My father is excellent. I graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo and worked as a civil servant in a government department. My mother is also a good family and a piano teacher.
After I was born, my mother named me Memoirs of a Geisha. She wants me to be as lovely as a lily.
My mother has high expectations of me. She taught me to sing and play the piano since I was a child. When I was older, she arranged for me to learn to sing nursery rhymes in a children's choir.
We used to be an upper-class family in Japan with excellent living conditions. The whole family lived a happy life with plenty of food and clothing.
It's a pity that the war ruined all this wonderful life!
After World War II, Japan's economy was depressed and poverty spread all over the streets. My father listened to his friend's words, resigned from public office and started a publishing business in partnership.
As soon as my father graduated, he worked in a government department, and business was completely out of the question. Business in this publishing house is slow.
It never rains but it pours! The so-called friend who advised his father to resign ran away at the critical moment! The publishing house was forced to close down. Because my father is the legal representative of the publishing house, all the creditors chase him for money.
Our family's life is in chaos! Every day, many creditors come to the door to force debts, and they often quarrel outside! It attracted countless people's onlookers and accusations. After a long time, our neighbors began to alienate us.
Whenever I see creditors making trouble without reason, I always feel very angry and think: Why are these people so unreasonable? My dad doesn't owe all the debts, so why come to my house to make trouble!
"Dad, they are so unreasonable! I want to beat them and get these people out! " I said angrily to my father.
Life at home is getting more and more sad, because we live in a wealthy area of the upper class, so every time the family goes out, we should dress up well for fear of being looked down upon by others.
In fact, the family is too poor to open the pot!
As the eldest daughter, I see it in my eyes and I am anxious in my heart. In order to solve the family difficulties, I had the idea of being a newsboy when I was young. However, as soon as this idea came out, it was rejected by my mother.
"Miss Ji Yong's family, how can you be a newsboy in public!" Mom said so.
Our life is getting harder and harder. My father couldn't find a job, and my mother couldn't hold on any longer, so she decided to move.
We didn't dare to move during the day, so we had to sneak out the back door like thieves in the middle of the night for fear that our creditors would get into trouble.
Who would have thought that our family of civil servants who once lived in a big house would move to the dirtiest slum in Tokyo!
Father still can't find a suitable job, and post-war Japan is a mess! Many people are struggling on the edge of life and death, and it is more difficult to find a job than to ascend to heaven!
My mother stopped insisting. She wants me to go out singing and dancing to earn some money to support my family.
I didn't get a job either. My family often eats the last meal without the next one. At this time, I had a little sister, and the life of the whole family was even more difficult.
Until 1956, when I was eleven years old, I finally got the job of dubbing the cartoon "Red Copper Suzunosuke". I was so happy when I heard that I was hired by the cast! I can finally do my part for the Jiyong family.
Now that I think about it, maybe it is destiny takes a hand. In this work, my character's name also happens to be "Memoirs of a Geisha".
This dubbing job makes me nervous and excited. I tried to learn dubbing word by word according to the director's request. No matter how hard I try, I'm not afraid. I can't beat memoirs of a geisha.
"The food at home has increased", which is very happy for me who is still growing up, and there is also a wonderful feeling: I earned all the food on the table!
Two years later, the cast of the movie Call Morning Whistle recruited actors. I was lucky to be chosen because I have no acting experience.
Without any acting experience, the hard work of filming for the first time can be imagined.
Especially when shooting on location, the cars along the way are really unbearable. My sister often envies me for traveling around for free. In fact, along the way, I have suffered a lot of old sins! At the destination, there is no rest time for makeup, scenery and shooting. How can I have time to travel?
I thought about the whole family life, and I was full of endless enthusiasm. I tried to shoot, as if I saw bowls of white rice waving to me.
After more than five months of intense shooting, the film "Calling Morning Whistle" will finally be released. I am so nervous that I can't sleep every day, for fear that I am not good enough to ruin a good movie.
"On the screen, the emaciated eldest sister-in-law performed shyly, like a budding bud, and her world was awakened." That's what the media said about my performance.
The movie "Calling Morning Whistle" was a great success, and the whole crew was boiling!
I, the heroine, shed tears. I can't tell whether I am happy or sad.
Since then, I have kept making appointments, and people are as busy as snails! My academic performance plummeted, and my former best friends ignored me. They don't want to associate with child stars.
I have few friends. A person is so lonely!
I came out to work and act to help the Jiyong family solve problems, and I didn't want to be a star at all. I made up my mind that when my family is better, I will study hard and be an ordinary girl.
Yes! I always wanted to be an ordinary girl.
Read, study, get married and have children! This is my whole life. I even thought about watching my grandchildren play in the garden and cutting clothes for them when I was old. I want everyone to think that I am a kind old lady. Whenever I think about it, I often giggle involuntarily, and others look at me strangely.
By the third day, I made up my mind that "after entering high school, I will concentrate on my studies and live a sound and normal school life, and then I will explore my own way."
I was admitted to junior high school as I wished, but my parents still let me accept the invitation of Japanese film companies to be an exclusive actor. I expressed my wish to go to school to my parents, and my mother gave me the answer: "I understand your urgency to go to high school." However, the tuition must be earned back ... "
I know, my dream of being an ordinary girl is completely shattered!
I can only study and work at the same time, and I have signed a Japanese film company and am still busy every day!
I make about nine or ten films a year in a Japanese film company, and I don't even have enough time to sleep every day, let alone go to school.
The school informed my parents to let me drop out of school because I missed too many classes.
