This article is from World Music, public account: allworldmusic, reprinted with permission from Japan Pass.
Recently, many former male gods have been "steamed and inflated" with the growth of age, but some male gods have secretly self-disciplined and magically tightened:
The first American male god Brad · Peter:
and the Japanese male god on the right in the photo, who once took a photo with him: Hiroyuki Sanada.
Recently, Hiroyuki Sanada and Disney's new drama "Shogun" has a good reputation and has been widely praised at home and abroad, and he plays the role of Tokugawa Ieyasu's general Yoshii Toranaga 👇
In the latest scene, the general Torinaga played by Hiroyuki Sanada pretended to surrender, and the subordinates who were born and died with him decided to commit suicide by seppuku in order to help him stimulate the soldiers' rebellion: these frames of Hiroyuki Sanada's expression is ruthless, grief, and forbearance, which can be called delicate to the bone 👇
The ratings of the series have soared, with 99% praise on Rotten Tomatoes, and Douban has also reached 8.4.
Hiroyuki Sanada is a "samurai shogun professional", and that face is full of a sense of suppressed and delicate stories at first glance.
From playing Ashikaga Takashi in "Taihei" at the age of 30, to playing "The Last Samurai" in middle age, and then to playing the shogun Toranaga at the age of 62, age and acting skills are growing together;
Hiroyuki Sanada, who has played "Wuji" and is also known as a "samurai professional", is probably one of the most familiar contemporary Japanese actors in Chinese;
This "Shogun" is also his first work as a starring role after 20 years in Hollywood. The young boy who used to shoot photos finally became a mature acting school in the hammering.
From martial arts kid to yuppie male god in the 90s
Time goes back 30 years, when Hiroyuki Sanada was like this, in 👇 the photo shoot for "A Man".
Literary, yuppies, decadent, and fragile:
A little younger, there is baby fat, and a little 👇 more bookish
Anyway, it's absolutely fine to eat with your face.
But in fact, Hiroichi Sanada didn't start taking the idol route.
In 1960, Hiroyuki Sanada was born in an ordinary family in Oimachi, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, and was selected by a talent scout to become a child model at the age of 4.
Later, he became a disciple of Chiba Shinichi, studied martial arts for a long time, and was a rare "star" in the Japanese entertainment industry.
In the 80s, he starred in many Hong Kong action films, such as "Dragon Ninja" and "Royal Sister 2: Royal Warrior", with Michelle Yeoh.
Later, he recalled his youthful years when he debuted, saying, "The genes of Hong Kong movies are in my blood." ”
In 1983, Hiroyuki Sanada and Hiroko Yakushimaru starred in the fantasy movie "The Legend of the Eight Dogs of Satomi", which was nominated for the Japanese Oscar that year, which was considered to be famous in the film industry.
At that time, there was collagen, a simple face, a square jaw with an obvious jaw, and Brad · Pete is a bit of a similar, both of them are the type 👇 that gets older and more handsome
In the 90s, Hiroyuki Sanada was also considered an idol and star of the Japanese entertainment industry: from the starring role of NHK's Taiga drama "Taihei", to the school-themed Japanese drama "High School Teacher", and horror films like "Midnight Bell" with Nanako Matsushima.
"College Teacher" is a work about the theme of teacher-student love, and the screenwriter is Shinji Nojima, who has written "101 Proposals" and "Under One Roof", and the dark taboo teacher-student love is impressive.
If you go down this road, Hiroyuki Sanada will probably be a famous Japanese drama god in Japan.
But no one could have imagined that starting in the late 90s, he would turn his gaze overseas, "recklessly jumping in, struggling desperately, learning in different cultures", and he would choose a more difficult path.
20 years of Hollywood Drift,
Finally got to the protagonist
In 1999, he played in Shakespeare's classic play King Lear, and at the age of 40, he tried his first all-English performance as if he had shed his skin, and memorized his lines by heart.
The language barrier caught him in the "crazy situation of acting in English for the British", which also brought back the feeling of excitement and challenge.
He was the first person in Japan to participate in the show, earning him the honor of MBE (Member of the British Empire).
