This article, from a former Horikita Makoto 90s fan sister, about her retirement, the sister has something to say.
Last night, 28-year-old Japanese actress Makoto Horikita released a handwritten letter officially announcing her withdrawal from show business.
Chinese translated by Joria from my group.
This time, I have made the decision to leave the (acting) job I have been doing.
Now I am a mother,
Live happily ever after with your beloved family every day.
I want to do my best to protect this warm, irreplaceable happiness.
I have communicated with my husband and he respects my intentions.
I hope to work with him in the future to build a loving family.
To all the fans who have always supported me,
To all the staff and colleagues who have been caring for me,
I am really grateful to have this wonderful 14 years.
February 28, 2017
Maki Horikita
The first reaction to hearing this news was not an accident.
After all, she did marry Koshi Yamamoto the year before, and she had a child a year later. The focus of life has clearly shifted from career to family. And more importantly, in the years before that, the number and popularity of her filming were much less than before.
But what a sad thing it is.
For our generation who grew up watching Horikita's drama, she is a girl forever.
It is a girl who strives to live and fall in love in countless idol dramas, with the crisp short hair of a tomboy, but always has a shy smile.
Now this eternal girl has actually married and had children, and it is really like taking our youth with us.
And without her, I would never have known hori to read the word ku.
Although for most domestic audiences, the name "Koshi Yamamoto" sounds strange.
And I'm sure when you see this wedding photo, your mood is likely to be broken.
Who is this little boy????
Yes, I'm sure everyone thinks so.
Although he looked like this when he was young,
He is a very famous stage actor, and he has played the role of Togata in NHK's Dahe drama "New Selection Group", and he cannot play this role without being a handsome guy.
However, he was 12 years older than Makoto Hori kita, and when the two met because of the filming of "Family with Six Sons", he already looked like this.
His famous close friend in the circle is Shingo Katori, and to tell the truth, I think these two old men look alike.
In short, at that time, this old man cheekily asked Horikita Makoto for a phone call, and as a result, Horikita Masayoshi gave him the switchboard number of the brokerage company.
In the first round, it failed miserably.
In 2010, they played husband and wife in Fuji TV's TV series "The History of My Family".
After the crew finished, he took the opportunity to summon up the courage to invite her to drink together.
As a result, Horikita Masaki said coldly: "Don't thank you."
In the second round, it failed miserably.
In 2015, they performed the stage play Wuthering Heights together.
This time, Yamamoto's offensive was even more intense, and he wrote her more than forty letters.
(Who else wrote letters in this day????? Because I don't have to call Horikah. ）
Although he did not receive a single reply, he still did not ask for her phone number, but in the end...
He succeeded in getting Makoto Horikita to write down his phone number.
Then the God turn came along.
One day he heard that Horibei was going to work in Kyoto, so he bought a ring and jumped on the Shinkansen.
As a result, they actually took the same bus. He proposed on the spot, saying that we should not be in a relationship, just get married.
As a result, Horikita Masaki actually agreed.
In the third round, I thought it was a really absurd comedy.
Although the two have been married for more than a year, until half a month ago, when Yamamoto Koshi was on the history of the show, he said that he did not know what his wife was thinking.
"If she had 130 doors in her heart, I might have only opened 3."
It feels like a story of a goddess who has benefited humanity.
After all, when they got married, even the famous Japanese old sex ghost Kitano Takeshi gave a speech.
"Make no mistake?"
But in fact, Makoto Horikita, who married in 2015, has a much less influence than before.
In fact, even I can hardly describe how phenomenal her popularity was ten years ago.
For me, if you mention the keywords "Japanese drama" and "youth", then the first word that comes to mind will be "Horikita Masaki". She was almost all my memories of Japanese youth in middle school.
Although at that time, most people watched "Wild Boar Transformation" and went to Kameari and Ya and Yamashita Tomohisa, but it is undeniable that from that moment on, we all have the green and cute face of Horikita Masaki in our memories.
