Takaichi Nakai received the Purple Ribbon Medal for Autumn 2020 from the Cabinet of Japan. For him, who will enter the year of Ear Shun next year and will usher in the 40th anniversary of the actor's debut, it can be said that it is a very timely reward.
The Purple Ribbon Medal is one of the medals issued by the Japanese government and is awarded to those who have made outstanding contributions in the fields of academia, art, and sports. Awarded each year in spring and autumn. Along with Takaichi Nakai, 17 others, including manga artist Rumiko Takahashi and writer Hachi Tawada, were also awarded the Purple Ribbon Medal. Other actors who have previously received the Purple Ribbon Medal include Yoshinaga Sayuri, Toshiyuki Nishida, Kiki Kirin, Akira Tsunemoto, Shinobu Otake, Hiroshi Kosho, and so on.
Speaking of which, Takaichi Nakai has a good relationship with Chinese audiences.
In 1988, he starred in the Ōkawa drama "Takeda Shingen", which was broadcast on CCTV.
He starred in the 2003 Chinese film "Heroes of Heaven and Earth", which was once mistaken by some Chinese audiences for Chen Daoming.
Directed by He Ping, starring Jiang Wen, Zhao Wei, Wang Xuexi, Zhou Yun and others
Takaichi Nakai once talked about the experience of filming "Heroes of Heaven and Earth" in an interview program. At that time, It was Ken Takakura who suggested that he take the job, because "shooting a foreign film is equivalent to shooting ten Japanese films, but at the same time the experience accumulated is also ten times." As an actor, you have to hone yourself to overcome this difficulty. ”
Later, the two also starred in Zhang Yimou's "A Thousand Miles to Ride Alone". Takaichi Nakai played the son of Ken Takakura's character. Outside the play, Takaichi Nakai also said, "If only my father were like Ken Takakura."
The film "The Assassin of forty-Seven" in which the two collaborated has been a mentor and friend relationship ever since, and Nakai Kiichi is known as the successor of "Ken Takakura".
Takaichi Nakai would say this because he had almost no memories of his father in his life.
Nakai's father was Keiji Sada (real name Kanichi Nakai), a handsome actor who was popular in Japan in the 1950s and 1960s. He is also the royal actor of the representative japanese director Yasujiro Ozu. In fact, Nakai's name ,"Kiichi", was taken by Yasujiro Ozu.
Photo of his mother, Kiichi Nakai, and Yasujiro Ozu, taken by his father, Keiji Sada.
Nakai's parents have a love story like a movie, and the big star falls in love with a girl who works in a restaurant in front of the movie studio, and gets married and has a pair of children. But there was no happy ending, and Sada Keiji died in an accident when Nakai Was more than one or two years old, because the driver was tired of driving.
At that time, the mother Makoto, who was 33 years old at the time, single-handedly brought up two children.
Her sister Takae Nakai is also an actress and no longer shoots film and television works after marriage
Takaichi Nakai, who attended the Blue Ribbon Film Awards ceremony in January this year to receive the best actor award, mentioned his father in his speech.
"In 1956, my father won the Blue Ribbon Film Award for Best Actor, and he said, 'Next time I'm going to come and get Best Supporting Actor, because the main performance of a work depends on the efforts of the director and screenwriter and all the actors and crew, and the Best Supporting Actor is more of a test of the actor's own acting skills, so winning the supporting role award is an affirmation of the actor.'" I won the Japanese Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in '94, and I was happy to do what my father couldn't do. Today I am happy to have done the same thing as my father. ”
Kiichi Nakai is the "son of Keiji Sada", which is the fate of the shadow. The reason why Kiichi Nakai is Kiichi Nakai is the accumulation of personal choices.
"No matter how technology changes lives, the essence of an actor's job is always to interpret the tragedies and joys of human beings. I will try to be an actor who can better express emotions. (62nd Blue Ribbon Best Actor Award Speech)
"I've been doing one thing as hard as I can. I only remind myself of one thing, and that is not to give up. (Purple Ribbon Medal Award)
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