<figure id="attachment_395523" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-395523" style="width: 4508px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="593d4967"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/10/1250b7ea71812dbd407f0a3763b0f7a0.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-395523" class="wp-caption-text">The first new film in 12 years of &#8220;Dancing&#8221; was a success, reaching No. 1 in the rankings.</figcaption></figure>
<h3><span class="strongInContent"> The latest film was a big hit as expected.</span></h3>
<p> The &#8220;Domestic Movie Rankings&#8221; (surveyed by Kogyo Tsushinsha) for October 11-13 have been announced. Shinji Muroi: The Undefeated,&#8221; the first part of a two-part film in the popular &#8220;Odoru Daisousasen&#8221; series, debuted at No. 1 with 251,000 visitors and 361 million yen in box office revenue over the first three days.</p>
<p> The film features Shinji Muroi, played by Toshiro Yanagiba (63), who has fought for the investigators in the field. The second part of the film, &#8220;Muroi Shinji: The One Who Continues to Live,&#8221; is scheduled to open on November 15.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> The second part of the film, &#8220;Muroi Shinji: The One Who Lives On,&#8221; is scheduled to be released on November 15. The film&#8217;s two-day results were 455,000 in attendance and 640 million at the box office, so it may not compare favorably with those figures, but it is surely a blockbuster. Since the strategy of this film is to completely recover the foreshadowing of the first part in the second part, there have been some not-so-good reviews. It is thought that the starting numbers were somewhat sluggish in that area, but it can be said that this is indeed the &#8220;Odoru─&#8221; series&#8221; (a movie industry insider).</span></p>
<p> The current &#8220;Shinji Muroi&#8221; does not feature Yuji Oda (56), who plays Shunsaku Aoshima, the main character in the &#8220;Odoru&#8221; series, and Eri Fukatsu (51), who plays Sumire Onda, the heroine in the series, but one of the female cast members familiar to fans of the series is Miki Maya (60), who plays Hitomi Okita, a bureaucrat with the National Police Agency.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> Okita made her first appearance in the 2003 film &#8220;Bayside Shakedown 2: Rainbow Bridge,&#8221; which was the biggest hit of the series. which was the biggest hit of the movie version. She became the first female superintendent of the agency to head the homicide investigation division and lead the investigation. In the film, she plays the role of a complete heel who is at odds with Muroi and Aoshima. Although she was eventually removed from her post as superintendent, she continued to appear in the series. In &#8220;The Suspect: Muroi Shinji,&#8221; his role was to save Muroi from a crisis.</span></p>
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<h3><span class="strongInContent">She was once &#8220;out of the game&#8221; by her agency.</span></h3>
<p> Maya was the top male star of Takarazuka, and her long hair, natural stage makeup, and unique style of dress became the talk of the town and gained support. Just before leaving Takarazuka, she held a solo concert at the Nippon Budokan produced by music producer TSUNKU♂ (55). She was so active that she was called the &#8220;revolutionary child of the Zuka,&#8221; and even published a book of photographs taken by photographer Kishin Shinoyama, who passed away in January of this year. She is now a member of the Takarazuka Revue, but she is also a member of &#8230;&#8230;.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> However, she was unable to produce any results, and the agency to which she belonged after leaving Takarazuka effectively gave her an &#8220;asset retirement notice. It was during this low point in her career that she auditioned for the role of &#8220;Odoru.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The role of Hitomi Okita was originally offered to Yuki Amami, 57, who had left Takarazuka earlier, but due to scheduling conflicts, Amami was unable to accept the offer.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The role of Okita was so heelish that the president of the new agency was opposed to the role, but she auditioned and won the part. He played the role beautifully in the movie, and his subsequent activities got off to a good start.</span></p>
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<p> In the play &#8220;Shinji Muroi,&#8221; Okita is revealed to have risen through the ranks to a position where he can move personnel around as he sees fit.</p>
<p> This year, he appeared in the Fuji Television drama &#8220;Blue Moment&#8221; and the film &#8220;Ninety Years Old. What&#8217;s New?&#8221; Maya has appeared in a number of films. Even now that she has &#8220;risen&#8221; in the entertainment industry by becoming an indispensable presence in high-profile productions, she must be deeply attached to &#8220;Odoru:&#8221; the series she has been working on.</p>
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<figure id="attachment_395532" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-395532" style="width: 2292px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="87802a1d"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/10/bf44f5956b586063fb86dc2189efc775.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-395532" class="wp-caption-text">Miki Maya and her husband, Mao Daichi, were dining together at a blowfish restaurant in a building. On the left is Daichi&#8217;s husband, interior designer Yasumichi Morita, and on the right is Maya&#8217;s husband, ballet dancer Chihiro Nishijima (now Kazuhiro) (December 17, &#8217;10 issue).</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_395534" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-395534" style="width: 3219px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="3ff24222"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/10/fdb518c99db577d8cf73e1d298e469a4.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-395534" class="wp-caption-text"> After seeing Mr. and Mrs. Daichi off in their car, Maya and her husband also disappeared into the night, arm in arm (December 17, 2010 issue).</figcaption></figure>


 Kazuhiko Nakamura (1st), Shinji Hamasaki (2nd-4th)

 Shinji Muroi: The Undefeated," which opened in theaters on October 11, was a big hit, debuting at No. 1 in the rankings. The hit film must have been very emotional for the actress, who once climbed up from the "rock bottom" by appearing in the same series.

Actress who rose to the top in her latest film, &#8220;Shinji Muroi&#8221;&#8230; Actress who was fired from her office and rose from the bottom in &#8220;Odoru Daisousasen&#8221;.

Actress who rose to the top in her latest film, “Shinji Muroi”… Actress who was fired from her office and rose from the bottom in “Odoru Daisousasen”.

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