Late-blooming “Tsuki 9” actress Yuki Sakurai’s rapid rise to prominence was triggered by a “bizarre” performance by a Hollywood actress.

Yuki Sakurai (36) continues to make rapid progress.

In the currently airing Tsuki 9 drama “ONE DAY ~Kara no KARAKUZA~” (Fuji TV), she plays a cheerful sommelier who works for a timid and nervous owner-chef (Takao Osawa).

She is a brilliant comedienne in this drama, but there are countless other characters she has played. She is so popular that it is safe to say that not a day goes by when she is not seen on TV.

She came to Tokyo from Fukuoka at the age of 19 to become an actress, but returned to her parents’ house after only one year. She then worked at a local restaurant before moving back to Tokyo at the age of 23. She then began to study acting in earnest, and began to build a career as an actor. The film that started his career was “The Last Airbender,” starring Charlize Theron,

The movie “Monster,” starring Charlize Theron. I saw it in a movie theater when I was in my 20s, and I was shocked to see how much an actress could change. I was struck by it.

At the time, I still had only a vague admiration for actresses, but after seeing this film, my feelings toward them changed.

I had a vague yearning to be an actress at the time, but this film made me change my mind about acting,” she said in an interview with “FRIDAY Digital” distributed in December ’19.

In 2003, she appeared in eight films in one year. Since then, she has steadily increased her number of films to more than 30. In other words, she tends to be regarded as a movie actress, but she has already appeared in more than 40 TV dramas.

In January 2004, she made her first appearance in a drama series in “Someday I Will Cry When I Remember This Love” (Fuji TV). In 1919, she played the lead role for the first time in “So I guessed” (NHK), and has appeared in a total of six TV dramas in all seasons, including “You and I on the G line” (TBS), “Absolute Justice” (Fuji TV), and “Tokyo Single Men” (TV Asahi). In addition, he was active in four movies. Sakurai said,

This year, I was able to work in a variety of jobs, and when one job ended, I immediately played the next one, and sometimes I played two different characters at the same time. That is why I think it was a year in which the density of the roles I played became even denser” (FRIDAY Digital, December 2007).

(FRIDAY Digital, December 19, 2007). So what is the secret behind Sakurai’s popularity?