NHK’s morning drama “Boogie Woogie” Kagawa: The “deep darkness” contained in Shuri’s “outstanding” performance.

Shuri plays the heroine in the morning drama “Boogie Woogie” (NHK). In the fifth week of the drama, the existence of the birth mother of the heroine Suzuko was revealed, and Shuri’s outstanding performance attracted a lot of attention.

The model for the heroine, Suzuko Fukugi (Shuri), is Shizuko Kasagi, a postwar star known as the “Queen of Boogie” who sang many famous songs such as “Tokyo Boogie Woogie” and “Kaimono Boogie”. It is a human story that brightens up a damaged Japan with her singing, dancing, and natural cheerfulness.

In the fifth week, Suzuko returns to her parents’ hometown in Kagawa to attend a Buddhist memorial service. There, it is revealed that Suzuko is the child of Kikusaburo, a deceased member of the Jiromaru family, a local landowner, and Kinu (Noriko Nakagoshi), a maid. Suzuko overcomes the opposition of those around her and goes to a farmhouse in a neighboring village where Kinu is getting married.

Suzuko is so shocked that she runs through a grove of trees, screaming. Watching her, the famous scene of Shuri running through a shopping street while taking off her clothes came back to me vividly.

That movie is “Just by Being Alive, Love” (2006), which made Shuri’s name known to the world.

In this film, Shuri played the role of Neiko, a recluse suffering from manic-depressive illness and hypersomnia. Unable to control her emotions well, she blames Tsunaki (Masaki Suda), with whom she lives, for her eccentric and troublesome behavior. She knows herself objectively but is unable to change. At the time, I saw Neko struggling to do her best.

I couldn’t think of her as someone else’s problem,” says Shuri.

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