Kurihara Komaki is a Japanese film and theater actress, known to the Soviet audience for the joint Russian-Japanese films "Moscow, my love" (1974), "Crew" (1979) and others. Today he is a special adviser to UNESCO for children.
Biography
Kurihara Komaki was born in Tokyo in the early spring of 1945. From early childhood, the parents sent their gifted daughter to study classical theater and ballet. After graduating from school, the girl entered the famous "Hayudza", the capital's theater school, and three years later, in 1966, she began to work on the stage.
Basically, Kurihara played in plays by Russian and European classics and became famous among theater fans, reincarnating on the stage as Maria Stuart, Juliet, Nina Zarechnaya, Anna Karenina, went on tour in the USSR.
Film career
Of course, such experience and talent of the actress could not go unnoticed, and closer to the seventies, the girl began to be invited to film in a movie. In 1970, she appeared in the comedy of the popular Japanese director Shinichi Kobayashi "Life is difficult for a man", a year later she starred in a melodrama by another equally famous director and screenwriter Noboru Nakamura, and in 1974 Kurihara was invited to take part in the joint Japanese-Russian project "Moscow, my love”based on the script by Radzinsky.
This is a story about a Japanese woman Yuriko, a native of Hiroshima, who came to the Russian capital to study classical ballet. The girl's magnificent career is cut short by the news of a terrible diagnosis - she has leukemia. A piercing love story, an amazing acting, amazing directorial finds - the film became very popular in both countries and Kurihara Komaki gained fame and love of the audience. For filming, the actress learned Russian and still calls that period of her career the most unforgettable and happy.
The actress has always been an active supporter of the classical theatrical "Russian" school, highly appreciated in her traditional techniques and psychological realism. She successfully collaborated with many famous Soviet directors, starred in several Russian films, always playing the role of complex characters, and performed on the Russian theater stage.
This fragile and modest woman, the famous Japanese actress of Soviet cinema, has several prestigious Russian awards, including the Order of Friendship. She is still called the "face of Japan" for her incredible beauty and impeccable morality. Kurihara's last film work was an episodic role in the comedy "Original" by Danish directors Antonio Tublen and Alexander Brøndsted. Soon after, Komaki opened her own theater, which mainly staged plays by Russian classics.
Modern period
Currently, the actress is actively collaborating with UNESCO on children's rights issues. She lives in Roppongi, the most Russian-speaking quarter of Tokyo, and in her apartment there is a real mixture of two cultures - Russian and Japanese. Like all Japanese people, she is very attached to her family, Senri's brother and mother. The actress has no children of her own, and she carefully protects her personal life from prying eyes.
