Keiko Matsuzaka was The most beautiful and well-known actress in Japan in the 1980s. She is the eternal Venus in the hearts of countless men.
Some viewers may remember her rather hot performance in Yang Fan's "Peach Color" (2004), which makes people forget the charm of a beautiful woman who was 52 years old at the time.
In fact, her work is most remembered by Chinese audiences as Xiao Xia in the Kamata March (1982), and on the other hand, she is also known for her bold nudity scenes in "The Man of the Fire House" (1986).
From left: Keiko Matsuzaka, Xiaohui Zhang, and Lixiu Ha pose for a group photo at the premiere of Peach (2004).
Keiko Matsusaka's performance in "Peach" is full of stage drama style, with an exaggerated control, as if there is an external sense of oppression.
When we saw her on the Chinese screen again, it was in December 2017, when Chen Kaige screened "The Legend of the Demon Cat" (2017), as Bai Ling, the wife of Abe Nakamaru.
Images of Keiko Matsuzaka in the film The Legend of the Demon Cat (2017).
She recalls: "In April 2016, director Chen Kaige contacted me, saying that he was a fan of The Kamata March, and seeing my performance in that film, he felt that he would ask me to play an important role in "The Legend of the Demon Cat" anyway. It was a dream for me. ”
And at that time, she also said that she was 65 years old after filming "The Legend of the Demon Cat", so she had to temporarily quit the entertainment industry, and the result was that she later reneged on her promise.
On the set of the movie "The Legend of the Demon Cat" (2017), director Chen Kaige gave Keiko Matsusaka an image of the play
On the set of the movie "The Legend of the Demon Cat" (2017), director Chen Kaige and Matsusaka Keiko reviewed the shots together
Matsuzaka Keiko, formerly known as Keiko Takauchi, was born on July 20, 1952 in Ota-ku, Tokyo, the son of a Japanese-Korean Han Young-myung (Hideaki Matsusaka) and a Japanese mother.
She was clever and sharp from an early age, and her voice was favored by the teacher as soon as she entered elementary school, and she became a member of the Little Walnut Children's Choir in the second grade. Her love of literature and music has propelled her onto the path of performing arts.
In 1967, when she was in her third year of high school, she joined the Sunflower Troupe and began to appear on the screen in the children's television series Hartley the Invisible Man and the Invisible Monster Jibo, and in 1968 she entered nihon University No. 2 High School.
In 1969, she was selected by The Great Film Company to shoot "The Record of a Female College Doctor", and successfully shaped the image of a female college student on the screen.
Matsusaka Keiko's innocent and curious cute image full of childishness, as well as her sensitivity to music and literature, made her naturally climb the ladder of performing arts and knock on the door of the ideal kingdom of art.
In 1971, the first director to use Keiko Matsusaka, Daimori Dihiko, again starred keiko Matsusaka in the genre comedy he directed, "The Night's Examination Room/Night".
LP cover for the movie "The Night's Examination Room" (1971), three images of Keiko Matsuzaka in the movie
She plays a cute and curious female college student who helps her father host a sex life consultation room, and as soon as she appears on the screen, she immediately attracts the audience with her simple, innocent and cute temperament, becoming a new star with feminine charm.
Before and after this, she made a series of erotic films with no impact, such as "High School Class Leader Orthodox/High School Student Fan Chang", "1970", "Army CrossTalker/Army Fallout Soldier" (1971), and also participated in the filming of pure love feature films "Ice Tree Lament/Tree Sorrow Song" (1971) and the TV series "Madame, 18 Years Old", "What?!!". 18 years old", etc.
An image of Keiko Matsuzaka singing live on TELEVISION
At the end of 1971, Daying Company collapsed. In January 1972, Shochiku immediately recruited Keiko Matsuzaka into the company, pushing her to the screen as an actress of pure Purity, making her a major figure in Shochiku's style melodrama.
Her first film in Shochiku was "Roadside Flowers/Tsujitsu", starring Shima Iwashita (1972), a well-known Contemporary Japanese actor, and she played the supporting role, and later played the daughter of the president of the law society in Okada's "Black Vortex/Kuroshika Rushing Stream" (1972).
Images of Keiko Matsuzaka in the TV series Tale of the Thief / Tale of the Thief (1973).
In 1978, she made a leap in acting skills as Yako, who was killed by her lover in the conflict between love and hate, in the "Incident" (1978) directed by Yottaro Nomura (1919-2005).
The film won the fourth place in the 1978 Film Magazine's Top Ten Films. Keiko Matsusaka challenged large-scale nudity for the first time in the film, and the route also changed from youth to maturity, and was nominated for Best Actress at the 2nd Japan Academy Awards for this film.
