Kurihara Komaki and Tanaka Atsushiro 'Wangxiang'
Editor's note: Tanaka Kinuyo (November 28, 1910 – March 21, 1977), is the only actor in the Japanese film industry to stand firm for 50 years across silent films and sound films, she has shot more than 250 film works in her lifetime, the characters she played have changed so much that they are difficult to match by contemporaries, and the Azaki Po in the movie "Wangxiang" that Chinese audiences are familiar with is Played by Tanaka Atsushiro, and she is known as "the living dictionary of Japanese character actresses". Created the "Tanaka Silk Age" of the Japanese film industry, today Xiaobian will use three articles to introduce her love history with Kenji Mizoguchi, the master of Japanese "women's films"!
Tanaka Akeyo
On the eve of the premiere of "The Tale of the Rainy Moon" in Venice, Kenji Mizoguchi invited Tanaka Toshiro to his room for tea, and the two finally put down each other's shelves and drank and chatted. Before leaving, the always shy Kenji Mizoguchi summoned up enough courage to hope that she would stay tonight, and Tanaka Seiyo did not refuse, as an actress on the set, she gave her soul to Kenji Mizoguchi, and this time as a woman, she threw herself into the arms of Kenji Mizoguchi.
Tanaka Atsuyo and Kenji Mizoguchi
Tanaka Atsuyo's family is poor, she is the elder of the family, there are four brothers and three sisters, the father does business to maintain the family's life, although the family has been prominent, but the family was robbed several times, and finally fell into the dilemma of difficult survival, when Tanaka Akasa was seven years old, the family moved to the slum near Osaka Tennoji Temple. When "Daughter of the Night" starring after she became famous was filmed in the Tianwang Mansion, the nearby residents were proud of her.
The harsh days of her childhood tempered Tanaka's stubborn and restrained character, which played a decisive role in her subsequent ups and downs, including her relationship with Kenji Mizoguchi. In 1924, at the age of 14, Tanaka passed the shochiku film company's examination and became a "big house actor" at The Kamo Studios. The so-called "big house actor" is a dragon set actor with little role, but the favor of fate made her not lie dormant in this "big house" for too long, and soon she was appreciated by directors such as Ushihara Andhiro Shimizu, and it took only three and a half years to become a "cadre" actor of Shochiku, second only to Kurishima Sumiko, the first actress who was popular at that time.
Tanaka Tsuyoshi "Nishizuru Generation Daughter"
Almost at the same time as Tanaka Entered the industry, Kenji Mizoguchi directed his debut film Blood and Spirit. Kenji Mizoguchi is also from a poor background, but he has always been silent about the background of the family, only knowing that his father is a failed businessman, and the whole family relies on his sister who is a geisha to maintain his life, so almost all of Mizoguchi Kenji's works show the tragic fate of women, the tenacity and tenacity in the predicament, and the male image is often labeled as selfish and incompetent, which is his projection of his father.
Kenji Mizoguchi entered Nichiha as an actor at the age of 20, but he became an assistant director and was taught by Osamu Wakasa. He lingered in the Wind Moon place for many years, and was slashed in the back by his mistress Yuriko with a razor, and later he showed this scar to close friends many times, saying that "if you don't take a woman's razor, you will create a bad image of a woman", and it is true, and then his works have improved greatly, and by the time he filmed "Langhua Lamentations" and "Gion Sisters", he was already a famous Japanese director.
At this time, Tanaka Atsushiro and Kenji Mizoguchi had not yet intersected, and they had their own families. Tanaka and Shochiku director Hiroshi Shimizu "tried marriage" for two years, and finally broke up, while Kenji Mizoguchi formed a relationship with the famous dancer Saga Chizuruko at that time. Tanaka's first collaboration with Kenji Mizoguchi was not long overdue until 1940. Because Kenji Mizoguchi has long had the intention of cooperating with Tanaka, he hopes that she will appear in "The Story of Remnants", but it backfires. (The first of three in a series, to be continued)