Shibasaki Yuki: Tomato Jelly Becomes a Japanese Queen

If the Japanese entertainment industry selects artist power lists like Hollywood does, Shibasaki Yuki, who just celebrated his 23rd birthday two days ago, will definitely Elected as the Queen of Power in the first half of 2004.

The little-known novel was praised by her "Chrysostom", and its sales immediately surpassed "Norwegian Wood".

The film of the same name adapted from the novel in which she starred surpassed the box office record of "Paradise Lost" and became the highest-grossing romance film in Japanese history.

The first album won the runner-up spot on the Japanese Oricon Chart, and the Japanese drama he starred in was both well-received and a hit. In short, film and television songs with the words "Shibasaki Yuki" on them are guaranteed to be successful.

On August 11, she will release her latest solo album, which will make the "Shibasaki Yuki whirlwind" that has been going on since the beginning of the year become even more intense.

Who would have thought that at this time last year, Shibazaki Yuki would win the Best Newcomer Award for the drama "GOOD LUCK" (currently being broadcast on Jade Channel in Hong Kong, translated as "Love in the Sky"). In just one year, this "newcomer" climbed to the throne of queen at rocket speed. What is the secret of her rapid rise to fame? Let’s find out together.

From female killer to love killer

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Played the murderous student in the 2000 "Battle Royale".

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In 2003's "GOOD LUCK", he played the role of a constipated aircraft maintenance technician.

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The first solo album "Sweetness" released in February this year achieved great success.

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"Call for Love at the Center of the World", released in May this year, became the highest-grossing romance film in Japanese history.

Shibasaki Yuki

Identity: Actor

Birthday: August 5, 1981

Birthplace: Tokyo

Blood type: B

Constellation: Leo

Award record

Best Supporting Actress and Best Newcomer at the 25th Japan Film Awards in 2001

("GO Rampage")

2003 Best Newcomer Award at the 11th Hashida Awards ("GOOD LUCK")

Main Works

TV Series

2002 "Dream California"

"Billions of Stars Falling from the Sky"

"Love Deviation"

2003 "GOOD LUCK"

"Island Clinic"

2004 "Orange Diary"

Movies

2000 " Battle Royale"

2001 "GO Rampage"

2003 "Road to Hell"

2004 "Ghost Call"

"Calling for Love in the Center of the World"

I read it in one breath while crying. I really hope that I can have a love like this in the future.

——Shibasaki Yuki’s words caused the novel "Call for Love in the Center of the World" to set off an unprecedented craze in Japan

18 years old

Obscure

"Tokyo Raiders" Tomato Jelly Coffee

Shibasaki Yuki, who was born in 1981, entered the entertainment industry at the age of 16 through a Pond's cosmetics advertisement, and worked with Tokiwa Takako and the new Cannes Best Actor Yuya Yanagaku Belongs to the same management company and started producing Japanese dramas in 1998. If you don't tell me, you don't know that when Shibasaki Yuki first debuted, he filmed the Japanese film "Ken Yamako" funded by the Emperor. This ghost film was released in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan, but the box office was mediocre. Yuki Shibasaki plays a female ghost in the film, and the heroine is third-tier actress Mayo Noami. Ye Peiwen, who has retired from the entertainment industry, also has a role in making tomato jelly. Checking Shibasaki Yuki's official website, "Kan Shan Zi" is on the list, but there is no mention of another Hong Kong film in which she participated.

At the end of 1999, "Tokyo Strategy", the hit movie between Tony Leung and Ekin Cheng, was filmed in Tokyo, and second-tier Japanese actresses such as Ozawa Makoto were cast as Tony Leung's assistant.

The story tells that Tony Leung worked as a private detective in Japan, and he was often assisted by his assistant Sakura, including Yuki Shibasaki, who was not yet well-known at the time. She had no dialogue in the film and was just a "vase in the mirror", so Yuki Shibasaki herself did not mention on the website that she had acted in " "Eastern" movie, obviously she didn't want her compatriots to know that she had made jelly coffee in Hong Kong.

19 years old

Coming out of the limelight

Playing a murderer in "Battle Royale"

Until 2000, Shibazaki Yuki was cast by the great director Kinji Fukasaku In the photo, Yuki Shibazaki, who plays the murderous student Mitsuko Souma in the movie "Battle Royale", has a cold, cruel and vicious character. He gives off the same impression off the screen, and immediately attracted attention and received many film appointments. The following year, she starred in the movie "GO" with Yosuke Kubotsuka, who had recently fallen from a building, and won the Japan Film Awards for Best Supporting Actress. With the support of awards, TV stations also started competing for her. She appeared in every season of Japanese dramas broadcast in four seasons of the year, and she was still the number one heroine.

