Last week, the biggest news in Japan's art industry was the arrest of well-known actress Hideyasu Sawajiri for drug use.
Hideyasu Sawajiri confessed that "the MDMA I held this time was given by my boyfriend and friend at the event venue a few weeks ago", "I have been using marijuana, MDMA, LDS, cocoaine since more than a decade ago", "I will feel dangerous if others are caught (many Japanese artists have been arrested for drug use this year)"....
Although Sawajiri admitted to the fact that she was using drugs, the urine test conducted by the police on her was negative (there were no test results for drug use)....
Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said on Twitter that "Hideryu Sawajiri was arrested for drug involvement, as everyone pointed out, when there is a scandal in the government, it will use the scandal that the people care about to cover up the government's scandal, which is the purpose." ”.
It seems like the water is a little deeper... The specific situation will have to wait for follow-up reports.
However, for artists, drug use is definitely a very deadly behavior, for Sawajiri, who has a bad criminal record, these two years have just started, and then died again, basically burying his acting career, when she was more popular than her Sakai Noriko has long disappeared on mainstream television, can only take some small business performances to make a living.
At present, Sawajiri Hideryuhua's advertisements have been removed, which has brought huge losses to advertisers, and people in the advertising industry estimate that the amount of compensation to be borne by Sawajiri will exceed 500 million yen (32 million yuan).
The worst is NHK TV
Originally, Hideyūka Sawajiri will participate in NHK's Okawa drama "Kirin Coming" next year, in which she will play an important role (twice) the daughter of Michizo Saito and the wife of Oda Nobunaga." Nong-hime "Return to the disc.
Immediately after Sawajiri's arrest, NHK decided to replace the actor. (Generally, after a Japanese actor has an illegal scandal, the unbroadcast and unreleased works he starred in will be stopped from being made public, and those that have been made public will be temporarily removed.)
The Ōkawa drama is also tragic, last year Saito Yuki temporarily resigned from "Saigoden" because of the affair scandal, and this year Pierre Taki was arrested for using cocaine, "Wei Datian: The Story of the Tokyo Olympics" had to temporarily replace the actors, plus this time because of Sawajiri's drug use to replace the actor's "Kirin is coming", Okawa drama has appeared for three consecutive years to change actors, as if cursed.
After about four days of selection, NHK found an actress who succeeded Hidetaka Sawajiri in the role of Nonghime in the shortest possible time, and the new actor was 24-year-old Haruna Kawaguchi.
The first reaction of Bunya Jun is that there is a big difference between the temperament of Haruna Kawaguchi and Hideya Sakajiri, who has a heroism that many Japanese actresses do not have, and Haruna girls also give people a small and fresh feeling.
"Kirin is coming" screenwriter Ikebata Toshitsu and Sawajiri Hideryuwa have cooperated many times, it is reported that he brought sawajiri's image into the script creation, it can be said that it was tailored for Sawajiri, so which actor is different from the original character image.
However, it is really not easy to find an actor to replace in such a short period of time.
▲Sawajiri's appearance in the play
NHK Dahe drama will definitely not use newcomers to play such an important role as Erban, and it is necessary to have a high degree of popularity and acting skills to be competent.
And the first-line big-name actors' schedule has long been full, not to mention the shooting cycle of the big river drama is as long as one year, as the second time of the big river drama, it is impossible to receive other works during the shooting, to devote itself wholeheartedly, no big-name actor can temporarily adjust a year of free time, it is difficult.
The Japanese media originally listed Sugi sakura, Uchiyama Ritsuna, Hirose Alice, Kimura Fumino, Takaoka Hayaki, Takahata Mitsuki, Tsuchiya Taiho and other candidates, and even rumored that Hori Kita Masaki would come back to fight the fire.
However, the requirements of the role of Nong Ji are also to be able to ride horses and have a leadership temperament, and there are really not many candidates to choose.
In the end, Haruna Kawaguchi, who is 9 years younger than Sawajiri, was chosen as the new actor, and she was the best choice for her comprehensive popularity, acting skills, and one-year gap.
NHK said, "Haruna Kawaguchi belongs to the acting school, and after considering it, we think she can show the pride and strength of the daughter of the Warrior Warlord of the Warring States, so we decided to use her to play the role of Nohime." ”
Interestingly, as early as the 2013 movie "Master of Apologies", Haruna Kawaguchi played a role that imitated the image (spoof) of Sawajiri in the "Blackface Incident". (At the promotional event of a movie that year, Sawajiri suspected that she was at odds with the director, blackface the whole time, and responded to any answer "nothing", which was the fuse for her being banned)
At present, "Kirin is Coming" has already filmed the first 10 episodes, but now to re-shoot the scene of Nojiri, it is estimated that it will cost 50 million yen (about 3.22 million yuan) to remake each episode, which is a huge expense, and Sawajiri also has to pay liquidated damages.
It was originally scheduled to start broadcasting on January 5, 2020, but because it was to be remade, it is currently decided to postpone the broadcast for two weeks.
Friends who often watch Japanese dramas should be no stranger to Haruna Kawaguchi.
She became a magazine model in 2007 and debuted as an actress in 2009.
He debuted as the spokesperson for Mitsui Real Estate, a large Japanese company, and played the younger sister of Oguri in "Tokyo Dog".
He also played important roles in dramas such as "Bad Boy and Glasses Sister", "Kaneda Kazuna's Incident Book", and "Spicy Teacher GTO".
He also starred in the movie "Yinglan High School Male Public Relations Department", and the neutral dress is also very good-looking.
In 2013, when she was only 18 years old, she got the opportunity to star in the evening prime time, starring in "The Husband's Girlfriend" (TBS Mu Jiu), it seems that she was the first post-95 actress to star in a prime-time Japanese drama.
Perhaps it was a collision with "Doctor-X", and the ratings of "Husband's Girlfriend" hit the street, as a low rating of only 3% in the golden grade, creating the lowest rating record for the folk drama broadcast in the prime time period (7 to 11 pm) in this century. (Personally, Bunya Jun thinks the show isn't that bad either.) ）
Affected by this, in the past six years, Haruna Kawaguchi has never starred in a series again, but in the past two years, she has also acted in dramas such as "Wrongful Lawyer", "Soft Rice Man", "Even If You Love, There Are Secrets", "Samsung Nutritious Lunch" and other dramas, and is still a young actor who has high hopes from Kennosha.
After all, the historical theme of the River drama has high requirements for acting, and the incident of temporary replacement of actors will be focused on her temporarily by all the audience, and it is inevitable that people will compare her with sawjiri who was originally going to play.
However, this is also a huge opportunity for Haruna Kawaguchi, who is currently in a small bottleneck period, and I hope that she can seize the opportunity this time to win the favor of the audience.
Then again, a game advertisement starring Haruna Kawaguchi two years ago made a deep impression on Bunya Jun twice, and the way she put on the kimono was also amazing, and people looked forward to her acting in a costume play.