In the world of the entertainment business, it has long been said that "child actors are not completed". There was word "It was late Hibari Misora to have accomplished by the child post", too. But now such jinx is completely gone.
For a long time, the entertainment industry has always been rumored that "child stars will not have great achievements". Others say that "the only person who was born and achieved brilliant as a child star is the late Ms. Skylark of The Beauty Skylark". But now this negative assertion no longer exists.
The actors and actresses who debuted as child actors and are still active on the front lines are Sosuke Ikematsu (29), Takanosuke Kamiki (26), Shota Someya (27), Taishi Nakagawa (21), Takeshi Hamada (31), Yuya Yanagira (29), Mao Inoue (32), Sakika Sugi (22), Mirai Shida (26), Mayu Matsuoka (24), Aoi Miyazaki (33).
There are many actors who are still active in the frontline from child star backgrounds, such as Ikematsu Shoryo (29 years old), Ryunosuke Kamiki (26 years old), Shota Someya (27 years old), Daishi Nakagawa (21 years old), Hamada (31 years old), Yumi Yanagi (29 years old), Inoue Masayoshi (32 years old), SugiZawa (22 years old), Shida Mirai (26 years old), Matsuoka Moyu (24 years old), Miyazaki Aoi (33 years old), etc.
Ryunosuke Kamiki
Why did it take so long for child actors to make a big deal in the past? First of all, the reason seems to be that there was a person whose senses are paralyzed by receiving the star treatment since childhood. It is said that there was a child post which swayed to the staff high-length, and repeated waste. Even after it stopped selling, the wasted habit did not mend, and some people ran into crimes. If ichii's senses get off, it will be difficult to become a good actor or actress.
Why is it so difficult for a former child star to achieve a career? First, because they have been treated like stars since childhood, some child stars have not established their own three views. It is said that some child stars have a very poor attitude towards the staff and promote the worship of goldism. Some children still spend a lot of money and go down the path of crime after not being a proper actor. If you play a big name, it is quite difficult to become a good actor.
"The person who is from the child actor today is different, and there is no goodness because it is a former child role". It is Yuji Watanabe of the entertainment journalist to talk so. One of the reasons for this is that entertainment production has been consistently manageable since its childhood. It is trained and the job selection with the resolution to take care of the child post for the life.
"Today's child stars are very different from before. If the current actor is born as a child star, there is basically no black history to dig up." Entertainment journalist Yuji Watanabe said. One of the reasons for this is that economic companies have been planning for children since they were very young. With the consciousness of taking care of child stars throughout their lives, we will cultivate them and check their acting work.
Since many of the previous child actors belonged to children's theater companies and child actor productions, it seems that the management ability after adolescence was weak. Currently, there are many entertainment productions that scout promising child actors from children's theater companies and child actor productions.
Most of the previous child stars belonged to children's theater troupes and child star exclusive agencies, but when children entered adolescence, the company was also managed sheep-like. Nowadays, many agencies select children's actors from children's theater troupes and child star-exclusive agencies.
Over 3.65 million views
The replay has over 3.65 million hits
"Society has also changed," says Watanabe. In the Showa period, there were parents who looked for the earnings of the child who worked as a child post, too. In some cases, parents were unfriendly over the income. However, most parents think that the child role is one of the rehearsals, and thinks that it is only a means to realize the dream of the child who wants to become an actor and the actress.
"Society is also changing" (Watanabe). During the Showa period, parents had their children go to be young actors and regarded their children as cash cows. There are also rumors that parents are making trouble because of the labor fees earned by their children. However, it is reported that most parents today regard child actors as artistic training, which is a necessary means for children who have the dream of being an actor to realize their dreams.
It has become an era that is no wonder even if the child actors are completed, but the pioneer must be Yumi Adachi (38). Since her childhood, she has been appearing in dramas and movies almost inseparably, and in recent years it has been supported by women as a "charisma of beauty". Adachi's self-make video, which was released on September 20 under the project of beauty magazine VOCE (Kodansha), has been viewed more than 3.65 million times.
