From acting in film and television to writing and directing stage works to recording music and touring with her cult-alternative pop performance group Frank Chickens, Kazuko Hohki is a prolific artist.
Hohki is also a self-proclaimed Anglophile. Sitting in her cozy kitchen in Seven Sisters in north London, where she has lived for more than 30 years, she cracks a smile and says, ¡°I never really made a conscious decision to leave Japan, I just wanted to come to England.¡±
Born in Tokyo in 1952, Hohki developed an interest in British culture from a young age through her encounter with the characters in books such as ¡°Winnie-the-Pooh¡± and ¡°The Borrowers.¡± Later on, she discovered the music of David Bowie and the art of Gilbert & George. The common thread that connected all these references was humor. ¡°I really liked and understood English jokes, even more than Japanese ones,¡± she says.
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