With a cold face, a slender body, maverick, born cold, she is the oriental darling of Hollywood, and she is also a Westernized outlier in the Eastern Ying film industry. This is Kikuchi Rinko, a stubborn woman who shouts "Boring life, I don't want to die". Compared with other "peers" who are good at exposing in front of the camera, Rin Zi is very quiet, and although she has an inexhaustible passion in her heart, she knows how to control the essence of life under the stars.
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Author makoto
Kikuchi Rinko: Boring life, I don't want to die!
Half a cold wonderland
In 2006, Rinko became the second Japanese actress to be nominated for an Oscar after a gap of 50 years, directly promoted to international star. This distinction stems from the mexican director Alejandro González iñárritu's film Babel. In the film, Rin Zi plays a deaf-mute girl who is eager to find an outlet for her unquenchable sexual desire, and the delicate performance makes every kind of pain vividly expressed.
Under the slash of the red and blue shadows, in the turbid realm of color and light, the wordless porcupine is like a lotus blooming in the dark waters, telling you with an expressionless face: The eternal plight of mankind is always like this, not only can not speak, but also the words do not reach the intention.
In 2008, with a reverential heart, RinZi took the initiative to ask director Chen Yingxiong to play the melancholy and introverted Naoko in "Norwegian Woods". Because the image was somewhat different from the director's initial impression of Naoko, Rinko had to wear out her lips with the director in the early days of filming, just to get the role she had been praying for since she was 17 years old. "Naoko's split personality is very similar to mine, and I am a person who usually likes to play hide-and-seek with myself."
Thus, a hot persistence allows us to see on the screen the doubtful black zone of life, dominated by self-enclosed consciousness, and always pushed forward with self-logic and procedure.
In 2014, in a field of ice and snow, the sky and the earth were gray and white, and the Rin zi wrapped in a red coat stumbled to play the role of "treasure hunter" Kumiko. In the play, almost half of the scenes are filled with boring and dull life; but interestingly, this story that begins with a "true story" uses the perspective of "urban legend" to tell a strange girl who goes to fargo to hunt for treasure but freezes to death by the lake. It's a dormant volcano-like character, just like the one outside the lens of the Rin Zi — beneath her grim exterior, she still has a passion for blood.
On the last day of May, in a small western-style building in Nakano, Tokyo, Rinko's smile was equally cold. She switched from a light pink print dress to her favorite "oversized" state in a fashion blockbuster, presenting a "beauty that omits all the aftermath" with special visual symbols. Such beauty is full of inexplicable self-confidence in omission. As the saying goes, "A beautiful person is also beautiful in a sack." In this way, elegance and majesty seem to be walking right in front of our eyes.
Because of the language problem, in the initial interview, Rinko would act cautiously - she admitted that her English was not good and was afraid to express. So, in an interview with English, she took her mobile phone to translate words to deal with difficult words that she could not handle verbally; at the same time, she also had to behave low-key and modest under the praise of everyone. Talking about the fame and fortune that the Oscar nomination brought overnight, she also said frankly: "As a Japanese, I really can't show my feelings so obviously. The performance of the true color itself is a compulsory course for an actor, and I did not expect to make a name for itself. Today, I've learned a lot, like the people I met while living in New York, the things I did, and the movies I watched and the books I read that I've never forgotten. ”
Half a hot flame
In the eyes of Western audiences and media, Rinzi is a unique flavor of Dongying color, full of jumping and attraction. But in the Japanese showbiz industry, Rinko's maverick Westernized personality makes her peers see it as "dangerous". In interviews, she said that her personality is dangerous in the eyes of many insiders, and Japanese directors may not like her very much because she always expresses her "emotions" through performance.
In addition to personality, Rinko's attitude towards acting career is equally bold and direct. In Babel, she stands naked on the balcony of a tall building, bravely challenging the bare bottom line. In this regard, RinZi said: "The actor himself has to make some unavoidable sacrifices for the ups and downs of the plot. Plus, the essence of each woman is fully embodied in their joint joints, like a fragile molecular structure, exposed, really charming. Such a free and unrestrained personality makes Rin Zi separate from those actresses who mainly play the pure route, and it is more and more unique.
Recalling her first intimate contact with drama, Rinko laughs and says that she has watched Japanese sword films with her father since she was a child, loves heroic roles in samurai movies, and has also inspired her to become a female samurai. This also contributes to why Rinko was able to successfully defeat Pacific Rim actor Charlie Hunnam in reality. "I love martial arts heroes, and I even got trained in kendo and read some books about samurai spirit in private. I grew up watching John Cassavetes' Desperate. By the way, when I was a teenager, the walls of my room were plastered with posters of the cop movie Bonnie and Clyde. In the movie, Faye Dunaway's beret style made me imitate it for a while! In contrast, my favorite movie was "The Night of the Premiere," which I watched when I was 16, and the protagonist of this movie, Gena Rowlands, also inspired me to become an actress. Today, I still treasure her autographed DVD. ”
Speaking of why she switched from model to actor, Rin Zi complained very frankly: "Don't you feel bored with this job as a model!?" After refusing to continue to work as a model, Rinko casually rejected the singer's path arranged by her agent and re-found a new agent who was willing to support her to go all out on the path of an actress. "In the absence of stardom, I dumped my former agent, which seemed like a crazy thing. But the thought that if you don't break the once and for all at that time, you can only be doomed to mediocrity in this life, which is the most terrible thing. ”
100% casual and authentic
In 2004, Kikuchi Rinko, whose original name was Kikuchi Yuriko, was renamed "Rinko". Only because at that time, the stylist Kitamura Michiko complained: "I don't know if you are a genius or a fool, maybe there is only a line between the two." But the gentle name of Yuriko is not suitable for you, so it is better to call it Rinko! Listening, the casual RinZi changed his name for 23 years.
