She could have taken a girl’s route to the end
But she wanted to go into a different script
“Life in a hundred different ways”
She became the “first sister” of Japanese film industry
Photo from “Mother
Masami Nagasawa, who played Anna Kobayashi in the movie “Chinatown Detective 3”, has now won the Best Actress award at the Japan Film Academy Awards.
This award is called the “Japanese Oscar”. The 34-year-old actress is the youngest actress in Japan’s history to have won a grand slam of the “Japan Olympics” awards.
She is also the youngest actress ever to win the Best Supporting Actress award and the first Japanese actress to win two consecutive Blue Ribbon Awards. ……
Stills from “Mother
The first love face, long legs, healing smile, Masami Nagasawa is the idol of countless young boys and girls, also has an affectionate nickname “Masami”.
Since her debut at the age of 12, she could have made a good start with her “first love persona”, but she chose to make a transition at the peak of her acting career.
Screenshot from “The Proposal
She has appeared in many famous movies, such as “Diary of a Sea Street”, “The World of Deception”, “Mother” ……
The roles vary, but Asamu was able to get the essence of each role off the field, and hit the ground running when she came on.
Stills from “The World of Deception JP: The Princess
That year-old schoolgirl, step by step, became the first sister of strength in The Japanese Film and Television industry.
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Challenging the role of a depraved mother
Received critical acclaim
Masami Nagasawa won the Japanese Oscar for Best Actress for her 2020 film “Mother”.
In the award ceremony on the 19th, she wore a black semi-visible dress, full of aura, quite a royal style.
Masami Nagasawa after winning the award
When she went on stage to receive the award, Masami could not restrain herself from tears and choked up once before saying slowly: “Last year I really felt that without everyone working together, it was impossible to make a movie …… was very happy that everyone could still be there to support at such a special Time.”
Choked up several times while delivering his acceptance speech
Director Rizushi Omori said, “The female lead is a very strong character, but as filming progressed, Masami Nagasawa became the person with the strongest presence in the drama, and we were all impressed by her acting skills.”
Takashi Abe, the actor she co-stars with, recalls, “Nagasawa had rarely played similar roles before, but this time it was almost a step forward.”
In the movie, Masami Nagasawa plays the female protagonist, a mother who lives a rotten, self-destructive life and has a twisted and perverse intimate relationship with her and her son.
Stills from “Mother
The first time I saw the movie, I felt that the main actress wrote the word “mourning” from the beginning to the end.
Screenshot of “Mother
When faced with a mother who has sex with multiple people, goes to pachinko parlors to play pachinko all day, and does not care about her son, most people in life cannot empathize with her, and even just throw their anger at her.
Screenshot from “Mother
But when you look down, even after licking her son’s wounds and showing a smile, the pain of life is hidden in the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes.
Is this not an amplification and dramatization of the powerlessness of contemporary people in the face of hardship?
Screenshot of “Mother
Such a role is undoubtedly a challenge for her. The actor who played the parent-child scene with her, Okudaira Ogane, recalls that Masami Nagasawa read the script in silence while on set. When the scene opened, she came up and gave herself a slap on the face and tears immediately flowed down her face.
“Now that I think about it, she should have been brewing emotions.”
For this type of role with a large gap between their own lives, Asahi has his own pondering: “I have not been married and do not have children, so when reading the script, naturally put myself in the ‘son’ observation perspective to read the ‘mother’, read the I read the complexity of the role of a ‘mother’ and the responsibility that this identity carries.”
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The girl idol of choice
When it comes to Asahi, most people already have a picture in their minds: “Hanabi, yukata, and Masami Nagasawa”.
At the age of 12, she won the “Toho Cinderella” selection award from more than 30,000 people, becoming the youngest winner in history and making her official debut.
Masami Nagasawa who won the Toho Cinderella Award at the age of 12
When it comes to her looks, she can be best described as a first love face.
The biggest difference between Masami Nagasawa and many netizens is that she has no idol baggage.
Every time you show a smile, even the crow’s feet and the wrinkles on your face together with wrinkles, you still look brilliant.
A pretty face with a healing smile makes it easy to make people feel good.
The pure and natural style continues directly into the dramas in which Asahi appears, establishing a “first love persona”. When she was at her peak, she was known as one of the “Four Little Girls of Japanese Drama” along with Shinkaki Yuki, Toda Erika and Horikita Maki.
