Kasumi Arimura’s Eye Acting Sets Record for ‘Umi no Hajimari’

The staff of “silent” (Fuji TV), a drama series that caused a social phenomenon, reunited to produce the July season’s Monday 9 drama “Umi no Hajimari” (Fuji TV).

A number of viewers were moved to tears by the sad “family” story depicted through the “love between parent and child. The drama has also set an all-time record for the number of “missed views,” and is receiving a huge response.

In this drama, the main character Tsukioka Natsu (Meguro Ren) learns of the existence of her daughter Umi (Izumitani Sena) from her mother (Otake Shinobu) at the funeral of her college sweetheart, Minamigumo Suiki (Furukawa Kotone).

The film does not use monologues or narration in the film, and the explanatory dialogue has been wonderfully stripped down. This is why the characters’ thoughts and feelings are so deeply felt in the hearts of the viewers. In the midst of all this, Kasumi Arimura’s performance as Yayoi Momose, Natsu’s lover, is nothing short of spectacular” (producer, production company).

Eight years ago, Arimura starred in her first Gekkinen drama “Itsuka Kono Koi wo Ki wo Mimemori Kitto Ni Kawaii (Itsukoi)” (Fuji Television Network). Producer Ken Murase, who is working with Arimura again, looks back on that time,

He said, “No matter how difficult the situation, she played the role of Onde (Arimura), who lives positively and earnestly, not only with kindness and warmth, but also with weakness and fragility.

He also commented on her charms.

“She has maintained the same dignified strength that lies within her dainty appearance.

The actress, however, is not the only one to have a strong presence in the film.

But that is not the only charm of actress Kasumi Arimura.

Take, for example, the second episode. In the second episode, for example, there is a scene in which Natsu confides in Yayoi that she did not know that Mizuki had given birth to Umi, even though she had agreed to abort the child. In that scene,

I was honestly relieved. I thought I had killed her.

I thought I had killed her. Hearing these words, Yayoi, unable to bear it any longer, goes into the bathroom and sits down as if in a crumpled heap, a single tear falling from her deeply sorrowful eyes.

However, those tears were not shed because her beloved had an illegitimate child. At the same time, Yayoi had also aborted a child with another man. This fact is eventually revealed in a reminiscence scene.

In other words, viewers are reminded for the first time that Yayoi’s tears were an outpouring of emotions that she had kept hidden from herself.

However, she has not confided this fact to Natsu and the others. Yayoi’s grief is further amplified by the contrast between Mizuki, who had a child, and Yayoi, who did not.

In episode 4, after aborting her child, Yayoi slips in the bathtub while cleaning the bath at home and unintentionally shields her stomach. In the fourth episode, Yayoi is cleaning the bathtub after having an abortion and slips in the tub, unintentionally shielding her stomach.

At that moment, Yayoi’s eyes sink into the depths of despair. Arimura’s two-minute-long performance, in which she weeps while taking a shower on her head to drown out her tears, has been inundated with comments from viewers who are moved to tears,” said a production company director.

The fifth episode aired on July 29. At her favorite beauty parlor, Yayoi wants to treat herself to a coloring and treatment. Then, next to her sits a single mother who has been visiting the beauty parlor for a long time while visiting her separated husband and child. She says

‘It’s going to cost me a lot of money.’

and apologetically requests only a cut of her hair, which has grown long and has noticeable split ends. Yayoi looks at her through the mirror, her eyes vacant with mixed feelings. They say that “eyes speak louder than words,” but how on earth did Kasumi Arimura get these “eyes”?

When she made her debut, director Ryuichi Hiroki, who was also her mentor, told her, “Acting is about subtraction, and that is the best way to get through to people. If you have feelings, they will be conveyed through your eyes, even if you don’t make a sad or happy expression. I was told, “Don’t do anything unnecessary,” and I have taken this lesson to heart. Yuji Sakamoto, who wrote the script for “Itsukoi,” also commented on Arimura’s performance, saying, “She was really just there and her emotions were conveyed.

In the film “The Filling of the Moon” (2010), Arimura teamed up with director Hiroki for the third time and co-starred with Ren Meguro for the first time. In this film, Ruri Masaki, played by Arimura, is a charming heroine who is both a mysterious adult woman and charming at the same time. There is a scene in which Ruri’s eyes, filled with deep sadness, grab the hearts of many in the audience.

Ruri is playing with a kitten she is holding on a bench by the river where camellias grow in clusters. Ruri’s eyes at that moment. I still tremble when I recall those eyes, which are filled with a painful sense of emptiness. Tetsuhiko (Meguro) tells Ruri that he would do anything if he could see her smile.

The escape triggered by these words eventually drives the two to tragedy. Her eyes, which sometimes shine with a lunatic light, are now actress Kasumi Arimura’s greatest weapon. ……

The second half of “The Beginning of the Sea” is finally underway. Where will her mysterious but beautifully shining “eyes” lead the story in the future? It may be frightening, but we will see.