In this year's Japanese showbiz, sad news always follows, and recently came the news of the death of veteran actor Tetsuya Watanabe.
In the obituary of the "Ishihara Production Company" to which Tetsuya Watanabe belongs, he said that Tetsuya Watanabe was hospitalized for convalescence due to respiratory diseases, and died of pneumonia on August 10 at the age of 78, and the old man left in the company of his family and left peacefully. (Not said it was COVID-19)
Mr. Tetsuya Watanabe is a highly respected actor in the Japanese showbiz circle and the president of Ishihara Productions, and after the news came out, various well-known people in the Japanese showbiz circle also continued to mourn on Twitter.
National actress Koyuri Yoshinaga issued a memorial statement after hearing the bad news
Mr. Watanabe, who likes the summer sea, swims to Mr. Tsunehiko?
Although the serious illness has survived several times, this time it is a pity.
I sincerely pray for the blessings of meditation.
INTERVIEWER YOSHINAGA KOYURI
Tetsu watanabe is also a favorite actor of Buya Jun, and today I hereby write this article to commemorate him, and at the same time tell the story of his and Yoshinaga Koyuri, a classic screen couple from the inside to the outside of the play.
Tetsuya Watanabe was born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1941, his real name is Michihiko Watanase, and graduated from the prestigious Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan.
When Tetsuya Watanabe was in college, he was impersonated by his younger brother who wanted to become an actor to audition for the Nikko Film Company under the name of an actor, and began his career as an actor with the feeling that he could meet his idol Yujiro Ishihara in Nichiharu.
His younger brother, Tsunehiko Watanase, is also a well-known actor who starred in the popular criminal investigation series "Metropolitan Police Department Search Ichikura 9 Series", and died in 2017, and the brothers starred as brothers in the 2011 movie "Homecoming".
Japanese tennis star and current Asian tennis brother Kei Nishikori is his nephew.
Tetsuya Watanabe acted in 10 films a year at Nikko in the 1960s, and in the 1970s he established his tough guy screen image through "Shinji Fukasaku" (directed by Shinji Fukasaku), "Western Police", and "Metropolis", and also starred in the NHK Okawa drama.
His later works may be familiar to everyone, such as "35-year-old high school student", "Evil Party", "Tuna", "Yijing", "Hideyoshi" and so on.
One of his favorites was "The Clouds of Sakaue", in which he played Admiral Heihachiro Higashigo during the Russo-Japanese War.
Because of his tough guy image, Tetsu Watanabe was also invited to voice Shintaro Kazama, the leader of the underworld group of the "Like a Dragon" series.
Tetsuya Watanabe and his idol Yujiro Ishihara's birthday is the same day, the two formed a deep friendship through the cooperation of several works, and Ishihara Yujiro, who was already a film superstar at the time, took good care of Tetsuya Watanabe.
In 1973, Tetsuya Watanabe took all his belongings and asked to join the Ishihara Production Company founded by Yujiro Ishihara, who was afraid that his company, which was heavily indebted at the time, would delay Tetsuya Watanabe, but was impressed by his sincerity, and the two fought together for the rest of their lives.
Ishihara Manufacturing Company was known as the "Ishihara Legion", and after the death of Yujiro Ishihara in 1987, Tetsuya Watanabe became president.
At present, the more famous artists are the Montreal Film Festival Film Emperor Guanbo, and he and Niigaki Yui's "Seven Days of Father and Daughter Change" should be very familiar to everyone.
The Ishihara Legion has a high prestige in Japanese entertainment circles, and more than 20 years after Ishihara's death, the memorial was held at the National Stadium, the main venue of the Tokyo Olympic Games, which can accommodate 50,000 people, and the number of people who signed up for the event was as high as 750,000.
After the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, the Janis artists Takuya Kimura, Tomoya Nagase, and Junichi Okada went to the disaster area with the Ishihara Legion to carry out disaster relief activities.
The relationship with Yoshinaga Sayuri goes from the inside to the outside
In Japan in the 1960s and 1970s, there were not only screen couples Ofo miura and Momoe Yamaguchi, but also Tetsuya Watanabe and Yoshinaga Sayuri.
Known as Japan's national goddess, Yoshinaga Koyuri collaborated for the first time with Tetsuya Watanabe in 1966 through the film Record of Love and Death, in which they played a couple.
The two develop their relationship outside the play, dating in the prop room, and the two who have the idea of getting married meet Sayuri's parents, but the parents do not accept Tetsuya Watanabe at all.
Tetsuya Watanabe even thought of what Yujiro Ishihara had done when he was young, and eloped to the United States with his loved one, but Sayuri did not agree, and the relationship ended in bleakness two years later.
Later, at the age of 29, Watanabe also married Toshiko, who had been together four times in college, and Watanabe was also impressed by toshiko's wait for him for 8 years, and then spent 50 years together.
But Tetsuya Watanabe's screen collaboration with Yoshinaga Sayuri did not end with the end of the relationship.
In 1988, they starred in "The Chronicle of the Rain of Time", talking about extramarital affairs but true love, worldliness and morality are not tolerated, but the two people who share the tranquility of the maple forest and the courtyard path at this moment are not lacking in moving.
In the movie, Nongsheng, played by Tetsuya Watanabe, meets Theoe, a woman she fell in love with 20 years ago, and says to her, "Tatsue, twenty years ago let me see you, you didn't belong to me, and now let me meet you, I won't miss it again."
In 2000, they collaborated again on the film Nagasaki Walk.
Sayuri plays a geisha and meets Koga (Tetsuya Watanabe), a historian who comes to study.
Last year, Tetsuya Watanabe and Yoshinaga Koyuri co-starred in the shochu -ryōjo "Shochiku Plum" advertisement, the 10th time they have performed this wine together, and the last time in their 50-year cooperation, it is also Tetsuya Watanabe's legacy.
In addition to his wife Toshiko and Yoshinaga Sayuri, the famous Japanese singer Mitsueko Makimura is also very fond of Tetsuya Watanabe.
Michiko Makimura, who had a confused future in the early years, accidentally listened to Tetsuya Watanabe's song "みちづれ" (Winter Love), and asked Tetsuya Watanabe to sing the song to herself, and Watanabe also generously gave the song after listening to Makimura's voice, and destroyed the original disc of her original song, which will not be published in the future.
Izuzure Makimura Saedoko - Nippon Enka 01
Tetsuya Watanabe personally served as a record producer for Michiko Makimura, and the song "みちづれ" sold more than one million copies, making Makimura one of the first-line singers and appearing in the "Red and White Song Society".
Mie Makimura, who regards Tetsuya Watanabe as a benefactor, reveals his admiration for Tetsuya Watanabe, saying that he only wants to marry a good man, and the good man in his heart is Watsusang, but Watsusang is married, and he can only remain single.
In addition to acting, Tetsuya Watanabe is also a singer, with a song "Gardenia" appeared in the Red and White Song Club, which was later covered by Teresa Teng as the Chinese song "Get Away".
His chorus with Makimura Mitsue, "Like a Husband and Wife", was also filled in by Teresa Teng Chinese and sung as "Loving Couple".
The "みちづれ" that made Makimura Three Branches red was also sung by Teresa Teng, that is, the very famous "Camellia"
When the news of his death came out, Japanese reporters went to shibuya to interview on the streets of Shibuya, and passers-by expressed surprise, and one of the men, who was about 50 years old, said: "Speaking of Tetsuya Watanabe, it is the appearance of "Western Police". The actors who were active at that time are now of a certain age and are becoming more and more sentimental. ”
The actors they like also grow old one by one, and even die, which makes people lament the loss of their youth.