Yumiko Araki, mention her name, let alone Chinese, I am afraid that even many Japanese people are not particularly familiar with it. Forty years back, however, in the 1980s, her name was almost universally known, as a TV series she starred in swept the era.
She has no extraordinary talent, no eye-catching beauty, and even was cruelly eliminated in the talent show, but she was not discouraged, did not give up her acting dream, and eventually became popular in Japan and even Asia with a very inspirational TV series.
Countless people have been inspired by her, and countless people have strengthened their faith because of her, insisted on their careers, and finally reaped success. It is worth mentioning that Alibaba founder Man Ma Yun is a loyal fan of her, regarding her as her spiritual idol, and has traveled to Japan four times to find this "dream lover".
What kind of story does she have, and how did she encourage Ma Yun? Did Ma Find Her Later? What about her ending?
1978 was a very special year for China, a year in which China opened up reform and opening up, which changed the historical trend of China in the next thirty or forty years and also changed the fate of countless Chinese. In the same year, Japan also began filming the 71-episode inspirational TV series "Volleyball Girl".
Yumiko Araki wearing a volleyball suit
In 1979, "Volleyball Girl" caused an immediate sensation as soon as it was first broadcast on Tv Asahi in Japan, almost reaching the level of thousands of empty alleys.
This youth idol series mainly tells the touching story of a group of beautiful middle school students who worked hard, persevered and focused to participate in volleyball at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games.
The heroine of the play is Junko Oga, and she is played by Yumiko Araki. Yumiko Araki, like most girls, had a dream from a very young age, except that her dream was to become a high-profile star. If people have dreams, there will be miracles, not to mention Yumiko Araki, who was born during Japan's post-war economic boom?
Born in 1960 in Kyushu, Japan, Araki was very interested in acting at a very young age, and dreamed that he would be able to perform on stage and even become a big star. However, Yumiko Araki's parents are very traditional people, and they do not particularly recognize and like their daughter's choice.
Like most traditional Japanese parents, Yumiko Araki's parents believe that the more important duty of girls is to teach their husbands and godsons, and there is no need to show their faces, if they can be a virtuous woman, the peaceful and self-respecting xiangfu godson at home is a very perfect Japanese woman.
Perhaps people who come from the war and depression years know the warmth of the family better, or perhaps the traditional japanese culture is more about the positioning of women is to assume the responsibility of the family, Araki Yumiko's parents from the perspective of the elders, more hope that their daughters can have a stable life, the focus on the future family.
However, Yumiko is a person who does not fully understand how to resist, and at a young age, she can only obey the will of her parents, try her best to dispel her inner desires, and obedience is the helpless act of many children in the face of their parents.
However, just as the twisted melon is not sweet, although Yumiko Araki superficially obeys her parents' arrangement, she will cry at the thought of her distant dreams, crying for the dreams that are about to be broken.
Fortunately, the most beloved child is still the parents, watching Araki Yumiko wash her face with tears all day, parents also feel very sad and sad, instead of letting the daughter be depressed, it is better to let her pursue her dreams, even if she stumbles, the broken head is also the daughter's own choice after all, no wonder others.
In the end, Yumiko's parents agreed that she would continue to chase her dream of stardom, and Yumiko did not live up to her persistence and eventually became a brilliant star.
Many years later, recalling the events of that year, Araki Yumiko couldn't help but sigh that even the hard-hearted parents also loved their children, especially girls, and as soon as the tears came out, it would become a panacea to soften their parents.
Crying also seems to have become a weapon for Yumiko Araki. With her parents' permission, Yumiko participated in the TV station's talent show, but her results were not satisfactory, and she did not achieve an official ranking. After performing all her shows, Yumiko feels that she is far away from her dreams and can't help but cry with sadness.
Unexpectedly, her heartfelt tears actually touched the judges and gave her a special consolation award, and the picture of Yumiko's true feelings crying was also captured by the camera, and her infinite sad emotions touched almost all the people who watched the show.
In the end, Yumiko was also discovered by the TV station, and also starred in "Volleyball Girl", and played the classic role of Junko Oga, becoming an inspirational goddess in the minds of many people.
It can be said that Yumiko Araki's personal experience itself has a certain inspirationality, she did not succumb to the pressure of her parents, but used a woman's unique way to win opportunities for her dreams, and stumbled step by step to knock on the door of her dreams, illuminating the dreams into reality and achieving a counterattack.