Stills from the movie The Event (1978), Keiko Matsusaka
Keiko Matsusaka is a hard-working actress who has made many films and TV series without interruption since embarking on the road of performing arts.
But in these works, she failed to give full play to her charm, so that she had talents that could not be used, and a star was hidden behind the clouds.
Images of an interview with Keiko Matsusaka
In 1980, Matsuzaka Keiko turned to film based on literary works, and starred in the works based on Mizumi (1919-2004), "Goban street Yuki-lou" (1980), and "Bad Guy/わるいやら" (1980) directed by Nomura Yoshitaro, and with the release of these works, Matsuzaka Keiko became the head of Shochiku.
Images of Keiko Matsusaka in the film Injiro's Story 27: The Love of the Waves (1981).
Images of Keiko Matsusaka and Kiyoshi Atsumi in the film Injiro's Story 27: The Love of the Waves (1981).
Her outstanding acting skills have matured with her age, becoming more and more perfect, which has deeply enchanted fans.
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Stills from the movie "An Unfinished Chess Game" (1982), Keiko Matsusaka and Mishako Cyano (right)
Especially during the "honeymoon period" of Sino-Japanese friendship, she starred in the Sino-Japanese co-production film "A Game of Unfinished Chess/Unfinished Game" (1982), which gathered many well-known actors from China and Japan at that time, and won many awards at home and abroad after the film was released.
However, Keiko Matsusaka only played a supporting role in the film, and did not appear much time, and her scenes were filmed in Japan.
Sun Daolin and Matsuzaka Keiko pose for a group photo while filming the film "An Unfinished Chess Game" (1982) in Japan
She eventually became known to Chinese audiences because in 1983 she starred in Kamata March (1982), which was popular with audiences when the film was screened in China with some deletions.
In 1983, Matsuzaka Keiko also won awards in Japan for this film, such as the 6th Japan Academy Awards and the 37th Mainichi Film Awards.
In late February 1983, the special number "Movie Shunbun" cover, the best actor and actress of the year in 1982 were Keiko Matsuzaka and Nezu Shihachi
At the same time, she also won the Best Actress Award from the "Movie Shunbun" for playing Xiao Xia in "Kamata March" (1982).
At the ceremony, Matsuzaka Keiko told reporters, "I am very happy to be recognized by The Movie Magazine. But I always felt that I had not received such a high reward prematurely, and after acting in "Kamata March", I knew how to make being an actor a real job, and I grew up with XiaoXia. ”
At the 6th Japan Academy Awards in 1983, Matsusaka herself read the footage she won for her "Kamata March" (1982) and "Dotonborikawa" (1982).
She also told reporters: "When I was awarded this time, I felt very, very happy, I didn't feel any pressure, because through this work I learned a lot of things, saw a lot of things I never saw before, I brought a lot of trouble to the director and cast and crew of Fukasaku Shinji (1930-2003), but I learned for the first time what an actor is, so I am very happy." Next time, I have to work with the director and the cast."
Why is Keiko Matsusaka so happy? It turned out that in the past, she had always been proud of her innocent, sweet and gentle image.
She always wants to make her image as beautiful as possible in front of the camera, and in "Kamata March", she let her play the little summer who has experienced the bittersweet and bittersweet of life, especially walking around in front of the camera with a big belly, which really makes her feel embarrassed.
Cover of the soundtrack to the film Kamata March (1982).
This work is a famous masterpiece of the famous Japanese playwright and novelist Tsuka Koshi, it reflects the breadth of society and the depth of the characters, far beyond the general popular reading and genre drama, for Matsuzaka Keiko is a completely strange world, in her own words: "Acting in Tsuka Koshi's script, and his troupe actors on the same stage really did not even dream, I think this is simply water and oil." 」
Images of Keiko Matsusaka and Man Hirata in the film Kamata March (1982).
She spoke very frankly about a lot of interesting inner activities, she only entered the shooting site a week after the start of the filming of "Kamata March", and as soon as she entered the steaming shooting scene, she immediately felt: "It seems that I am idle and have nothing to do, the atmosphere is very tense, the more I look at it, the more I feel that I have to work hard, but the more I think about it, the more I feel that my hands and feet are not where to put it." 」 ”
Images of Keiko Matsuzaka in the film Kamata March (1982).
The first time she was asked to disguise herself as a pregnant woman, Matsuzaka Keiko said, "It's so pitiful to let me play a pregnant woman, I once told everyone that this is a mistake?" But I was happy that I could perform Takahira Tsuka's work. I think that although the character is a pregnant woman, it is really pitiful, but after all, it is a fair work, and I have to try my best to act. In the process of acting, I got a lot of gains other than lines, I learned that you can't just enter the role from the appearance, just imitating the shape will not move people, I am determined to act according to my own understanding, so it will take a certain amount of time, so the actors on the shooting scene delayed a lot of time."
