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Masakazu Tamura's interpretation of "Gentleman Criminal Police"
It is the collective memory of a generation
Japanese drama fans and detective drama fans may have heard this sad news.
Japanese titan actor Masakazu Tamura died of heart failure in Tokyo on the afternoon of April 3, local time, at the age of 77. The obituary of his death was only made public by the media last night.
In the Japanese film and television industry, Masakazu Tamura is synonymous with the ratings of Changhong. After entering middle age, he created many elegant roles, which became a benchmark for mature men in modern Japan, allowing him to capture a large number of fans both inside and outside the show business circle, and Kimura Takuya once called him the most admired idol.
Regarding Masakazu Tamura, the most impressive thing for China's post-80s and post-90s generations must be the mystery drama "Furuhata Renzaburo" starring him.
Since it was introduced and translated by Shanghai Television in 1999, the screen image of this "gentleman criminal police" has been deeply imprinted in the hearts of a generation, and has also allowed Tamura Masakazu to have a large number of loyal fans in China.
Today, more than 20 years later, when you hear the news of Tamura Masakazu's death, everyone will still miss the "Furuhata Renzaburo" broadcast on the education station during the summer vacation of his youth, the charm of the actors and characters, which is vividly reflected in this classic.
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"Gentleman Criminal Police" ushered in a new era of Japanese drama
"Although many people have tried to make speculative fiction into film and television dramas, there are very few examples of real success in the world. So, we want to pay tribute to the staff and the main creators such as screenwriter Yuki Mitani and lead actor Masakazu Tamura – this ambitious work, if successful, may usher in a new era of Japanese drama series. ”
This passage comes from 1994, the Japanese media's message to the crew at the beginning of the filming of "Furuhata Renzaburo". This year, Masakazu Tamura was 51 years old.
When he was young, Masakazu Tamura starred in most of the images of ronin and samurai, and one of his representative works was the melancholy knife player Umezu IchiroTa played in the 1969 "Sleep Mad Shiro Swastika Chop".
"Sleep Mad Shiro Swastika Chop", right is the young Tamura Masakazu
Although Masakazu Tamura became a regular on the screen after switching from the movie dragon set to the TV series through the Japanese TV tide, he could not go any further, and even once shifted the focus of his career to costume stage dramas.
Until the 1980s, Tamura, who was over 40 years old, relied on romance dramas such as "Station in the Rain", "Daddy is the Anchor", "New York Love Story" and so on, and finally became popular.
"Daddy is the Anchor"
"Renzaburo Furuhata", who also shows himself as a humorous and elegant middle-aged gentleman, naturally found him. Screenwriter Yuki Mitani was convinced that the character was none other than Masakazu Tamura when he wrote the script.
But it didn't go so well. Tamura Masakazu has a principle, that is, he never accepts the theme of police and bandits, so he did not agree at first, "I did not play a policeman before, and I did not want to act this time."
But after Mitani Yuki took the initiative to send him the first script, things took a turn for the better.
Screenwriter Yuki Mitani, "Looking Back and Seeing Him Again" is also his work
"I realized that rather than being a cop movie, 'Renzaburo Furuhata' was more like a mystery drama, easily and hilariously unraveling the mystery," Tamura recalled afterwards. ”
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Actors and characters accomplish each other
Although Japan is a big country of speculative fiction, there is no precedent for such a strange detective image as Furuhata Renzaburo - he certainly has a super agile mind and observation, but he has no power to bind chickens, faints when he sees blood, refuses to use a gun, and at the same time is funny and humorous, with a charismatic charm.
Screenwriter Yuki Mitani is based on the classic detective "Colompo" in american film and television dramas in the 60s and 70s, and gradually pinches out the appearance of Furuhata Renzaburo.
At the same time, in order to fit the image of the "Japanese-style" middle-aged gentleman in people's minds, the screenwriter also added many external details to the characters. Fashionable hobbies such as bowling, fruit sundaes, and everyday items are exquisite and luxurious, the seemingly funny gold-plated bicycle is the CELINE limited to 30 units, the sunglasses are armani and so on.
For Masakazu Tamura, such a Western-style life style is his daily life since childhood.
