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| Queen of Tutors in the House: Koyuki in SKY CASTLE |
Though I know that the Kyoko Koizumi drama Renai Kekkon no Rule aired sometime back, it did not truly hit home how long ago it was until I saw pretty actress Koyuki in it and saw how doggone YOUNG she looked in it! Nowadays, Koyuki is a veritable household name among great Japanese actresses, and besides all the movies and drama series, we've been seeing her every week in the awesome "Sky Castle" as the COLD and COMMANDING Ayaka Kujo, the genius tutor from hell!
Such a powerful character that you're just WAITING for her to make her appearance in each episode, eager to see what she will be planning NEXT!
So used to seeing her as this tough "Cool Beauty", I was rightly knocked out when I re-watched Renai Kekkon No Rule and saw her again- As I recounted in my blogpost when Koyuki was "Crush of The Day", Renai Kekkon no Rule was the very FIRST drama I EVER saw her in back in 1997, and OH! Did she knock my SOCKS off! Slight, waifish, wide-eyed and innocent, THIS Koyuki was a far cry from the dominating characters she would play later in her career, and she simply stole my heart!!
Koyuki in 1997 "Renai Kekkon No Rule"
In the drama she played the role of Haruka Hayashi, sweet and naive fiancee of Yosuke Utsunomiya (Takashi Kashiwabara), a young businessman who nonetheless has his eyes set on Asako Nakajima (Koizumi) instead. Thus Koyuki spends most of the drama getting her heart broken by him over and over, and all I could think was “IS THIS GUY BLIND?” LOL
Dealing with an aloof fiance in Takashi Kashiwabara...
Throughout the show you're rooting for her to get her man (besides, we all know that Kashiwabara isn't good for Kyoko Koizumi's character anyway!) Sadly in this very early role of hers, Koyuki is destined to be only the “unrequited love” character in the show!
MAN, who on EARTH could leave a girl like that heartbroken on the street, I dunno...of course the next week she's back trying to get him to commit once more...LOL, only in dramas would a girl like this have to FIGHT so much to get her guy!
I remember gushing about her to her to naysaying friends who kept telling me: “She’s Too Thin!” or “She has Too Much Makeup!”, though it was obvious to ME that Koyuki was just about as perfect as you could get!
I WILL say about the "too much makeup" comment that while I personally don't think she's got too much makeup on, her eye makeup is certainly different from how she looks now. Her whole eye-shape looks different...or maybe it's just we're not used to such unabashed enthusiasm from her!
Always a treat to go back and revisit these classic dramas and see our favorite stars back when they were just starting out and had no idea the great successes that were to come for them!
Koyuki is one that certainly deserves it!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogpsot.com
