#Yoshinaga Sayuri

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SAYURI YOSHINAGA Japanese actress circa 1960's

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Genji: A Thousand-Year Love (2001)

Murasaki Shikibu, the bookworm.

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Mommy, It's That You?! (Yoji Yamada, 2023).

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Sayuri Yoshinaga (吉永小百合), Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) and Tetsuya Watari (渡哲也) in The Cleanup (嵐の勇者たち), 1969, directed by Toshio Masuda (舛田利雄).

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Yumechiyo nikki (Kirio Urayama, 1985)

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千葉真一   Sonny Chiba

吉永小百合 Sayuri Yoshinaga

1970

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私は女の笠智衆になりたい

　「私は女の笠智衆になりたい」と吉永小百合さんが言ったことがあった。ひとかどの役者なら誰もが理解できる言葉なのだが。

　その昔、かの名優森繫久彌さんが「寅さん」シリーズに出演してくれたことがありました。ある日、彼と食事��しながら話をしてい���ときのこと、ぼくがシリーズではお寺の御前様としてレギュラーメンバーだった笠智衆さんの話題に触れると、森繁さんはふと表情を改めて手にした箸を机に置き、「山田さん、私のようなつまらない役者の前で笠さんのような偉い人の話をしないでください」と言われたのでちょっと驚いた。森繁さんは言葉を継いでこう言われました。「私のような役者は、頭を搔いたりハンカチで汗を拭いたり鼻くそをほじくったりと、いろいろと芝居らしきことをしなきゃ間がもたない、でも笠さんはそんなことは一切なさらない。ただ黙って座っているだけでいい。こんな人に敵うわけがありません」

　（中略）無欲の人ーー日本人は昔から憧れたタイプだけど、今はあまり聞かなくなったような気がする。金、地位、権力、名声、贅沢ーー資本主義の世の中の成功者が手に入れたい価値、目指すべき価値とはまったく無縁に生きた美しい人、それが笠智衆さんでした。

2024/07/13　朝日新聞

山田洋次　夢を作る㉛

笠智衆さんが表現した存在感

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Kabei: Our Mother

2008 ‘母べえ’ Directed by Yoji Yamada

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Sayuri Yoshinaga

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EVERYTHING GOES WRONG [SUBETE GA KURUTTERU] Seijun Suzuki Japan, 1960

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Sayuri Yoshinaga

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Yoshiko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yûko Kotegawa, and Keiko Kishi in The Makioka Sisters (Kon Ichikawa, 1983)

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yûko Kotegawa, Juzo Itami,  Keiko Kishi, Yonedanji Katsura. Screenplay: Shin’ya Hidaka, Kon Ichikawa, based on a novel by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki. Cinematography: Kiyoshi Hasegawa. Production design: Shinobu Muraki. Film editing: Chizuko Osada. Music: Shinnosuke Osawa, Toshiyuki Watanabe.

