In 1978 and 1979 of the last century, the Japanese films "Wangxiang" and "Life and Death Love" were released in Chinese mainland, and the female lead of the film quickly entered the audience's field of vision, setting off a "Kurihara small roll fever" in the Chinese film industry.
Especially in the film "Life and Death Love", Natsuko, played by Kurihara Komaki, shocked the countrymen who had just come out of the years with her energetic youth, amorous and gentle beauty, and a rich and delicate inner world.
For a time, Kurihara's small scrolls were regarded by countless fans as the embodiment of beauty.
Countless male fans are fascinated by it, and female fans are also intoxicated.
So far, the stills of Natsuko and Omiya in the film pulling on a trench coat and walking in fear are still the mode that many young lovers are keen to imitate and take pictures...
More than forty years ago, through the youthful jump on the tennis court of the film "Life and Death Love", the white dress that fluttered and fell, the audience deeply remembered the beautiful figure full of charm - Natsuko.
"I'm sorry! The ball is too high, too high, too high...", whenever I saw the tennis court, I seemed to remember Natsuko's sweet voice. Kurihara Komaki, who once amazed that time, also represents a distant era, she is the eternal goddess!
Kurihara Komaki, a Japanese performing artist, stepped into the development of the show business circle at the age of 22, starring in the film "Wangxiang" and "Life and Death Love" caused a sensation in China, pushing Kurihara Komaru to the altar, China blew up a wave of "Kurihara Komaki", Kurihara became the dream lover of Chinese, when her facial features were exquisite, her posture was exquisite, her beautiful eyes were like water, her temperament was elegant, and it was stunning.
If sexiness can also be expressed as a style, the most impressive thing is Kurihara Komaru, the style revealed by the exquisite beauty, I believe that the film audience in the 70s and 80s is irresistible. From "Life and Death Love" and "Hopeless Country" to "Ninja River Love", the soft eyes, light posture, elegant movements, like a dream, floated through the years dominated by romantic feelings.
To this day, I still remember the lines of "Life and Death Love" (voiced by Liu Guangning):
"A proud little girl has become docile, I don't want to spoil the happiness of the present, do not feel offended by heaven, hold my breath, quietly waiting for your return." 」
"I have changed, and because of you, I will write it clearly in the letter, I love you, I love you!" Love you! Love you! The union of two people in a vast sea of people is not so easy. Natsuko changed for the sake of Omiya, and a proud little girl became docile, all because of love.
Summer's interpretation of love is really beautiful: "How love comes, whether it is like brilliant sunshine, like flying petals, or because I pray to heaven." 」 ”
Our female classmates were envious of being a reporter just after watching "Wangxiang", and Kurihara's small roll of flared pants, the first time I saw a white miniskirt playing tennis, and because of Natsuko, I strengthened my desire for love.
In 1978, Kurihara Komaki starred in "Wangxiang" was released in China, so that everyone knew the young female journalist with a good face, dedicated and compassionate in the film, and knew the actor's name - Kurihara Komaru. In "Lookout", Kurihara collaborates with the legendary Japanese actress Tanaka Atsuyo.
Although the entire film Tanaka Silk Ishiro is full of brilliance, Kurihara's performance is also sparkling, and it also makes Chinese audiences remember the name Kurihara Komaki.
Kurihara komaru warms everyone who pursues their dreams like a spring breeze, and as the dream lover of all boys in the 1980s/era, Kurihara komaru also has its own unique style and characteristics.
So, no matter how many years have passed, whether or not you can often remember it, it is no exaggeration to say that she "amazed" those years. She is pure, gorgeous and full of affectionate beauty, and together with those moving characters, she has become a good memory of that distant era.
Kurihara once said: "In China, it seems that when you say small, you feel cute, but in Japan, 'small' is a rare name, and 'small roll' may be the only one for me." ”
Kurihara is the most feminine Japanese actress I have ever met! A true artist!