Although Ma Yun said that he regretted creating Alibaba, this was just a self-effacing gesture of a successful person, and if he gave up everything he had now to become a social animal with a fixed salary to nine to six or nine nine six, he would definitely refuse. Because only he himself knows how many hardships and obstacles he has experienced in those years to have today's achievements.
Ma Yun as a teenager
It is said that everything is difficult at the beginning, and many people start in hard mode. Although Ma Yun's family conditions in his early years were not bad, he was somewhat unsatisfactory in his studies, and he took the college entrance examination three times in a row before he was reluctantly admitted to the university, and then changed his fate.
In 1982, the eighteen-year-old Ma Yun took the college entrance examination for the first time, and it was not surprising that he fell off the list because he was seriously biased. In middle school, Ma Yun had some heroic temperament, liked to fight, and was remembered many times for this, and was forced to transfer schools. And he took the middle school exam twice before he was admitted to high school, mainly because his math scores were too poor.
Ma Yun grew up preferring The subject of English and specialized in learning English on the radio. Interest is the best teacher Ma Yun himself is interested in English, and learning is very smooth. It's just that he is very unimpressed with mathematics, and one of the two middle school examinations that year was only thirty-one points. In the process of learning in high school, Ma Yun did not make up for the shortcomings of mathematics, but also set a new low in the college entrance examination.
In the first college entrance examination, Ma Yun's mathematics only scored one point, which is a very incredible score, and naturally he was not admitted to any university.
In the second college entrance examination, Ma Yun's mathematics scored only nineteen points, which is also a huge improvement, but there is still no university to read.
In 1983, after Ma Yun failed the second college entrance examination, his parents still urged him to give up his dream of college, just according to his results, I am afraid that it will be difficult to pass the exam for ten years.
Although Ma Yun obeys his parents' wishes and rides a broken bicycle all day to deliver newspapers or collect rags, he still has a college dream in his heart, and there are miracles when there are dreams.
During that period of life, Ma Yun was not depressed, because he had his own spiritual food, which was the "Volleyball Girl" imported from Japan to China, and junko, played by Yumiko Araki, was almost Ma Yun's white moonlight, she never gave in to difficulties again and again, but practiced her skills hard, and finally practiced the phantom whirlwind slam that no one could match.
In the days of walking the streets of Hangzhou, as long as Ma Yun hears the theme songs such as "The Flame of Youth", he will have unlimited fighting spirit, regain strength, and re-hope for the future.
Whenever he thinks of Junko Xiaolu's tenacious qualities and the courage to become more and more courageous, Ma Yun will sincerely admire and inspire himself not to lose his ambition, to dare to challenge himself, and to dare to make changes.
In fact, The participation of Yumiko Araki herself is an inspirational story, and although Yumiko was chosen to play Junko Oga, her height is also a big injury. In order to better express the heroism of volleyball players, the crew also tried to perform as much as possible through props and shooting angles.
And Yumiko also cherishes this hard-won acting opportunity, in order to make herself successful, she also specially conducted professional volleyball training, and also constantly exercised to increase her physical fitness.
No matter how hard and tired the training, Yumiko Araki will not cry out in pain, and even she has broken her bones in order to show more perfect volleyball skills.
However, kung fu pays off, and Miko's efforts are rewarded, and the image of Junko Fawn, who she participated in, is also deeply rooted in people's hearts and has influenced a large number of people, including Ma Yun.
In 1984, Ma Yun, who returned from the king, persuaded his parents to take the college entrance examination for the third time, and finally was admitted to Hangzhou Normal University because of his superior English scores, realizing his college dream.
It can be said that Yumiko Araki is the guiding light and spiritual power of Ma Yun's obscure life path. After becoming famous, Ma Yun also went to Japan again and again to find inspirational goddesses who had deeply influenced him.
Few Japanese people today remember "Volleyball Girl", and basically no one remembers the female lead of a TV series from decades ago. Some people jokingly asked Ma Yun if he was looking for the lover of his dreams, and Ma Yun responded: "Although you regard me as an idol, I also have an idol and a role model in Japan."
Ma Yun's idol is naturally Yumiko Araki, the actor of Junko Oga. Ma Yun has traveled to Japan four times to look for Junko Fawn and entrusted friends to help inquire about the news. Ma Yun once said that he had a wish, that is, to invite Junko Xiaolu to China.
