Name

Izumi Hasegawa

Position

Senior Contributor

Izumi Hasegawa has been a Hollywood-based entertainment journalist for over ten years and is the founder of the wire news company HollywoodNewsWire.net. She was nominated Entertainment Journalist of the Year at the 51st Annual Southern California Journalist Awards and recently won their Critic/Columnist Award. Before coming to America, Izumi was already an established broadcaster in her native Japan.

 

She is an Ambassador of her hometown and Shimane prefecture, which is known around the world as the hometown of Japanese myth-making and artistic storytelling. The region, on Honshu island, is also the birthplace of Sake and the homebase of Kabuki theater. Vistors flock to the Samurai castle, pyramid, a famous shrine, and the silver mine which inspired Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke. King Ghidorah which is a character in Godzilla, is based on the monster who used to live this area in Japanese myth.

 

Izumi’s parents manage the Shinto Shrine in Shimane, Shusse Inari Jinja, and Ms. Hasegawa is also fully licensed as a Shinto Priest. When visiting her parents’ in Jpana, she performs traditional Shinto ceremonies. Then, once she is back in America, she interviews famous people in Los Angeles...

 

Email: izumi@hollywoodnewswire.net

 
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INTERVIEW: JAMES FRANCO & DANNY BOYLE
Star and Director of '127 Hours'
James Franco: "You don't usually spend most movies with an arm pinned behind a boulder, but you also don't spend most movies alone or without other actors for most of the
FILM INTERVIEW: KATHERINE HEIGL
Rom-Com Queen Discusses Her New Action-Comedy, 'One for the Money'
"In this movie, the murder mystery storyline is kind of dark and a little edgy, and gives it a vibe that is not purely chick-flick-ish."
FILM INTERVIEW: CAST OF 'PROJECT X'
High School Kids Go Crazy in Nima Nourizadeh's Documentary-Style Film About a House Party
Thomas Mann: "I think if you're looking to take any moral lessons from it, you're there for the wrong reasons."
FILM INTERVIEW: ELIZABETH OLSEN
Festival Darling's New Horror Flick, 'Silent House,' Captures Fear in Real Time
"I kind of want to do everything because I've never been in a position like this before, so it's really exciting."
FILM INTERVIEW: JENNIFER LAWRENCE
Oscar-Nominated Actress on the Adaptation of Renowned Sci-Fi Novel 'The Hunger Games'
"We had bears, we had wolves, snakes, poison ivy, everything. Nothing got to me as much as spiders."
FILM INTERVIEW: JE-KYU KANG
South Korean Director Returns From Seven-Year Hiatus With War Drama Based Upon True Story
South Korean film director Je-kyu Kang returns from a seven-year hiatus with 'My Way.'
FILM INTERVIEW: CAST OF 'MAGIC MIKE'
Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey & More Bare All In Steven Soderbergh's Wild Drama
Matthew McConaughey: "After doing it once, God, I wanted to get up there and do it again. That was a lot of fun."
FILM INTERVIEW: KATHLEEN TURNER
Multitalented Film & Stage Actress On Her Latest Role In Indie Dramedy
Kathleen Turner: "They're not the type of actors that talk about it, that have to beat it to death with words kind of things, who are willing to get up and just do it."
FILM INTERVIEW: JE-KYU KANG
Director Aims To Overcome Prejudice With His Stirring War Drama
Je-Kyu Kang: "'My Way' is a film that intends to overcome the prejudice and pain that comes with the history between Korea and Japan..."
FILM INTERVIEW: ZIGGY & ROBBIE MARLEY
Bob Marley's Sons Speak About The Man Behind The Legend & The Documentary About His Life
Ziggy Marley: "I refer to him as Bob now because he's Bob now to me. He's my brother now."
FILM INTERVIEW: GUY PEARCE
'Memento' Star Pummels His Way to Action Hero With His Latest Sci-Fi Movie, 'Lockout'
Guy Pearce: "I've been asked to play kind of heroic characters before, and sometimes they are a little bit too serious."
FILM INTERVIEW: ADAM BRODY & HUGO BECKER
The Men of Whit Stillman's 'Damsels in Distress' Discuss Famed 'Metropolitan' Director
Adam Brody: "I would make comparisons to Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, and other dry humorous with very play-like, theatrical, qualities and staging."
FILM INTERVIEW: MIKE SHINODA
Linkin Park Musician Creates Action-Packed Score for Indonesian Martial Arts Masterpiece
"One thing we did early on to really establish a tone, almost like a personality for the music as a whole, is to create a pallet of sound."
FILM INTERVIEW: JENNIFER LAWRENCE
Oscar-Nominated Actress on the Adaptation of Renowned Sci-Fi Novel 'The Hunger Games'
"We had bears, we had wolves, snakes, poison ivy, everything. Nothing got to me as much as spiders."
FILM INTERVIEW: WILL FERRELL
Famed Comic Tackles an Over-the-Top Spanish Spaghetti Western in 'Casa de mi Padre'
"It's an homage to the Mexican spaghetti western, it's an homage to bad movie making, continuity mistakes, it's an homage to over-acting..."
FILM INTERVIEW: ELIZABETH OLSEN
Festival Darling's New Horror Flick, 'Silent House,' Captures Fear in Real Time
"I kind of want to do everything because I've never been in a position like this before, so it's really exciting."
FILM INTERVIEW: THOMAS MANN, OLIVER COOPER & JONATHAN DANIEL BROWN
From the Makers of 'The Hangover' Comes 'Project X' - the Guerilla Party Comedy
Thomas Mann: "I think if you're looking to take any moral lessons from it, you're there for the wrong reasons."
FILM INTERVIEW: KATHERINE HEIGL
Rom-Com Queen Discusses Her New Action-Comedy, 'One for the Money'
"In this movie, the murder mystery storyline is kind of dark and a little edgy, and gives it a vibe that is not purely chick-flick-ish."
FILM INTERVIEW: EWAN MCGREGOR, CHANNING TATUM & ANTONIO BANDERAS
The Cast of Soderbergh's 'Haywire' Learns How to Fight Like a Girl
Antonio Banderas: "Steven Soderbergh is one of those guys you say 'yes' to sometimes without reading the script."
FILM INTERVIEW: ANGELINA JOLIE
Beautiful Actress Discusses Directing Her First Film, Her Family, and U.N. Work
"There were many days that were hard, but I hated the day when I had to ask the old women to strip naked. I hated it. I only shot it once."