Recently, a Japanese magazine published a list of Advertising Rewards for Japanese Actresses in 2020, and Yoshinaga Sayuri ranked first among all female artists in Japan
Japan has a representative actress in all eras, and Yoshinaga Sayuri has been the most beautiful in the hearts of Japanese audiences for half a century.
To this day, 75-year-old Yoshinaga Sayuri is still on various lists of Japan's most popular actresses, and even ranks first in the list of "most beautiful actresses" surveyed by Weekly Popular magazine.
Yasunari Kawabata is a fan of hers, Jang Kwok-young is her fan, and even Kim Jong-il is impressed by her beauty. People, like the name of the little lily, are always quiet and elegant, like a flower that never fades.
From the 1960s to today, the elderly Yoshinaga Sayuri is still gracefully and calmly active on the big screen.
Yoshinaga Sayuri is arguably the most important Japanese actress in history among the Japanese actresses who are still active today, and she will be introduced by Jun Shibuya.
Born in Shibuya, Tokyo, Yoshinaga's father was a civil servant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and her mother was a piano teacher, and she was sent to join the choir from an early age.
Originally, the family was well-off, but after the defeat of Japan, the society was depressed, and his father was seduced by his friends, resigned from public office and went to the sea to do publishing business, and as a result, his friends ran away with money and owed a lot of money, and the little lily who fell in the middle of the family road began to work to subsidize the family.
In 1956, the 11-year-old Yoshinaga Koyuri voiced for the first time in a radio drama, and coincidentally, she voiced a character also called Sayuri.
In 1959, Sayuri starred in "The Whistle Calling the Morning", which opened the curtain on her screen career.
In middle school, Yoshinaga Saiduri starred in many works, and in high school alone, she had already made 20 youth films, and was affectionately called Little Lily by movie fans.
The green and tender face, the delicate and comfortable features, delicate and with a little clear vitality. Yoshinaga's first peak period was mostly positioned as a "beautiful and gentle girl".
This temperament of her attracted Nobel Prize writer Yasunari Kawabata, who starred in the famous work "The Dancer of Izu", when Yasushi Kawabata became a Yoshinaga Sayuri and paid a special visit to the set located in the mountains.
In addition to acting, Yoshinaga Sayuri also sang and sang the theme song of the same name for the movie "Forever Nostalgic Dream" (いつでも梦を), which won the Japan Record Award.
Busy filming did not make her give up her studies, and Sayuri was admitted to the literature department of the prestigious Waseda University, where she continued filming while going to college. (When preparing for college, there was also an incident that made Sayuri have the idea of quitting the showbiz world: One day she returned to her room to review, and found that one of her fanatical admirers was hiding in the room, holding a knife around her neck and wanting to die with her favorite idol.) ）
In the twenty years after World War II, with the rise of the Japanese economy, the film industry also developed rapidly, and when the television industry was not yet fully developed, film was a more mainstream way of cultural entertainment, and at that time there were: Hideko Takayama, Setsuko Hara, Shima Iwashita, Fumiko Wakao, Yachikusa Andra and other influential film actresses, who were mostly the royal muse of the great directors, and because of their high status, they were often called: big actresses. Of course, Yoshinaga Sayuri is also one of them.
Yoshinaga Sayuri became the lead actress of Nikko Film Production in the 1960s, when Nikko had been following the male-to-action film route, and Sayuri's pure love of youth films injected new vitality into the Japanese film industry.
In 1969, Sayuri graduated second in the Western History Department of the Waseda Faculty of Literature, and began to shoot TV dramas in the 1970s.
At the busiest time, Xiaobai ran around several crews when she was contracted, even if she was physically ill, she did not stop, she thought that it was the most shameful thing to delay the shooting progress due to her own reasons, so most of the time even if she was uncomfortable, she gritted her teeth and insisted, and many people called her "it doesn't matter Little Lily".
