ENTERTAINMENT
March 19, 2009 | Michael Ordona
Ayako Fujitani is full of surprises. Before sitting down to chat with a guest about her new movie, she is so polite she seems almost bashful. But during a photo shoot in the lobby of her manager's Beverly Hills space, the actress becomes settled and still and confidently tilts her head just right, betraying her modeling experience: A beauty contest winner at 12, she went on to model professionally. Now the star of director Michel Gondry's entry in the triptych film "Tokyo!"