在当前日本电影不十分景气的状况下,一位日本当代影圈杰出的女巨星、享有『典型日本优秀女性特征集一身』之美誉的电影表演艺术家吉永小百合,开始了她对电影艺术新形象的新挑战。在三十余部任她筛选的候选电影脚本中,她乐融融地看中并主演了由日本影界大名鼎鼎的导演市川昆执导、日本东宝影业公司摄制的新片力作《仙鹤》。这是吉永自去年第九十九部影片术杰作《女影星》之后,又一部浪漫主义和现实主义创作风格与手段相互交融的新片。影片《仙鹤》是根据日本民间流传,家喻户晓的神话故事《仙鹤报恩》改编拍制的。它绘声绘影地讲述了一被古道热肠的百姓救助脱险的仙鹤,化为仙女降世人间,为百姓辛勤织布劳作,以报答救命恩情的隽永故事。影片栩栩如生地传达出日本人民对于幸福生活的渴望,和对理想、质朴、诚挚的热恋。 Under the current unfavorable Japanese cinema situation, a film actress named Yoshinaga Sayuri, an outstanding female superstar in Japan’s contemporary movie circle and a reputation of “one of Japan’s most outstanding female genres,” started her career as a new image in cinema art new challenge. In more than thirty films she screened for candidate films, she happily fanned and starred in a new movie masterpiece “Crane” directed by Japanese film industry director Ichikawa Kun and Japanese Toho Pictures. This is a new piece of Ji Yong since the film art masterpiece “The Movie Star” was released last year. Another new style of romanticism and realism is the blending of styles and methods. The film “Crane” is based on the Japanese folklore, a well-known myth story “crane cranes” film adaptation. It vividly depicts a fairy tale savage people rescue escaping cranes, into a fairy world, for the people work hard weaving, in order to repay the life-saving story of Meaningful. The film vividly conveys the Japanese people’s desire for a happy life, as well as their ideal, simple and sincere love.