This was also the beginning of his international film career.
Since then, he has become the most familiar "samurai" in the Hollywood film industry.
Hiroyuki Sanada, who is dressed in ancient costumes, is a little more restrained and gentle, and he can also show the inner contradictions of the characters in his solemn expression.
In 2003, Hiroyuki Sanada starred in the classic film "Seibei at Dusk", under the cautious and gentle lens of Yoji Yamada, the scene that should have been violent unfolded like a stream of life, Sanada Hiroyuki plays a samurai who is towards the end of the era, living a clean and gentle life, but also has the courage to die.
With this film, he also won the Japanese Academy Award that year, and his career went to the next level.
It was from this film that he gradually began to develop into the international film industry.
Objectively speaking, Sanada Hiroyuki's 20-year journey is not shining, and can even be described as a "dragon set".
filmed "The Last Samurai", although it is known as one of the best works in Europe and the United States in Japan in the 21st century, the role of Hiroyuki Sanada is ordinary, and the light is still given to Ken Watanabe, another Japanese actor who broke into Hollywood;
As for being invited by Chen Kaige to play "Wuji", in addition to the exaggerated shape, it is not an impressive role;
Looking through the Hollywood film list in the past few years, I was surprised to find that many movies have him, from "Wolverine 2", "Fast Chase 3", "Fast Chase 4", "Bullet Train", as well as the second and third seasons of the series "Westworld", etc...
Most of them are supporting roles, and most of them are East Asians with stereotypes.
By the way, as early as the 90s, when filming in Hong Kong, Hiroyuki Sanada and Jackie Chan were already good friends, and later went to Hollywood to develop, and the villain role in "Rush Hour 3" was introduced to him by 👇 Jackie Chan
It's harder for Asians to take the Hollywood road. Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh... It's been a lot of work for many years before I finally have a place.
Fortunately, Hiroyuki Sanada not only really wanted to act, but also was very wear-resistant, and never stopped working hard.
In 1999, Hiroyuki Sanada, who fell into the all-English performance "Hell", thought to himself, "If we fail, the possibility of overseas development will be cut off, and I will not be able to return to Japan." I know better than anyone how boring my stagnant self is. ”
Hiroyuki Sanada just struggled and persevered.
Although most of the roles are supporting roles in movies, wherever there is a need for Japanese samurai roles in Hollywood, Hiroyuki Sanada can often be seen, and his acting skills and long-termism finally made him wait for the moment when his career blossomed.
At the age of 64, he rushed to a new career high, "not planning to loosen the throttle"
"Rolling Stone" magazine interviewed Hiroyuki Sanada, what is it like to usher in a new career at the age of 64? What Hiroyuki Sanada has always remembered is the sentence he read in his "Ieyasu's Testament" written by Tokugawa Ieyasu when he was a teenager:
Life is like carrying a weight far, don't be impatient.
After 50 years of hard work, he finally had the opportunity to play a childhood idol and tell the story of Tokugawa Ieyasu's rise to prominence.
"I'm always thinking about the future, 10 years from now, 30 years from now I'll be a better actor?"
It's a top career brain that gets older and more handsome.
In "Shogun," Hiroyuki Sanada has been thinking about how to make traditional samurai fans and Western audiences fall in love with the work, keeping an eye on every prop himself, and being the first to arrive on the set every day, he said, "I didn't want to slow down, I really like acting." ”
He has always had such a rare sense of mission.
In every Hollywood production, he tried to add elements of Japanese culture, and personally corrected the problems in ancient Japanese costumes and sets.
In 2013, when promoting Wolverine 2 in Japan, he said, "How far can I go if I don't go against myself and the Japanese people? ”
Among the Japanese actors who have gone international, Hiroyuki Sanada is not the one with the best conditions.
Handsome but Hiroshi of the service, his aura does not transition to Bian Qian, and he is more like a hard-working player with good conditions.
But now, seeing his performance in "Shogun", I really can't imagine anyone who can interpret this role with both aura and human affection in a more layered way.
It's a blessing to give it all and love the same thing.
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