Her beauty is classical, elegant, gentle, quiet, fresh and lively, and has oriental beauty and Western beauty, classical beauty and modern beauty... Ah, it is really contradictory, it should be said that she is a woman who is gentle on the outside and strong on the inside.
If "Manayumi" in "The Hunt" brings a lively wild beauty, Kurihara's "Natsuko" in "Life and Death Love" brings romantic beauty. In particular, she is wearing a white tennis skirt and the scene of running and jumping is even more graceful, youthful and fashionable, which "awakens" people's infinite yearning for beauty and love.
The ensuing "Love of Life and Death" went a step further, pushing Kurihara's small scrolls onto the altar. In the film, Natsuko, played by Kurihara Komaki, is fresh and cute, the youthful jump on the tennis court, and the fluttering white clothes make the audience remember this vibrant and beautiful figure, and the final tragic ending makes people sigh. After the release of "Life and Death Love", China set off a wave of "Kurihara Small Roll".
The first time I was fascinated by the elegance and purity of Kurihara Komaki, I remember watching the movie "Life and Death Love" through the TV set in the communication room of the workshop compound of my father's unit. At that time, I was still in middle school, and I was a hairy boy who did not understand human feelings.
When "Life and Death Love" was screened, the theater was silent, and this simple and old love story that looked simple and old from today's eyes fascinated the Chinese youth at that time. A couple in flared pants share the sweetness of love with Natsuko Omiya with a shy sense of happiness. This love, which is called life and death love, plays its gentle prelude to the tennis court that ripples with the beauty of youth under the clear sky.
"In the early hours of this morning, Natsuko died in an explosion." The fact that a telegram separated two young men in love from each other from each other in the yin and yang, made all the viewers a little disappointed.
Mu Ran's grand palace looked at the relics of Natsuko surrounded by white chrysanthemums, holding the necklace that had always been cherished by Natsuko, which was the only souvenir he gave to Natsuko, and finally wept. The suppressed cry mercilessly shattered the hopes of a foreign teenager, and I finally had to admit with great pain: Natsuko is dead! Couples walked out of the theater sullenly, looking as if their lovers were never around. Tennis also became the most fashionable expression of love at that time.
From today's point of view, this is indeed an old movie, the picture is very unclear, and the dubbing is rustling, but the shock it left me is lifelong and unforgettable.
"A proud little girl becomes docile." This famous line written in Natsuko's letter was already overwhelmed by the delicate voice when I watched the movie.
Kurihara Komaki is the first choice for dream lovers, you will not desire her body, or even see her face clearly, but you can feel her atmosphere, like a spring breeze. So subtle, is sexy within sexiness, woman of women.
Kurihara in the movie is still a lively and vivid beauty with the current eyes, and now, I have not seen her on the screen for a long time, calculate, now that she is old, is it not much acting in movies, is it to let fans retain the style that they once had that day?
No one over the age of 30 Chinese who doesn't know "Life and Death Love" and "Wangxiang", even if we forget the story of the film, we will not forget kurihara rolls. At that time, how many people went to learn to play tennis because of her, how many people aspired to become a journalist because of her, and how many people strengthened their faith in love because of her.
Today, the teenagers who once cherished the photos of Kurihara's small scrolls have stood up, and the memories of the rush to buy movie tickets in those years are still faintly like yesterday. Therefore, our youth photos are also faintly colored as yesterday.
"I'm sorry, it's too high, too tall, too high..." Yuji Omiya came to the tennis court where he and Natsuko first met, and Natsuko's warm and pure laughter echoed in his ears, Omiya stood on the tennis court stand, tears obscured his vision, grief and sorrow made him forget the time, forgot that it was raining, and he stared blankly at the empty court... He wanted to look at the pure, beautiful girl again——— squeamish and wayward Natsuko.
Compared with the award-winning "Wangxiang", now it seems that "Life and Death Love" can only be regarded as a beautiful general commercial film, and it is also like a "personal show" of Kurihara's small volume. Some people even say that the "Kurihara small roll fever" has influenced the aesthetics and lifestyle of Chinese young people in the 80s, such as tennis skirts, large wave hairstyles, medium-length trench coats, dashing swings on the court, etc.
