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<p> On May 22, actress Mariko Tsutsui (63) attended the Japan Film Critics Awards and received the Best Actress Award for her strong performance in the film &#8220;Hamon&#8221; (2011).</p>
<p> In the film, Tsutsui played a housewife who becomes addicted to a new religion due to a series of misfortunes that befall her. <span class="strongInContent">In the words of a member of the selection committee, Tsutsui said, &#8220;I am amazed at how many drawers I have.</span> I <span class="strongInContent">always think that I myself lack individuality</span><span class="strongInContent">.</span><span class="strongInContent">That&#8217;s why I want to drown myself in roles, and I enjoy the process of exploring the roles I play</span>.</p>
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<p> In addition to &#8220;Hamon,&#8221; Tsutsui has also won numerous Best Actress awards for her work in &#8220;Standing on the Edge&#8221; (&#8217;16). However, among Japanese viewers, Tsutsui is probably best remembered for her role as a great playwright who is unrivaled when it comes to the impact of playing the role of a toxic mother or a horrified wife. Recently, in the morning drama &#8220;Tora ni Tsubasa,&#8221; she played the role of the &#8220;poison mother&#8221; of Ryoko Sakuragawa (Yuki Sakurai), a daughter of a noble family and a school friend of the main character Torako Inozume (Ayari Ito), causing a stir on the Internet despite her small role.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Ms. Tsutsui&#8217;s character, Baroness Hisako Sakuragawa, is a woman who married her son-in-law in order to ensure the continuation of her family. She wanted this for her only daughter, Ryoko, and was the one who stood in the way of her daughter&#8217;s dream of becoming a lawyer.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Perhaps due to the fact that the marriage was for the sake of the family, the couple&#8217;s relationship was considered cold, and in the end, her husband eloped with a geisha. As if to symbolize her unhappiness, her character was always addicted to alcohol.</span></p>
<p> (Entertainment magazine writer) &#8220;Whenever she appeared on the Internet, people would say, <span class="strongInContent">&#8216;As expected of a stable rasb boss</span>,&#8217; &#8216;That&#8217;s <span class="strongInContent">not the drunkenness of a morning drama!</span> She was praised as &#8220;no <span class="strongInContent">longer a drunken performer</span>,&#8221; and &#8220;a <span class="strongInContent">dull and tired of life, a quiet madam who is just too tired to</span> be a drunk.</p>
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<p> In the April season, she appeared in &#8220;Miss Target&#8221; (TV Asahi), in which she played the role of a snack bar owner who is actually a legendary marriage swindler. In the January cooler version of &#8220;Muddy Dining Table&#8221; (TV Asahi), she played a toxic mother who thoroughly denies her daughter Kyoko Saito&#8217;s personality, while in &#8220;Haru ni Nareta&#8221; (Fuji TV), she plays a sister who worries about her brother, played by Kenbu Kinashi, who has little time left to live, and she is active on all sides.</p>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" This magazine interviewed her when she made her first film appearance 30 years ago."></div>
<p>This magazine covered Tsutsui when she starred in the movie &#8220;Otoko Tomodachi&#8221; (January 28, 1994 issue). She was 33 years old at the time, and had been a member of Shoji Kogami&#8217;s &#8220;Daisan Butai&#8221; for 10 years while still a student at Waseda University, performing in numerous stage productions, but this was her first movie role.</p>
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<p> Otoko tomodachi&#8221; is based on the novel of the same title by author Noriko Minobu. The story depicts the struggle of the heroine who, unable to forget her former lover, becomes pregnant with the child of a man she does not feel love for. Tsutsui told this magazine that she <span class="strongInContent">played the</span> subtly moving female psychology in the work &#8221; <span class="strongInContent">not with technique but with feeling.</span> In the film, Tsutsui also shows a &#8220;pregnant woman nude&#8221; with her stomach swollen and her breasts taut with special makeup.</p>
<p> In the interview, she also revealed that she was a big sake drinker and drank 4 gou of sake in one night and felt fine, but <span class="strongInContent">&#8220;But recently I&#8217;ve lost confidence.</span> But recently I&#8217;ve lost confidence. I <span class="strongInContent">feel that if I drink a lot of sake, I look different the next day (laughs)</span>.</p>
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<p> Tsutsui appeared in numerous movies and TV dramas after that, but her role in &#8220;Chastity Question&#8221; (TBS) in 2005 as Medusa, the wife of the man with whom the heroine fell in love, became the talk of the town, and since then she has been active as a strong and quirky supporting player.</p>
<p> In a recent interview, Tsutsui said, &#8220;I <span class="strongInContent">used to drink a lot, but not so much anymore</span>. Tsutsui said, &#8220;I used to drink a lot, but not so much anymore.</p>
<p> Even if she does not drink in her private life, if she is made to play a drunk like the madam in &#8220;Tora ni Tsubasa,&#8221; she looks more like a drunk than a real one. Her expressive power as an actress is still evolving.</p>
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 Toshihiro NAKAIGAWA

 Mariko Tsutsui is a well-known and versatile actress who has played the role of a baroness in the morning drama "Tora ni Tsubasa" (Wings to the Tiger), a snack bar madam in "Miss Target," and in other recent dramas. This magazine interviewed her 30 years ago when she made her first film appearance and played the leading role for the first time.

Mariko Tsutsui&#8217;s role as the madam in &#8220;Wings to the Tiger&#8221; is a topic of conversation&#8230; Mariko Tsutsui reveals her &#8220;theory on actors&#8221; in her first starring role in a film in which she is nude in a pregnant woman&#8217;s nude pose.

Mariko Tsutsui’s role as the madam in “Wings to the Tiger” is a topic of conversation… Mariko Tsutsui reveals her “theory on actors” in her first starring role in a film in which she is nude in a pregnant woman’s nude pose.

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