In 1978 and 1979 of the last century, the Japanese films "Wangxiang" and "Life and Death Love" were successively released in Chinese mainland, and the female lead of the film quickly entered the audience's field of vision, setting off a "Kurihara small volume fever" in the Chinese film industry.
Especially in the film "Life and Death Love", Natsuko, played by Kurihara Komaki, shocked the countrymen who had just come out of the years with her energetic youth, amorous and gentle beauty, and a rich and delicate inner world.
For a time, Kurihara's small scrolls were regarded by countless fans as the embodiment of beauty.
Countless male fans are fascinated by it, and female fans are also intoxicated.
So far, the stills of Natsuko and Omiya walking in fear with a trench coat in the film are still the patterns that many young lovers are keen to imitate and take pictures...
More than forty years ago, through the youthful jump on the tennis court of the film "Life and Death Love", the white dress that fluttered and fell, the audience deeply remembered the beautiful figure full of charm - Natsuko.
I can't help but pay attention to Natsuko's actor, real-life Japanese actor Kurihara Komaki.
The film "Life and Death Love" is a Japanese love film directed by Noboru Nakamura. Starring Kurihara Komara and Shin Klee, it was filmed in 1971 and released in Japan.
Intuitively, the title of the movie, the audience will almost guess that "Life and Death Love" will be a tragedy.
And the meaning of tragedy is simple and cruel, it is to destroy the most beautiful things in the world or in life.
The unexpected death of the heroine Natsuko in "Life and Death Love" has become a thrilling gong for this movie.
The film tells the story of Yuji Omiya, a researcher at the Fisheries Research Institute played by Shin Klee, who returned to Yokohama after working in Shikoku for a long time. Accidentally, while playing tennis, Omiya meets the girlfriend of his friend Jin Nojima (Masaru Yokouchi) ---- Kurihara Komaki as Natsuko Nakata.
The optimism and cheerfulness of the beautiful Natsuko suddenly attracted Yuji Omiya, and he couldn't help but fall in love with Natsuko.
However, Omiya, hindered by his friendship with his friend Nojima, buried this feeling deep in his heart.
What Yuji Omiya did not expect was that Natsuko actually liked him. The enthusiastic Natsuko can't manage so much, and she frankly expresses her true feelings to Omiya.
Ōmiya, who is conflicted and bitter, initially avoids Natsuko's enthusiasm, but as time goes on, he finds that the burning love in his heart intensifies, and eventually, he accepts Natsuko's feelings.
They went to nojima to plead their sins, but they were not able to get forgiveness from their best friend.
Omiya falls in love with Natsuko and takes her back to her hometown to meet her elders, after which she decides to marry Natsuko, but just the day before the wedding date arrives, an accident occurs, leaving Omiya in eternal pain.
The film was translated and produced by the Shanghai Film Studio in 1976 and released publicly in China in 1979.
At that time, it could be said that the streets were crowded with people and the audience was crowded, and it was almost difficult to find a ticket.
Some city cinemas even have a twenty-four-hour loop screening to meet the needs of the audience.
Natsuko's beauty, Nojima's foreign atmosphere, Omiya's simplicity, and the film's unexpected ending have become hot spots in the streets.
The tennis court in the film is set as a lyrical location. The tennis court has become a love scene, and the special effects of the movie are very cute:
Above the empty ball, accompanied by the sound of hitting the ball, a continuous refreshing echo of the heroine: sorry The ball is too high, sorry The ball is too high, too high, too high...
And so, "I'm sorry the ball is too high!" ", became the movie line that swept the audience's mouth that year.
There are also some lines in the film that some fifty-year-old audiences will clearly remember:
Natsuko: "How does love come?" Is it brilliant sunshine? Are they flying petals? Or is it because I pray to God? Omiya: "Love is like a storm, and none of us can resist it!" ”
Omiya: "Thank you for your letter, work has just started, so it's busy." Now, we are conducting a seabed survey and preparing to sink artificial rock glue. But at night, I just think about you. ”
Natsuko: Don't think about it until the evening? I thought of you from morning to night. You fish fan, in the future, for these thousands of fish, how much vinegar I have to eat! ”
The film "Life and Death Love" is adapted from the novellas "Love and Death" and "Friendship" by the famous Modern Japanese writer Shitoku Takeji Koji.