A bit of a gossipy digression. Director Noboru Nakamura once said to the assistant director: "The heroine of this film must be Kurihara Komaki, you go to find two male actors to match, it doesn't matter who it is, as long as the heroine is Kurihara." It is reported that many years later, a media reporter interviewed Shin Klee and Yokouchi Masa, and the two refused when they heard that they wanted to talk about this movie.
Director Xie Jin, who had just finished filming "Furong Town" in 1986, said after watching "Life and Death Love": "I must cooperate with Kurihara Komara once when I have the opportunity."
In 1992, director Xie Jin collaborated with Kurihara Komaki and Pu Cunxi on "The Bells of Qingliangji Temple", which tells the story of the experience of a japanese orphan after the war, showing the simple kindness of the Chinese people, and from the other side shows the great tragedy caused by the war, not only innocent children are affected, but also their lonely and elderly birth parents suffer, the film is hailed as a classic work comparable to "A River of Spring Water Flows East", Kurihara Komaki praised director Xie Jin as "China's Kurosawa Akira".
In order to shoot "The Bells of Qingliang temple", after arriving in Shanghai, Kurihara did not participate in any commercial activities, and the only interview he accepted was an interview with Ye Huixian, the host of the "Stars Tonight" column of Shanghai Television. For her, the enthusiasm of the shanghai people is unprecedented, and Cathay Pacific and other theaters held the "Kurihara Komaki Film Exhibition" to screen 5 masterpieces such as "Moscow Love" starring her.
On April 23 of that year, in studio No. 5 of the Upper Film Studio, Kurihara took the first shot of kissing the baby in his arms tearfully. Xie Dao said OK, and everyone present applauded.
They all say that Japanese actors are very dedicated, which is true. Kurihara made her debut as an old woman, and although Japanese fans thought it would ruin her beautiful image, she gladly accepted it.
Kurihara's performance realm is "true", so he does not hesitate to "age" himself. She still let the makeup artist pinch a lot of wrinkles on her cheeks, forehead, and the corners of her eyes, and also put a vest into her kimono to create a slightly hunched effect. In the past, Kurihara never rehearsed a scene when filming, but rehearsal was one of Xie Jin's directing methods, and he believed that playing a role that was very different from his age and experience had to be rehearsed. Kurihara, who was familiar with Stanislavsky's performance system, gladly complied.
Before filming, I saw her full of silver hair, wearing reading glasses and sitting on the tatami mat, quietly studying the script, completely immersed in the inner world of the characters. Her dedication touched the driver who picked her up and dropped her off, and he always heard her murmuring "words" on the way.
The days of filming at the Studio passed in a flash, and Director Xie's comment on Kurihara's small volume was: "Amazing actors, full of drama." He also said approvingly: "There are some actors on the screen who are more beautiful than Kurihara Komaki, but there are very few who are more attractive than her. It's evident in the subtleties that every day in China, she bows to everyone in the film crew and thanks. Respect for others will naturally earn respect. ”
Kurigen Komaki was born on March 14, 1945 in Tokyo, Japan, where her father, Kazunoori Kurihara, was a dramatist. Kurihara grew up under the influence of art.
Kurihara's life has always been in her own hands. She studied violin as a child, and after several years of study, her family thought she would take it as a profession, but she gave up because she fell in love with ballet again! At this time, she was 15 years old, and she entered the Tokyo Ballet Academy by studying ballet hard, but when she graduated, she followed her heart and changed her career.
At that time, she accidentally saw an actor's academy, secretly studied the exam, was admitted, and after being admitted, she told her family.
Her femininity and humility are her appearance and treatment. In his bones, he is very assertive, and even a little stubborn. Being able to become a performing artist is evident in her early artistic ambitions and professional training.
Ballet training has cultivated kurihara's excellent artistic temperament. The elegance of the hands and feet, the noble temperament when lifting the chin, laid the foundation from the time of practicing ballet. The beauty of Eastern and Western art is integrated, making her an actress with good charm and beauty.