Stills from the movie "Kamata March" (1982), Keiko Matsusaka
Before participating in the shooting, Matsuzaka Keiko once heard Kazuka say: "A woman around 23 years old who has no burden on life is the most glorious period, and if she is in her 30s, she will become pitiful."
At the time she thought it was too rude for the man to say such a thing to a woman. But over the course of the performance, she gradually felt that it was indeed like he said.
Xiao Xia, played by her, was particularly happy with Ah Yin's first love when she was young, but at the age of 30, she was abandoned by the selfish Ah Yin before she had children.
Xiao Xia is like being thrown into the dark abyss of life, she has lost her warm caress, but she bravely grew up as an independent woman.
As Keiko Matsusaka performed, she felt that she had grown up with Xiaoxia, "I feel that the road in front of me is getting wider and wider." I used to say it wouldn't work, I didn't want to do it, but now I won't say it."
"Kamata March" has brought a huge turning point to Keiko Matsusaka, both as an actress's artistic path and as a woman's life path.
The three main actors in the film "Kamata March" (1982), from left: Hirata Man, Matsusaka Keiko, and Kazema Dufu
She saw in Xiaoxia the preciousness of man, just as her favorite motto, the famous writer Hemingway wrote a sentence: "Man will not fail, only his own character defects will make him fail." ”
Later, in countless interviews, Matsuzaka Keiko always admitted that the filming of "Kamata March" was her most memorable work, and she herself admitted that this work had too much influence on her, because she and director Fukasaku Shinji sparked love when filming.
Keiko Matsuzaka and director Shinji Fukasaku
Although the director Shensaku Shinji is 22 years old, she has no hesitation in throwing herself into this vigorous love.
In 1983, she and Fukama Shinji again collaborated with Shinji Fukasaku on Shanghai Ukiyoshi/Shanghai バンスキング (1984). The film depicts a group of young people who make a living performing jazz, and in order to escape Japan, which has been pushed into the road of war, they come to Shanghai, China, and enjoy a moment of freedom. But then the Sino-Japanese War ensued, Shanghai lost its former glory, and young people who made a living playing jazz were caught up in the whirlpool of history.
Cover of the late October 1984 issue of Japan's Movie Magazine, stills from Shanghai Fusheng (1984) – Keiko Matsuzaka and Mieko Shiho (right)
In the film, Matsusaka Keiko plays the daughter of the president of a company, a woman who is loyal to her husband and yearns for a free life, in this historic tragedy, Yuanzi has not worn away her will to aspire to freedom and freedom, and she will continue her life as a jazz singer.
Jazz requires singing and dancing while playing, sometimes even to the point of fanaticism, so to play a good round, you must be able to sing and dance well, in order to play the image of the character just right.
Keiko Matsusaka likes this work very much, although she is a good singer herself and often performs on stage, but dance is her "short board". I started singing and dancing two months before the start of filming, which was fraught with difficulties.
After the release of the film, the audience saw Keiko Matsusaka dancing so easily and leisurely on the screen, with a playful smile and intoxicating eyes, really like a jazz singer who can make people crazy. But I didn't know that behind the screen, Matsuzaka Keiko practiced jazz singing and dancing so much that she had a sore back and almost lost her confidence.
The famous Japanese gossip magazine "Weekly Bunkharu" reported on the unrequited love of Keiko Matsusaka in a large space
In 1980, after she finished filming Shinji Fukasaku's "Gate of Youth", she spread the scandal of her Mikuni Rentaro; in 1981, she took over the filming of Shinji Fukasaku's "Doton Horikawa" (1982), and then spread the scandal between her and Hiroshi Sato, the son of Rintaro Ofsaku, until the beginning of 1982, when filming "Kamata March", the paparazzi took photos of her and the director going in and out together.
On the set of the filming of the film "Kamata March" (1982), director Shinji Fukasaku (wearing sunglasses) gave a scene to actress Keiko Matsuzaka (left).
Huang Xia, a great talent in Hong Kong, once wrote that in addition to her good acting, she also has a very strong personality. For a while, she fell in love with her husband. Such scandals, in hypocritical Japanese society, if not well controlled, are often doomed. A good Matsuzaka Keiko, taking advantage of the performance on stage, said to the audience: "Many people say that I am obsessed with the husband of a woman!" I would now like to solemnly tell you that this is indeed the case! The audience was first stunned, and then the applause was thunderous - everyone was touched by her frankness and immediately forgave her!
Images of Keiko Matsusaka in the film The Man of fire (1986).