I am a cowardly person, inarticulate, timid, obedient most of the time, even if I am dissatisfied, I accept it silently. It's the same to sign up for a company, go to a private school, and take a movie at ordinary times. Either you follow your parents' choice or you follow the company's arrangement.
I finally dropped out of school, followed my mother's advice and entered a private school. It is said that this school can graduate as long as you pass the credits, no matter how many courses you miss.
I am sad, but there is nothing I can do. I said to my only good friend on the bus, "Sorry, I flew!" " "
I know very well in my heart that the reason why I am liked by the audience and valued by the company is all because of my lovely appearance and a pair of big blinking eyes. As for acting, they don't care.
I don't want to go on like this. Since God has arranged for me to be an actor, I will try my best to do it well!
I am trying to find my own transformation opportunities!
I have been exploring my own deductive direction until I took over Dancer of Izu.
I don't know much about the script of Izu's Dancer, but I dare not ask the director for theory. After further consideration, I found the original author of the play, Mr Kawabata Yasunari.
Mr Kawabata Yasunari is really an approachable good man. I told him my confusion: "My favorite lines were deleted from the script", but Mr. Kawabata Yasunari didn't say much, just let me play it well. Later, I thought it might be that Mr. Yasunari Duanchuan wanted to say that novels and movies are not the same thing after all.
The effect of the film was unexpectedly good, and I became more and more famous. I was affectionately called "Sayuri" by my fans.
I am both happy and sad to hear that. Because I was absent from class for a long time, the private high school could not provide me with a diploma, so I dropped out again.
I am desperate. I once cried in a director's house:
"I hate my parents. They just want me to be a big star, and I just want to be an ordinary person! An ordinary person! "
After crying, the next day I dried my tears and continued to work, working nonstop.
I yearn for campus life, and I want to go to college.
I used my filming break to review my work class and took the junior college qualification exam. I was lucky enough to be admitted to the Department of Western History of Waseda University.
I don't like western history, but I will be happy as long as I learn it!
I made an agreement with my family and my company to let me go to school on the condition that I make two movies a year.
When I was an actor, my father was my agent. Later, he opened a Geisha Memoirs Work Club with 20 employees. In order to support these 20 employees, I will work harder.
I'm so tired, sometimes I can't even grow pimples on my face! I really want to have a love, get married and have children like ordinary girls!
I met Tetsuya Watari, an actor, when I was filming The Record of Love and Death. He is a very interesting boy. Tetsuya Watari used to be a martial arts actress in the Japanese company, because my former partner Mitsuo Hamada accidentally hurt her eyes. In order not to affect the shooting progress, the company decided to temporarily transfer Tetsuya Watari to play with me.
Tetsuya Watari used to make Ren Xia films, but this is the first time to make a romantic film, which makes him feel very tired.
One night, according to the director's request, we went to the company's rehearsal hall to prepare for tomorrow's play, but we didn't see Tetsuya Watari rehearsing. The director flew into a rage and sent someone to look for Tetsuya Watari everywhere, but he looked everywhere, but he couldn't find Toussaint. At this moment, a playmate accidentally opened the door of the kitchen in the hall wall. To everyone's surprise, Tetsuya Watari was lying inside, fast asleep! It seems that the intense work has already made him exhausted and unbearable.
"Give me a break!" Tetsuya Watari said to me, "I thought so and decided to hide." I was overjoyed to hear that.
During the filming, Tetsuya Watari and I had a spark of love. I like him very much, and he likes me. We want to get married. But my parents are firmly opposed to our communication on the grounds that:
This man is so confused that you will suffer when you marry him.
I have never been able to persuade my parents to agree to my marriage with Toussaint.
I am still a weak person, I broke up with Tetsuya Watari! So I ended my first love in a hurry.
In the 1970s, Japanese life companies began to decline. In order to survive, the company decided to shoot low-cost porn. I couldn't accept this arrangement, so I chose to leave my old club and go to Asahi TV.
I was under great pressure at work, and suddenly I lost my voice.
I went to many hospitals for treatment, and the doctor said: There is nothing wrong with my vocal cords, which is caused by excessive pressure and lack of rest.
I am anxious, but the more anxious I am, the more silent I am.
"If you can't make a sound, you are ill, so you should rest until you recover. Even if you can't make a sound, as long as you do your best, you will definitely impress the audience. "
The speaker's name is Taro Okada, my later husband.
Taro Okada was divorced once and was 15 years older than me. Of course, our marriage was strongly opposed by our parents! My mother even said that she would crush Okada Taro herself!
But this time, I decided not to compromise! I want to go my own way, and marriage is the only choice!
I left home and married Taro Okada.
I like children, but I discussed with my husband before marriage and decided not to have children.
My mother and I are not on good terms. I have no confidence to be a good mother. I'm afraid that having children will affect my present life, and I'm afraid that I can't understand my children in the future and make them bear what I have to bear … In short, I'm a coward!
Growing up, I have been unable to be a full-time wife. Fortunately, my husband understood me and allowed me to continue filming.
Someone asked me, "memoirs of a geisha, do you like filming?" ?
I can't answer, because I started shooting when I had no choice. I think this is my destiny! But I don't hate this fate, filming has become a part of my life, and I can't live without it anymore! I will try my best to make more good movies in my lifetime and dedicate them to the fans who have always supported me and loved me. Thank you for your encouragement, and today's Sayuri Yoshinaga, Alibaba Addo!
If there is an afterlife, I must be an ordinary girl, studying, working, getting married and having children …
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