Treat any role with all your might, afraid of acting, as well as the pressure of parents, the hope of the director, the expectations of fans, the harshness of self... Finally, she lost her voice for a while.
In the 1960s, Sayuri fell in love with tetsuya Watanabe, an actor she worked with, and was forcibly separated by her mother, but in 1973, despite her parents' objections, she chose to marry Taro Okada, a 15-year-old Fuji TV producer who encouraged her during her illness. (For her daughter's marriage, the mother once said in the book that she felt that her daughter had been robbed and wanted to strangle Okada)
For marriage, Sayuri said, "In order to get rid of the mental fatigue that has accumulated for a long time, I am determined to choose him, abandon the past, I want to abandon myself who was a teenage actress, and take a new step."
After a year of rest after marriage, Lily's voice was restored, her mental exhaustion was eliminated, she re-entered the show business circle, and the couple also agreed not to have children, which did not affect The development of Lily's career.
After marriage, Lily gradually transformed from a "beautiful girl" to a "mature woman who is both rigid and soft".
Detached from the "expectations of an eternal girl", the layering in The temperament of Xiao lily is more abundant, no longer like the monotony of childhood expression, and the "feminine atmosphere" of mature women who are calm, tenacious, introverted and self-aware makes her more complex and changeable.
Seeing Ken Takakura standing in the cold wind of Hokkaido for a long time during his rest time in order to create a role, Koyuri has a higher enthusiasm for the actor's career.
Works such as "The Strait", "Fine Snow", and "Heaven's Station" ushered in the second peak of her acting career in the 80s.
▲The Straits
▲ "Heavenly Stagecoach"
1983's Fine Snow is one of Koyari's favorite films, based on Junichiro Tanizaki's novel, shot by hall-of-fame director Kun Ichikawa.
At this time, Sayuri is 38 years old, but her role of Yukiko is still incredibly beautiful, and she subverts herself to no longer be an actor who directly speaks lines, but plays Yukiko as "a slippery role like a snake and a cat".
In 1988, when Yoshinaga Koyuri was going to shoot her 100th film, she chose Ichikawa's "Crane" from more than 30 alternative films, taken from a well-known folk tale in Japan, which tells the story of "repaying favors".
To commemorate this work of special significance, Yoshinaga Koyuri filmed a photo album called "Crane".
Little Lily is dressed in white, dotted lips, snowy, vast earth, wanton and flowing, extremely fairy state.
"There are beautiful people in the generations, living in the empty valley", this group of photos is very oriental.
It is also like a footnote to the classic image of Yoshinaga Sayuri for more than 30 years, her "girl" is no longer enthusiastic, but the beauty of purity and purity has never changed.
We always emphasize that girls are the most beautiful moments in a woman's life. But in Yoshinaga's Quiyuri, this conclusion is clearly narrow.
In 1995, Japanese portrait photographer Norinobu Shinobu photographed 50-year-old Yoshinaga Koyuri with the appearance of Yan Ruyu and Qi Rulan.
Today, the 75-year-old lily is no longer young, but she is still the eternal lily in the hearts of the people, elegant and beautiful.
She will write letters to Tenkai Yuki, who is working with her for the first time, to express her joy and expectations; because the role requires arm strength, she will do 30 push-ups a day; when she was 60 years old, she would shoot "North Zero Year", there were a lot of snow scenes, she insisted on not using a stand-in; at the age of 73, she acted in "Bucket List", wearing a wedding dress is still beautiful and moving....
Over the years, she has also been keen to participate in various anti-war volunteer activities, and Xiao Lily not only fits the characteristics of a virtuous wife and mother, soft and strong in appearance, but also advocates peace in the spiritual core as the characters.
Independence, tenacity, kindness, and calmness are the best reconciliations I have ever seen with a beautiful person and time.
Interpreting hundreds of lives, the journeys traveled by each character also constitute part of her life, chasing more than half a century of film dreams, and she herself is a magnificent dream.