Asian TV » movie » Eiga joyu Actress
Name:

Eiga joyu Actress (1987)

Other name:
Cast:
Genre: Drama, Biography
Country: Japanese
Release year: 1987
Status: Completed
 
"Actress is not just the story that charts the rise of Kinuyo Tanaka, played brilliantly by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who mesmerized and illuminated the screen with her charismatic performance of a legend, from her naively youthful days in pigtails, to coiffed professional veteran of the industry. We see how she started off in the studio system being one of many potential talents available, having her family's economical hopes all pinned on her, and down to having a sugar daddy of sorts in Hiroshi Shimizu (Toru Watanabe) looking over her shoulder, whom she would get into and out of an unhappy secret marriage. Sayuri Yoshinaga provided that spark to endear herself to the audience, and needless to say, made me sit up and wonder just how the real actress was like in person, with her steely guts and perseverance in an industry that saw its brightest and darkest days during militarism and WWII." From IMDB By Dick Steel, Singapore In Actress, Kon Ichikawa shows us much of the life of Kinuyo Tanaka from the time she started as a hopeful in the Studio System until her work with Mizoguchi in Life of Oharu in 1952. The biography is good in itself, but it is cut with documentary footage detailing the state of Japanese cinema at the time in question. This gives us a very enlightening look at the development of the industry as a backdrop to the actress's career as it progresses. In the dramatic/biographic part we meet Shimizu, Gosho, Ozu and Mizuguchi to name some of the significant directors Tanaka worked with and in most cases had emotional relationships with as well. I've been watching Japanese cinema for a long time and this film was a real eye-opener in that it made the whole history of Japanese film come alive while showing a large part of Tanaka's career. It's unfortunate this film only covers her career until 1952. She had so many great roles, but to take on her role in Sandakan No.8 three years before her death in 1977 was impressive. It is surely one of the most impressive displays of acting I have ever seen. Interestingly enough, Sayuri Yoshinaga, who plays Tanaka brilliantly in this film in 1987, went on to have her own tour de force in Nagasaki Bura Bura Bushi in 2000 in another biography, that of the famous geisha, Aihachi. Mind you, in her case she is still doing critically acclaimed work in major productions to this day.
Comment
RANDOM
  • Ep 1 SUB

    Sand Chronicle (2008) (2008)

    Sand Chronicle (2008)
    Genre:
    Drama, Family, Romance
    Country:
    Japanese

    Plot from Hinako Ashihara's manga which this movie is adapted from :

    12-year old Ann UEKUSA's parents are getting a divorce, so Ann and her mother move to her mother's old hometown, Shiname. Ann feels that the people in the countryside are friendly to an excess, to the point where she can't have any privacy at all. But she meets Daigo, a boy who lives nearby, and he gradually helps her get used to life in Shiname. However, her mother faints at work, and......!?

  • Ep 1 SUB

    Mata Batin aka The Third Eye (2017)

    Mata Batin aka The Third Eye
    Genre:
    Horror, Thriller
    Country:
    Other Asia
    A person with third eye struggle to living in modern world.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    Crazy Alien 2019 (2019)

    Crazy Alien 2019
    Genre:
    Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-fi
    Country:
    Chinese

    A hysterical story that follows a man and his friend who wants to get rich as they get caught in an unusual inter-species battle.

    Geng Hao and his good friend Da Fe are both managing their failing enterprises when the unexpected arrival of a guest from outer space disrupts their quiet yet straitened circumstances. A mysterious force has sent the Heng Ha Generals to search for the alien's whereabouts.

  • Ep 1 SUB

    The Vortex of Love (2013)

    The Vortex of Love
    Genre:
    Comedy
    Country:
    Japanese
    Nine men and women gather at a house party. The men are disappointed with a woman's appearance. People try to lighten the mood, but there is an awkwardness. The house party ends. Dates among the nine men and women begin.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    Taiikukan Baby (2008) (2008)

    Taiikukan Baby (2008)
    Genre:
    Drama, Romance, Sports
    Country:
    Chinese
    Shibahara Jun is a high school student with high expectations for swimming, but as the team coach's son he is nicknamed 'Taiikukan Baby' (Gymnasium Baby) and no one believes his position is due to his own merits. Jun also must deal with constant rumours that his father got his late mother pregnant—who was one of his students—and never married her, another reason why he is so nicknamed. After being diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Jun is forced to quit swimming and loses all reason to exist. Shortly after, Murai Naoki, his replacement in the swimming team, asks Jun to be his coach since he admires him a lot. Jun and Murai start to spend time together, and Murai soon confesses his love for Jun and kisses him, a fact that leaves the latter confused. Jun tells what happened to his best friend, Kato Shoichi, who takes an overprotective attitude towards him and another defensive towards Murai, since he is also in love with Jun. Both boys swear a mutual rivalry that starts a complicated love triangle.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    The Avian Kind (2015)

    The Avian Kind
    Genre:
    Drama
    Country:
    Korean
    A novelist (Kim Jung-Suk) has spent years searching for his missing wife. He wrote a novel about his experience. A woman (Soy), who read his novel, finds the novelist in an isolated area. She tells him she can help find her wife. The woman is also searching for someone. Rumors grow about the fate of the missing people.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    The Rope Curse 3 (2023) (2023)

    The Rope Curse 3 (2023)
    Genre:
    Horror, Supernatural
    Country:
    Taiwanese
  • Ep 1 SUB

    Wars In Chinatown (CN 2020) (2020)

    Wars In Chinatown (CN 2020)
    Genre:
    Action, Drama, Historical
    Country:
    Chinese
    This film tells the story of the hero Ye Zhuo, a heroic hero who shovels rape and eliminates evil. After destroying the evil gang, the Black Dragon Gang, he travels across the oceans and smashes the Triad and the Sun...