When you think of Ryoko Hiromi, what comes to mind?
Think of the sun, think of the beach, think of summer.
We always want to step on the time machine and go back to the millennium.
Not only because today's world is too fast and too complicated, but also because in that sparkling time and space, there lives Ryoko Hiromi, who is always 20 years old.
As long as she laughs, any season can turn into summer.
Debuted 27 years ago, experienced the love of the people, the national frenzy, but also tasted the taste of sitting at the bottom of the valley of life, the entire Asian 80s, 90 generations of the heart of the "summer girlfriend" Hiromi Ryoko, this year just turned 41 years old.
It is also because we are used to saving her in our minds as the look of having short hair and a carefree smile, we seem to need a little time to digest the fact that "Ryoko is also a middle-aged man".
Compared with the Japanese screen girls of her contemporaries who are sweet as honey or rebellious to the end, she is always more like a college teenager who jumps out of the gender margin. The appearance is clean to almost transparent, and the personality is a little unpretentious and unrestrained, and after twenty years, it is still unconsciously trembling.
Ryoko Hiromi in childhood
Born in the summer of 1980 in Uzumaki Town, Kochi City, Ryoko Hiromi was an energetic, sports-obsessed hot girl from an early age.
When she was in elementary school, Ryoko Hiromi was the main force of the school basketball team. He entered middle school and practiced athletics, and won the second place in the high jump and hurdles in the Kochi Prefecture Games.
With the release of her first photo album "r.running", people gradually realized that an idol was being born: she ran and laughed like a boy in sweat, breaking through the traditional Japanese girl's photo aesthetic.
In 1994, Procter & Gamble publicly selected the advertising heroine of Clearasil facial cleanser in Japan, and at the age of 14, she stood out and won the championship, filming this advertisement as she wished, and Ryoko Hiromi officially debuted in the art world.
In 1996, Ryoko Hiromi left her hometown and moved to Tokyo alone, and gradually attracted attention because of a series of glimpses in Japanese dramas starring two super idols.
Japanese drama "Long Holiday"
More people know her from the student of Takuya Kimura in "Long Vacation", who is full of disbelief. The 16-year-old Ryoko portrays Takako Saito, a piano genius with a hard appearance and a soft heart, into a real and cute scene that is too short to be negligible, but it is unforgettable.
A "first love face" conquers the big screen
In 1997, Ryoko Hiromi's big-screen debut, Nostalgia for the 20th Century, was released—three years earlier, she had won over 500 auditions as the film's heroine. With "Nostalgia of the 20th Century", he won the Japan Academy Award for Best Newcomer and successfully entered the film industry. Just two years later, at the age of 18, she has already played the father-daughter file with Ken Takakura in the "Railroad" that has entered the history of film.
This clean "first love face" that almost has a sense of transparency, although it is still slightly carrying baby fat, still succeeds in conquering the audience
In 1999, Ryoko Hiromi's third photo album "Relax" came out. In photographer Morikawa's summer-filled shots, she stretches her body relaxedly, quieter than ever, and in a subtle change of expression, there is a hint of a change from a girl to a woman.
Many of the classic photos in this photo have also become the most deeply rooted image memories of Ryoko Hiromi for many years, and are still widely circulated on the Internet.
Also in 1999, Ryoko Hiromi gave her first and only rh debut tour 1999. In February, she sang two consecutive performances at the Budokan in Tokyo, and then sang one in Osaka and one in Nagoya.
As expected, most of the audience were young people of the same age as Ryoko, and surprisingly, there were also many middle-aged fans who had become parents, and even the elderly cheered and screamed offstage. It is precisely because the screen image of "National Daughter" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, her audience is actually quite extensive.
In 2003, Ryoko Hiromi starred in "Love Photo" with Ryuhei Matsuda. The story revolves around a pair of lovers who have met because of photography, and the photographic works they accumulate bit by bit when they are together are cleverly interspersed in the plot development in a stream of consciousness way.
"When I first started filming, I wanted to try it because I loved it, but then I was so busy that I didn't even have time to watch movies, and I gradually forgot what I loved."
Ryoko Hiromi, who once left the show business circle, returned to the peak again, and it was already when the movie "Entering the Mortician" was released in 2008.
Near the age of 30, she is still very beautiful, and as the baby fat belonging to the little girl gradually fades, she finally looks like a mature and calm adult on the screen. Perhaps because she debuted too early, audiences across Asia seem to have experienced her long youth turmoil with her. The results of "The Mortician" are very impressive, breaking the Oscar for best foreign language film, writing an important stroke for the history of Japanese film, but unfortunately, the film itself has more aura on the male protagonist Masahiro Motoki.
In the following ten years, Ryoko also slowly began to get used to it, people will not be as popular as ever, playing the female number two, female number three can also be an unforgettable performance experience.
Looking back at Ryoko Hiromi's 40-year trajectory, before she could fully grow up, her fame was overwhelmed like a mountain overnight. After experiencing the top and bottom of marriage and work, she continued to live more calmly.
Ask how many people can generously admit that "my life is a mess.".
In 2010, Ryoko married artist Candle June Bongzi, but later it was rumored that the pressure of the two lives together was too great, the marriage began to crack, and the two sides also had a big gap in the way of educating their children, and they have now separated.
Candle artist Candle June is a personality man who likes to be pitch black and wears huge earrings on his ears, which is very different from Ryoko Hiromi, who is in the image of a jade woman.
At first, Ryoko Hiromi was willing to marry each other because she wanted to be with people who felt safe, but after living together, she also changed because of different living habits. According to Japanese media, Candle's annual income was very high when he first got married, and since the earthquake in Japan, his income has suddenly dropped sharply, resulting in a rift in the relationship between the two. Recently, it was reported that Ryoko Guangmu hoped to end this marriage quickly, and even took the initiative to propose a divorce, but the man did not accept it, and the two had to temporarily separate first.
Ryoko Hiromi is already forty-one years old in 2021, and for the next ten years, she said: "To be honest, this age also scares me. From the age of thirty to the present, my attitude towards my work and my insistence on family business has not changed, and it is ideal to continue to maintain this attitude from the age of forty to fifty.
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