenties, I had a place where I could properly fall in love (laughs).
 Because he is a successful actor, he gets new jobs one after another, and each time he hits a wall. The way he copes with this has &#8220;evolved&#8221; as well.
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 I used to be the type of person who would hold onto my problems alone, but now I talk to other people about my problems. I have changed a lot in the past year. For example, Gaku Hamada (36), who I worked with on &#8220;Spring Comes,&#8221; listened to me when I said, &#8216;This is the kind of scene I&#8217;m going to work on next.
 Mr. Hamada encouraged me by saying, &#8220;Nao, I think you will be fine just by being on the set with an open mind,&#8221; which gave me the courage to crank it out. Until now, I have not been good at relying on anyone, but now I have more people I can call if I have a moment when I feel like my heart is about to break. That gives me support.&#8221;
 The January 10 issue of &#8220;FRIDAY January 24/31&#8221; and the pay-per-view &#8220;FRIDAY GOLD&#8221; report in detail on how Nao appeared in her latest film &#8220;Tokyo Salad Bowl&#8221; and the unexpected way she refreshes herself that she revealed to us.
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 From the January 24 and 31 issue of &#8220;FRIDAY

 Kazuhiko Nakamura

 For actress Nao, 2012 was a year of breakthroughs. She played the leading roles in a total of four serial dramas and movies, the most in her career, and was featured in two commercials. We look back on the obstacles she faced as a successful actress and the major changes she went through in the past year.

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