Which actors make you feel that it is a pity not to be popular?
In terms of knowledge, the highest vote answer to this question is Takashi Kashiwara.
Takashi Kashiwara
Isn't Kashiwara not red? On May 20, 2021, the movie "Love Letter" was re-screened in Chinese mainland, and men and women of different grades and generations of audiences rushed to the theater to see a love tragedy that premiered 26 years ago and occurred in a foreign country. In addition to the appeal of director Shunji Iwai, another reason is to take a look at Kashiwara Takashi on the big screen.
On May 20, 2021, the movie "Love Letter" was re-released in Chinese mainland
In 1995, the movie "Love Letter" was released. In terms of drama, the protagonists are Miho Nakayama, Miki Sakai, and Yuji Toyokawa, and Kashiwara Takashi is only fourth in the cast list. He appeared for about ten minutes, with few lines--halfway through the movie, in the afternoon no one's campus library, a man and a woman named "Fujii Tree" were selected to be librarians. The male Fujii tree did not seem to be doing the right thing, nor did heed the greeting of the female Fujii tree, leaning alone by the window to read a book.
A classic shot of Takashi Kashiwara in "Love Letters"
Kashiwara Takashi plays the male Fujii Tree, which some people later calculated, here, the director gave him a total of 20 seconds of close-ups, of which the longest section is 7 seconds.
For 7 seconds, the white curtain passed unhurriedly, and Kashiwara looked down at the window, as if hiding in the curtain, as if to raise his eyes. Countless viewers were touched by this scene, hoping that the teenager in the picture could look up at the world and look at himself, but also very afraid of disturbing him, so it was good to keep his head down.
A boy named Fujii Shu, a movie called "Love Letters", was frozen by these 7 seconds, and the moment became eternal. Since then, the campus library with white curtains, the silent and introverted high school boys, and the interlaced love of teenagers have all been named and have provenance.
At the same time, there is also the face of 18-year-old Kashiwara Takashi. More than two decades later, the film "Love Letters" was re-released in many parts of Asia. People always have many interpretations of Shunji Iwai's emotions and images, but for Kashiwara Takashi in "Love Letters", it must be directly emotional. You see those 7 seconds, and in the possible future opportunities, look forward to meeting it again.
When Takashi Kashiwara's "A Kiss and a Promise of Love" aired in Japan, it had a rating of 10.1%. He starred as a male supporting actor in the TV series "White Line Stream", and the average rating was 10.9%. During the same period, Takuya Kimura's "Long Holiday" had an average rating of 29.6%, and "Beautiful Life" had a highest rating of 41.3%. In 1999, 16-year-old Hideaki Takizawa starred in "The Witch's Condition", with an average rating of 21.5%.
than awards. Takuya Kimura and Hideaki Takizawa hold a bunch of Japanese Drama Academy Awards and Japan Academy Film Awards. Takashi Kashiwara first won the award in 1995, when he won the 19th Japan Academy Award for "Love Letters". He was last awarded in 1999 and won the 23rd Golden Flying Newcomer Award for his suspense film "The Edge of the Heart".
After leaving "Love Letters", Kashiwara Takashi's highlight moments as an artist were not too many. In 2002, he filmed the TV series "Forever Two People", filmed two episodes and then quit, the official reason was diagnosed with "neck, shoulder and wrist syndrome" hospitalization, rest for more than a year, and then married his girlfriend at the time. Then in December 2004, he had a physical altercation with a vegetarian on the street and was fined 200,000 yen. After the injury incident, Kashiwara shaved his head and apologized. The series he starred in were canceled by television, and after that, he divorced in 2006 and made a full comeback in 2008, playing supporting roles in many TV series and movies, and even "playing soy sauce".
Takashi Kashiwara has long been on the other side of "being able to fight": loyal to his own uncertainty, loyal to his own changes, even if this change points to decline.
There is change in life, Kashiwara said: "The happiest thing is the unexpected changes in life that can occur at any time." Now he calls himself "Old Bai", and after the age of expressing rebellion through his beard, he has long come to the stage of accepting "himself full of the original appearance of life" in the polar reaction of "not suitable" and "not bad".
When I entered the entertainment industry, it was originally a mistake. Because of the bowl of ramen promised by his mother, In 1993, Kashiwara Takashi participated in the "Junon super Boy" audition and debuted as a champion. At that time, he calculated to "quit early". When he made his first film, he didn't understand anything, and he was scolded by the director on the set, wanting to "make another one and give up completely."
It wasn't until Shunji Iwai sent him an invitation, promising to see the worshipped seniors in the Love Letters. Takashi Kashiwara agreed. He recalled that at that time, in the crew, he was "scolded by the director every day", "very difficult", "the director taught me that it didn't matter if there was no merit, but I must not forget the look in my eyes." ”
On May 20, 2021, "Love Letters" was re-released in the mainland, which was the closest Kashiwara Takashi was to the audience. Regarding the title of beautiful teenager, he said: "Regarding the title of beautiful teenager, this has been more than 20 years ago, and I am now Ogisan." "I feel very happy to think that I have always been called a beautiful teenager, and this just makes me feel again that I am no longer the teenager I was."
"When I was young, there was resistance and rejection to this title. However, now that I have grown up and think about it, I am actually quite happy. He is no longer a beautiful teenager, and he has also passed the age of competing with the "beautiful teenager". Even the identity of the actor is not required.
After the news of the re-screening of "Love Letters" was announced, people once again quickly connected Kashiwara Takashi with the 7 seconds of that year, unlike some other artists who had a long list of brilliance and success, which belonged to Kashiwara Takashi or a beautiful teenager, another kind of immortal success. Some actors are burdened by awards, box office results, and ratings records in their lives, while Kashiwara is unmoving, but it is clearly recorded in the audience's memory. As long as he is mentioned, people can think of those 7 seconds, the 7 seconds that cannot be replaced by the world.