Kurihara Komaki is on the road of performance, and one blow must be killed. While still studying in Haiyouza, she began to receive film appointments. He had just qualified as an actor in 1966 and won the Newcomer Award in 1967. In 1972, he starred in "Shiokawa" and won the "Mainichi Movie" Actress Acting Award, the Kinyalo Film Award, and the Elfrans Actress Award, becoming a representative star of Japanese youth literature films in the 70s.
She combines an idol-like appearance, superb acting skills and a beautiful heart. This is the general evaluation of Kurihara's small rolls by those who have worked with it.
Since the 1970s, Kurihara has starred in many films such as "Life and Death Love", "Wangxiang", "Moscow Love", "Village Teacher" and other films, and is a representative film star of Japanese youth literature films in the 70s.
In 1972, her partner Tsuyoshi Kato starred in the romance film "Love of Oshawa" directed by Kei Kumai, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the 27th Japan Mainichi Film Awards, becoming a representative star of Japanese youth literature films in the 70s.
At that time, a group of Kurihara's fanatical fans of Kurihara's small rolls, the small rollists, sprang up in Japan, and all her films sold out.
In 1974, Kurihara went to the Soviet Union to shoot the romance film "Moscow Love", playing the Japanese ballet actress Yuriko, who was selected to study in Moscow.
In the autumn of 1978, the feature film "Wangxiang", starring Tanaka Atsuyo, was released in China, in which she played Keiko Guaya, a dedicated and compassionate young female journalist with a good face, which also made Chinese audiences remember the name Kurihara Komaki.
In the play "Wangxiang", Kurihara Komaki was not the main role, but became a very eye-catching character, when Mr. Barkin once commented: What a good film, what a good person!
In "Wangxiang", Kurihara played a capable and beautiful female journalist who visited Japanese women who had sold overseas, and for this role, she won the berlin international film festival crown that year.
But after filming "Wangxiang", she made fewer films, and Kurihara once explained: "There are fewer and fewer films worth acting in, and I would rather not make films than lower my standards."
In the spring of 1979, she starred in the romantic film "Life and Death Love" released in China, in which she played the optimistic, cheerful, energetic and beautiful Natsuko Nakata, Kurihara Komaru and won more attention in China with this film. However, the attention at that time was also quite criticized, and people said that Natsuko finally blew up and died, which was really retribution. ”
But even this buzz can't stop the small curls (big wave curls, tennis, love letters).
The director of "Life and Death Love" once said: The heroine of this film must be Kurihara Komaru, and it doesn't matter who the actor is.
Over the years, Kurihara has been enthusiastic about Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges and has come to China more than 30 times. In 1980, she participated in the co-production of "Hope Country Star". In 1991, she collaborated with Pu Cunxin in the film "Qingliang Temple Bells" directed by Xie Jin. She said: "My profession is to be an actor, mainly through such works to show reflection on the war, to pray for world peace. ”
In 1986, Kurihara accepted the invitation of director Xie Jin to play the role of an old woman in the Sino-Japanese co-production drama "The Bells of Qingliang temple", and the actor Pu Cunxin played her long-lost son.
Director Xie Jin said after filming: Kurihara Komaru is an actress with a long and profound charm...
After this film, Kurihara faded out of the film world and focused more on the drama stage.
In 1986, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Japan-Chinese Exchange Association, Kurihara Visited China with the Japanese Haiyouza Theater Troupe and participated in the performance of Brecht's famous drama "The Good Man of Sichuan" directed by his mentor Chida. It was the first time that Chinese audiences had experienced her stage charm outside of film and television works.
Kurihara's most recent face-to-face with a Chinese audience was when she came back to Beijing with her one-man show "Matsui Sumako." The "Art Ivy", who is more than 70 years old, with her solid stage skills, shows her pure performing arts to the audience in an all-round way.
Kurihara has never been married, has no children, and has no scandals. She has said on many occasions that she is married to the film, and her heart is very determined, she is not willing to give up her job to become a wife and a mother.