21 years old

Ratings champion

"Kimura Takuya's New Woman"

From 2002 to 2003, Shibazaki Yuki continued to compete with Kimura Takuya co-starred in dramas such as "Billions of Stars Falling from the Sky" and "GOOD LUCK". Both dramas won Japan's ratings championship. Yuki Shibasaki also won the Japan Hashida Award for Best Newcomer for "GOOD LUCK" . As a result, she replaced Matsu Takako and was dubbed "Kimura Takuya's new woman" by the Japanese media. This title is not a compliment. Matsu Takako was once ridiculed by the media as "I can't do it without Kimura." However, after Yuki Shibazaki left Kimura, people were impressed. After "GOOD LUCK", she starred in the drama "Island Clinic", with Hidetaka Yoshioka as her partner, and still won the Japanese ratings championship. For her performance in the drama, Shibazaki Yuki was voted "Best Japanese Drama Actress" by the audience at the "2003 Nikkan Sports Japanese Drama Awards" and was hailed as the "New Queen of Japanese Drama Ratings."

Last year, she co-starred with Tsuyoshi Kusamigi in the movie "The Road to the Underworld", which also achieved box office success in Japan. The movie theme song "Moon's Moment", in which she sang the lead, even topped the Japanese Oricon Chart. Ranking champions, Lian Lan and Utada Hikaru also became his losers. This single sold nearly 800,000 copies, ranking among the top 5 in Japan's annual single sales list, and also became the top 5 most popular songs in Japan's annual voting in 2003.

22 years old

The Queen of Love

A novel creates a miracle

In 2004, Shibazaki Yuki became famous all over half the world, and successively The movies, TV shows, and records that followed have elevated her to the throne of the new queen of the Japanese entertainment industry today.

The horror movie "The Caller" had a good start at the box office. This masterpiece by horror master Takashi Miike was screened as a special reception at the Tokyo International Film Festival in November last year and made a big splash. It was fully released in Japan at the beginning of this year. When the film was released in Japan, it received over a hundred complaints from viewers because the TV commercial was too scary. However, it also aroused the interest of the audience and swept the Japanese box office as soon as it opened. The film also attracted the attention of American film producers and negotiated for the rights. Get ready to start filming the Hollywood version.

In February, Shibasaki Yuki released his debut album "Sweetness", which immediately ranked second on the Oricon Chart in Japan.

Shibasaki Yuki not only composed five songs, but also participated in the production of the record. He selected the songs included in the album, arranged the sequence, and also decided on the name of the album. When asked why he chose "Sweetness" When choosing this name, Shibazaki Yuki said it was because she knew her nature was not sweet and cute at all, so she hoped to make up for this shortcoming in the album.

In April, TBS TV station launched the drama series "Orange Days" starring her and her husband Satoshi Tsumabuki. The script was written by the famous screenwriter Etsuko Kitagawa, who has created "Long Vacation" and "Life is Beautiful", and describes a deaf genius. A love story between a violinist and a college student who is hesitant about the future. The response was enthusiastic, both applause and critical acclaim.

What truly created "Shibasaki Yuki's Miracle" is a love novel.

The novel "Call for Love in the Center of the World" was originally unknown, lying quietly in bookstores with no one paying attention, but because of a sentence published by Shibazaki Yuki in the literary magazine "Da Vinci", "I cried while I read it in one breath, I really hope I can have a love like this in the future." Suddenly the salted fish came back to life, setting off a nationwide effect in Japan. The novel has topped the Japanese bestseller list for 35 consecutive weeks, with sales exceeding 3 million copies, surpassing "Norwegian Wood" and becoming a must-read love bible for every young Japanese. The film adapted from the novel of the same name starring Yuki Shibasaki was released on May 8 and grossed 6 billion yen at the box office, surpassing the 4.5 billion yen box office record of 1997's "Paradise Lost" and becoming the highest-grossing romance film in Japanese history.

After the movie became a hit, the craze for "Call for Love in the Center of the World" continued. The TV series version of the novel was also launched on July 2. Although Yuki Shibasaki declined the invitation to play the same role, the production Fang still insisted that she sing the theme song.

Like this novel, Shibazaki Yuki, who has just turned 23, has transformed from an unknown supporting actor into a rising queen in the entertainment industry. In 2004, Japan was hit by the "Shibasaki Koki Cyclone," and this whirlwind will continue to blow. Her new album will be released on August 11. Let us wait and see what kind of miracles Shibazaki Yuki will create after climbing to the throne of the queen of heaven. Written by: Peshawar