In the 1980s, we saw an interesting Japanese movie called The Kamata March.
The film is about the emotional entanglements between several film actors and their personal destinies.
Among them, Ginshiro is a brilliant movie star, he is handsome and handsome, the jade tree is windy, and everywhere he goes, he is loved by brain-dead fans. Actress Xiaoxia is deeply in love with Ginshiro and is pregnant with his child. However, at this time, Ginshiro turned to the daughter of the film company owner in order to take the throne, and introduced his original girlfriend Xiaoxia to Yasuji, who made a living by running dragon sets.
The kind-hearted Anji accepted all this and married Xiaoxia in his hometown in the countryside. Anci's mother saw through the truth of the matter at a glance, and knew very well what was going on in her heart, but she only hoped that Xiaoxia would treat Anji kindly. Although Anci is not amazing, his heart is really very good. In order to make Xiaoxia and the child in her belly have a better life, he did not hesitate to take over various dangerous actions to make more money to buy nutritional products for Xiaoxia.
After spending some time with Anji, Xiaoxia gradually falls in love with Anji. At this time, Ginshiro's career was facing an unprecedented dilemma...
This movie, as we see it, is a version dubbed by the Shanghai Film Translation Studio, a warm film with laughter and tears, and it is very consistent with the optimistic and inspirational atmosphere of the fiery 80s - ugly and small actors who run dragon suits for a living are not necessarily worse than the luck of big stars, and people who are serious about righteousness often win everything they deserve in the end. The memory of Cao Lei, who voiced Keiko Matsusaka, is simply amazing, and the voices of Ginshiro and Yasuji, Tong Ziei and Shi Rong, are also hard to forget.
The film begins with a farce, but the further you go, the more meaningful it feels. The performances of the three actors are in place, and the beautiful Keiko Matsusaka, the handsome Dufu Kazema, and the humble Hirata Man, all show their high-quality acting skills. For this, they won the 1983 Japan Academy Awards for Best Actress, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor.
And now, 36 years later, what happened to the actors in "Kamata March"? How has it changed? Today, I would like to invite you to join Yaqing in exploring the image of their comparison between the present and the past.
Let's start with Tsuneshiro Kazema, who plays Ginshiro.
This is a very handsome male actor. Not only is Ginshiro portrayed in "Kamata March" impressive, but the role of Higashi Yukihiko in the TV series "Girl Doubt" is also difficult for us to forget.
He was born in 1949 in Tokyo, Japan. As early as when I was in elementary school, I had already played a role in "Fast Jet Black Turban" and became a child star. In 1981, after the release of "Japanese Music Lovers Story: The Fifth Movement of Yan", which starred him, it received praise, and he also rose to fame and became a movie star familiar to Japanese audiences.
In 1982, he co-starred with Keiko Matsusaka and Man Hirata in the film Kamata March, which was so successful that he won the Japan Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Subsequently, he ushered in the peak of his career creation, not only won the Japan Academy Best Supporting Actor Award again for his participation in the movie "Yanghui Lou", but also had a good performance in many TV series.
He was 33 years old when he starred as Ginshiro in The Kamata March, but he looks very young and has everything about a quality idol, so he is like Ginshiro in the film, he is also a male god.
Over the years, he has also been acting, and has played roles in film and television dramas such as "Strange Wife", "Sobutsu Season 15", "Honnōji Hotel", "Just Born First" and other film and television dramas.
Now 70 years old, he also played the role of Seiichiro Motowaki in the movie "Marriage and Life Cruise".
And the goddess Matsuzaka Keiko may be more familiar to us. She has a beautiful and good appearance, a noble and elegant temperament, and most of the images presented on the screen are beautiful images that fall into the country.
Born in 1952 in Tokyo, Japan, she began to participate in children's programs on television at the age of 15, so she was also considered a child star. In 1969, when she was 17 years old and still in her sophomore year of high school, she had been selected by the film company to star in her first film. In 1971, when she was 19 years old, she attracted the attention of the audience by starring in the movie "Late Night Emergency Room".
After that, she starred in many film and television dramas such as "Black Rush", "Young Man", "Incident", "Shinza Doubtful Cloud", "The Story of Injiro", "The Love of Waves", "DotonBorikawa", etc., and also won many awards, showing her outstanding performance talent.
In 1982, she participated in the Sino-Japanese co-production film "A Game of Chess That Has Not Been Played", and then played the gentle and obsessive Xiaoxia in "Kamata March", which was recognized by Chinese audiences.
Since then, she has successively starred in film and television dramas such as "The Man of the Fire House", "The Thorn of Death", "The Legend of the Monster", "Proof of the World", "Peach Color", "Inuyasha Family", "Marry a Good Family", "Tokuhime", "Marriage Reality", "Supporting Role Story", "Eight Tug-of-War Girls" and other film and television dramas, becoming one of the most famous actors in Japan.
In 2017, we saw her figure again in the movie "The Legend of the Demon Cat" directed by Chen Kaige, and the Bai Ling she played was also unforgettable.
Now 67 years old, although she is no longer young, she has always maintained an elegant and charming demeanor. This year, in addition to her role in fuji tv's special project drama "The Final Chapter of the Great Olympics", which celebrates the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Fuji Television, she also participated in the movie "Once Wanted to Meet Me". Is an artist who really plays to the old.
In "Kamata March", the character who really moved us should be Ahnji, a young actor in the dragon set. He is played by Man Hirata.
Compared with Kazema Dufu, Hirata Is certainly not very good-looking. But who says that a movie actor must be beautiful? Like his role as Ahnji in "Kamata March", even if he is ugly, as long as he works hard enough and is honest, he can also gain the recognition and respect of others.
Born in 1953, Hirata entered the Faculty of Letters at Waseda University after graduating from high school. But because he particularly liked acting and wanted to be an actor, he dropped out of school halfway through his studies and went to a theater instead.
He debuted in 1978, but it was not until 1982 that he became a hit for co-starring in "Kamata March" with Keiko Matsusaka and Dufu Kazama. With his solid acting skills, he won the Best Actor Award at the Japan Academy Awards and the Japan Newspaper Film Awards that year, and became a powerful movie star.
Since then, he has also been active in the Japanese showbiz circle, starring in many film and television dramas, it can be said that in Japan, he is also an old drama bone. Now he is 66 years old and his sideburns are white. He also recently played a role in the TV series Absolute Zero. He told us with his real experience that an actor's appearance is really not the most important, but to really improve his acting skills to keep himself in an invincible position.
"Kamata March" shows us the cruel reality of the Japanese entertainment industry in the 80s, satirizing the fact that film companies are willing to squeeze actors in pursuit of entertainment effects. The "play within a play" part of the film at the end of the film is very clever and still evocative. When the set is removed, when the big words of "Kamata March" appear, we find that what we see is just a play. It seems to fit the theme of "life is like a play".
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