Daisuke Ota's "Goddess Who Lost Her Name".
Dai's "Goddess Who Lost Her Name" and "First Class" (pictured) are classics of female group portraits in Japanese dramas.
Yoko Maki
Michiko Yoshise
Ito step
Yuka Itaya
Kyoko Kayadagawa
There is no shortage of big female protagonists in this summer's golden Japanese dramas. Among them, NTV's "Kahoko in the Greenhouse" takes a well-behaved woman as the protagonist, Asahidai's "Black Leather Manual" is led by a nightclub evil girl, TBS's "Mrs. Kana" uses funny actress Naomi Watanabe, intending to tell the story of ordinary housewives counterattacking, and Fujidai, which also features housewives, launched "Cecil's Attempt".
The series, starring Yoko Maki, is based on Kei Mikawa's novel of the same name. The novel depicts the growth process of the heroine Miyado Nayo from an ordinary housewife to a professional model; at the same time, it uses the fashion industry as a background to depict the group portraits of women with different statuses and different positions. The producer said that the show's biggest intention is to reflect on today's social trends: "Today's women's lifestyles are diverse, but too many people care too much about whether they are happy in the eyes of others. We want to portray such a heroine, who can firmly say 'happiness or not only decides'. I hope to make everyone reflect on the social trend. ”
Inspirational! Housewives counterattack the fashion circle
The original novel, "Cecil's Attempt", was originally serialized in Story, a popular fashion magazine for the ages of 30 to 50, and the author, Kei Mikawa, was a Naoki Prize winner and was extremely popular when it was published. The "Cecil" in the title of the novel is taken from the French novelist Françoise Sagan's Hello, Sorrow, a metaphor for the women in the book who are "beautiful on the outside, but full of terrible desires on the inside." Compared with other big female protagonists, "Cecil's Attempt" incorporates more feminist elements into the production. The protagonist of the story, Nao Miyaji, became a reader model for fashion magazines by chance, and gradually grew into a first-class professional model; in reality, 6 years after the end of the novel series, the reader model Tomoko Inazawa appeared on the cover of "Story" for the first time, and the author successfully predicted reality.
At the beginning of the story, the producers invite four successful women in different fields in real life to show the audience their "survival as a woman" and "the highlight moments of life" in the form of narration, including Tomoko Inazawa; the other three are writer and host Sakiko Agawa, beautician Junjima Towako, and former captain of the Japanese women's national football team, Sawaho Kei. The series aims to reflect on the vanity of modern women "living to see", while exploring the life patterns of life winners, and inviting several successful professional women at the beginning is also a deduction.
Will play! There are also male derivative dramas
The producer of this drama, Oda Dai, has produced female group portrait dramas such as "First Class" and "Goddess Who Lost Her Name" with similar themes, and this time choosing "Cecil's Attempt" is precisely to see the phenomenon unique to Japan such as "reader model". Reader models, that is, ordinary people without an agency, appear on the inside pages of the magazine by applying to the magazine and become "models" for a short time. Daisuke Ota said that just as the manga serialized in "Shonen JUMP" has a certain "commonality", similar Toshiko can be found in his works. The relationship between the heroine and her surroundings in the film is like "Sakuragi Hanamichi and the gorilla Tsuyoshi Akagi in "Slam Dunk Master".
"Cecil's Attempt" is well planned, but unfortunately the ratings have not been satisfactory so far, and it remains to be seen how the future will move. However, in order to neutralize the big female cast of Qianhong, the producer Fuji TV launched the drama's derivative drama "Cecil Boys", which was broadcast on its own cable station and network premium channel. There are five episodes of the spin-off drama, starring young idols Shota Inoue, Miyazawa Icefish, Keisuke Nakata, Shiya Endo, and Yafei Hisaishi. The drama puts aside the tension and serious baggage of the main drama, and tells the story of handsome models under the sub-magazine "Men's Vanity" in the form of a comedic pseudo-documentary, which is a benefit for the fans of "Cecil's Attempt".
Cast lineup
Full model origin?
Yoko Maki Model Experience: 0
The heroine of this drama, Miyado Nayō, is an ordinary housewife, satisfied with the "little luck" of the husband's godson. By chance, she was invited by the fashion magazine Vanity to start a "reader model" career. Although Yoko Maki's photo album is very popular, she has never had the experience of a professional model. Instead, after graduating from junior high school, he decided to become an actor and entered Tatsuya Nakayo's acting school, "No Name School". She has played important roles in episodes such as "The Most Perfect Divorce" and "The Problem Restaurant". "Cecil's Attempt" is a Fuji drama series starring Maki for the second time in two years, and the producers said that the use of Maki this time is based on her tenacity and beauty rooted here.
Michiko Yoshise Model Experience: Beginning after graduating from high school
Yukiko Hamaguchi, a plane model for "Vanity" played by Michiko Yoshise in the film, is the heroine's adoration and biggest competitor. Michiko Yoshise, who is known for her image as a royal sister, is herself a flat model. After graduating from high school, she was excavated by scouts and started modeling in her hometown of Fukuoka, where her stage name was "Koyuki". This is her second work after giving birth to her second daughter and returning to show business. In order to star in this drama, she deliberately slimmed down and regained the weight of the model era: "I personally turned from model to actor when I was 32 years old (2007), and this time the role of Hamaguchi Yuwako has experienced 10 years of modeling career, and the story is based on this. I think as long as I get back to the state I was in when I was 32 years old, I can play the role. ”
Itobu Model Experience: Started at the age of 6
Ito played the fashion writer Okita Eri, she is the main member of the "Miyadi group" in the play, originally a fashion brand public relations, and later became a contract writer for "Vanity" due to unemployment, struggling with the heroine in the gap between ideals and reality, and dreaming of success. Ito began working as a child model at the age of 6, and became an actress through the Obayashi Nobuhiko film "Water Traveler" at the age of 7, and the films "Swallowtail Butterfly", "Lily Week", "Flower and Alice" and other films cooperated with Shunji Iwai made her acting skills widely acclaimed, which can be regarded as a work. In Yoshise's 2014 hit drama "Day Face", Ito also played an important role.
Itaya Yuna Model Experience: Started at the age of 19
Itaya Yusa plays Akiko Kurosawa in the play, who discovers the heroine. Like Michiko Yoshise, Itaya Yuna entered the acting world through the fashion model road. Previously, she starred in the 2014 drama of the same genre "First Class" as the most influential devil editor in the fashion industry, and this time in "Cecil's Attempt", Itaya once again starred as a fashion magazine editor, and the similarities and differences with the previous game are worth noting.
Kyoko Hasegawa Model Experience: Beginning of the third year of high school
Kyoko Hasegawa, who plays the second model of Vanity magazine, has played important roles in classic Japanese dramas such as "Gorgeous Family" and "The Tragedy of M", and is also a stalwart imperial sister actor. Hasegawa first entered the show business circle through the women's magazine Road, and was quite popular during the model period, and even meteor showers such as the "Hasegawa phenomenon" appeared.
It can be said that several important actresses in addition to the heroine have the actual experience of fashion magazine models.
Written by/Shao Guang
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