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It’s been announced that Lilas Ikuta will appear in Junichi Okada’s film “SUKIYAKI: Ue wo Muite Arukou” (releasing December 25), playing legendary singer Michiyo Azusa and performing her signature song “Konnichiwa Akachan” (Hello, Baby). This marks Ikuta’s first-ever live-action film role.
On the thread, alongside debate over whether the casting works, a hot topic was whether the film will recreate the famous episode where Michiyo Azusa doused comedian Akashiya Sanma with water (later corrected to champagne).
Lilas Ikuta makes her live-action film debut! To play singer Michiyo Azusa and perform “Konnichiwa Akachan” in Junichi Okada’s new movie
It has been revealed that Lilas Ikuta will appear in Junichi Okada’s film “SUKIYAKI: Ue wo Muite Arukou” (releasing December 25).
Ikuta will play Michiyo Azusa, the beloved Showa-era star known for hits including “Konnichiwa Akachan,” which won the 5th Japan Record Award. This will be Ikuta’s first-ever live-action film appearance.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
There've been more movies aimed at older audiences lately.
Yeah, she dumped water on Sanma.
Nah, that's not true.
Correction: not wine, champagne.
Actors should master acting, singers should master singing~
Guess you can't draw a crowd without some buzz these days?
Ikura-chan overwhelms Riho Yoshioka with sheer youthfulness!!
Thought she was the girl from the Promise (consumer loan company) commercials.
Chanmina: "Totally, totally" (a catchphrase associated with singer/rapper Chanmina)
It's because the lead is so big-name that the supporting cast gets stacked too — makes sense.
I expected her to get bashed for it.
The rest of the cast had a similarly amateurish feel, so it slipped by unnoticed — if she'd been surrounded by properly skilled voice actors, I think she'd have gotten torn apart.
What I like about her is that even though she's this famous and sells well as a solo artist, she doesn't go chasing lead roles.
She seems like she'll survive in showbiz for the long haul.
She probably doesn't even get offered lead roles in the first place.
a love hotel that plays 'Konnichiwa Akachan' as background music. (riffing on the 'scary if true' meme format)
>'Blue Light Yokohama' and 'Kawaii Baby'
Sounds like you could make a whole drama out of that.
Background and Key Points
Lilas Ikuta is the daughter of Yuki Kajiura collaborator… actually she’s known as one half of the pop duo YOASOBI, where she is the vocalist (“Ikura”) alongside composer Ayase. Michiyo Azusa is a real Showa-era enka/pop singer whose 1971 hit “Konnichiwa Akachan” won the Japan Record Award and remains a widely recognized standard in Japan, closer to a nursery-rhyme-level classic than an obscure deep cut. She was also a fixture of Japanese variety TV in the 1980s-90s and had a public persona as blunt and combative, which is the source of the recurring, unverified anecdote that she once threw water (or, per some retellings, champagne) at comedian Akashiya Sanma on air — a moment that has become entertainment-industry folklore repeated more than confirmed. “SUKIYAKI: Ue wo Muite Arukou,” directed by Junichi Okada (V6/Ballistik Boyz), is a period drama tied to Kyu Sakamoto’s famous song, situating this biopic-style casting within a wave of Showa-nostalgia films following the success of “Kokuho.”
The thread’s actual disagreement was narrow: not whether Ikuta can act, but whether an idol/singer with no acting background should be cast in a dramatic lead at all, with posters split between citing her restraint in avoiding lead roles as a mark of maturity versus assuming she simply isn’t offered them.
What’s easy to miss is that the Sanma incident posters argue about was never confirmed within the thread itself — one poster asserts it, another flatly denies it, and a third only “corrects” the liquid from wine to champagne, so the thread treats a contested show-business legend as established fact rather than settling it.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Entertainment] Lilas Ikuta makes her live-action film debut! To play singer Michiyo Azusa and perform “Konnichiwa Akachan” in Junichi Okada’s new movie.”
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