A Portrait of the Dream of Purity: Yuriko Hoshi and the Showa Gaze (1960s-1970s)
Yuriko Hoshi (1943-2018) was an actress who gave the Japanese film industry the image of the innocent and graceful heroine during the 1960s and 1960s. She entered the film industry in 1960 as a new face of Toho's 6th period, and co-starred with Yuzo Kayama in "The Young General of the University" the following year. She quickly gained national popularity as the "ideal lover. The "Wakadaisho" series were cheerful coming-of-age films set against the backdrop of Japan's rapid economic growth, and her presence embodied the image of affluence and family happiness that postwar Japan had dreamed of. Even as television rapidly spread to households and the movie industry entered a slowdown, Hoshi did not lose her dignity and purity, and expanded her activities into drama productions. Her innocent face and modest manners were deeply engraved in the hearts of audiences as the "ideal image of a woman. She was portrayed in the dream of movies and continued to bloom in the eyes of the Show
a era as a "phantom of purity.
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