It is not a rare thing for child stars in the show business circle to be in the present, and Anda Yushi (38) is the pioneer of all this. She has been active on the screen since her childhood as a child actress, and in recent years has been strongly supported by female audiences to see her as a "representative of beauty". On September 20, a beauty video by Yumi Anda was published in a column by the beauty magazine VOCE (Kodansha) and was viewed more than 3.65 million times.
It is also popular among men. When Adachi appeared on the cover and gravure of the September 14 issue of Weekly Playboy, his beauty and cleanness became popular, and sports newspapers and others even treated it as news.
It also has a large number of male fans. Yumi Anda appeared on the cover of the weekly Playboy released on September 14, and her flawless face and pure and sexy temperament were widely praised, and media such as Sports Newspaper also reported on it.
However, Adachi's path so far has never been smooth. There was a time when it became a fetter that it was a selling child so that "Super" was attached as a child actor.
However, Anda Yushi's acting career is by no means smooth. That red-and-purple child star experience left her deeply bound for a while.
No matter what role you play...
No matter which character you play...
Adachi made her debut as a model when she was two years old. After that, he came to be called a genius child actor, and in 1994, when he was 12 years old, the leading drama "Ie nakiko" (Nippon Television Network Corporation) was a big hit. The final audience rating reached 37.2% (according to video research, Kanto area), and a sequel was also created in 1995. It is no exaggeration to say that adachi's name and appearance were burned into the heads of everyone who lived in that era.
Yushi Anda debuted as a model when she was 2 years old. Since then, she has been known as a genius child star by the public, and in 1994, at the age of 12, she starred in the TV series "Homeless Child" (Japanese television) and became popular all over the country. The final rating was as high as 37.2% (VideoResearch survey, Kanto region), and the following year in 1995, it starred in a sequel. It is no exaggeration to say that the name and image of Anda Yushi since then have been deeply imprinted in the minds of the people of that era.
The trouble happens though it appears to the drama and the movie well afterwards. "No matter what role I play, it looks like only 'a child without a house'" (from an interview with Sports Hochi on March 23, 2019). Adachi of the living body continued to grow, and adachi of the child actor continued to exist in the head of the side.
After that, I also successfully filmed some TV series and movies, but the troubles also came with it. "No matter which role you play, there is a shadow of "Homeless Child" (Interview with Anda Yushi in the Sports Newspaper on March 23, 2019). Although Anda Yushi herself is constantly growing, she has always been the image of the child star in the eyes of the audience.
Yuji Watanabe, who has been covering Adachi for a long time, talks.
Yuji Watanabe, mentioned earlier in his long-term interview with Yumi Anda, said.
"In order to dispel the image of the child actor, I put out a collection of swimsuit photos and became nude in the movie.
In order to get rid of the image of a child star, she also filmed and published a swimsuit photo album, and also had a nude performance in the film. Really paid a lot."
When she was in his third year of high school, she released a swimsuit photo book, Yumi Adachi 17, and showed off her nudity in the 2014 film Hanayoi Michinaka. It seems to have been the end of consideration in the person in question. In the case of an actress from a child actor, it is also a bottleneck that the voice does not change. Because the voice does not change, the viewer tends to recall the child actor age even after it becomes an adult.
In his junior year of high school, he filmed the swimsuit photo album "Yumi Adachi 17 Years Old", and in 2014, he challenged nude performances in the movie "In the Flower Night Road". It all seemed to be a deliberate decision on her part. Actresses born as child stars have become stumbling blocks to their careers without changing their voices when they grow up. Because the voice has not changed, even if she still appears on the screen when she grows up, the audience is still easy to remember her work as a child star.
No scandal.
Zero scandals
When he has been active since he was a child actor, the sense of intimacy on the viewing side becomes too strong, and there is an evil that it becomes difficult to be seen as a full-fledged actor and actress. The child actor seems to be a child of the neighbor who has seen it from an early age. There is such a thing, too and the person who sets up the rest period according to the examination etc. while becoming an actor and the actress from the child actor is not few either. Mao Inoue et. et.
They have been active on the screen since the time of child stars, and have a strong audience affinity, but when they become actors who can stand alone, the audience cannot notice their growth. Child stars are like seeing big neighbor kids from an early age. There are also child stars who suspend their acting careers due to reasons such as entrance examinations during their excessive period of becoming actors, such as Inoue Masayoshi.
