He might look like an average 11-year-old boy, but Daichi Harashima is a seasoned veteran of six films who has performed alongside some highly accomplished actors. And in his latest role, he's pulled off the nearly impossible task of working with pandas.
In Trail of the Panda, Daichi (right) plays an orphan who rescues a panda cub and helps find its mother.
It wasn't an easy shoot: Daichi spent nearly three months in the Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan province for his role.
'It was so exciting working with the pandas,' he says. 'They were only six months old and were very active and naughty, unlike the older ones I have seen in the zoo who are always sleeping.'
Daichi reveals the pandas weren't as easy to work with as the film might suggest.
'Pandas don't speak and I don't think they knew exactly what the director wanted,' he says.