Japanese Actress Fumi Nikaidou Calls Koji Yakusho Her "Benefactor"
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Fumi Nikaidou is a Japanese actress. She is in a new movie. The movie is called "The Children I Don't Know." Koji Yakusho is also an actor in the movie.
Nikaidou said Yakusho is her benefactor. A benefactor is a person who helps you a lot. She said she wants to say thank you to him for her whole life.
The movie's director is Miwa Nishikawa. She made a movie about war orphans. War orphans are children who lose their parents in a war. The director also thinks about other people who have hard lives.
There will be special talk events for the movie. A talk event is when people meet and talk about something together. These events will happen on different days.
Vocabulary15 words
- benefactor
- a person who helps you a lot
- war orphans
- children whose parents died in a war
- talk events
- meetings where people talk about a topic
- director
- the person who makes a movie
- actress
- a woman who acts in movies
- actor
- a person who acts in movies
- movie
- a film you watch
- thank you
- words you say when someone helps you
- special
- not normal; important
- whole life
- all the time you live
- help
- to do something good for someone
- country
- a place like Japan or America
- feeling
- something you feel inside
- children
- young people, like boys and girls
- war
- fighting between countries
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1. Koji Yakusho 2. The Children I Don't Know 3. Say thank you for her whole life
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Fumi Nikaidou is a Japanese _____. She is in a new movie.
The movie is called "The Children I Don't Know." Koji Yakusho is also an _____ in the movie.
Nikaidou said Yakusho is her _____. A benefactor is a person who helps you a lot.
She said she wants to say _____ to him for her whole life.
The movie's _____ is Miwa Nishikawa.
She made a movie about war _____.
War orphans are children who lose their parents in a _____.
There will be special talk _____ for the movie.
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