Lovers of romantic historical costume dramas like the Merchant Ivory movies and the flood of Jane Austen adaptations will find much that's familiar in  Kon Ichikawa's The Makioka Sisters. The lushly melancholy scene at the beginning of the film, in which the sisters walk through the blossoming cherry orchards in Kyoto, accompanied by an instrumental arrangement of Handel's aria "Ombra mai fu" from Serse, anticipates by two years the scenes in Tuscany in the Merchant Ivory version of E.M. Forster's A Room With a View (James Ivory, 1985) that are set to music like Puccini's "O mio babbino caro" and "Chi il bel sogno di Doretta." The plot consists of finding a husband for one of the sisters, Yukiko (Sayuri Yoshinaga), whose marital prospects are endangered by the unconventional behavior of her younger sister, Taeko (Yuko Kotegawa), just as Jane and Elizabeth Bennet's were by the scandalous behavior of their sister, Lydia, in Pride and Prejudice. And just as Austen's novels took place against the distant background of the Napoleonic wars, so do the Japanese military incursions into China -- the film begins in the spring of 1938 -- recede into the background of the domestic problems of the Makioka sisters. There are four Makioka sisters, the proud remnants of a family whose male line has died out, but the husbands of the two oldest sisters, Tsuruko (Keiko Kishi) and Sachiko (Yoshiko Sakuma), have adopted the family name and are helping rebuild its fortunes. The sisters adhere to the family tradition that older sisters must marry before younger, which Taeko, the youngest, rebels against. As the film begins, she has already tried to elope with the irresponsible Okuhata (Yonedanji Katsura), and although the family thwarted that attempt, the story made it into the newspapers, which incorrectly reported Yukiko as the one who tried to elope. The family demands a retraction, but the newspaper only issues a correction. Yukiko is beautiful but shy, and attempts by a matchmaker to arrange a marriage for her have fallen through. There is a wonderful scene in which the family goes to meet a suitor, who turns out to be a terrible but funny bore. Ichikawa, who co-wrote the screenplay with Shinya Hidaka, develops and individualizes the characters of the sisters and their husbands well, and stays just this side of romantic sentimentality. The cinematography by Kiyoshi Hasegawa makes the most of the colorful settings -- spring cherry blossoms and autumn foliage -- and especially the beautiful costumes of Keiko Harada and Ikuko Murakami. Only occasionally does the note intrude that this is an ephemeral world, soon to be swept away by war.

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Tetsuya Watari (渡哲也), Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) and Sayuri Yoshinaga (吉永 小百合) in Monument To The Girls’ Corps (あゝひめゆりの塔), 1968, directed by Toshio Masuda (舛田利雄).

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My journey with Idol’s animes and mangas - Part 2

I’m back with this journey, but before the anime review (I still don’t know why i added mangas in the title, I’m barely trying to read “Oshi no Ko” in chapter 50 and “Oshi ga Tonari de Jugyou ni Shuuchuu Dekinai!”in chapter like… 5?)

I want to try and explain a little bit of japanese idols, as far as I know, because if someone of this class reads this, i doubt they know japanese idols besides japanese members in korean groups.

  Disclaimer that I forgot last time: my posts respect the Japanese names’ order.

The idol history usually is told to start in the 1960s traced to Yoshinaga Sayuri, who was an actress, but also to the Takarazuka Revue, and the starting in 1962 with Johnny’s Entertainement creating the group Johnnys being then said to be the first active idol group in Japan, and also Kitagawa Johnny being credited as the idol trainee system’s creator. 

On the other side also told it basically started as an effect of the popularity that the french film “Cherchez l’idole” got in Japan. But as a last this year was made a TV Movie (titled “Idol”　「アイドル」with sarcasm i need to say “what a creative title!”) about the one artist who Japan considers the first idol, Ashita Matsuko, an idol in the war’s period (specifically the movie is set in 1936), I cannot actually tell more because I haven’t been able to watch it yet, i only know is based on Matsuko’s real life.

Besides this kind of complex start point (with the information I’ve found in these years as idol wota). We can definitively say that the gap between the 60’s and 80’s are the golden age of idol, traditionally talking, with all the icons we get from this period, like Matsuda Seiko, Nanno, Moritaka Chisato, Sakai Noriko, and the group Onyanko Club.

This being also possible because of Japan’s economic bubble and the commercial interest on them growing, in this times idols weren’t close to the fans, and you can really notice this with Konno Junko from Zombieland Saga (as far as I know because I haven't watched this anime). The 90’s bring a declive in the interest on idols due to a shift in attitudes caused by Japan’s economic collapse. The idol interest also shifted from amateurs to professionals (partially because of a rehaul on Matsuda Seiko’s public image). This period was called The Idol Winter Period” アイドル冬の時代 and we got icons as Amuro Namie and SPEED, even though they never referred to themselves as idols.

In the 90’s we got the chidol boom, as the elementary aged idols were increasing.

