Text/Ouyang Feng
There is such an uncle in the Japanese art industry, although he does not have the appearance of Abe Hiroshi, but with his superb acting skills, he has gained a large number of fans and super high reputation. He is Masaya Nakagawa, known to everyone as "Lily Franky", derived from his pen name, and yes, in addition to his role as an actor, Nakagawa is also a well-known best-selling novelist.
Imagine a scenario where one day you pass through tokyo's Meguro district, and you meet Lily Frank without knowing who the other person is, and you probably won't have any interest in him, Nakagawa, whose appearance is so ordinary that he can't be more ordinary, with a scruffy beard, plain clothes, and lack of hooking imagination.
As soon as you enter the atmosphere of the drama, Nakagawa is like a rebirth, exuding all kinds of charms, you will find that the depth and width of his interpretation of the characters are beyond the flat 2D image, which explains why even if he plays the bad guy, you can't completely hate it. It is no exaggeration to say that he is a "drama master".
Nakagawa was interested in art as a child, and naturally chose "fine arts" as his study direction at university, and after graduation became an illustrator and writer, and occasionally worked as a photographer. In 2005, Nakagawa, who had been accumulating strength for a long time, published the famous novel Tokyo Tower, a book no.1 in Japan's annual best-selling novel list that was a springboard for Nakagawa's exposure to showbiz, and it was also adapted into a novel of the same name that year, starring the well-known movie star Otada Chejō.
The superb aesthetic of art allows Nakagawa to maintain a high level of quality of film even if he enters the mixed film circle, such as his big-screen debut "Things Around" is a word-of-mouth film. In this film, Nakagawa plays an ordinary middle-aged man who works in a shoe shop and has a happy marriage in the eyes of others, but all kinds of blandness and talk are better than nothing, and perhaps only the parties can understand. Nakagawa's natural and sincere acting skills make people have mixed feelings after watching the movie.
This is probably the power of performance, there is no beautiful face, but it can also make people feel the changes and turbulence of life. Immediately after, Lily Frank participated in the 2008 blockbuster film adaptation of Keigo Higashino's novel of the same name, "The Dedication of Suspect X", in which she played an insignificant supervisor, which is really only a cameo compared to a heavy-going starring actor.
After that, he began to appear frequently in cannes films by Kore-eda, 13 years of "Like Father Like Son", he played the father of a boy, because of the hospital's mistake, he and another family hugged each other's children wrong, compared with the strict father played by Masaharu Fukuyama, Lily Frank's relationship with the child is more like a brother and a friend, and it is Eda who describes the difference between the two people: "If you use baseball as a metaphor, Fukuyama is like a pitcher, and Frank is like a receiver, catching the ball thrown by a child. ”
In Sea Street Diaries, Lily Frank plays the café curator, who looks mediocre but is full of energy inside. As soon as I saw his face, a sense of intimacy came over me.
In "Deeper Than the Sea", Frank transforms into Abe's boss, always with a greasy and slippery tongue, but often utters golden sentences, such as "Brave to become someone else's past, is a mature adult." ”
Someone once commented on Nakagawa, saying that he was a very sexy man, even if he was silent, it was like a light hitting him. This innate talent and temperament allows one to ignore his mundane appearance and be moved by something deeper.
In the latest movie "Thief Family", Frank is even more broken through the previous drama, playing a thief with full of father's love, you will find that this character is not black and white, Frank gave him a lot of warmth. Although judged by the world's eyes, this man is a complete villain. In addition to the interpretation in the play, Nakagawa outside the play also seriously considered the "blood" issue that the film wants to explore.
Lily Frank, 54, who is still unmarried, once said that his father spent 40 years with his partner without registering marriage, a feeling that transcends black and white is the envy of him.
Not long ago, Nakagawa was photographed by paparazzi and kissed the well-known Japanese actress Shibasaki Yuki in the streets of Japan late at night, which can't help but remind people of the plot of the movie "Father and Ito" starring Nakagawa, in which he also dragged 20-year-old actress Ueno Shuri, who was younger than himself. This kind of "yearless love" may seem a little unreasonable to outsiders, but this is exactly Lily Frank's style! Their own love is their own decision, do not care about age and the eyes of others, the most important thing is to put it into sincerity.
As an incomparably special presence in the Japanese art circle, Nakagawa Masa is also like his pen name "Lily Frank", people can't touch it, can't guess it, rely on intuition to rampage in the entertainment industry, childish, but have the most simple and profound attitude towards life.
In all areas of art, he strives to open up his own boundaries, and the intertwining of multiple identities makes the depth of his acting career far beyond the average person. Of course, Xiaobian also hopes that Nakagawa can find the soul mate of the long box and explore the joys and sorrows of life together.