National Tide 1980.

Chapter 896 Behind the Scenery
In the eyes of the general public, the life of a star is undoubtedly full of scenery and colorful.

Especially in contemporary society, many ordinary people are envious of stars being able to enjoy special treatment everywhere in the society under the cover of a special aura, and their material life is also very rich.

Almost everyone thinks that celebrities who are loved by many people live a carefree life and can spend money at will.

There are almost no worldly worries in their lives, and they are so beautiful that they are impeccable.

But to be honest, this point of view is definitely the subjective imagination of people who do not understand the actual situation.

Although becoming a big star does earn a little more than ordinary people, there are often times when you will be in the limelight.

But precisely because this industry is a highly speculative industry, it can easily make people gain both fame and fortune.

Not only is the competition extremely fierce, but it also attracts all kinds of ghosts and ghosts to fill this industry.

Looking at the entire performing arts industry, it is not only full of intrigues and lies and plots, but also full of layers of suppression and power coercion.

Especially in Japan, there are even many gangsters who have penetrated into the entertainment industry, and many artists can hardly even guarantee their own personal safety.

Then one can imagine how difficult it is for a person to become a star in such a harsh ecological environment.

Not only does it require talent and hard work, but it also requires the awareness to pay a huge price, and it also depends on a certain amount of luck.

Is there any star who hasn't shed tears behind his back and suffered?

Which star has not endured the unbearable humiliation of ordinary people?
What's more, even if you are really lucky enough to become a big star and live a good life with both fame and fortune, it does not necessarily mean that you have gained happiness.

In fact, while the stars are enjoying the glamorous life of being pampered and glamorous, they also have unknown anxiety.

Instead, they worry about many things that ordinary people don't need to worry too much about.

Such as worrying about your body shape, your skin, your hair, your age.

Worrying about losing my reputation, worrying that newcomers in the industry will rise overnight to replace me, worrying that competitors of the same type as myself will get better career development opportunities.

You will also be afraid of being photographed by paparazzi when you go out, and you will be afraid of your private life and personal information being leaked.

Even when getting along with people, I always wonder "Is this person plotting something against me" and "Is what the other person said true or false?"

So in this world, I am afraid that few people really know such a cruel fact-the probability of celebrities suffering from depression is actually several times higher than that of ordinary people.

Why is this happening?

In fact, the answer is very simple, because even if the freedom of wealth has been realized, the upward desire is still unlimited.

People, the more you taste the taste of fame and fortune, the more reluctant to let go.

Pain and troubles will arise from then on, and I can't give up.

In fact, in this world, the higher one climbs, the more exhausted one lives, and the easier it is to become a slave bound by fame and fortune.

Japan's number one beauty in the Showa era, movie star Keiko Matsumoto, her current life is almost like this.

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At six o'clock in the morning, except for the occasional birdsong on the ginkgo tree, the entire block of Denenchofu, the most famous mansion in Ota District, Tokyo, is very quiet.

Most of the wealthy wives from various households here have not woken up yet.

Only Keiko Matsumoto, who lives in the [-]th-chome, got up on time with extremely high self-discipline.

In order to maintain her figure and beauty, she strictly follows her biological clock every day.

After waking up, I drank half a cup of honey lemonade, and then went to do morning yoga in the sunny greenhouse on the second-floor terrace of my villa.

Keiko Matsumoto took this matter very seriously.

Not only did she put on a pure white yoga sportswear, but her curly long hair was carefully combed and neatly arranged into a simple bun.

The weather on this day was also exceptionally sunny. With the arrival of 06:30, the orange-red sunlight shone on the floor-to-ceiling glass windows of the sun room, reflecting a dazzling, dreamlike light.

Keiko Matsumoto's flexible and slender body began to stretch and change in the light and shadow of the morning light.

For a while it turned into an upside-down crane, and for a while it turned into a bird flying obliquely, blooming flowers, curved bows, and erratic clouds...

Her yoga technique has been instructed by famous teachers, not to mention she has practiced it seriously for many years.