The script adaptation was relatively successful. Especially for the design of the ending of the heroine Natsuko's life, it is very touching. In the original novel, Natsuko died of a flu. The film "Life and Death Love" was changed to an accidental explosion accident.
In all the romance dramas at home and abroad, the death of the heroine is destined to be more tearful than the death of the male character. In the film "Life and Death Love", a woman and two men are entangled in love, and no matter who dies a hundred times, it is not as good as Natsuko's "this morning has passed away".
The regrettable and respectable plot is that after Natsuko got engaged to Omiya and returned to Omiya's rural hometown to make love, Natsuko still refused to sleep with Omiya this night.
Under the night of the bright moon, Natsuko emotionally threw herself into the arms of the Omiya and kissed her passionately. Turning to the lover calmly whispering: Wait, let's feast on our wedding night again!
After the engagement, Natsuko and Omiya go their separate ways because of their work, and the love letters between the two places become the only link between them in their emotional lives.
Seeing Natsuko's page-by-page sketch on the calendar in the film, and hearing natsuko and Omiya' voiceovers: thirteen days a month, twelve days a month, five days, and three days, the audience was also satisfied with their appetite and full of expectations for their beautiful reunion.
However, what awaited was the short bad news on the telegram...
"Life and Death Love" completed the theme as scheduled.
Kurihara was born in Tokyo in 1945 by his father, Kazunoori Kurihara, a playwright. She began learning to play the violin at the age of 4 and ballet at the age of 6. He graduated from the Tokyo Ballet Academy in 1963 at the age of 18 and later attended the Haiyouza Actors' Training Institute.
"Hai youza" actor training institute. It is the cradle of Japanese film and television drama stars, it has many famous Japanese directors, art instructors, students can receive a variety of acting skills training.
Kurihara began to study drama here, and reveled in the comprehensive art of performance, gradually moving away from the ballet that he had been obsessed with for many years.
During this period, Kurihara began to make a name for herself in TV dramas, and her first TV series was Rainbow Design, which aired on the nhk channel. She then starred in the TV series "Three Sisters" in 1967, winning the Japan Film Producers Association Newcomer Award; in 1968, she starred in the TV series "Three-Man Family", "Gaze", "Wind Forest Mountain Fire", won the Japan Broadcast writers Association Award, the first Japan Television Awards Outstanding Television Actor Award, loved by many audiences.
From the 1970s onwards, Kurihara began to focus on film performances, and the five films in the representative works, "Life and Death Love", "Oshawa", "Wangxiang", "Moscow Love" and "Village Teacher", were all her works in the 1970s.
Among them, "Oshawa" won the 10th Golden Arrow Award, and she herself won the "Mainichi Movie" Actress Acting Award, the Kinyalo Film Award, and the Elphrans Actress Award, becoming a young film star in Japan in the 1970s.
After entering the 1990s, audiences rarely saw kurihara's screen image again, and learned through newspapers and film magazines that she was already an ambassador for Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges and was actively working for the film exchanges between China and Japan.
She has visited China 36 times, served as a permanent director of the Japan-Chinese Exchange Association, and won the Japan-China Friendship And Exchange Promotion Award in October 2008.
Kurihara said, "I would like to make a lifelong effort to promote Chinese exchanges between Japan and Japan and realize friendship between the two countries from generation to generation." ”
Xie Jin, a famous Chinese director, once commented on Kurihara Komaru: "There are many actors on the screen who are more beautiful than Kurihara Komaru, but there are very few actors who are more charismatic than her. Why? It can be seen in the subtleties that after filming every day in China, Kurihara Komaki had to greet and thank everyone in the film crew. Respect for others will naturally earn respect... ”
In 1980, Kurihara collaborated with Chinese actors on the TV series "Star of Hope"; in 1986, he performed in China as a famous play by German dramatist Brecht's "The Good Man of Sichuan".
