The news of Nanami's death in Yokonomiya was like a stone thrown into the middle of the lake, and it didn't even cause a circle of ripples. She was indeed insignificant, so insignificant that the last call of life was heeded.
Who is she?A ** film actress from Japan ended her young life because of depression. Despite multiple searches, it was not possible to determine the exact year of her birth, which is estimated to have been born in 2001 or 2002 and was therefore no more than 22 years old at the time of her death.
At the top of her life, she chose the path of self-destruction. What's even more embarrassing is that her measurements are as clear as a product label, as if they were her labels.
Commodities can have new places, but what about where Nanami Yokonomiya goes?Today, I would like to take this opportunity to talk about the grains of sand that, like Nanami Yokonomiya, continue to struggle and finally sink to the bottom of the sea.
After reading the story about Nanami, I felt more helplessness and powerlessness, like the suffocating feeling of being submerged in the sea. Nanami's misfortune stems from her family environment, where her parents have been mind-controlling her and her sister and often beat and scolded them.
It can be seen from the news posted by Nanami's friend on Twitter that Nanami has been working at a maid café since high school, and then went to work in a nightclub in order to provide for her sister's education, and finally embarked on the path of ** actress.
Everything she does is to survive. However, when her parents push her to the brink, they in turn warn her sister to stay away from Nanami and even cut ties with her outright.
The lonely boat was forced to drift to the deep sea. You know, Nanami is obviously a person who trusts and craves love. Nanami, who was already suffering from depression at the time, tried to commit suicide due to the pressure of her work, and Nanami, who was already suffering from depression, kept encouraging her and trying to get her back.
Unfortunately, she was unable to redeem her fate. Nanami's tragedy was foreshadowed. Her mental condition had already begun to deteriorate, but unfortunately, no one noticed.
Since November of this year, her style on social ** has undergone a huge transformation, although ** still seems to be full of sunshine, but the accompanying text is always full of gloom that cannot be dissipated.
She often borrows wine to drown her sorrows in KTV, trying to release her inner depression, but the content she shares is becoming more and more lacking in vitality and freshness.
She once shared a song "Heisei Death Game", which expresses the arrival of the end of the world, the passing of love, and the despair of the future.
The song may reflect her innermost thoughts. Over time, in the ** movies she starred in, people could see the scars on her wrists.
A letter from heaven is the last message from Cheshire's good cat to fans. She wrote that it would be nice to be a revelation to the troubled children, to work hard to survive, and to hope that you can stay strong. Although we cannot say goodbye in this world, our hearts are forever connected.
She seems to have been craving even a modicum of recognition and affection as a way to prove her worth and help those who are equally vulnerable. To this end, she said that she would give it her all, even if her work seemed insignificant.
At the end of one of Nanami's ** works, she is clearly drunk and keeps asking the male protagonist if he loves her and if he wants to marry her.
The male protagonist replied, "I like you the most", trying to soothe her emotions, but Nanami, who heard this, hugged the pillow and cried. She looked up at the camera, choked up and said, "Everyone who is ** this film now, cheers." ”
Finally, she threw the wine out of her hand fiercely. Nanami desperately longs for that pure love, the kind of love that only touches hearts and minds. However, the world always reminds her relentlessly that for people like her, love can only be exchanged.
Her life was so short that I could sum it up in a few words, but it was the result of her best efforts to survive. It's so desperate, as if the ants in the cracks can't stand shoulder to shoulder with the crowd no matter how hard they try.
Fans who like Nanami are full of contradictions, on the one hand, they hope that her work will receive more support and allow her to live a better life;On the other hand, I hope that she can leave the industry as soon as possible. At the same time, some people questioned this, thinking that Nanami's conditions were enough to become an idol, why did they choose the path of ** actress?
Netflix once produced a documentary "People + Sex is Different: Japan Chapter" about the Japanese sex industry, in which three Japanese senior ** actresses were specially invited to reveal the internal situation of this industry through in-depth interviews.
From left to right: Satana Ogura, Minami Aizawa, and Mao Hamasaki being interviewed together. Question: What are the main responsibilities of an actress?Answer: Help people achieve sexual satisfaction.
What about the salary?An annual salary that is sufficient to buy your favorite luxury goods or luxury car.
Three questions: What prompted Minami Aizawa to become a ** actress and the attitude of her parents?Minami Aizawa, a graduate of the English Department of a well-known women's university, finally agreed to pursue this goal after a year-long persuasion by the company, and her parents supported it.
Yuna Ogura has taken ** actress as a career plan since high school, she thinks it's cool to work her body, even if she encounters her parents' obstruction, she still insists, and thinks that this can also fulfill her filial piety.
Q4: Does the actor abide by the industry norms in his performance?In ** works, the actress is the protagonist, and the male actor has a lower status, but they all strictly abide by industry norms and do not cross the line.
Minami Aizawa has said that she initially thought that the industry was full of dark and negative sides, but after actual contact, she found that the industry was clean and professional. At the end of the show, when asked what the industry means to them, I was very surprised by their answer, because they actually see this industry as a reborn parent.
Why aren't they as desperate as Nanami?Is it survivorship bias?Not really. Although they are the best in the industry, every woman who steps into this swamp is hard to avoid mud and trouble.
Mao Hamasaki has been in the industry for 11 years and has participated in the shooting of more than 1,000 films, and roughly calculated, it takes almost three days to complete a work, all year round.
*The treatment and status of actresses is largely determined by their position. Exclusive actresses such as Minami Aizawa, who only shoot 1 or 2 works a month, with high salary and good treatment.
And the planning of single actresses such as Hamasaki Mao needs to work hard to survive, because they lack security, and can only increase their income by shooting a large number of works.
