I devoted 11 years of my Saturdays to this school. “Now that I look back on it, that was crazy.
I never thought of quitting because it was just kind of my everyday life,” Fukuhara laughed. “I started in the first grade, and I stuck with it. It was less of a language school and more of an education curriculum mirroring that of Japan’s, for the benefit of those who had come to live temporarily in the U.S. That’s not to mention the 11 years she spent attending Japanese school every Saturday, from 8 a.m. In the outside world I went to regular American school five days a week, but anything inside the household, everything we ate, all the cultural values, the traditions, the holidays, the language we spoke, it was all Japanese.” But then again, so is her absolute fluency in the language and its customs.įukuhara described her childhood as growing up in Japan while at home, and in America while at school: “I grew up in a kind of Japanese American bubble. She may soon find herself on that screen as well – Fukuhara, after all, dreams of acting in Japanese projects as well as American ones, a rare goal for an actress born and raised stateside.
Now I have to watch on my computer screen.” “I actually liked that better, that you could watch it with the family. “I used to watch random dramas that my mom brought home from the video store, which doesn’t exist anymore because of the internet,” Fukuhara said. The 24-year-old is a Los Angeles native, former reporter/host and a certified karate champion who, though reluctant and more than a little guilty, admits that “Hana Yori Dango” – the epitome of Asian teenage dramas – was an obsession of hers when it came out in 2005. Karen Fukuhara, on the cusp of stardom as DC’s “Suicide Squad” – in which she stars as Katana, the deadly assassin who carries tragedy and loss in her heart – enters theaters, is a J-drama fan girl.
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