“I think it’s a great actor to act naked..” Kiko Mizuhara, an actor who participated in the Japanese #MeToo movement, complained of pain at the malicious comments saying “half Korean”

Kiko Mizuhara’s Instagram

Mizuhara Kiko.

Kiko Mizuhara, who accused the Japanese entertainment industry of sexual violence, shed tears at a series of malicious comments from Japanese netizens.

In the Japanese entertainment industry, the #MeToo wave is strong, following the revelation of sexual assault by a famous Japanese director and actor Hideo Sakaki, and the allegation that director Sono Shion, a master of genre film, also forced sex on an actor using the pretext to appear in the film. crab is blowing

In response, Kiko Mizuhara also told the Japanese media Weekly Bunchun, “The sexual harassment aspect has continued to exist in the Japanese entertainment industry, and I have often heard sexually harassing remarks from male directors. The other person may have said it subconsciously, but I felt an unfair feeling in my heart. In the industry, there is an implicit coercion that female actors think that acting naked is a good actress.”

Kiko continued, “If there is absolutely no situation in which the producers say that they will appear in a movie, I will do it. I hope you are not deceived by such words. Run away,” he added.

Kiko Mizuhara’s Instagram

Mizuhara Kiko.

However, some Japanese netizens reacted coldly to Kiko’s courage, saying that it was an act to gain attention. In response, Kiko posted a live broadcast on Instagram on the 13th, saying, “It’s too hard. It becomes news to be honest regarding what I thought or experienced, and the bigger it got, the more people said, ‘I’m half Korean,'” she said. She took issue with the fact that Kiko was born to her Korean-Japanese mother.

Kiko continued, “I keep worrying regarding these words. But I tried to say it clearly because it was something I had actually been going through and fighting. As a celebrity, she knows she can’t help it when she hears things like that, but it hurts her. It’s scary and frightening,” she said.

Meanwhile, Mizuhara Kiko, who was born to a Korean-Japanese mother and an American father, started working as a model in 2007 and turned to an actress. In Korea, she received a lot of attention due to rumors of her dating Big Bang G-Dragon.

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