Kurihara Komaki is a Japanese film and theater actress, also known to the Soviet audience for the joint Russian-Japanese films Moscow, My Love (1974), Crew (1979) and others. Today, she is a special adviser to UNESCO for children.
Biography
Kurihara Komaki was born in Tokyo in early spring forty-fifth. From early childhood, parents sent a gifted daughter to engage in classical theater and ballet. After graduating from high school, the girl entered the famous "Hyuyudza", the capital's theater school, and after three years, in 1966, she began to work on stage.
Basically, Kurihara played in plays by Russian and European classics and became famous among theater fans, reincarnating on the stage in Maria Stuart, Juliet, Nina Zarechnaya, Anna Karenina, went on tour in the USSR.
Movie career
Of course, such experience and talent of the actress could not go unnoticed, and closer to the seventies the girl began to be invited to shoot in the movies. In 1970, she appeared in the comedy of the popular Japanese director Shinichi Kobayashi "It's hard for a man to live, " a year later starred in the melodrama of another equally famous director and screenwriter Noboru Nakamura, and in 1974, Kuriharu was invited to participate in the joint Japanese-Russian project Moscow, my love "according to the script of Radzinsky.
This is a story about Japanese Yuriko, a native of Hiroshima, who came to the Russian capital to study classical ballet. The girl’s magnificent career ends with news of a terrible diagnosis - she has leukemia. A piercing love story, an amazing play of actors, amazing directorial finds - the film became very popular in both countries and Kurihara Komaki gained fame and love of the audience. For the filming, the actress learned the Russian language and still calls that period of her career the most unforgettable and happy.
The actress has always been an active supporter of the classical theatrical "Russian" school, highly valued traditional techniques and psychological realism in her. She successfully collaborated with many famous Soviet directors, starred in several Russian films, always playing the role of complex characters, performed on the Russian theater stage.
This fragile and modest woman, the famous Japanese actress of Soviet cinema, has several prestigious Russian awards, including the Order of Friendship. She is still called the "face of Japan" for her incredible beauty and impeccable morality. Kurihara’s last film job was a cameo in the Danish directors Antonio Tublen and Alexander Brondsted’s comedy “Original”. Shortly afterwards, Komaki opened her own theater, where mostly plays by Russian classics are staged.
