Netflix Japanese drama "First Love" is about to start, look at the name is immediately associated with a girl singing You are always gonna be my love? This series is inspired by Japanese singer Hikaru Tada's "First Love"!
"First Love" is adapted from the two classic golden songs "First Love" and "First Love" by Hikaru Utada, which tells the story of the heroine Ya Noguchi (Mitsu Manjima) and the male protagonist Kiharumichi (Ken Sato) who encounter various difficulties in their respective dream paths and just meet each other.
The first love couple met in late 1990 and are still with each other after 2000, a love story that lasted for more than 20 years.
Another highlight of the series is the actor Kashi, the female protagonist finds the full island light of "Quartet", and the male protagonist finds the most heartwarming Japanese drama god Ken Sato. The supporting characters have also invited a number of powerful factions, such as Xiang Jingli, Koizumi Namako, and Natsufan.
When the trailer premiered, there was a familiar feeling when I heard the background music, that is, Heisei song Ji Yu Tada Hikaru's famous song "First Love", which evoked everyone's first love memories.
At that time, this classic was the theme song of "The Witch's Condition", and it also made the then 16-year-old Utada Mitsuichi popular!
At the age of 16, he reached the peak of his career
Hikaru Usada began his musical journey in his 10s, and at the age of 15 released his first solo single "Automatic/Time Will Tell" and officially debuted.
Although sales were not bright at first, the subsequent album "First Love" set a series of records - about 10 million copies sold worldwide, the highest sales in Japanese history, and the highest selling album in Asia, making Utada Mitsu Heisei Kaohime!
Hikaru Usada became a "national singer" at a young age, but in the rest of her life, her musical path, marriage, and health fluctuated greatly, but fortunately in the end she was able to start again.
Retreat indefinitely
In addition to singing the theme song for many popular Japanese dramas, Hikaru Usada later released an English single that became popular all over the world.
But at its peak, it was suddenly announced that indefinite activity had ended.
In 2010, Hikaru Usada suddenly launched the "Human Activities" declaration, stopped all activities, and moved to London, England, to experience the ordinary life of ordinary people and start 10 years of life abroad.
She once revealed in an interview that in the past, whether it was accommodation or bank accounts, it was someone else who did everything, so that she could not grow up independently.
Living in the UK has allowed her to experience a real life, doing everything herself and becoming more independent!
Two divorces and back to singlehood
Hikaru Utada went through two marriages, and in 2002 she married Kiritani and Akihito, a MV photographer who has worked with him many times, and ended her five-year marriage in 2007.
In 2014, he married Italian bartender Francesco Callianno, who was 8 years younger, and gave birth to a boy, but eventually divorced.
She said that after returning to singlehood, it may also be a good thing to start learning to take and understand herself.
People of a different original sex
Utada Hikaru began to admit that in 2021, she revealed that she was a non-original gender person, that is, not male or female, nor a bigender gender identity, and hoped that others would call her Mx.
Hikaru Utada has experienced vicissitudes, whether it is the peak of her career, two marriages or health problems, each experience has made her work more diverse.