●I play a mother who is too poor to eat.
On this day, Ms. Kitagawa announced that she will appear in the movie “Future,” written by Kanae Minato & directed by Takahisa Zeze, which will be released in May 2026, in which she will play the role of “a mother who no longer knows how to love herself or protect her loved ones as a result of being abused by her father since she was a child. “She will play the role of a mother who has lost the ability to know how to love and protect her loved ones as a result of being abused by her father since childhood. Continuing with the said post, he also confesses a somewhat shocking fact: “I have been playing the role of a mother who is exhausted OR poor and unable to eat for more than a year since last fall in the order of ‘Future,’ ‘Night Flower,’ ‘The Day I Stole You,’ and ‘Bake Bake…'” In the movie “Night Flower,” she plays “a single mother who is so impoverished that she turns to drug dealing,” and in the drama “The Day I Took You Away” (Fuji TV), she plays “a mother who loses her 3-year-old daughter to anaphylactic shock. In the NHK television series “Bakebake,” she plays the mother of Toki, the main character who has fallen on hard times and is now begging on the streets. In addition to an emoji with tears streaming down her face, she commented, “That’s why I’ve been losing weight,” and “I’m going to eat a lot of food after Bakebake is over,” as if to remind herself. Fans were impressed by Kitagawa’s explanation of the situation, saying, “I can’t believe she’s working so hard on the role… I admire her so much that she’s putting her body and soul into it,” “It’s really amazing that she adjusts her weight and appearance so much for the role…” “This hard schedule while raising a child is hard. It’s hard to keep up with such a hard schedule while raising a child. Others responded that they could not hide their shock, saying, “He looked so skinny that he really looked like he was going to disappear,” “I get a little worried when I see a skinny actor,” and “It’s too painful already….
Yoshihiro Saito