Later, Matsuzaka Keiko and Fukasaku Shinji collaborated on "The Legend of the Eight Dogs of Satomi / The Tale of the Eight Dogs of Satomi" (1983), "The Tale of Shanghai Fukai", "The Man of the Fire House / The Man of the Fire House" (1986) and "The Rebellion of The Hua Dynasty /The Chaos of the Hua Dynasty" (1988), and they moved around each other very little.
After Matsuzaka Keiko became popular, there were constant scandals, and there were more than 10 men's names involved with her before and after, but each time she lightly denied it or ignored it.
Images of Keiko Matsusaka in the film The Hua Rebellion (1988).
Only this time, not only openly confessed her love, but also made a group of melon-eating audiences have to admire her courage.
In fact, this is due to Matsusaka Keiko's strong imperial sister temperament and generous personality, honest with people, and acting boldly than men. Yoji Yamada's "Movie World/キネマの天地" (1986), she is the most popular actress in the play and outside the play, and no one is dissatisfied.
Matsusaka Keiko always carries a kind of dreamy beauty charm, it should be said that this charm not only exists in the beauty of her appearance, but also in her body, dissolved in her blood, reflected in her optimistic temperament that affects every nerve.
When Matsuzaka Keiko talks about the secret of making herself energetic, she does not approve of using strong stimulants such as coffee cigarettes to make her nerves tense, she believes that the key is to make herself cheerful, and that the way to eliminate fatigue is to take a bath often, so that you can mobilize the enthusiasm of the whole body.
She insisted on practicing Japanese dance every day, participating in intense filming work, and every day with a sense of tension, so she felt that her life was very fulfilling and happy, and she thought that if she was listless, depressed, and depressed all day long, she would be sick.
When she married jazz guitarist Haruruhiko Takauchi after filming director Yasuhei Oguri's "Thorn of Death" (1990), the news shocked countless Japanese men.
Stills from the movie "The Thorn of Death" (1990), Keiko Matsuzaka
Keiko Matsusaka went to the United States on December 29, 1990, stayed in New York for a week, and quietly held a wedding ceremony. Because the groom, Haruhiko Takauchi, went to the United States at the age of 20 and was accustomed to the American living environment, he built his nest in New York, and Keiko Matsusaka worked as a trapeze artist, running between Tokyo and New York.
Haruhiko Takauchi composed music for NHK's Galactic Universe Odyssey and is well known in Japan.
Back cover of a performance album published by Haruhiko Takauchi
At that time, according to Matsuzaka Keiko's father, Matsuzaka Keiko met when she and Harumi Takauchi sang and performed, and she believed that he did not have some bad habits of Japanese men in his bones.
Matsuzaka Ryoko Publication EP "Tango at Dawn" Seal
They didn't get married until 4 years apart, but because the dates were all at Haruhiko Takauchi's residence in New York, they were out of the eyes of all reporters. The marriage escaped the scrutiny of reporters, but was not blessed by the family.
When Matsuzaka Keiko brought Haruhiko Takauchi into the house, his father Hideaki Matsusaka strongly objected, believing that Takanai Haruhiko did not even have an income and was not qualified to marry his daughter.
After Matsusaka Keiko's marriage, the old man has had no contact with the couple.
In 1993, Hideaki Matsusaka also wrote a book, "Last Words" for His Daughter Keiko Matsusaka, which caused an uproar.
书 name: Sakura Legend - Keiko Matsuzaka Photo Book Author: Keiko Matsuzaka / Mitsuhiro Mori Publisher: Forbrick Publication year: 2002.08
During his two marriages, especially after giving birth to two daughters, Matsuzaka Keiko's focus was basically on the family, and the filming time was not very much, and there were basically no films for several years, so she was at ease at home with her baby.
In August 2002, for some reason, Matsuzaka Keikoshi launched an adult photo album, "The Legend of Sakura - Matsusaka Keiko Photo Album", which caused a sensation in Japan.
The above 3 photos are from "The Legend of Cherry Blossoms - Matsusaka Keiko Photo Album"
The photographs were taken by photographer Mori Hirohiro to be extremely beautiful, and the 50-year-old Keiko Matsusaka's figure was also maintained in a fairly perfect and stunning manner. It also became the best-selling photo album in Japan in 2002, creating another career peak for itself.
Even Wen Jun, then president of the Hong Kong Academy Awards Association, commented on Keiko Matsuba: "Keiko Matsusaka, a woman over 50 years old, is still sexy for many male audiences over 30 years old."
In 2003, the two suddenly announced their divorce.
After all, she lives in the United States, and the cost of paparazzi is too large, so her news is basically that she blew herself up, and other details are unknown.
It was in 2003 that Keiko Matsusaka returned to Japan to start the second spring of her acting career.
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