As the daughter of Japanese pop stars and a beauty ambassador for fashion houses Bulgari and Chanel, the Japanese Starlet Koki is used to being in the public interest in her home country.
However, it is her share in a small budget film recording in Scotland next to TV Grote Slagman Jack Lowden who could see her profile grow among the Western audience.
The film takes place in England in the 1790s and follows a young and determined Japanese woman named Tornado, played by Koki, who guides her father and his traveling puppet show.
The two meet the Sugarman -gang who brutally kills her father and leads to Tornado revenge on the death of her father.
Lowden plays Little Sugar-a member of a gang of ruthless criminals led by his father Sugarman on the screen, played by Academy Award winner Tim Roth.
Although he takes place in England, the film – directed by the Scottish director John Maclean – was filmed in Edinburgh during the decided cold month of January last year.
While Koki, whose real name is Mitsuki Kimura, regularly places photos of Blitish events in Japan, her time in Scotland served more challenging circumstances.
Beyond the designer clothing, jeweler-ineleged accessories and lush locations that can regularly be seen on her social media profiles.
KOKI is a singer, actress and model from Japan with popster parents
Koki plays together with Scottish actor Jack Lowden in the upcoming movie Tornado
Tornado, who also plays Tim Roth from Pulp Fiction, was filmed in Scotland
Instead, she was depicted in a long winter coat and Wellies when she filmed in a muddy field on the slopes of the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh.
Even Scottish actor Lowden, who is well used to the humid and cold conditions of a Scottish winter, described the temperatures during filming as 'Baltic'.
But there was no sign of anything other than unbridled enthusiasm from Koki, all of whom smiled in photos that were taken during the damp days of photography in and around Edinburgh.
Speaking with Vogue Hong Kong in November, she even gave a positive twist to the weather during her time in Scotland.
She said: 'We shot it in Edinburgh in the winter that had a very beautiful and mysterious atmosphere.
“It was my first time that it took action and sword fighting, so I thought it would be a great opportunity to challenge myself.”
The film will be a premiere this year at the Glasgow Film Festival, which increases the prospect that Lowden will be present at his Hollywood -star Saoirse Ronan after they have made similar performances for their film The Open no.
Koki has an impressive social media that has been worked with a whole series of fashion houses
Koki's involvement in the project can help with the attraction of the film in Japan, where she has an impressive public profile.
She currently has an impressive 3.5 million followers on Instagram – the 172,000 fans of Dwarfing Lowden on the site of Roth's 45,500.
Her only other film references so far were in last year's romantic drama-touch by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur and the main section in the Japanese Horror OX-headd of 2022.
In addition to being a beauty ambassador for Chanel and Bulgari in her home country, the 21-year-old star is the daughter of two of the Japanese pop idols.
Her mother Shizuka Kudo is a singer, while her father Takuya Kimura is an actor and a former member of J-Pop Boy Band Smap.
She launched her career as a model when she was named Bulgari's first Japanese and youngest ambassador in 2018 and worked with brands such as Chanel, Valentino, Coach, Louis Vuitton and Estée Lauder.
In an interview last year, Koki said: 'Being able to work with different brands from different countries, I really taught me a lot about culture, and also the different aspects of fashion – such as how fashion can be inspiring, and how fashion people really can make feel emotions and give people confidence.
'So it has a big and strong influence. Fashion is something I am really passionate about. '
She also spoke about the influence that her parents and their own career have had on her.
She said: 'Because I was small, my father saw and perform, I was always really interested in acting.
“I felt that” oh, I want to be the way he wants “and want the audience to think in certain ways whether this certain emotion or message wants to feel. I think watching my father performing and acting had a huge impact on me. '
