"People tend to think of the satisfaction of desires as happiness."
The life of Hideyūwa Sawajiri could not be more aptly described in this sentence. This woman, who was at the same time as Masami Nagasawa and Haruka Ayase, and many other pure actresses, was both the most beautiful actress considered by the Japanese and the most hated actress in the Japanese.
It is such a contradictory and real person, in the tug with herself, becoming the second actress in Japan after Noriko Sakai to be imprisoned for drug use, ending her acting career and falling into the abyss.
Why this young girl who entered the Chinese public's public vision with "One Liter of Tears" is now also caught in the "Sakai Noriko-style tragedy", playing two good hands of cards, perhaps we can see the first glimpse from her personal life and acting experience.
In 2001, Hideryūhari Sawajiri debuted under the real name Ofajiri Erika. In just 4 years, she ushered in the first highlight of her acting career.
In January 2005, Sawajiri Erika caused a hot discussion in Japan for her role as Li Keiko in the movie "Invincible Youth", and won several awards such as the Newcomer Actress Award at the 29th Japan Academy Awards for the role of Li Qingzi.
In the same year, in the TV series "One Liter of Tears" produced by Fuji Television, she starred in the TV series for the first time, carrying the ratings of the show and making the audience shed a liter of tears for her. He also won many awards such as the 2006 Blue Ribbon Newcomer Award for the play. Beautiful, energetic and good acting skills are the main impressions of the audience on her.
In 2006, Sawajiri Erika released her first single by taking advantage of the chase, and at the same time won the opportunity to play the main role in the movie, sitting on the throne of Japan's first-line actress.
She was only 20 years old. While actresses of the same age were still learning how to fake a smile, she had become a popular figure in Japan. It is no exaggeration to say that in the Japanese showbiz industry, there is no artist of the same type who can match sawajiri Kaori.
It's not that there is no beauty that is comparable, but that no one has a temperament similar to her. The soaring fame caused Sawajiri to gradually get off the set track.
Her private life is exposed to the public like a film and television work, and as long as the paparazzi crouch in front of the nightclub bar, they will not return empty-handed, and the Sawajiri Erika during that period has become a cash cow for entertainment.
They sneak into bars and nightclubs to photograph Sawajiri's drunken state, recording her voice and appearance, and the pure people are self-destructive.
But Sawajiri believes that as long as there is a work, there is no need to pay attention to the views of society, such an idea makes her allow the erosion of her private life to be indulged, and it also makes her more and more casual in her acting work.
In September 2007, at the premiere of "Dusty Notebook", when asked by the host "What do you think of starring in this movie", Erika said with a cold, dismissive expression: There is nothing to say.
"There is nothing to say", just like the lines repeated in the protagonist's mind in the movie, constantly stirring in the ears of the people, fermentation into a huge crusade.
This blackface incident was not laughed at by the public as in the past, on the contrary, the people had had enough of this temperamental girl, they waited for this moment too long, waiting for an opportunity to let Sawajiri completely roll out of the entertainment circle.
In 2008, Sawajiri announced that she was married to Takagi, 22 years older, but the marriage lasted only a year. The original brokerage company sent her to the temple to practice, trying to pull her back on track.
However, it turned out that the news page once again showed photos of Sawajiri kaori drunk and drug addicted. In 2010, Sawajiri officially suspended her acting activities. Since then, Sawajiri Erika personally destroyed her glory, and her life as "Sawajiri Erika" also ended.
8 years ago, a "Wolf" became the champion of the Japanese film box office list, and its cast configuration was particularly luxurious, directed by Shihana Kawa, who was born into a famous theater, and the film content and picture were dazzling, and what was even more shocking was the starring list.
Yes, she's back. Hideyasu Sawajiri, who has been silent for two years, has returned to the acting world again, and although her reputation among the public has collapsed, the gap between these two years has not erased her aura.
After the unanimous praise of "Wolf", Hideyo Sawajiri still frequently appeared in major variety shows, and she changed her arrogant personality in the past and no longer faced the media with blackface.
On the contrary, she will cooperate with the ridicule in the show throughout the whole process; during the filming, she is also conscientious and smiling, although in the popularity survey, Sawajiri Hideyo Ryūhei is still among the best, but she still has a firm foothold in the show business circle.
Although many new generations of actresses have emerged in Japan during the two years that Hideryu Sawajiri has calmed down, Sawajiri's business ability is still obvious to all. Starting from the night slot, "First Class" achieved a good rating of 10%+, starred in the "Da'ao Special", challenged herself in the prime file "Becoming a Mother", and starred in the mother who lost her child.
Especially last year, it was Hideryūwa Sawajiri's acting career that returned to its peak and bloomed, and cooperated with "Wolf" director ShikaZuka Kawa for the second time to star in the movie "Human Disqualification: Osamu Dazai and the Three Women", achieving a high-end box office reputation.
All this seems to indicate that Sawajiri has returned to the normal trajectory, and while the public is still expecting her to produce better works, the overwhelming information of drug use catches them off guard: after more than 10 years of continuous drug use, not only MDMA, but also cocaine, LSD, and marijuana are her guests.
If the first time she fell, Shihana Kawa's "Wolf" made her a successful comeback, this time she became the protagonist of "Wolf", and she could no longer play.
Looking back at Hidehira Sawajiri's life experience, it seems that the epitome of her life can be seen from her family. Sawajiri, who was of mixed Japanese and French descent and came from a wealthy background, suddenly ran away from home when he was 9 years old, and when he returned home again, Sawajiri was 14 years old.
During her adolescence, she welcomed her father, who missed her growth, and her father fell ill with cancer not long after his return and died shortly after.
At her father's funeral, Sawajiri did not appear until years later, when the media captured her smoking in front of her father's monument, and I think she may never have forgiven the man.
The year after her father's death, Sawajiri's second brother unfortunately died in a car accident, and the 16-year-old Sawajiri witnessed two deaths in a short period of time, and the pain at that time may have also created her part in the future drama.
The French mother, who runs a restaurant by the sea, did not pay attention to these things that happened to Sawajiri growing up, and did not have the discipline that a mother and daughter should have, just like other artists in previous years who were arrested for drug use.
The mother will only be careful to advise: "You have to be careful", not "Never smoke again". I don't want to use the misfortune of the Sawajiri family as a reason for her current tragedy, but it was the beginning of her life.
Text/Zhu Jingnian