After Ma Yun's success in entrepreneurship, he also expressed his gratitude to Junko Xiaolu on public occasions, saying: "Junko Fawn is my spiritual strength and source, and I still can't forget it until now."
With the help of friends, Ma eventually met his young idol, Yumiko Araki, in Japan. In fact, Ma Yun and Yumiko were originally the same age, the difference between the two was only four years old, this time the two met very happily, and agreed to invite Yumiko to China when she was forty-four years old.
Ma meets Yumiko
In 2004, the then forty-four-year-old Yumiko Araki came to China as agreed, and she also had many fans in China, although decades have passed, but people are still very popular with the former "Junko Oga". Later, Yumiko also traveled to Alibaba to visit this great company.
For Ma Yun, he has realized his dreams and wishes, and Yumiko Araki has also fallen in love with this ancient country in exchanges and exchanges with Chinese personnel again and again, and is committed to sino-Japanese friendship.
However, Yumiko Araki's life situation is also somewhat heart-wrenching.
In order to play Junko Oda well, Yumiko Araki endured the pain of muscle strains and joint dislocations again and again, and demanded herself with true sportsmanship, and finally perfectly shaped the classic strong and cute image of Junko Oda.
Just when Yumiko's career was booming, at the age of twenty-three, she met her own Prince Charming, the famous Japanese singer Masayuki Yuhara, and soon married. Masayuki Yuhara was thirteen years older than Yumiko Araki, and yumiko listened to Masayuki Yuhara's songs as a teenager and was a little fan of him.
Yumiko Araki, who put on her wedding dress
In an advertising shoot, Yumiko, who was not yet famous at that time, also had a relationship with her, and later the two met and met again, until they finally got married.
It is unimaginable that a girl who once loved acting and had a dream of stardom can completely give up her dreams and careers and turn to her family after meeting someone who thinks it is right. Yumiko's parents once hoped that their daughter could become a kennaisuke of her husband's godson, but when Yumiko really faded away, she realized the bitterness and hardship of life.
In September 1983, Yumiko married Masayuki Yuhara, and within a week of Hu, Yuhara's mother fell ill in bed and was paralyzed. The lover also suffers from Alzheimer's disease, and the difficulty of nursing is very high. However, Yumiko says that her husband is an only child and that she must take on the responsibility of caring for her "mother-in-law".
Newlywed Yan'er, should have been on a honeymoon trip, but suddenly changed, Araki Yumiko's heart may also be resistant, a woman in her early twenties, originally gave up the acting career to return to the family, want to be a good wife and mother, but the reality is often more cruel than people think, directly turning her from a star into a "nurse".
Yumiko Araki and her mother-in-law
In the face of such changes, many people are broken and difficult to accept, but Yumiko tenaciously copes with the challenges imposed on her by life, and her good years are also spent on feeding her mother-in-law medicine, washing, massage and other heavy and trivial things. Some people felt sorry for her for not being worthy, but she said: "The training I received in acting in TV dramas just came in handy."
Under the meticulous care of Yumiko Araki, her "mother-in-law", who was diagnosed by the doctor as not living for three years, lived for a full twenty years, is this a miracle of medicine or a miracle of "Junko Ogre"? Before dying, the mother-in-law also said to her gratefully, "Thank you, Ami! ”
Life is so unexpected, Yumiko Araki, who wants to become a star, finally becomes the good wife and mother that her parents want after realizing her dream, but Yumiko's efforts are indeed too big and too big. Who can care for a bedridden patient who is paralyzed in bed and still has Alzheimer's disease for twenty years?
Yumiko Araki is an optimistic person, and she quipped to herself that since playing "Volleyball Girl", she has become stronger, and Junko Oga can overcome those "impossible difficulties", and she can also overcome all the difficulties in front of her.
In 2008, Yumiko Araki came to China to watch the Olympic Games, specially cheering for the volleyball competition between China and Japan; in 2014, Yumiko Araki participated in the Spring Festival Gala of Beijing Satellite TV as a messenger of Friendship between China and Japan.
In 2020, Yumiko Araki made a comeback in Shanghai again after forty years of absence from the show business circle, and her first concert was selected at "Shanghai Big World", at which Yumiko once again sang songs such as "Flame of Youth" to the audience, as if time passed, people once again saw the fawn Junko who never gave up, always strong, smiling, full of confidence and strength.