On May 20, 2021, the movie "Love Letter" was re-released in mainland China. Men and women of different grades and audiences from different generations rushed to the theater to watch a love tragedy that premiered 26 years ago and took place in a foreign country.

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Kaihara Tsuka isn't it popular? On May 20, 2021, the movie "Love Letter" was re-released in mainland China. Men and women of different grades and audiences from different generations rushed to the theater to watch a love tragedy that premiered 26 years ago and took place in a foreign country. In addition to the appeal of director Shunji Iwai , another reason is to take a look at Takashi Kashihara on the big screen.

On May 20, 2021, the movie "Love Letter" was re-released in mainland China

1995 movie "Love Letter" was released. In terms of scenes, the protagonists are Nakayama Miho , Sakai Miki , Toyokawa Yuji, and Kashihara Takashi, but ranks fourth in the cast list. He appeared in for more than ten minutes and , with few lines - in the middle of the movie, there was no one in the campus library in the afternoon, two boys named "Fujiiki" were selected as librarians. The male Fujiiki seemed to be ignoring the serious business, ignoring the female Fujiiki's greetings, leaning against the window to read a book alone.

Katakahara's classic shot in "Love Letter"

Katakahara plays the male Fujiiki . Someone later calculated that here, the close-ups given by the director gave him a total of 20 seconds , the longest of which is 7 seconds .

7 seconds, the white curtains brushed slowly by, and Kashihara Takashi looked down by the window and seemed to hide in the curtains, and seemed to be looking up. Countless viewers were moved by this scene, hoping that the young man in the picture could look up at the world and himself, but also afraid of disturbing him. It would be great to keep his head down like this.

A boy named Fujiiki, a movie called "Love Letter" , was frozen in these 7 seconds, and a moment became eternal. From then on, the campus library with white curtains, the silent and restrained high school boys, and the intertwined love of teenagers were all named and had their origins.

also freezes the face of 18-year-old Takashi Kashihara. More than 20 years later, the movie "Love Letter" was re-released in many places in Asia. People always have many interpretations of Shunji Iwai's emotions and images, but they must be direct and emotional to Takashi Kashihara in "Love Letter". You see those 7 seconds and look forward to meeting it again in possible opportunities in the future.

Kiss Kashihara's " A Kiss Love " was broadcast in Japan, with a rating of 10.1%. The TV series " White Line Streaming " starring him as a male supporting role has an average viewership rate of 10.9%. During the same period, the average viewership rate of " Long Holiday " by Kimura Takuya was 29.6%, and the highest viewership rate of " Beautiful Life " was 41.3%. In 1999, the 16-year-old Hideaki Takizawa starred in " The Witch's Conditions ", with an average viewership rate of 21.5%.

award. Takuya Kimura and Hideaki Takizawa hold a bunch of Japanese Drama Academy Awards and Japanese Film Academy Awards and . Takashi Kashiwahara won the first prize in 1995, and won the 19th Japan Film Academy Award for "Love Letter". He won the last award in 1999, and won the 23rd Golden Flying Newcomer Award for his suspense film "The Edge of Heart" .

After leaving "Love Letter", Takashi Kashihara didn't have many highlights as an artist. In 2002, he filmed the TV series " Forever Two People " . After filming two episodes, he quit. The official reason was that he was diagnosed with "neck, shoulder and wrist syndrome" and was hospitalized for treatment. He rested for more than a year and married his girlfriend at that time. Then in December 2004, he had a physical conflict with his amateur on the street and was fined 200,000 yen. After the injury incident, Takashi Kashihara shaved his head and apologized. The series he starred in was cancelled by the TV station. Later, he divorced in 2006 and made a full comeback in 2008. He played supporting roles in many TV series and movies, and even "played soy sauce" .

Katakahara Takahara has long been standing on the other side of "can fight" : be loyal to your uncertainty, be loyal to your own changes, even if this change points to a recession.

There is change when there is life. Takashi Kashihara said: "The happiest thing is the unexpected changes in life that may happen at any time." Now he calls himself "Old Bo" and has passed the age of expressing rebellion through his beard. He has long reached the stage of still accepting "self full of life's original appearance" in the polar reaction of "unsuitable" and "not bad".

That year, it was originally a mistake. Because of a bowl of ramen promised by my mother, Takashi Kashiwahara participated in the "Junon super Boy" trial in 1993 and debuted as a champion. At that time, he was planning to "quit early" . When he made the first movie, he didn't know anything. He was scolded by the director on the set, thinking that he would "give up completely if he made another movie."

Until Shunji Iwai sent him an invitation, promising to see the worshiped seniors in the "Love Letter". Takashi Kashihara agreed. He recalled that at that time, "I was scolded by the director every day" on the crew, "very hard", "The director taught me that it doesn't matter if I don't have any advantages, but I must not forget my eyes."

On May 20, 2021, "Love Letter" was re-released in the mainland, which was the closest time that Kashihara Takashi had left the audience. Regarding the title of beautiful boy, he said: "About the title of beautiful boy, this happened more than 20 years ago. I am now Oujisan . ." I feel very happy when I think of myself being called beautiful boy by everyone, and this just makes me feel again that I am no longer the teenager of the past. "

" When I was young, I had a sense of resistance and rejection for this title. However, now that I have grown up, I am actually quite happy. " He has long been no longer a beautiful boy, and has passed the age of competing with the "beautiful boy". Even the identity of an actor is not necessary. After the news of the re-release of "Love Letter", people quickly connected Tsuke Kashihara with the 7 seconds of that year. Unlike other artists with a long list of glorious and successful artists, this is another immortal success of Tsuke Kashihara or Tsuke Kashihara, some actors have been burdened by awards, box office results, and ratings records throughout their lives, while Tsuke Kashihara remains unmoved, but is clearly included in the audience's memories. As long as he is mentioned, people can think of those 7 seconds, 7 seconds that cannot be replaced by the world.