Rinko Kikuchi on Dance, Grief and Multicultural Love in Sundance Drama ‘Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!’

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Japanese star Rinko Kikuchi is returning to the Sundance Film Festival for the second time as a lead actor, bringing the multilingual drama “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!” to Park City’s U.S. Dramatic Competition. The Tokyo-set feature, directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka , marks Kikuchi’s first Sundance selection since 2014’s “Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter.” Kikuchi, who received an Academy Award nomination for her breakout role in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Babel,” portrays Haru, a ballroom