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...With reporting by Michiko Toyama/Tokyo
...convincing that co-star Cate Blanchett at first assumed the 26-year-old Japanese actress really couldn't speak. It's the kind of talent that has propelled Kikuchi from obscurity to an Oscar nomination-the first for a Japanese actress in 49 years. Kikuchi talks to Time's Michiko Toyama about Babel, isolation and her newfound fame...
...exploring, deaf-mute teenager in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel was so convincing that co-star Cate Blanchett didn't know the Japanese actress could actually talk until Kikuchi spoke to her off-camera. Her country's first Oscar-nominated actress in 49 years, Kikuchi talked to TIME's Michiko Toyama...
...With reporting by Michiko Toyama/Tokyo...
...doomed warrior with nothing left but his honor. He's at it again in his new film, this time as a World War II Japanese officer mounting a last stand against American troops in the critically acclaimed Letters From Iwo Jima. Watanabe, 47, spoke with Time's Michiko Toyama about his role, what it was like working with director Clint Eastwood, and the challenges of being true to the horrors...