She is Japan's "first beauty" who has stood for half a century and is also a living legend on the Japanese movie screen.
Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata personally invited her to perform, and Jang Kwok-young is her fan, and even Kim Jong-il is impressed by her beauty.
She is known as the most beautiful woman in the Showa era, and at the age of 75, she still won the first prize of "Japan's Most Beautiful Actress" by pressing on a number of small flowers such as Kitagawa Keiko and Kamito Sai.
Japan has had outstanding actresses in every era, from Showa to Heisei to today's Reiwa, actresses with different styles and temperaments have left a unique and deep impression on the audience.
In the Japanese film industry, where there is no shortage of high-quality actresses, a strange woman has been regarded as the "national goddess" in the hearts of Japanese audiences for half a century, and this "national goddess" is "Yoshinaga Sayuri".
Even today, there is still a place for Yoshinaga Sayuri on the list of Japan's most popular actresses.
Gentle and moving, fresh and bright, just like her name, Yoshinaga Sayuri's acting career has always been like a flower in Japan, and today, she has become a household name "legendary figure", a veritable "lily" in the Japanese film industry that never fades!
Yoshinaga Sayuri in the black-and-white films of the sixties
Yoshinaga Koyuri was born on March 13, 1945, in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
In 1956, at the age of 11, Yoshinaga First voiced the role of Sayuri in the radio drama Akatsuki Suzunosuke.
In 1959, he participated in the recruitment exam for the crew of "The Whistle Calling the Morning", and was successfully selected, debuting on the screen as the slender and thin girl Miwako in the film.
She has won many titles in her life: actress, singer, voice actress, actress, producer...
Poster for the movie "The Whistle That Calls for the Morning"
Yoshinaga Koyuri's first painting
18-year-old Yoshinaga Sayuri was young and agile, and at that time she was not only beautiful, but also a kind of delicate cuteness unique to her youth.
With this unique temperament, she attracted the Nobel Prize-winning writer Yasunari Kawabata, Yasunari Kawabata personally invited Yoshinaga Koyuri to participate in the filming of the film adaptation of his work "The Dancing Girl of Izu", and it is said that Yasushi Kawabata, who was already a world literary hero at the time, became a side of Yoshinaga Koyuri and paid a special visit to the set located in the mountains, which was a sensation after being reported by newspapers.
Stills from "The Dancing Girl of Izu"
Yasunari Kawabata, who is on the set, and koyuri Yoshinaga, the female lead
Subsequently, the young Lily also starred in many classic dramas. For example, "The Strait", "Fine Snow", "Heavenly Country Station", etc., and with such high-quality works on the screen, Yoshinaga Sayuri ushered in the second peak of her acting career in the 80s.
In 1975, in the literary film "The Gate of Youth", Yoshinaga Sayuri got rid of the previous pure image, broke through herself to play the wife of A miao in the film, and her acting skills were pure, giving full play to the stoic spirit of Japanese women and the valuable sentiments of the role itself, which was widely praised in all walks of life in Japan.
In 1985, Sayuri won the Best Actress Award at the 8th Japan Academy Awards for her romance film A-Xian.
In 1989, she won the Best Actress Award at the 12th Japan Academy Awards for her fantasy film "Crane" and the feature film "Hua Chaos".
Take the movie "The Straits", a Japanese film with the main theme of the story of the construction of the world's earliest and longest undersea tunnel that took twenty-five years to build. The stoic and implicit feelings shown by Yoshinaga Sayuri and Ken Takakura in the film moved the audience.
Yoshinaga Sayuri in the film The Straits
However, speaking of Yoshinaga Sayuri, Chinese audiences may be more reminded of the film of the same name starring her, adapted from Junichiro Tanizaki's novel "Fine Snow", which has been praised by film critics as an outstanding "pure beauty" work in the Japanese film industry.
The prototype of the novel is based on the four sisters of the famous Osaka family 'Oyaoka Family' as the protagonist, with the beautiful and quiet third sister "Snow" blind date story as the main line, showing the local customs, social events, political diplomacy, etc., it is like a colorful, elegant painting scroll, showing the whole picture of the life of the high society in the Kansai region of Japan at that time, and is a high-quality genre novel with a very classical style.
The film version of Fine Snow, produced by Japan's Toho Pictures, is even more exquisite and delicate, directed by Kun Ichikawa, written by Kun Ichikawa and Makoto Hidaka, and starring Keiko Kishi, Ryoko Sakuma, Yoshinaga Koyuri, and Yuko Furutegawa, and was released in Japan on May 21, 1983.
Yoshinaga Sayuri played the gentle and delicate girl "Snow" in the movie "Fine Snow", which is even more beautiful and intoxicating. Although she has lost her teenage years, time has not changed the attitude of Yoshinaga Sayuri as an "eternal girl". Wen Wanxianshu, I saw the pitiful girl "Xiaoxue" vivid and moving under the role of Yoshinaga Sayuri, unforgettable.
Stills from "Fine Snow"
In addition, as an actress, Yoshinaga Sayuri has also been quietly working hard for the cause of peace. Koyuri Yoshinaga starred in "Records of Love and Death" set in Hiroshima City, and played the protagonist who suffered from atomic bomb radiation in "The Diary of Yumechiyo".
Little Lily, who experienced suffering in the play, immediately had the idea of helping more people. As a result, she began volunteering in various years of atomic bomb poetry readings in 1986 ( Showa 61 ) .
Now 75 years old, Yoshinaga Sayuri not only continues her acting activities, but also makes the anti-war and anti-nuclear movement another important career in her life. It can be said that this dignified and important actress not only achieved the ultimate in her career, but also single-handedly appealed to the whole of Japan and even the world to reflect on war and peace.
Yoshinaga Sayuri's classic "Look back and smile"
It is worth mentioning that Yoshinaga Sayuri once filmed a photo album called "Crane".
In the snow of Hokkaido, the little lily is dressed in white and has dotted lips, and the snow is white, the sky is vast, and it is free and flowing, and it is extremely fairy-like.
What is impressive is that this classic snow kimono photo album was actually taken when Yoshinaga Sayuri was 50 years old, and the whole photo album is as beautiful as a classical and elegant picture.
At the end of the article, let's enjoy this group of photos that look like fairies on earth!