Riko Shibata is 30 years younger than husband Nicolas Cage. They met through mutual friends, though Shibata also had a part on the set of “Prisoners of the Ghostland,” which brought Cage to Japan in the first place. To give some context as to when their romance began, People mentions, they were first spotted holding hands in February 2020.
While speaking on his older brother’s radio show, Cage told Marc Coppola that he and Shibata got engaged via FaceTime because the coronavirus pandemic forced them apart for a time. “She left New York and went back to Kyoto, Japan, and I went back to Nevada and I hadn’t seen her for six months,” Cage explained. “We were really happy together and we were really excited to spend that time together so I finally just said, ‘Look, I wanna marry you,’ and we got engaged on FaceTime,” Cage added.
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He said that he got her a black diamond engagement ring. “Her favorite color is black,” he explained. “So she wanted the black gold and the black diamond, so I found it and customized it and personalized it. I actually sent it to her via FedEx.” At the time, because of the pandemic, Cage and Shibata weren’t able to set a date for their wedding, but they did that once travel restrictions eased up.
