Yuumi Kawai was born in 2000 and raised in Tokyo. In 2021, her performances in the films It’s a Summer Film! and A Balance were highly praised, earning her honours such as the Best Newcomer Award at the 43rd Yokohama Film Festival, the Best New Actor Award at the 35th Takasaki Film Festival, the New Actress Award in the 95th Kinema Junpo Best Ten Awards, and the Newcomer Award in the 64th Blue Ribbon Awards. In 2022, she appeared in numerous noteworthy films such as Just Remembering, Love Nonetheless, To Be Killed by a High School Girl, Fuyu Soubi, Plan 75, A Hundred Flowers, The Lines That Define Me and A Man, establishing herself as a rising star with remarkable energy. In recent years, she has appeared in Sayonara, Girls (2023), In Her Room (2023), April Come She Will (2024), and on TV dramas such as Extremely Inappropriate! (2024/TBS) and RoOT (2024/TX, among others). Other 2024 releases include A Girl Named Ann and the anime movie Look Back.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