In 1991, Kurihara collaborated with Chinese actors on the film "Bells of Qingliangji Temple". It was the first time she had portrayed an old woman on screen. Although many Japanese fans thought it would ruin her beautiful image, she gladly accepted the invitation of director Xie Jin.
Later, recalling his participation in Xie Jin's film "The Bells of Qingliang temple" in China, Kurihara said, "I have known Xie for a long time. He said at the time, I have a role here, it's a mother, and I think it's a good fit for you. ”
Kurihara said: "I think playing an old mother was challenging for me, who was still relatively young at the time. I was really moved by the script. The war caused great misfortune to the Chinese people, but the Chinese people did not care about their previous suspicions, but raised the Japanese orphans who remained in China and took good care of them. The suffering of the Japanese orphans tells us that the war has also brought disaster to Japan itself. So I made this film with deep gratitude and remorse. ”
Kurihara said that during the filming of this film, she shed tears of excitement many times.
At that time, when director Xie Jin invited her to report to the crew, he specially arranged a young actor to pounce into her arms and hug her and shout "Mom, Mom". The actor who plays her son is Pu Cunxin.
Kurihara said that since then, the two of them have always been known as mother and son, but it was only after they met many years later that Pu Cunxin changed his mouth to call her "sister"...
In 1994, Kurihara's film "Moscow Love" starring Kurihara was released in China, once again touching Chinese film fans who had long been absent from her performance.
The film depicts a Japanese actress who loves ballet (played by Kurihara Komaki) who dedicates all her experience and passion to her beloved ballet career. To this end, she chose to go to Moscow for further study, and her boyfriend, who had been in love for many years, left her because she did not understand her actions, but this did not shake her determination in the slightest.
In Moscow, her ballet skills made great progress, and her dance partner, a young Russian, fell deeply in love with her, but unfortunately, when she was about to get married, she was diagnosed with cancer. On the romantic Moscow beaches, she quietly closed her eyes forever in the arms of her lover.
Many viewers can't help but burst into tears when they see the end of this film, and their sad mood cannot be calmed for a long time.
Kurihara was unmarried all his life. There is a rumor in Japan that Kurihara Komaki once fell in love with the movie star Takeshi Nomitsu when filming the movie, but in the end the two were fruitless. Mr. Takeru passed away in 2012.
In a 2006 interview in Shanghai, Kurihara said:
"Maybe because I've been so busy with work, I forgot to get married." In fact, in Japan, women with work intensity like me, men are unacceptable. Sometimes I'm out filming and maybe not coming home for two months, and if I'm married, then when I get home I'll find my husband running away. I just think that if I get married and have children, but I can't take care of my husband and children wholeheartedly, it's very unfair to them... ”
(From left, Ryoko Nakano, Zhang Jinling, Kurihara Komaki, liu Xiaoqing)
Later, in an interview with a reporter from China Central Television, Kurihara specifically talked about his unmarried topic. She said:
"If I were to organize a family, I would believe that I would be able to cook a good meal, be a good wife, and be a gentle mother. But I also like this life very much by communicating with Chinese friends, acting in good works, sharing feelings with fans, and making some modest contributions to this society. ”
Kurihara said, "So it's hard for me to make a choice. In the film and on stage, I can play a variety of women's lives, and I can experience different experiences, which I can't experience in ordinary life. But as an actor, I can experience that. ”
Kurihara has no regrets about her life choices, she said: "My lover is work. ”
Let's come to the end of the film "Life and Death Love":
Omiya came alone to the old place where Natsuko played tennis before she died, and the drizzle blew on the empty court. He loves and loves to hear Natsuko's hot call to himself: Sorry, the ball is too high! Too high, too high, too high! ···
Xia Zi ---- Kurihara small scroll, a screen classic that Chinese film fans will not forget for a long time.
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