Fukuyama Masaharu 福山雅治 (ふくやま まさはる)

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Cannes: Hirokazu Kore-eda on his Palme d'Or Contender (Q&A)
Hollywood Reporter - May 21, 2013

Like Father Like Son stars singer-turned-actor Fukuyama Masaharu as the father who finds out that due to a hospital mistake the boy he has raised as his son for six years is not his biological child. Kore-eda both writes the screenplays for, and edits ...

Enthusiasm for Kore-eda's "Like Father, Like Son" at Cannes
Huffington Post (blog) - May 20, 2013

The lead father, played stoically by Fukuyama Masaharu, is a grim, proper Japanese businessman who lives in a sterile mod apartment, designed with black couches and onyx appliances, who thinks, at one point, that maybe money will solve everything.

Cannes 2013: 'Blood Ties' is an authentic '70s-set crime movie that gives ...
Entertainment Weekly (blog) - May 20, 2013

The hard-driving workaholic husband and father (Fukuyama Masaharu), who has never felt much connection to his sweet, rather passive son, feels like he wants to switch the children and get his biological son back. Which may seem a little, you know, cold ...

Like Father, Like Son - Film Business Asia
Film Business Asia - May 19, 2013

Successful architect Nonomiya Ryota (Fukuyama Masaharu) and his wife Midori (Ono Machiko) enjoy a happy family life along with their six-year-old son Keita (Nonomiya Keita). Then one day they are told by Maebashi Hospital, where Midori gave birth, that ...

66th Cannes Film Festival Review - Like Father, Like Son (2013)
Flickering Myth (blog) - May 18, 2013

When 6-year-old Keita is asked to describe a happy memory, he talks about a kite-flying afternoon on a camping trip with his dad, Ryota (Fukuyama Masaharu). After the interview, Ryota says that they have never taken such a trip, but the boy says his ...

Seen And Heard In Cannes
NPR - May 16, 2013

The families are opposites of one another: one headed by a wealthy, driven professional (the Japanese pop singer Fukuyama Masaharu) with strict expectations of his only child; the other father a poor but lively shopkeeper (Lily Franky) with two other ...

Hirokazu Kore-eda, Like Father, Like Son
Screen International - May 16, 2013

The character is something that was created between me and [lead actor] Fukuyama Masaharu. Fukuyama says when he saw the film, he thought it showed the characteristics he doesn't like about himself. But also, I think it shows some things that I don't ...

Arrow goes with Kore-eda
Screen International - May 18, 2013

Like Father, Like Son screens in Cannes this weekend. It's the story of a family thrown into turmoil after a phone call from the hospital in which their son was born. Fukuyama Masaharu leads the cast. Arrow is likely be releasing the film in late 2013 ...

Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
mysask.com (press release) - May 16, 2013

The families are opposites of one another: one headed by a wealthy, driven professional (the Japanese pop singer Fukuyama Masaharu) with strict expectations of his only child; the other father a poor but lively shopkeeper (Lily Franky) with two other ...