Loved kurihara small rolls. Like her smile, like her elegance, like her sensibility, like her even more famous at that time Chieko (starring in "Happy Yellow Handkerchief") and Nakano Ryoko (starring in "The Hunt"), many years have passed, after entering the 90s, rarely see Kurihara's works, only in the press and film magazines revealed that she is already an ambassador of Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges, and is actively making her own contribution to the film exchanges between China and Japan.
In 1994, Kurihara's "Moscow Love" starring Kurihara was released in China, once again touching the Chinese audience who had long been absent from her performance.
The film depicts a Japanese actress who loves ballet (played by Kurihara Komaki) who dedicates all her experience and enthusiasm to the ballet she loves, for which she chose to go to Moscow for further study, and the boyfriend who has been in love for many years left her because she did not understand her actions, but this did not shake her determination, in Moscow her ballet skills have made great progress, and her dance partner A Russian youth fell deeply in love with her, but unfortunately, when she was about to get married, she was diagnosed with cancer. In the silent Moscow beach she died in the arms of her lover.
I remember seeing the end of this film at that time, I was already in tears, and my sad mood could not be controlled for a long time.
A few years ago, CCTV Art Life Column specially did a program of Kurihara Small Roll, the Kurihara Small Roll in front of the camera has entered old age, but that day she wore a black evening dress, a silver necklace wearing around her neck, smiling and greeting the Chinese audience, I trance and saw the Kurihara small roll of youth, that sweet smile, that elegant demeanor, evoked many good memories in my heart.
Kurihara is still very charming.
A long gray hooded knitted skirt with a string of pearls shining around her neck, a diamond-encrusted belt at the waist, and nail polish of different colors on her fingernails and toenails. At this year's Shanghai International Film Festival, the reporter met kurihara, one of the judges of the Golden Jubilee Award.
In public, she always makes every detail of herself exquisite. She sat in an exclusive interview with reporters, and her sitting posture was also a model of ladylike etiquette: only sitting on the front half of the stool, leaning forward, holding her hands on her knees, her legs leaning slightly to the side, her eyes looking at each other, and the corners of her mouth were always smiling...
Kurihara is still single and childless, and is an "ageless legend" in the Japanese performing arts industry.
From the outside, the current Kurihara small curl has no fortune and no aging. If you see her from a distance, or just look at her back, she still looks like an elegant young woman, at least maintaining the slim figure and elegant temperament of 40 years ago.
Hearing these praises from reporters, Kurihara held his face with both hands, made an embarrassed look, and said "thank you" while saying "thank you" in his mouth: "In fact, I did not deliberately keep in shape, but because I kept working, I would often go to the gym and practice dance, which would keep a person in the best state." ”
"I don't think there will be much change in age, I still participate in various activities, still playing women of different ages on the stage, some kind, some fierce, some perverted..." Kurihara Talked about happy topics, sometimes like a little girl, suddenly reaching out and tugging at the reporter's arm, and then giggling.
In 1978 and 1979, Kurihara Komaki starred in "Wangxiang" and "Life and Death Love" were successively released in China, setting off a "Kurihara Small Roll Fever" in the Chinese film industry. She was the dream lover of the Chinese of that era, representing an era that was far away.
Today, he is still single and unmarried, to which Kurihara komaki said: "Maybe because I have been busy with work, I forgot to get married!" In fact, in Japan, women with the intensity of work like me, men are unacceptable. Sometimes, I'm out filming and maybe not coming home for two months, and if I'm a married person, then when I get home, I'll find that my husband has already run away!
I just think that if I get married and have children, but I can't take care of my husband and children wholeheartedly, it will be very unfair to them. So I've always been single until now. ”
Because of love, I hope you have a perfect home. The 80s era, an ideal and innocent era, the fans of that year only had distant silent blessings for their favorite idols.
In the nearly 40 years of cultural exchanges and contacts with China, both the media and the audience, because she has been unmarried and still single, seems to have become a "heart disease" for everyone.