For the assessment of ** actresses, the final sales volume shall prevail. Those actresses who can't open the market and can't attract audiences are often abandoned by their agencies and can't even get the opportunity to shoot.
This industry not only requires you to sell yourself at a low price, but also requires you to take the initiative to attract others to buy. Japan has enacted some regulations to protect the rights and interests of actresses, such as stipulating that filming must be voluntary.
Set a cooling-off period before filming for the actress to consider the contract, and during the filming process, if the actress is hurt, she can also choose to refuse to shoot, and the production company will bear the loss.
After the new regulations were released, actresses expressed their opposition to it. On the surface, the new law seems to provide universal rights for actresses, but in reality, production companies may outright reject actors who "don't cooperate", which makes it more difficult for low-level actresses to survive.
Many companies only keep the top exclusive actresses as their signboards, and then sign a large number of newcomers, and once the sales of newcomers decline, the company will immediately replace them. Actresses who were exiled often had to switch careers to the genre industry or make illegal films that were not protected by the law.
The tragedy of Nanami Yokomiya in the movie "Miss Chihiro" is not an isolated case, since ***, the suicide of the ** actress has no longer caused much shock. However, the most puzzling thing about this incident is that legislating for a grey industry is actually an indirect endorsement of its legitimacy.
The scale of the Japanese industry is huge, and ** is only the tip of the iceberg. According to a three-year survey by the author of "Poor Women in Tokyo", the real experiences of dozens of actresses who had to get involved in the custom industry in order to survive were collected.
Shiori Yamada (pseudonym, 24) suffered a family accident in high school, and her father was laid off, and the family's financial situation became strained. After successfully entering a prestigious university, she was saddled with a high student loan.
In order to repay the loan, she began working at a custom shop in her sophomore year. Her beauty and figure have brought her rich rewards, and sometimes she can even earn as much as a month's salary in the average service industry in one day.
The job gave her a taste of sweetness, and gradually, she began to identify with the job: "For me, the custom industry is no longer just a temporary means of making money, nor is it a temporary support for me to realize my future plans, and the world of night has become my home." Like the actresses interviewed before, she is proud of it.
This kind of identity and belonging does not necessarily stem from ignorance, but is an illusion given to women by society, causing them to give up their dignity and struggles and give themselves of themselves. It can even be said to be a kind of self-consolation for women, who try to escape this sense of meanness and can only deceive themselves.
After graduating, Shiori Yamada decided to become a single actress in the project to solve the debt problem faster. And when the author of "Poor Girl in Tokyo" met her, she was already admitted to a local psychiatric hospital, relying on alcohol every day to escape reality. Is it really their choice?Or should they ask, do they have a choice?
In all kinds of reports, there is always a common theme: identity. Growing up without the cultivation of female dominance, they mistakenly believe that buying goods is an affirmation of their personality. This notion is not only mistaken by them for recognition from the outside world, but also deeply imprinted in their self-perception.
Women who work in custom shops don't earn much. Taking 20 minutes as an example, excluding the store's commission and Mama-san's commission, they only got about 225 yuan in the end.
This industry seems to be lucrative, but in fact, it is a meal of luck, and the income is not stable. According to statistics, there are more than 300,000 women in Japan who work in this industry, generating hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue for Japan every year.
However, the work pressure and psychological pressure in this industry are very high, and many practitioners will choose to end their careers after working for a period of time, and some practitioners will even choose to commit suicide.
When I was creating the text, I kept in mind the image of Xiaofuzi in the movie version of "Camel Xiangzi". The old lady in the courtyard scolded Erqiangzi, and revealed Xiaofuzi's living situation in just one sentence: "She spent all the money from selling her daughter in a few days, and she reached out to others to ask for money, which is really shameless."
The old society's Xi of selling children and women has long since disappeared, but in real life, women are still often deprived of patriarchal authority. Let's focus on Xiaofuzi again, she was abandoned by her husband, all her property was also taken away, and in desperation, she can only quietly return to the home that once sold her.
Her father, who was an alcoholic, once said to her, "You don't have to be busy, there are some ready-made things, why don't you take advantage of them?"”
What's even more ironic is that when I was typing this paragraph, the system misjudged the word "sell" as a typo because it didn't match the logic of the whole sentence. A word stumps a computer, but there is no barrier to understanding for humans.
Are the social rules that have been around since ancient times really that complicated?The money earned by Xiaofuzi from picking up customers at home could not fill the bottomless pit, and he was sold into a brothel instead, and finally chose to hang himself. With only one mat and a pinch of loess, her life was buried in the history of sin.
Their uneventful lives are astonishing, as if they were fulfilling their responsibilities normally, but at some point they may fall into a diamond-encrusted trap and never escape.
After the death of Xiaofuzi, Lao She made a profound summary of the darkness of human nature: "Although human beings stand out from the beasts, they still push their kind to the edge of the beasts.
It's an eternal human model. The departure of Xiaofuzi and Nanami Yokonomiya is just a microcosm of countless similar girls walking towards the abyss. At the turn of the millennium, director Chen Guo saw a shocking scene in Hong Kong's slums, where the dark alleyways were almost entirely filled with drinking girls and prostitutes busy trying to make a living.
What I see at this glance is not only the plight of women, but also the hidden scars of an era. As a result, the "Prostitute Trilogy" starring Qin Hailu, Zhou Xun, and Zeng Meihuizi was born in the history of Chinese film.
That's right, what is revealed behind Nanami Yokonomiya is not only personal suffering, but also the flaws of history and civilization. They are a collective, but also a group of people full of vitality. They are who they are, and they may be far more than you think.
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