Born in an acting family, his father was the legendary movie star Sakato's wife Saburo, and he stepped into the show business circle with his brother at a young age to enjoy the life of a drunken gold fan - from a later point of view, he was a standard and accurate xiaokai, and the rich temperament of middle-aged people was still there. This is also in the heart of "Furuhata Renzaburō".
The role is in place, and the plot or filming method has become another key to the success or failure of "Furuhata Renzaburō".
After establishing the model of unit drama (one story per episode), Mitani Yuki boldly broke the traditional routine of benguet reasoning, using Colombo-style flashback reasoning, often revealing the modus operandi and clues at the beginning of each episode, allowing the bad guys to commit crimes in front of the audience.
Then the East Window Incident occurred, the criminal police officer Furuhata Renzaburō rode a women's bicycle to be late, but he was able to lock on to the murderer at a glance with clues and clues, and let the villain expose his horse's feet through clever methods.
Masakazu Tamura's perfect portrayal of the character, coupled with such a new way of reasoning, made Japanese audiences addicted, and the ratings repeatedly went up. In the context of other Japanese dramas that are still a season finale, "Furuhata Renzaburo" was filmed for three seasons, creating a precedent for Japanese dramas.
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The cameo villains are all big names
In the portrayal of the role of Furuhata Renzaburō, Masakazu Tamura has really worked hard.
After the 1980s determined the uncle drama road, Tamura Masakazu almost did not change his image much, from hairstyle to dress style is basically the same, but he can always perform the characteristics of different roles.
When he arrived at the "gentleman criminal police" Furuhata Renzaburō, he added many subtle small actions, such as picking eyebrows, thinking with his tongue curled, and pointing his head at the door of his head.
Over time, some actions remained on him, and they would inadvertently reveal them in his life, causing others to exclaim, "Furuhata Renzaburo has appeared"!
In addition, the huge lines of this play are also quite torturous.
"Compared to other TV dramas that spit out the words in their hearts, such long lines in "Furuhata Renzaburo" are easier to enter the drama, but every time they are tired of memorizing." Masakazu Tamura said this in an interview.
"Especially in each episode, other artists will be invited to play the villain, each of them has their own story, killing methods, professional terms, it is not easy to remember in a short time." 」
This is also one of the highlights of "Renzaburo Furuhata", the villains in each episode will be played by popular or highly accomplished Japanese stars, and such villain roles are mostly high-ranking people who have achieved fame in the drama.
According to Japanese media statistics, this luxurious villain lineup has as many as 40 people, including Karasawa Shouming, Matsu Takako, Fukuyama Masaharu, Yosuke Eguchi, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Akashi family saury and other top celebrities, the last one is Matsushima Naoko.
Nanako Matsuba appeared in 2006,Tosaburo Furuhata, New Year's Special Edition
Japanese media wrote that in those years, every Japanese beauty artist had to play a criminal in "Furuhata Renzaburo" to be worthy of their artistic life, "Arrested by Furuhata criminal police, this is the highest honor for them." ”
In this long list, there is an actor who has made two cameo appearances as different villains, he is Takuya Kimura.
His first appearance was in the second season of 1996's "Playground Bomb Extortion Incident", in which Kimura played the bomber Kobayashi, who wanted to blow up the playground for absurd reasons.
Renzaburo Furuhata, who has always been calm, gets angry very rarely in this episode, and slaps him with a backhand at the end, and he becomes the only villain in the entire series who has been beaten by Furuhata.
On a later variety show, screenwriter Yuki Mitani revealed that the slap was actually his own idea, "I just want to see what the big handsome guy Kimura Takuya was like." ”
Takuya Kimura's second appearance in the drama was three years later, after New Year's Day in 1999, the special episode "Renzaburo Furuhata VS. SMAP", in which Takuya Kimura and the other four members of SMAP starred in the play with their real identities, telling the story of five people forced to kill because of brotherhood.
《Furuhata Tosaburo VS. SMAP》
After that, Takuya Kimura even played Furuhata Renzaburō once.
