Runway to Romance: Kōki Steals Hearts in New Film ‘Touch’

At the start of Baltasar Kormákur’s new film “Touch,” it is March 2020, and Kristofer, an Icelandic widower, decides it is time to track down his long-lost first love. The viewer soon meets the woman he is searching for: Miko. Fifty years before embarking on his international journey — with a terminal illness and onset of a pandemic both looming — Kristofer is a college dropout looking for a job in the kitchen of a Japanese restaurant in London. The sight of the chef’s daughter, Miko, walking through the front door leaves him smitten. Watching the couple’s romance unfold onscreen similarly left Kōki, who stars as the young Miko in the film, speechless. “It was really emotional and touching. And I really loved how Baltasar juggled between the past and present,” says the actress, at home in Tokyo on the day of the film’s Stateside release. “I felt like I was having a really big flashback of myself as well, about all the memories of shooting.” The 21-year-old Japanese model and actress stars in the romantic drama, based on a novel by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, as a young transplant from Hiroshima living in London during the early ’70s. The film is told through

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