Now the level is professional and skilled enough to be fully qualified to be a teacher to others.

After doing yoga until seven o'clock, she went to wash and change clothes, and then went to the restaurant downstairs to have breakfast.

Breakfast was prepared for her by the servants according to a fixed menu.

At seven o'clock every day, two domestic service workers who have been employed by Keiko Matsumoto for a long time will come to work at home on time.

One was in charge of the kitchen and home shopping, and the other was in charge of cleaning and garden maintenance until [-]pm.

They don't live here, but work according to a fixed time and almost the same procedure every day.

Needless to say, most of the food used in Matsumoto Keiko's kitchen is high-end.

In addition to high-quality local Japanese specialties such as milk, eggs, and strawberries, there are also many imported foods.

Such as Peruvian red potatoes, Danish bacon, British oats, Greek olive oil and so on.

However, her personal meals are not complicated and the portions are small.

Just like this day's breakfast, she just drank a small bowl of porridge, a small plate of cold vegetables and natto, a small cup of custard, three slices of Sunkist oranges and a nutritional lozenge that is good for the skin.

And once breakfast is over, Matsumoto Keiko will start her first important task of the day - makeup.

As a public figure, as a contemporary national goddess, in order to present herself with a flawless appearance, Matsumoto Keiko never borrows the hands of others for her daily makeup.

Its level of detail is comparable to that of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.Almost every time it takes more than an hour.

Actually, it didn't take that long.

Especially under the premise that practice makes perfect, Keiko Matsumoto's makeup skills have become increasingly proficient.

But just because Keiko Matsumoto was born in 1952, she was 33 years old before she knew it.

Due to the psychological fear brought about by her growing age, she inevitably got into a dead end in this matter.

Now, she is becoming more and more unable to accept the traces of time that the years have left on her appearance.

The worry of old age and fading has almost become her main source of mental distress and pain.

33 years old!
It's an embarrassing age for any actress.

why?
Just because an actress of this age, if she plays a young and beautiful female role, it will obviously become inappropriate.

The 26-year-old female characters are often the protagonist's relatives and friends or housewives, and they belong to the supporting roles of each play.

If you don't want to take such a role, and you don't want to play an older middle-aged woman.

Actresses over [-] that year may have nothing to film.

But how can the pride of being a female star be so easily discarded?
Especially for Keiko Matsumoto herself, the first few years were the most glorious years in her acting career.

In fact, since 1980, she has been the head of Shochiku Films.

Until 1983, she successively starred in "The Gate of Youth", "The Love of the Waves", "Dotonbori River", "Kamata March", "Theater of Life", "Wubancho Xiwulou" and so on. Many well-known movies.

She even broke the record in Japanese film history and became the only queen of the "Oscars in Japan".

In 1982 and 1983, she won the Best Actress Award at the Japan Film Academy Awards for two consecutive years.

Especially at the 1983 Japan Film Academy Awards ceremony, the most dramatic Yimu ever happened.

Originally, in accordance with the tradition of the Japanese Academy of Film Awards, the previous winners presented awards to the new winners every year.

But it turned out that at this awards ceremony, Keiko Matsuzaka, who just won the Best Actress Award for "The Gate of Youth" last year, announced the list of winners on the spot, and it turned out to be her own name.

Moreover, she was also the actress who won the Academy Award for the first time for her two films "Kamata March" and "Dotonbori River".

These two unprecedented situations have all broken the practice since the establishment of this award.

It is conceivable that Keiko Matsumoto, who had no prior knowledge and was completely kept in the dark, was excited at the time.

To be honest, she thought that she only won the award last year, so it would be impossible for her to win consecutive awards this year.

So accompanied by thunderous applause, Keiko Matsumoto presented the award to herself on the spot, and couldn't help crying with joy for this honor.

And this scene not only moved all the audience watching the award presentation, but also confirmed Matsumoto Keiko's status as the number one actress in contemporary Japan.

In the following decades, this famous scene was often used by TV stations as material for recalling the year, and it was repeatedly rebroadcast.

