Most of japan's actresses are gentle and pleasant, smiling and amiable, but to say that Japan's first beauty in kimono, in my heart, only Japan's national goddess Yoshinaga Sayuri can be worthy of this title.
This picture is my pit map, red lips, black hair and snow, absolutely beautiful
Yoshinaga's appearance was super sought after in Japan in the last century, and almost all Japanese men fell for it.
Her appearance is dignified, and the contours of her goose egg face add a touch of classical charm to her. The appearance is beautiful and graceful, and a pair of large eyes hides the falling snow of winter, pure and beautiful
Today we will take a look at this classical beauty, Yoshinaga Sayuri.
In 1945, Sayuri was born in Nishigen-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo. There are three sisters in her family, and she is the second oldest. Because of her lively nature from an early age, the family raised her as a boy
Later, due to the failure of her father's business investment, the family's situation deteriorated after The birth of Sayuri, but the family was in a high-end residential area in Tokyo, and in order to maintain the superficial wealth, the parents tried their best to pretend to be rich.
But in fact, even a normal life cannot be maintained later, and often cannot open the pot, so the sensible little lily has the idea of making some money early to help her parents hold the façade from an early age.
So in 1957, just after entering the 6th grade of elementary school, Sayuri participated in the dubbing of the popular manga "Akatsuki Ridge Nosuke", and coincidentally, there was a character in this work called "Little Lily", perhaps thanks to the name of Fu, she was selected, with the character "Little Lily".
This was the first time Lily made money, and she later recalled: "The meals increased, which was very happy for me who was still growing up at the time, and I also had a wonderful feeling: the food on the table was earned by me!" ”
In 1959, she starred in "The Whistle Calling the Morning", although it was the first experience on the screen, but Sayuri's acting skills were still remarkable.
At that time, Xiao Lily actually loved to learn in her heart, but as soon as she participated in the filming, she had no time to take care of learning, and there were many learning subjects in middle school, and her results were not ideal.
In 1960, just after graduating from junior high school, Yoshinaga Koyuri joined Nikko Corporation (one of the five major japanese film companies) and began his career as an actor while studying and filming.
At the same time, she did not want to give up her studies, and could only make the year's schedule in advance at the beginning of each year, and the schedule was always full, and there was no "time" for recuperation and illness after injury. But the task of shooting ten to fifteen films a year forced her to give up her follow-up studies in high school.
But Sayuri clearly knows that if she is busy making movies every day, all aspects will not be improved, her knowledge will be exhausted, and even if she is an actor for life, it is necessary to go to university for further study.
So she still tried to enter the university to study, because she did not officially graduate from high school, she had to pass a series of qualification examinations to take the university examination. After much effort, in 1965, she was finally admitted to Waseda University.
Sayuri was born to eat this bowl of rice, and in 1962, at the age of 17, Yoshinaga Sayuri starred in "Street full of iron furnaces" directed by Kiriro Urayama.
In the play, she played a fresh and pure girl with excellent character, and her outstanding performance won her the Best Actress Award of the "Blue Ribbon Award" that year, and became the youngest recipient of this award at that time, and this youngest award record was not broken until half a century later, in 2012, when she was 67 years old.
At the age of 18, she starred in Yasunari Kawabata's "The Dancer of Izu", and the dancer she played was "beautiful, elegant, hazy, and pure", which made people have unlimited reverie.
It is said that even a big writer like Yasunari Kawabata, the original author, couldn't help but go to the set to meet Xiao Lily.
After becoming famous, Xiao Lily worked hard and did not want to disappoint the audience who liked her. Therefore, she is very strict with herself, slightly injured can not reach the line of fire, she believes that because of her own reasons to delay the shooting schedule is the most shameful thing.
So most of the time even if it is uncomfortable, I grit my teeth and insist that it doesn't matter. She had few breaks for years since she was filming, except for a brief break when she was hospitalized with duodenal ulcers, hence the nickname ''Little Lily Doesn't Matter'.
During the filming of "Beautiful Calendar", Xiao lily had an accident, her thigh muscles were torn, and after bandaging, she bent over in pain, but she remembered the shooting: "If I only shoot for an hour, I can try to hold on... It doesn't matter anymore. As a result, that night, she had a fever of 40 degrees.
Talented and so hard at work, fate naturally did not fail her. Since her debut in 1959, Sayuri has starred in more than a hundred films, and at the Japanese Academy Awards, known as the "Japanese Oscars," she has been nominated for ten times and won three times.
What's even more surprising is that she also has a good singing voice, many of the film interludes are arranged by her, in the same year that she won the "Best Actress Award" of the Japan Blue Ribbon Awards at the age of 17, she also won the fourth "Japan Record Award", after which her record "Dream Whenever You Dream" sung by Yukio Hashi won the Japan Record Awards, with sales reaching 300,000 copies, which is enough to show her singing strength.
Since the 1970s, when Japanese cinema was in decline, Yoshinaga Sayuri followed the trend and began to play roles in NHK TV's Okawa drama (historical drama).
Her work is mainly BASED ON TV dramas, and she is busy every day, until one day Yoshinaga finds that she can't make a sound. She ran through many hospitals in a hurry, but the more anxious she was, the more silent she became. The doctor said that there was no problem with the vocal cords because she was too stressed and her body was overworked to make a sound.
When she lost her voice, her future husband Okada inspired her to help her find many treatments, and his company made Yoshinaga, who had been running around since childhood, feel loved. But Okada was fifteen years older than her, so she was met with resistance from her family and a large number of fans. Can't change the opinions of others, Xiao Lily can only insist on making good quality film and television dramas, and speak with works.
And she did. In 1984, she starred in "Heavenly Station" and "Afan", which won the best actress award at the Japan Film Awards that year.
Since 1990, Yoshinaga Has starred in 7 films, including modern films such as "Meridian of the Mist" and "The Great Sin of Heaven". In 2011, she was nominated for Best Actress at the 34th Japan Academy Film Awards for her film "Younger Brother". In 2012, she won the Best Actress Award at the 37th Baozhiying Awards for her film "Canary of the North".
In 2014, Sayuri's first producer film Incredible Coast Story won the Special Censor Award at the Montreal World Film Festival, and Yoshinaga herself won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actress for this film, at the age of 69.
It was that year that Japan's Weekly Magazine Public conducted a poll that said, "Whether you like it or hate it, who do you think the most beautiful Japanese actress is purely in terms of beauty?"
As a result, Yoshinaga Sayuri defeated a group of young actresses who were flourishing, and successfully won the first place at the age of 69, which was really popular for half a century.
After filming her hundredth film,"The Crane Diary," she took a set of photographs. She stood in the white snow, pure and unblemished, still the woman who dumped all sentient beings, the years were lenient to her, her wrinkles only added some charm, but the beauty was still there.
Acting in the first half of the film, playing dozens of roles, she found the meaning of her life in the movie, and the movie is also a continuation of life. The little lily has always shown the beauty of both inside and outside.
Her elegant style and personality charm have made her an object of emulation among Japanese women, and many Japanese women say that they most want to grow old as Yoshinaga Sayuri. Indeed, she lived to be her best.