After Coffee Prince and Hana Kimi comes Kuroki Meisa in a biopic of Kawashima Yoshiko
(Japanese online news source: Mainichi) After playing a nun alongside Kamenashi Kazuya in One Pound Gospel, Kuroki Meisa now takes up the challenge of playing prominent cross-dressing war figure (the word heroine may be a bit politically testy) Kawashima Yoshiko in Asahi TV’s new dorama, to be aired later in the year, [男装の麗人（仮）～川島芳子の生涯～]. (Dansou no Reijin – The beauty who dressed as a guy- the Life of Kawashima Yoshiko). Another cross-dressing role! Well well.
You can read Kawashima Yoshiko’s full biography here at Wikipedia, but the main gist of it is that she was a Manchurian Princess (hence her surname was Asin Gioro 愛新覺羅) given to a Japanese, Kawashima Naniwa by the Imperial family as a ‘token’ of friendship. Even though she was Manchurian by blood, she grew up in Nagano, Japan, and worked as spy for the Japanese during WW2. Hailed as a traitor by the Chinese, but perhaps a heroine by the Japanese, I’m now wondering if the dorama will cause any uh… tensions when it finally airs. o_o. Does sound interesting though. Especially as Kawashima Yoshiko purportedly had a passion for cross-dressing, a ‘dominant personality’ and a beautiful and striking face.
Which was why I linked it to Coffee Prince and Hana Kimi, though the genre is really oceans apart ( historical drama versus manga-styled romantic comedies). Nevertheless the common thread is still there.
Kuroki Meisa (by the way, how did a mixed latin american-Okinawan girl come to play a Manchurian? Erps. Kawashima Yoshiko seems pretty Chinese, even Japanese-looking to me!) will play Kawashima from ages 14-35, after which Maya Miki (44) will play Kawashima till her execution. Yagi Yuki (7) will play Kawashima as a kid.
The picture above on the right strikes me as rather Oscar Wilde-ish, though the parallel be imperfect. By the way, just in case anybody’s interested, Anita Mui had played Kawashima Yoshiko’s role before.
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おもしろそうだね！yessss I like kamenashi toooo ha ha so I don’t really like her X_x
I found a new dorama to watch… it’s a 2006 show I think, set in Yokohama (I like!)…
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tatta hitotsu no koi!!!! i watched it just recently!!! its really nice, and sad….. and sort of sappy but i still like it!!!
its a nice love story!!! haha
when i watched it actually i thought kame acted pretty well, and i had this premonition that it would be really tragic
and….. YOUVE HIT THE 100000 MARK!!!!!!! WHOOOOOOO
OOoh what a wickedly good risk-taking and possibly controversial role!! OOoh so she is part-Latin American?!! I knew something was different in her looks. Man, why didn’t I turn out as good-looking as her?! hhehehe. With her looks, she can play just about any type of character with the right make-up and hair. I would watch it to see how they execute the story…I hope it has good non-cheesy script. She definitely can play a very strong gal. Thanks.
wow sounds like very interesting dorama.I really like meisa in One pound gospel.She’s pretty good actress
beautiful but maki is more beautiful than her
yeah!!…
maki is more beautiful than her but i lyk her simple beauty!
but maki is amazing!ehehehe