Kurihara once described work as "his lover." When asked by the media if she has regrets in life, she said that because of the movie and many excellent works, she has made many good friends, which makes her feel very happy. Every stage of my life has been very fulfilling, and I have no regrets.
She calmly and calmly said that in Japan, women with work intensity like her were unacceptable to men, so they had to choose celibacy. But over the years, with so many good memories, I feel very good.
For being repeatedly questioned, even impolite to inquire, her answer always had to be warm and: "As for the child, I don't think it is necessary to have it to feel good, the child should be a common treasure of mankind, as long as I can give love to the children, I am very satisfied." ”
What is the most cherished?
Kurihara Koji once said:
"The people I meet in life and in my life, the sincere feelings and friendships that I have established in my contacts and interactions, will make me move and unforgettable." There are many things that can move me, including a lot of beautiful scenery.
There are also four seasons, mountains, rivers, plants, animals, skies, sunshine, etc., everything in nature is worth praising and cherishing. ”
yes. Kurihara's small scroll is the "good memory in the course of life" of countless fans, compared to this unforgettable mark of the times, a beautiful symbol of an era, what did she personally choose to be single?
It is common to have a marriage, but the beauty of Kurihara's small rolls is not common.
Time is invincible, 40 years have passed in the blink of an eye, and now she is a 75-year-old artist, although she is old, but the elegant and quiet temperament of Kurihara Xiaojuan has never disappeared, time has aged her skin bag, but there is no way to age her soul, and now she smiles like a touch of spring breeze.
Kurihara Komaru is a very assertive woman, so far she is not married, for marriage she once said plainly: In Japan, women like her work intensity, men are unacceptable, so they have to choose celibacy. Kurihara's body remained well in shape, slim and slender, completely inconsistent with her age.
Once amazing time, is the dream lover of thousands of Chinese men in that era, but also represents a distant era, her beauty and temperament is the combination of Oriental beauty and Western beauty, classical beauty and modern beauty, in the hearts of those who like her in that era, she is an eternal goddess!
Between career and family, it has always been difficult to balance in Japan, which pursues the ultimate, even in the entertainment industry. Born in the movie and died in the movie, Tanaka Atsuyo was married once, but the strong conflict between career and family caused her to break with her husband in a bizarre way of peeing in bed. "I didn't go the way an ordinary woman should go. I was married to the movie, and although I didn't get involved in that half of my life, I don't regret it. ”
Kurihara Komaki's friend Ken Takakura was married to singer Etoshi Tomoemi, and the loneliness of the housewife and the differences between the husband and wife caused the two to constantly contradict each other, and finally the 12-year marriage came to an end. After the divorce, Jiang Lizhi Huimei remained depressed and lived an isolated life until she died alone at the age of 45. After her death, someone saw Ken Takakura standing in front of Jiang Li's portrait with a sad face. The Weiss are gone, and life and death are uncertain.
I could only be held in my own hands.
Be sure to control your own saints, not only marriage, but also career. The film did not meet her requirements, and she returned to the stage play. Compared with the movie, the square inch stage is more in line with the requirements of Kurihara Komaki.
"Film is the work of the director, every shot shows the director's intentions, as an actor, it takes a long time to shoot a lot of shots, and sometimes, we don't know how these materials will be combined in the end.
"Every scene in a stage play cannot be copied, every performance has the opportunity to create a new miracle, and the performance does not rely on the director and montage editing, but entirely on the actors themselves." There are always unknown accidents to solve, there are always surprises to create, standing on the stage, the actor is his own God.
Time is an achievement.
Time is originally the fairest thing, but in Kurihara's small roll, time seems to be particularly gentle. She is a rare age, but she has a calm and elegance that she did not have when she was young. At any time, it is not the dazzling brilliance of the diamond that shines around the neck, but the warm luster of the pearl. At all times, there is a gentle smile on the lips, and when you see others, you bow in respect.
When she was young, she was rated as one of the top ten sexy women of the twentieth century, but with the elegance and calmness of sitting in time, let us know that the original sexy also has a thousand styles.