The lasts years of the 90’s and the 2000’s bring more popularity to idols again, specially thanks to Morning Musume and the posterior creation of Hello! Project (excuse me to be a little out of this more academically moment to say that I love this conglomerate), this also started to bring the “Idols warring period” アイドル戦国時代 (which i’m not clear if it continues today) getting groups like AKB48 in 2002 (and posteriorly their sister groups), and having more groups since 2010 like Momoiro Clover Z, Dempagumi.inc, and more.

  This was a short history about idols, must say that Johnny’s Entertainement are STILL relevant today, yes, since the 60’s.

Anyways the idol industry is big in history, and in variety, this is a message to promote you to listen and hopefully you find one that fits to you liking.

NOW! To what I am here

Today I’ll review the anime I watched because one of my favorite idols had a character in…

  SHINEPOST

  LET’S START

First of all, the anime is a Light Novel adaptation, the novel titled “Shine Post: Nee Shitteta? Watashi wo Zettai Idol ni Suru Tame no, Goku Futsuu de Atarimae na, Tobikkiri no Mahou”... I cannot say a lot about this point, I wish I was able to found it translated to english or spanish.

Moving on, I’ll try to not spoil it, but the supernatural tag MyAnimeList gives us is really intriguing at first; it has its reason to exist, and is pretty good, not really heavy, but it helps a lot to understand the characters.

To resume it, is that a group called TiNgS is going to reach their first anniversary and haven’t being able to fill yet a live house

 (being this the smaller spaces to have a concert) while their rival group who debuted basically at the same time, HY:RAIN, has a confirmed Nippon Budokan concert (we know thanks to OshiBudo this place is IMPORTANT to idols), so TiNgS got a mission, to be able to fill the Nakano Sun Plaza’s concert hall or they would disband, 

to reach this mission they get a manager, it seems a bit weird to me they didn’t have one, but anyways, this manager will help them to release the best of each member to complete the mission.

    I said I watched it because of an idol voicing a character in it, 

but I must say I got trapped by the story way before her voice appeared in the anime, so, IS A GOOD ANIME.

  Shows a lot of effort from chika idols to reach their dreams, and at the same time their problems, specially thanks to this supernatural point, when you realize what it does, you can understand all the story as it is going towards the climax of the episode.

  We see the girls rehearsal, handing pamphlets of their concerts, 

planning what to do with their manager, and even working their own self-trust, on the trust of their group mates.

We also get flashbacks about why they are there, why they decided to become idols (spoiler alert: it’s because of an idol).

And going towards the 9th episode IS ALL SO WOW, you get it in the 8th, but it flows nicely in my opinion.

Story wise, I would lie if i say i didn’t cry or i didn’t get mad (I’m really mad at one specific character, but isn’t that mean, is in a way understandable, but still kinda mean). I really recommend it.

The songs are good! From TINGS (this way to write the group’s name is a hint for the story); and also from HY:RAIN, and i’m not saying this being “biased” but i like a bit more HY:RAIN’s songs.

The animation is nice, the way they used the 3D for dance scenes is, in my opinion, nice. I just have one thing I dislike; and is the fact that I DON’T SEE ANY MICROPHONE! not even diadem ones.

  This one is the exception about microphones.

The images we got at some endings I find amazing, some are like Paris themed.

  The SHINEPOST twitter account gives us 1koma, which amplifies (i want to think so) the lore, or at least I think so. And those are SO CUTE and funny, even though I don’t understand most of them!

Character development is good.

I gave it a 9/10 on MyAnimeList, but I think it might be 10 sometimes.

  Do you want to ask me if there’s anything (in slang) fruity? Well, I want to say no, because… I don’t have any reason really, I just (and surprisingly enough) didn’t had a medium amount of focus to even make up ships, but! the friendship that Momiji and Rio have is so pure and lovely.

 And Yukine is like a mom for TINGS, always helping in even the most ordinary things. 

Aoba (even tho small amount of screen time) is for real a big sister (like, really she has her own little sister in her group) but also mom-like i think. 

I'd say they’re all family, and the interactions between both (and others) groups that the 1koma give us have that energy.

  All said here, see you next post.

I really hope you make a space and watch SHINEPOST (legally, here)

  -CaMHH

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