So when Tomohisa Yamashita became popular again because of "My Handsome Monk", and everyone was licking his one hundred and thirty muscles, I was actually a little uncomfortable.
Because of the mountain P in my mind, I am obviously a slender teenager forever.
(Do you remember when the puzzle of the century was "Kameari and Akashishi and Tomohisa Yamashita who is more handsome"?)
Next, she and Shan P starred in "Trick Hunter".
At that time, it felt like everyone around me was watching this show and going crazy for Yama P, although this article had nothing to do with Tomohisa Yamashita.
Andori Andori and Ikuta Doujin starred in "Secretly Loving You".
The average rating of this TV series was 17.04%, and the final words even soared to 21.00%. It ranked sixth in the ratings of Japanese dramas that year.
In recent years, the ratings of Japanese dramas have been poor, and more than 15% are already quite high. And that year, there were all-star casts of "Gorgeous Family", "Detective Galileo", "Fancy Man 2" and "Marriage Proposal", which can be said to be a very prosperous year. It is not easy to break through so many divine dramas.
I believe it was "Secretly In Love with You" that really pushed her to the top of her career.
This TV series adapted from the manga of the same name, like the "Fancy Man" of the same period, actually had a Taiwanese version (and contracted by The Flywheel Sea) before the Japanese version. But in my mind, the sparkle is undoubtedly the latter.
When we look at the Caste of this drama now, we will find many green faces at that time, and later it is really amazing or lamentable.
Oguri Shun, who played a talented high jumper, became a national idol at that time because he played a variety of handsome high school students.
But he himself is very disgusted with such a beautiful male label. After the live-action version of Conan that same year, he never played a high school student again.
But I want to say that when I searched for stills just now... He was actually handsome again.
Oguri in 2007 was so handsome, I'm going to be blind.
Take another look.
Ikuta Douzhen, who plays a hot-blooded teenager with no heart and no lungs, has now mixed with the status of detachment, and is keen to challenge various dark roles, and will never see such a cheerful and silly smile again.
Mizushima Hiroshi, who plays the head of the playboy room, has a bright future, and has not been red to purple because of idol dramas with strange orientations such as "My Handsome Butler", nor has he been hidden for many years because he wanted to marry Xuan xiang when he was popular.
Okada shogun, so thoroughly soy sauced that I forget who he played...
Korean-Japanese actor Kang Chang-woong. In particular, I want to mention this person, because he obviously plays a comedian who does not eat by his face in this TV series, and he really can't eat by his face...
However, in "NANA2", he played the role of Honjo Ren, which was the role of Ryuhei Matsuda in the first film.
In the movie version of "White Night", he also played Ichisei Shinozuka, which is the role of Kashiwara Takashi in the TV series version.
What a vendetta.
However, of all these people, the most dazzling person is still Reiko Ashiya, played by Masaki Horikita. She fits the image in the original comic book completely, and can even be said to be more real and cute than the two-dimensional image. For a manga adaptation, the highest evaluation is also like this.
Like a tomboy, smart, brave, not humble.
No one would hate such a heroine. Because of her existence, this is not only a hilarious romance idol drama, but also a girl's version of the bloody manga.
Youth, growth, friendship, blood, and nostalgia. It was a really good summer.
In a way, Horikita Masayoshi was thus stereotyped.
Her beauty is completely harmless, a face that both men and women will feel comfortable with. And short hair and neutral temperament, she is quiet and well-behaved, a little more vibrant.
Before her, the japanese actress with short hair, the only real popularity was Ueno Shuri and Ryoko Hiromi. Obviously, both and Horibei are completely different styles.
She opened up a new aesthetic.
So her most popular role is either a pure and cute girl next door, or a handsome neutral teenager who is off the line; or both.
Starting from "Deceitful Hunter", "Teppany Girl Xiao Qian", "The Apprentices", "Innocent Love", "Home with Six Sons"... Almost always, cute, affinity, a little cool and a little cute.