In this way, in terms of emotional expression, the lens of the Rinzi is not as cold as on the screen, but like a rather "emotional" girl - when seeing Sean Penn himself, Rinzi was so nervous that she could not speak, and even cried inexplicably when approaching the idol; keen to read Haruki Murakami's novel, the first novel was "Norwegian Forest", when Rinko was at the same age as Naoko, I don't know how many tears were shed for "Naoko's death"; once at the Cannes Film Festival, Rinko suddenly changed her appearance, The reason for appearing with blonde hair is just to not want to be "despised by everyone"; I like anime, and I am a fan of Ghost in the Shell and Evangelion, and I will revisit it privately when I have time. Such a strange and mysterious rin makes the rin on the screen more charming, although the public has not seen Rinzi's new works in the past 2 years, but it is still full of infinite others. In short, she exists only to prove and please herself, not for others.
Fashion itself has no laws
Nowadays, there is a strange phenomenon in the fashion industry: once a celebrity has reached a partnership with a brand, it means that the former wears the brand's style in most public occasions. For example, it is difficult for female celebrities who have been wearing dresses to put on jeans and sweatshirts. However, such "unspoken rules" are placed on the body of the Rin Zi, but it is absurd to the extreme. Because in her heart, no matter what style of fashion, she is willing to accept and try, including luxury supremacy chanel, but also street hip-hop julien david. "It was an honor to meet many designers of different styles. I myself would love to work with these people to make the most of their talents and create in themselves. ”
In fact, looking back on Rinzi's experience, fashion should have entered her life earlier than the movie - debuted as a model at the age of 15, and Rinzi once appeared in jewelry advertisements for Yves saint laurent and Louis vuitton; in 2007, Carl Lagerfeld personally took the lead to shoot a chanel advertising campaign for Rinzi; in 2011, Rinko was selected by Tom ford, with Natalia vodianova and anja Rubik and models like Dalia Werbowy made their womenswear debuts together; in 2012, Rinko participated in Chanel's "The Little Black Jacket" touring exhibition; in 2014, Julien David, who has lived in Tokyo for 8 years, teamed up with Rinko to see her as the inspirational muse of that season, making the possibilities of costume design more "quirky" ... In addition, Rinzi also appears regularly in street fashion blogs and has collaborated with famous photographers Mario Testino and Pierpaolo Ferrari on a number of fashion blockbusters.
Working with fashion brands with different temperaments is likened to a journey by the Rin Zi. "You can think of the brand as a strange city. It's an ability to quickly blend into a city that has just landed, and whether a city can quickly dissolve the sense of strangeness is its charm. Chanel in my heart, is a historic city, romantic and playful, women's very soft side and very strong side can be displayed at the same time. I've been working with Chanel for over a decade and it's been a rewarding and lucky journey. ”
As Karl describes, "When Rinzi looks at me with innocent and childish eyes, she will instantly become a woman with a mysterious and unpredictable atmosphere." Throughout the filming, Rin Zi changed sets of different styles of look. Her soft and slender body with natural and graceful movements, each step as if he is on the waves, let people's hearts flutter, have to revel in the posture of the cold, obsessed.
q&a：
1. Who is the cult film director you would most like to work with?
rinko: Takashi Miike.
2. If you had the opportunity to star in a novel by Haruki Murakami again, which one would you most like to be? Which character? Why?
Rinko: The heroine of "1q84", Aodou. Like me.
3. Which character has ever made you "too deep into the play"?
Rinko: Naoko. Because I have a deep affection for this role, I often can't get out of my performance, and even feel emotional barriers. At that time, I realized that it would be unhealthy to continue like this. To do this, I spent a long time tweaking and listening to a lot of music.
4. What is the city you most want to live in at the moment?
Rinko: Los Angeles.
5. How do you check your future work? Does it depend on the director or the character itself?
Rinko: It depends on my intuition.
6. If there is a time travel machine, which film and television work would you most like to travel to? Why?
Rinko: Past film and television works deserve to be respected. Greedy I want to try it all (laughs).
7. If you weren't an actor, what would you do?
Rinko: It's really unimaginable because I'm already an actor myself and have started to "go away" on this path.
8. What is the most read book you've read today?
rinko: Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Forest. This is a book about "love always stops at its climax". The reason for loving it is simple, because this book does not whitewash the truth, and everyone who reads it will be deeply moved.
9. How do I position my career? What are the goals after that?
Rinko: It's all about "timing," and you need to create different chemistry with the director and the characters. I think the goal after that is to stop playing similar roles as before.
10. What do you want yourself to be like in 5 or 10 years?
Rinko: I just want to be able to do the same job and get the good parts in the new work.
Photo: Jumbotsui/Text & Interview: Makoto
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