《Takusaburo Furuhata》
It was in 2009, the 50th anniversary of Fuji Tv, and SMAP appeared as a host, leading the audience to relive a number of classic drama clips. The surprise shot that suddenly appears is Takuya Kimura's perfect reproduction of Masakazu Tamura's Renzaburo Furuhata, imitating the small movements from the chest hunchback to the fingers and facial features.
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Avid fan: Takuya Kimura
Takuya Kimura is an iron fan of Masakazu Tamura, which is well known in the circle.
In 1996, the 24-year-old Takuya Kimura was popular, and the 53-year-old Tamura Masano and Baodao were not old, and the two also co-starred in a love drama "Concerto", in which the old and the young played each other as love enemies to build a warm love triangle.
The name "Masakazu Tamura" was called at that time.
From his predecessors, Kimura Takuya learned a lot, including many of the small facial movements we later see on his face, which actually bear the shadow of Masakazu Tamura.
But what benefited him the most was the dedication and professionalism of his idols.
When Masakazu Tamura was filming, he never brought the script to the set because he kept the lines of himself and his opponents in mind. Takuya Kimura was impressed by the scene when the two collaborated on "Furuhata Renzaburo".
"At one point, he sat in a chair outside the set and rested, looking like he was asleep. But when the staff issued the 'please' command, he suddenly stood up and instantly entered the play, perfectly interpreting more than 10 pages of dialogue in the script, and I couldn't help but 'wow' out. ”
Kimura said: "Although I seem to be a little casual in saying this, when I see this scene with my own eyes, I really think, 'Too strong, I want to be like this.'" It is precisely because there are seniors who let us see such a wonderful performance, so we ourselves will be touched. ”
Masakazu Tamura's ability to memorize scripts is excellent, or the famous "no NG", almost every one is a pass. Dozens of sentences like "Renzaburo Furuhata" are easy for him to do in one go, but they will also make the actors who play the opposite role feel stressed.
Because of this, all the big names of the cameo villains are full of energy when facing Masakazu Tamura, and even the big-name young stars will seriously memorize their lines clearly, and they will firmly remember not to make mistakes, which is a kind of supervision that benefits them for life.
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Take the initiative to say goodbye to the stage and leave a decent one
"He's a guy who does everything himself, doesn't want help, doesn't sweat much, and rarely loses his hair and makeup." Some actors will have a little edema on their faces if they shoot early in the morning, but Mr. Tamura has never had this situation. Some hairdressers in the crew have described Masakazu Tamura in this way.
"It's a bit inaccessible, but now I tell jokes and immediately ease the atmosphere around me."
In real life, Masakazu Tamura is indeed the kind of person who gives people a sense of distance, and rarely appears in public outside of the set. Leisure time is to travel with the family and like to eat French food. Rumors that his family's mansion had a helipad, and he ignored it.
In 2007, when he was working with Misaki Ito on the film "Last Love", Masakazu Tamura was asked why he had only made TV dramas and not movies for so long, saying that it was because it was easier to make TV series and "didn't have to attend so many press conferences."
《Last Love》
At that time, Masakazu Tamura was 63 years old, and he could still exude charming charm, which made 28-year-old Ito Mikazu sigh: "Tamura-san's eyes are so beautiful, looking at his pupils, as if he will be sucked in." 」 ”
As he grew older, this once-magnificent gentleman actually knew how much energy he still had.
After the age of 70, Tamura Masakazu is still making a lot of films, but he will only pick one out of a hundred, and more time will be left for life. In "Father's Back", which starred with Matsu Takako for the second time, you can see that his body shape has lost a lot of weight and his back is more hunched.
"Father's Back"
In 2018, after seeing the pilot clip of his new drama in February, he finally realized that he was exhausted, and gladly decided to retire and bid farewell to the show business.
From him, you can still see the sense of honor of the Showa male star, preferring to take the initiative to close the curtain than to continue to mess on the stage.
Today, Tamura Masakazu has bid farewell to the world, and what is left to everyone is still that dashing and elegant back. As if he would still stand in the spotlight of the dark stage, break the fourth wall at any time, and whisper the name of the reasoning to the audience who cherished him:
"More than that,Tokisaburo Furuhata.".
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Original title: "Goodbye, Furuhata Renzaburō"