In “Calling for Love in the Center of the World”, she is the terminally ill Aki. She won the Japan Film Academy’s Most Talkative Actress Award that year for her kiss with the male lead through the glass of the hospital room.
Screenshot of “Calling for Love in the Center of the World
The first time I saw her, she became the “white moonlight” that the male lead missed numerous times.
She is the one who fights with him anytime and anywhere, the one who comforts him after the Koshien competition, the one who is sad when he hesitates ……
Screenshot of “The Proposal Battle
Finally the male lead finally made a true confession at the wedding site. Asahi slowly turned his head, tears shining, it seems that the next second will be routed.
Perhaps there is a Masami Nagasawa in every boy’s high school memories.
Screenshot from “The Battle of the Proposal
The first love is a controversial role, perhaps as the main female character in “The Last Friend”, the first love in the heart of the second female character, who is also a woman with Stockholm syndrome.
The poster of “The Last Friend
Faced with her boyfriend’s domestic violence, she almost made her life a mess.
Many people say that the play’s Masami Nagasawa only has a face with a weak aura and acting skills.
Screenshot from “The Last Friend
But from another point of view, the vulnerable expression reveals her soft heart everywhere, and is also soaked with her inner monologue of high fantasy of love and perpetual insecurity.
Even in the final reunion photo of the five of them, she still crosses her arms and leans forward slightly, vaguely conveying her apprehension about the future, which is the most powerful interpretation of the character, isn’t it?
Stills from “The Last Friends
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You can rely on your first love persona to be popular all over the world
But you have to challenge yourself
The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you want to do.
From the role of “Miracle” in 2011 to the role of the second sister Yoshino in “Diary of a Sea Street” in 2016, she was finally selected for Cannes.
The poster of “Diary of a Sea Street
Yuko Yeshi commented, “Nagasawa’s scenes are so explosive that you don’t even need to draft them in advance to grasp the meaning.”
Yuwa Yeshi and Masami Nagasawa
The final courtroom scene of this year’s New Year’s Eve season “Detective Tang Dynasty 3” was shot only twice in total, and the last one used was the first one.
Chen Sicheng exclaimed, “so long lines directly over, Masami Nagasawa’s acting skills are really convincing.”
Stills from “Chinatown Detective 3
In February, she won the 63rd Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actress in a Japanese Film for her performance in “The World of Deception JP: Princess Chapter”.
Asa played the role of scam artist Tatsuko, who directly reversed her previous persona and received a hot reception.
When the TV version first aired, the audience response was lukewarm, but when Asamu spoke Chinese in two consecutive episodes, the ratings skyrocketed.
She spoke Chinese for less than a minute, but in fact she had practiced for a long time in her early years.
Once for filming the Taiwanese drama “Rogue Cake Shop”, she went to Taiwan with the crew and underwent a special training course of Chinese lines for up to 9 hours a day for more than 4 months.
“Sincerity for China must first be seriously expressed through (correct) biting pronunciation.”
Sometimes when she was tired of her classes, Asamu would go out for a walk, but it always happened to be rainy and cloudy.
Instead of complaining about the cloudy weather, she studied it seriously: “In Taiwanese dramas, there are so many scenes of crying, rain and kissing, does it have something to do with the local weather and atmosphere? It creates a soggy feeling.”
She said that if there were so many scenes of tears and kissing in Japanese dramas, she might have gotten bored long ago, but when faced with a different Culture, one has to ponder the differences.
Stills from “Rogue Cake Shop
With this serious and optimistic attitude and years of hard work, she has gradually become an “acting heroine” on the screen.
She is also a very good actress.
The photo of Asahi po in social media, even if she smiles with her mouth showing teeth, she doesn’t care.
As Mamoru said in an interview, she started to feel in her 30s that the greatest feature of filming is that she can be exposed to different emotions, so she feels that her mind and vision have become bigger.
“As for the principle of taking on a drama, I don’t care about the lead role, supporting role, or the number of parts, as long as I find it interesting.”
It is because of her ability to defy hard work and authentically empathize with characters and scenes that the current Masami Nagasawa has emerged.
What surprises she will bring in the upcoming “Ultraman” and “Dragon cherry 2” are highly anticipated.
Screenshot of “The Proposal
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