It's just a pity that this miraculous life achievement has become the bottleneck of Keiko Matsumoto's career development.

After 1983, although she had reached the top of the Japanese film industry, her fame and social value surpassed her competitor Sayuri Yoshinaga for many years.

However, Keiko Matsumoto, who has been crowned actress for two times, can hardly make her career go further on this basis.

A special type of role has indeed made her a success, but it also severely restricted her acting.

In addition to the love ethics movies, she is good at the kind of female characters who are labeled with beauty and can charm all living beings.

For other female characters in other types of movies, major directors are often reluctant to ask her to shoot.

She has achieved success and fame, and she is no longer willing to accept bad movies for money.

She is more picky about script requirements, and only wants to act in the characters and scripts she likes.

She really wants to jump out of the original role frame and change her way of acting.

She even wants to develop on the stage of drama, and is eager to completely break away from the role of a "beauty vase" that entertains people with sex.

As a result, the actual feedback was unsatisfactory. Not only did her work drop sharply, but her attempt to change the play also failed miserably.

For a whole year in 1984, she only took on three carefully selected films.

They are "Shanghai Floating Life", "Legend of the Rat and the Monk" and "Makeup".

But I never expected that after the release of these films, everything was mediocre.

Whether it is film critics or audiences, it seems that they don't quite buy it.

So in 1985, the film works she starred in suddenly became zero eggs.

Not only did the few roles that I tried with my heart turn out to be rejected by the directors.

Even the roles she is good at, no one came to her to shoot.

But this is not the worst. The worst thing is that blessings come and go, and misfortunes never come singly.

At this time, Keiko Matsumoto's career in advertising endorsement also suffered a heavy blow.

Originally, bearing the laurel crown of the actress was the pinnacle of beauty.

It stands to reason that for at least a few years, Matsumoto Keiko should be the advertising spokesperson favored by big brand merchants.

From the perspective of fame and fortune, it doesn't matter if she doesn't have a movie to shoot, she can collect money just by making commercials, and her fame and coffee position will be maintained because of the broadcast of commercials.

But whoever imagined it, the sky is unpredictable, and people have misfortunes and blessings.

Just at the beginning of this year, a tissue commercial she was filming unexpectedly fell into a supernatural storm.

After the TV advertisement about tissues was aired, not only the producer of the advertisement but also the actors in the play died mysteriously one after another.

And the background music was later found to be a cult language sung in Russian.

In the end, this advertisement was blocked by the Japanese national media and completely banned.

As a result, Matsumoto Keiko also ate melons and became an ominous artist, and was terminated by the major manufacturers that originally signed.

I have to admit that the Japanese are the most superstitious.

As soon as this incident happened, Hitachi, Sony, Mazda, Japan Airlines, Mitsui Bank, Shiseido, Issey Miyake... all rushed to terminate the contract.

For Keiko Matsumoto, the economic loss directly caused by this incident may be calculated at 10 billion yuan.

What is the use of an appearance that captivates thousands of people, and the honor of being a double crown actress?
She is so pitiful now, it is worse than becoming a box office poison, that is simply an advertising poison.

Not to mention the house leak happened to rain all night.

As soon as the "Plaza Accord" came out, the business started by Keiko Matsumoto's father was hit hard by the exchange rate. Recently, he urgently needed tens of millions of yen for turnover.

So, how cruel real life is.

Even though she had just reached the peak of her career, Matsumoto Keiko was actually facing the threat of dying.

Obviously, Man should live a rich life without worrying about food and drink for a few years, but Matsumoto Keiko is even more short of money now than when she was not an actress.

In this case, she is a weak woman who can only act. If she wants to get out of adversity, how many choices do she have?
If he wants to take another movie that can make him popular, he can regain a lot of advertising revenue.

So apart from the card of looks that supported her career to where it is today, what else can she rely on?

It's no wonder that she is so fussy about things like appearance, right?

This is what it's like to be a star.

(End of this chapter)