Word: harada
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lear figure. From above and beyond, we perceive him not as a great man falling but as a fragile, all too human stumbler. Distance lends an analogous irony to the scenes in which his older sons and their advisers--among them a hypnotic Kurosawa invention, Lady Kaede (Mieko Harada), wife of Taro, lover of Jiro and a woman demonically possessed by vengeful needs of her own--meet to scheme multiple betrayals. Their still, geometrically formal groupings imply the characters' deluded faith that they are engaged in rational enterprises, when, of course, they are sowing anarchy's seeds...
...Akiko Harada...
Their faces are soft and pretty, their voices tender and sweet. When it comes to pop music, the Japanese like their stars young and female. Last week the top of the pops belonged to a handful of singers - Hiroko Yakushimaru, Akina Nakamori, Naoko Kawai and Tomoyo Harada- whose claim to fame owes more to their winsome good looks than their modest vocal talent. Says Shig Fujita, an entertainment writer for the Asahi Evening News...
Also currently riding high are Nakamori's throaty Twilight, Kawai's lively Escalation and Harada's The Maiden Who Takes Time, a simple ballad sung in a childlike voice over a gentle rock beat. The best-selling album is Kirei (Pretty) by the Southern All-Stars, a Beach Boys clone making a comeback after ten years of declining popularity. But the Japanese are not entirely immune to international pop trends: No. 2 on the album charts is the sound track from Flashdance. Come to think of it, there's a pretty face in that...