"She immediately gives the publicist a tender, friendly hug. Now, sitting across from me on a mocha-colored couch at Charlottesville Boar's Head Resort, Hikari chooses between an assortment of multicolored tea packets: Japanese sencha, hot cinnamon spice, Egyptian chamomile, and Earl Gray black tea. She carefully chooses Egyptian chamomile and cheerfully awaits the arrival of some additional honey, ginger and lemon."
""God, the universe, or whatever you want to call it, gave me an opportunity to have millions of random jobs, along with good times and bad times," says Hikari. "I just feel like I'm meant to put those experiences into my stories." That unbending faith that hasn't diluted her humbleness either. When I praise her already varied career, she plays it down. "I'm doing my best. In fact, I'm just starting out," she says before belting out a loud laugh."
Hikari greets people with warmth and laughter, arriving in a fern green shag coat and favoring Egyptian chamomile with honey, ginger, and lemon. She has just returned from the Chicago International Film Festival with Rental Family, a Brendan Fraser-led dramedy that premiered at Toronto, and is set to receive the Virginia Film Festival's Breakthrough Director award. Her debut, 37 Seconds, won the Berlinale Panorama Audience Award after a difficult production that struggled to find funding because its protagonist uses a wheelchair. Hikari expresses faith that varied jobs and life experiences feed her storytelling and remains modest about her career.
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