Remember the little dancer Kaoru in the movie "Izu's Dancing Girl", the graceful posture, the ignorant and innocent emotions, touching the hearts of countless young boys and girls, making people feel another ethereal and beautiful world outside the real world.
Just admiring it is already beautiful, in fact, this beautiful little dancer Kaoru is still alive, but the 76-year-old is still elegant and charming.
She is Yoshinaga Sayuri, known as the national goddess.
Yoshinaga Washiri was born in 1945 in Tokyo, Japan, the son of a minister of foreign affairs and a piano teacher to a mother. In Japan at that time, it was considered a middle-class family.
The peace of life and the influence of her mother's music have made Yoshinaga Sayuri have a special obsession with music since childhood. In fact, she has grown a good look since she was a child.
This is a picture of her as a child, with a ponytail, wearing a white blouse and a plaid skirt underneath, with good facial features and a look in her eyes as if she could see through the autumn water.
In 1956, at the age of 11, she voiced Sayuri in Akatsuki Suzunosuke as a voice actor, which was her first time, but she impressed with her beautiful, rounded voice.
With the first experience, coupled with her natural beauty and generosity, it is most suitable to perform on stage. Three years later, she played the heroine Miwako in "The Whistle Calling the Morning" through layers of selection. In the film, the slender Yoshinaga Sayuri plays Miwako vividly, so that after watching the film, people still linger on the girl inside, immersed in her femininity.
Since then, in the film "Laborer's Street" again on the stage, the heroine Junko is a pure girl, and her academic performance is among the best, which has been sought after by countless fans, and Yoshinaga Sayuri has also made a name for herself through this movie and won the reputation of Little Lily.
Known as the "Cloud Fairy", the lily symbolizes elegance and purity, and it is very appropriate to describe the small lily of Yoshinaga.
The following year, Sayuri starred in the film of the same name based on Yasunari Kawabata's novel The Dancing Girl of Izu. Kaoruko, who was in the prime of cardamom, fascinated the "I" who had lost her soul at that time, and when he saw her, he forgot the loss for a long time, and then produced a hazy love. However, there is no unbroken feast in the world, and "I" have to say goodbye to her and return to the world full of thorns, but she eventually becomes a wisp of tenderness, stationed in the deepest emotional place in "I"'s heart.
This is a portrayal of Kaoru in the film, and it is also a portrayal of Yoshinaga Sayuri in reality. Spending no hundred days, she spent her childhood in abundance, because her father was heavily indebted, and had to earn a living through her own hands.
This is not difficult for her, because through the precipitation of the previous films, she has been very stable on the road of acting, just like her in the photo at this time, the black hair is tied, a white hairpin makes them very agile, smiling, the eyes are a little less childish, but also added to the fortitude and firmness.
Since then, a series of outstanding films have sprung up like mushrooms, from "Gaze at Love and Death", "The Last Fir Tree", "Fine Snow" to "Heavenly Station", "Picture Actress" to "Nagasaki Walking Song", "Canary in the North", "Bucket List" can be seen; the time span from the 1960s to the 21st century, like an ivy growing dense foliage.
In one film after another, she has also changed from a former young girl to a mature woman, less youthful than before, replaced by a faint feminine fragrance.
Just like in the photo at this time, dressed in a kimono, sitting on a chair, her hair tied with a hairpin, her skin is still as delicate as ever, silky as gelatin, but there is more affection in her eyes.
Her career is so successful, and she has also achieved a good harvest in school and love. In 1965, Sayuri entered Waseda University and graduated successfully. Emotionally, she met Taro Okada, a filmmaker who comforted her at a low point in her life. Although Okada Taro is fifteen years older than Yuri, his maturity fascinates Yuri, and the two resolutely come together despite the opposition of their family and tie the knot.
After marriage, they did not have a gap in age, but they were in love with each other, which made many people who had not been optimistic about them very ashamed; they also made men and women envious of love. You know, taking the road of acting, how difficult it is to keep the original intention and guard the other half.
But they did, and it became a solid backing for Sayuri to work hard and achieve great success in the future. The Japan Academy Film Award for Best Actress, the Japan Academy Film Award, the Japan Blue Ribbon Award and other awards are inseparable from the support and silent efforts of the husband. She was once invited to shoot a wind and moon film, and although the remuneration was considerable, Xiao Lily refused, firmly following the path of the most ideal actor in her mind.
Seven years ago, in 2014, Japan held the most beautiful star selection competition, 69-year-old Xiao Lily competed with countless girls who were in the same stage as the young, and she still stood out with her beauty, envying everyone, as if the years would stay in her place forever.
Now 76 years old, she has begun to walk more behind the scenes of movies, striving to become a great director and producer. In her spare time, she will also freshen herself up and dress up, put on a loose and beautiful long skirt or kimono, and enjoy the quiet time.
The years are quiet in Yoshinaga's Sayuri, and she is also a person who has not let the years live up. From debut to fame to keeping the original intention, she became the purest Kaoru in "The Dancer of Izu".
Self-helpers, Tensuke also. She took life so seriously, and life gave her the best courtesy. As one of the many sentient beings, we want to live the most beautiful life, so why shouldn't we?