<figure id="attachment_424994" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-424994" style="width: 800px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="b8d3a6d9"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/05/e446774a44d67f834b7deb1912848e6a.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-424994" class="wp-caption-text">Actors who received the 33rd Hashida Award. From right to left: Sairi Ito, Yumi Kawai, Nao, Wakana Matsumoto</figcaption></figure>
<h2> How was the award-winning talk, which was requested to be &#8220;within one minute&#8221;?</h2>
<p> On May 10, the 33rd Hashida Award ceremony was held in Tokyo, featuring a feast of beauty by four of the most promising actors of the moment.</p>
<p> The Hashida Award was established in 1993 by the Hashida Cultural Foundation, which was founded in 1992 by the late screenwriter Sugako Hashida. The criteria for winning the prize are as follows: &#8220;The award must be given to an outstanding program, work, or person with a rich artistic quality that warmly captures the spirit of the Japanese people and their interactions with one another, and that has been widely supported by the public and has evoked an emotional response. This is one of the most coveted awards for actors appearing in TV dramas.</p>
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<p> This year&#8217;s winner in the actor category was Sairi Ito, 31, who last year played Torako Inozume, the main character in NHK&#8217;s television series &#8220;Tora ni Tsubasa. She took the stage in a chic all-black suit. Ito said,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Ito said, &#8220;&#8216;Tora ni Tsubasa&#8217; has been my life-long passion since I was allowed to work on it, and even after it was over.</span><span class="strongInContent"> I still think of it as a tremendous asset in my life and a real treasure,&#8221; said Ito.</span></p>
<p> I think it is a tremendous treasure of my life,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I was able to reconfirm my love for acting itself.</span></p>
<p> I was able to reconfirm my love for acting itself,&#8221; he said. The Newcomer Award went to Yumi Kawai (24), Nao (30), and Wakana Matsumoto (41). Kawai, who was called first, took the stage in a black jacket. She began her speech by accepting the moderator&#8217;s request, &#8220;Please limit your speech to one minute or less,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I had not had much experience acting in TV dramas before, but I was able to work on a production that gave me a lot of experience, and for the first time I felt that my work was reaching everyone in Japan. It was a year that made me very happy.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I was not able to meet Mr. Hashida properly, but I believe that he has passed on to my generation through this kind of relationship, and I hope to do what I can do with my own body in any work I participate in. How did you like it?&#8221;</span></p>
<p> He asked the moderator shyly how he had done, and the audience burst into laughter. Nao, who had short blonde hair, took the stage next, dressed in a gorgeous Chinese dress with a large rose painted on it.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> She prefaced her speech with the words, &#8220;I am usually a bit of a slow talker, &#8230;&#8230;.&#8221;</span></p>
<p> She prefaced her speech with,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> This year marks the 100th anniversary of Sugako Hashida&#8217;s birth. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Sugako Hashida&#8217;s birth, the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, and I, personally, am turning 30. I am thrilled and fearful to receive the Newcomer&#8217;s Award on this occasion.</span></p>
<p> I am very excited and fearful to receive the Newcomer of the Year Award. Wakana Matsumoto, who took the stage last, looked elegant in a pure white dress.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I am sure that if there was an award for &#8220;What will happen in the first half of 2024, I would win it. That&#8217;s how significant my encounter with this work (&#8220;Saionji-san Does Not Do Housework&#8221; (TBS) and &#8220;My Treasure&#8221; (Fuji TV)) was for my life.</span></p>
<p> The audience laughed along with the actresses. There is nothing but high expectations for the future of these girls, who are at the peak of their powers right now.</p>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" The splendid actors who received the Hashida Award"></div>
<figure id="attachment_424995" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-424995" style="width: 2743px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="264257dc"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/05/a5c21378366522abd7f62609644deaf1.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-424995" class="wp-caption-text">Sairi Ito is a dignified and confident woman.</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_424997" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-424997" style="width: 3648px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="7cc8b5e8"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/05/0f89a5759d09ec28b1f917e096e9cab6.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-424997" class="wp-caption-text"> Nao appeared with short blond hair.</figcaption></figure>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" Wakana Matsumoto enlivened the award ceremony"></div>
<figure id="attachment_424998" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-424998" style="width: 2855px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="9a5ca6ef"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/05/893c3cc24874edba29511f0078ade217.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-424998" class="wp-caption-text">Nao captured the audience&#8217;s attention in a daring Chinese dress.</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_424999" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-424999" style="width: 3441px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="ebd3167f"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/05/a5b2ac12b2b4387599ee83c49e6d469b.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-424999" class="wp-caption-text"> Wakana Matsumoto, who looked so calm that you would never guess she was a &#8220;newcomer,&#8221; enlivened the audience.</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_425006" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-425006" style="width: 3129px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="476165d3"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/05/3c2bb9781d672e7456366d140ffcae32.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-425006" class="wp-caption-text"> Wakana Matsumoto poses with guts when her name is called and she goes up on the stage.</figcaption></figure>


 Kazuhiko Nakamura

 On May 10, the award ceremony for the "33rd Hashida Award" was held in Tokyo, with Sairi Ito, Yumi Kawai, Nao, and Wakana Matsumoto taking the stage in that order. Along with a feast of beauty, each of them showed their own unique talents in the limited one-minute commentary time.

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