Do you think she's self-repetitive? But the audience just likes this kind of maki.
Because in those years, Horikita Makoto was no one to replace.
Perhaps the most typical example of this is the split personality girl she played in "Tokyo Boy".
She played both a rebellious boy and a well-behaved girl. The second personality, a boy in a girl's body, falls in love with the first personality and silently guards each other in his own way; but they can never be together.
In fact, I think she's doing surprisingly well in this movie. Such a beautiful face, playing a gloomy and silent teenager, really has an indescribable charm.
Maybe this is also why many people think that she is suitable for the role of belly black. Her attempt in "Trap 2" really made many people shine.
Unfortunately, an actor like her, whose personal style is too obvious, will always encounter bottlenecks that are difficult to transform.
Horikita Seems to have fallen into this kind of trouble and has never found a way out.
When I first followed her, she was making "Du Ji". The first time I acted in a river drama, I tried a serious theme and gave Aoi Miyazaki a match, which could have been a good start. However, in the end, he was slagged by Masaka Sakai and Aoi Miyazaki.
Later, he made Innocent Love. At that time, various media reports said that Horikita Masayoshi was the first time to pick a beam to play the moon nine pure love, it seems to be worth looking forward to. But the result was completely mediocre, with thunder and rain.
Her next big move was Karasawa Yukiho, who played the movie version of "White Night".
This is clearly an important attempt to transform. On the one hand, she wants to challenge more complex and deeper roles; on the other hand, she also wants to get rid of the label of "tomboy" and take the lady route.
As a result, we all know that it was a complete disaster. She took this play as if to let Ayase Haruka seal the gods.
Later, she also starred in some TV series one after another, but they failed to stir up a lot of waves.
"Dr. Xiaomei"
Miss Pilot
In fact, do you say that she is crippled? It doesn't seem to be, it's still very good-looking! It just seems to have lost its aura.
Finally we discovered something almost strange. An actress who is as popular as Masaki Horikita, almost a national phenomenon, does not have a masterpiece of a movie.
If I had to say it, it would probably be "The Sunset of Forever Sanchome", which made her popular. But this series of movies is full of stars, and it is not her turn to come out.
There is no doubt that she is a very serious actress. Many people who have worked with her before have made this evaluation. He memorizes lines carefully, figures out his role, and practices them all the time in private.
But Horikita Ishiki is like a strict honor student, treating his acting career entirely as a job, not "art". She lacks an eye-catching aura.
This may also have something to do with her personality. As a typical well-behaved woman, she is an introvert and lacks a sense of humor. When I was on a variety show, I always had a straight face, which was described as "too upright".
So she doesn't seem to be suitable for the entertainment industry.
It is also difficult to say whether she really has acting skills, because once she seemed to only need to play herself, many people would buy it.
I remember watching an interview a long time ago, Horikita Masayoshi was asked "what is the most regrettable thing", and her answer was that because she became popular too early, she lost the youth of ordinary girls, could not sit in the back seat of the boys' bicycles, and could not live an ordinary and ordinary campus life.
At that time, I only thought that "people are red and distressed", but now that I think about it, I really feel sorry.
She was excavated by scouts in her second year of junior high school and began to play the main role at the age of 16. When he became popular all over the country because of "Wild Boar Makeover", he was only 17 years old. Success comes too easily and too early.
So later, I saw her rise and fall in the show business circle for so many years, from a big hit to an embarrassing position now, and she is only 28 years old now.
It is like her marriage to Koshi Yamamoto, and it is rumored that she was after the failure of love, and then casually chose a person who had pursued her for many years, and Yamamoto himself could not feel her love.
Is she really going to give up her career, have children, and wash her hands and make soup for this man?
I always feel that the real answer behind this is more cold and more bitter.
But I still remember her innocent silly smile in "Secretly In Love with You.". I was in high school, and she was in high school.
Her time had passed long ago.
My youth too.