Let's return the story to Yumi Adachi. Adachi has a steady popularity with no major blanks or slumps. Why not?
We continue back to Anda Yushi's side. Chubb did not have a long blank period and downturn in his acting career, and gained a stable popularity. Why?
"First of all, I was told 'genius' when I was a child actor, and the foundation of acting is solid, and the most important thing is that the person himself is serious about everything. Although there were divorces and remarriage, there is no scandal at all."
"First of all, she was called a 'genius' when she was a child star and had a solid foundation in acting. Of course, the most important thing is her own dedication. Although there have been divorces and remarriages, there have been no scandals other than that" (op. Watanabe)
It is certainly so. He has been performing for 36 years, but there have been no scandals, and there are no negative reports that "attitudes are bad". In 2005, he married Jun Idota, a comedy duo and speed wagon, had a daughter, and divorced in 2009, but there was no report pointing out adachi's fault. In 2014, he remarried photographer Tomoki Kuwashima, 41. She gave birth to a baby boy in 2016. As a woman and as a mother, it seems that there is no place to be criticized, which seems to have led to popularity.
As Watanabe said. Although Anda has been in the show business for 36 years, there have been no scandals and no negative reports such as "bad attitude". In 2005, she married and gave birth to a daughter with Run Idoda of the hilarious group "Rush Truck", and in 2009 the two divorced but there was no report that the breakdown of the marriage was due to Anda's fault. In 2014, he remarried photographer Tomoki Kuwajima (41 years old). A baby boy was born in 2016. Whether as a woman or a mother, it can be said to be impeccable, and at this point it also attracts a large number of fans.
I've lived in the same era
Grow with a peer audience
In June 2018, she appeared semi-nude in the jacket photo of the single CD "Muse" by popular singer-songwriter Kayoko Yoshizawa (29). Although the exposure level was high, it was not obscene at all, and the beauty with a sense of transparency became a hot topic. Yoshizawa is also a popular artist for women. The woman uke might have aimed, too.
In June 2018, Yumi Anda shot the cover of the CD "Muse" by popular singer Yoshizawa Kayoko (29 years old) and appeared in a semi-nude position. Although it is close to being completely naked, it is not vulgar but exudes a unique transparent beauty, which has become a hot topic. Yoshizawa is also a popular artist for women. Chubb's move is intended to capture the hearts of female fans.
"Adachi's strength is that it is also popular with women, especially those in their 30s and 40s. This is unique to child actors, but I think they are sympathetic to living in the same era for a long time."
"Chubb's strength is that it has a large number of female fans. It is especially popular with women aged 30 to 40. This is the unique advantage of actors born as child actors, and the actors and the audience resonate with each other as peers" (same as watanabe)
It resonates with actors and actresses from child actors who have been working together for a long time. It might be a new relation of the side which sees with the entertainer.
Resonate with the actors who grew up with child actors... This may be a new relationship between the artist and the audience.
In adachi's case, one of the attractions is that he is youthful while 40 years old is two years from now. He said in a digital version of VOCE on September 23:
Two years later, Anda Yushi will also enter the age of 40, and her childlike face is also one of her charms. Chubb said about this in the electronic version of VOCE, which was released on September 23.
- What is the secret that continues to evolve, far from getting older?
— As you get older, what is the secret of making progress in your career?
"Well, there's no awareness of 'I have to be like this.' Maybe because I've been doing what's required for 36 years, I'm not the type who pushes out my own characters so hard. So I wonder if it can change in any way. It is possible to do so if it is said, 'This is new', and it is possible to go next without any regret. When I stick to "I'm like this!" I feel like it's getting old and older."
"Hmmm. Because I don't deliberately ask myself to "have to do something.". Because my work for 36 years has been arranged by all parties, I am not the kind of person who highlights my personality. So I can adapt to various styles of change. Even if I hear people say, "This is a new transformation," I will not hesitate to make the next transformation. If it stays the same, I will feel like I'm getting older."
It's an unadorned word. This may also be one of adachi's popularity.
Plain words. This is one of the reasons for Anda's popularity.
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