Shadow Man: Momoe Yamaguchi
Gender: Female
Date of birth: 17.1.1959
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Representative works: [The Dancing Girl of Izu] (1974), Blood Doubt (1975), [Haruka Tuo] (1976), Red Impact (1976), [Flag of Mist] (1977)
Reason to commemorate: The 37th anniversary of the Retirement Concert
She is the pure and immaculate little dancer in [Izu's Dancers], and the beautiful and moving blind lady in [Harumi Tsuru].
She is Sachiko, a high school student in "Blood Coagulation", and became a household name in China in the 80s.
She is one of the "Showa Sangehimes" and is the idol of Zhang Guorong and Mei Yanfang.
She also has one of the most important identities: the wife of Tomokazu Miura.
She is Momoe Yamaguchi.
Peak, rapids retreat
In 1980, Momoe Yamaguchi, who was very popular and popular in East Asia at the time, held a retirement concert at the Budokan in Japan.
At the end of the last song, Yamaguchi Left the microphone and left, bidding farewell to the music and film world.
A few months later, she married Tomokazu Miura, who was 7 years older than her and was also an actress
Since then, he has returned to his family and become a full-time wife.
That year, she was only 21 years old, but she had been debuting for 8 years, and had already reached the peak of the music world, and left more than a dozen movies and TV series.
If Yamaguchi does not retreat, what kind of realm will her career reach, how many classic works she will leave behind, and how many eras she will lead, there will be endless writing space.
Unfortunately, these can only be imagined.
In the decades since, although there have been voices every year that Yamaguchi is coming back, she has left resolutely and has never returned.
She and Tomokazu Miura became acquainted with in-drama.
In her film debut [Izu's Dancer], the two kissed deeply, and the combination of the golden boy and the jade girl in the film industry was formed.
▲[Dancing Girl of Izu]
For the next five years, every winter and summer, the works starring the two will be released.
[Ancient Capital], [ChaoSao], [Chunqin Copy], [Iris Love], [Dream of the Dead Wind], "Red Shock", "Blood Doubt"... The two appeared as lovers without exception.
▲"Red Shock"
▲[Chunqin Copy]
Their feelings have gradually expanded from inside the play to the outside of the play, because the drama is full of love, accompanied by a lifetime, the most romantic thing in the world is nothing more than this.
On November 18, 2015, On Japan's "Best Celebrity Couple" list, Momoe Yamaguchi and Yukazu Miura, who have gone through 35 years of "silver marriage", topped the list for the tenth consecutive year.
The model couple in the show business circle makes people believe in true love once again.
Leaving, never going far
Even though she retired from the current and her acting career was short-lived, her work was extremely influential, and there were still aftermath after her retirement.
In 1984, the year Yamaguchi's eldest son was born, her 1975 TV series "Blood Doubt" was translated into China and broadcast on CCTV.
▲ "Blood Doubt"
This is the first Japanese TV series to enter China.
That's the collective memory of a generation born in China in the '60s and '70s: people gather in front of the TV set and look forward to it, the real "alley of ten thousand people".
Momoe Yamaguchi is the most sought after idol of young girls, and the "Sachiko" hairstyle is all the rage.
▲ 16-year-old Momoe Yamaguchi is innocent, the love sinus has just opened, and a cute little tiger tooth is revealed in a sweet smile
Even if you look at it today, you will definitely fall in love with her.
However, acting is only her "side hustle", and what really makes her popular is her singing voice.
From 1972, when she rose to prominence in singing competitions, throughout the 1970s, she was the well-deserved first singer in Japan and the first singer to sell more than 10 million.
▲ Momoe Yamaguchi at the scene of the performance
Her voice has a kind of vicissitudes that are rare among her peers, singing about the love between men and women, lingering pity.
In the 1970s, when Japan's economy was booming, her singing voice gave people endless comfort and strength.
Her singing voice was so revered that people called her "Showa Sankahime" along with Miku Skylark and Matsuda Seiko.
The song traveled through time and space and influenced a large number of people in the music scene in Hong Kong, China. Zhang Guorong and Mei Yanfang both regard her as idols.
"The Wind Continues to Blow", "Thank You", and "Late Night Harbor" are all covered from her works.
People admired her bravery and independence.
But she said, "A woman's self-reliance is the most precious thing she can know deeply in the world." ”
"It can be work, it can be family, it can be a couple." This can also be called spiritual self-reliance! ”