Rika Ohara

Rika Ohara. Actress: The Heart of No Place. As a teen, Rika Ohara aspired to be a manga artist. But when a magazine editor, sent by the great Osamu Tezuka himself, pronounced her work "too artsy," she decided to study art instead. She trained in painting, photography and dance; her MFA thesis project at California Institute of the Arts was a dance-theatre adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "Salomé," with choreographer Tracy...