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Actress Saito Yuki (59) posted a two-shot Instagram photo with singer Mitsunaga Ryota, drawing a wave of praise like “she’s so beautiful.” On a 5ch thread, users posted photos from her prime while reminiscing about her past relationships and affair scandals, with one comment going so far as to call her “the rare actress who never gets blacklisted no matter how many affairs she has.”
Nearly 60 — Saito Yuki’s Current Look! “Quit Making Googly Eyes” — The Monday-9 Breakout Singer “Can’t Stop Grinning”
Actress Saito Yuki (59) has been showered with praise for her beauty.
The one who posted the two-shot photo on Instagram by the 25th was singer Mitsunaga Ryota, who broke out with “Always,” the theme song for the 2003 Fuji TV Monday-9 drama “Itsumo Futari de” (Always Together).
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Is this a denial about Kubo Yuta's remarriage partner (18)?
Watching reruns of her in "Sukeban Deka," I was shocked how much her voice and speaking style resemble Nagano Mei
Can't say I dislike it
the twin pillars of "women you shouldn't touch"
No way she beats Noripi's level of darkness though lol (nickname for Sakai Noriko)
if only this were 40 years ago
her looks are Sano Ryoko level
it's just fans' rose-tinted bias
calling her beautiful — way overhyped
Sano Ryoko is one of the '80s' five great idol beauties alongside Takeda Kumiko, Yakushimaru Hiroko, Ito Maiko, and Shimada Nami, so she's on a different level
Who'd have guessed she'd later become "the woman who got her panties worn on someone's head"…
yet she's made it this far without getting bashed at all — impressive
Must just be her good character
Background and Key Points
Nearly-60 “aging beauty stays scandal-free” pieces are a 5ch staple, and this thread is representative: it’s less about the current photo than a decades-long retrospective on Saito Yuki’s career and love life. Saito debuted as a teen idol in the 1980s and became a household name through the 1993 Fuji TV drama “Sukeban Deka” and other work; the “Monday-9” (Getsuku) slot referenced here is Fuji TV’s flagship 9pm drama block, a career-making showcase since the ’90s. Mitsunaga Ryota, the singer in the photo, is tied to that same lineage as the artist behind “Always,” the theme song for a 2003 Getsuku drama — which is why posters keep drawing a line back to that era rather than treating this as a fresh romance story.
The thread doesn’t split on whether Saito looks good — that’s near-unanimous — but on how to weigh her reputation against her history. One camp treats her run of affair rumors (with musician Ozaki Yutaka and others, plus the “panties on the head” scandal referenced obliquely) as remarkable precisely because none of it ever damaged her image, unlike the “blacklisted” fate that usually befalls Japanese celebrities caught in infidelity scandals. The other faction pushes back on the “great beauty” framing itself, ranking her below canonical ’80s idol beauties like Sano Ryoko, Takeda Kumiko, and Yakushimaru Hiroko.
What outside readers will likely miss is the weight of “blacklisting” in Japanese entertainment — agencies and networks routinely sideline talent over scandal, so a celebrity who survives repeated affair rumors unscathed is genuinely an outlier worth remarking on, not just idle gossip.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Geisupo Sokuho+) thread “[Entertainment] Nearly 60 — Saito Yuki’s Current Look! Monday-9 Breakout Singer “Can’t Stop Grinning” — Followers Say “She’s So Beautiful”.”
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