Jejejeh! It surprises when you have this "one thing leads to another" experience!
While googling for images of something else (it escapes me already what exactly I was searching for), I chance upon these two old black and white photographs of a young asian lady. Her simply pure and innocent image immediately caught my attention:
Initially, I have no idea who she was and even that of her nationality. At that time I just have this strong sense of feeling to find out who she was and to know more of her.
To my surprise, when I "google reverse image" searched the photographs, it turns out that the cute young lady is actually not young anymore (she was born in 1945!) and is now a fine old woman of substance!
Then I discovered a video of this young lady performing a song (with another guy), which, to my mind, sounded so familiar. The other guy, it turns out to be the then younger idol of Natsu-Bappa, Mr. Hashi Yukio. That prompted me to do a re-visit of Amachan to check that out!
So what do you know?! It does not only sounds similar but is actually the same song after all. I suppose that must be the actual performance by which the re-imagined scene of then young Natsu and Mr. Yukio for Amachan was based from! I didn't catch it at first then, but still, to my surprise, her name was even actually mentioned in Amachan Episode 115 (@ 12:46) by the character of Mr. Yukio!
Here's the original video of that song performance (together with Mr. Yukio) from the original girl idol behind that song, Ms. Sayuri Yoshinaga:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7gUdZqgCJY
And as a bonus to your readers, here's another performance (a bit old-school by now but then) from an even younger and cuter Ms. Sayuri singing a song taken from her film Izu Dancer (1963) which I also have the pleasure of watching, but unfortunately, without subtitles:
Black and white photographs of a young asian lady prompted me to re-visit Amachan!
While googling for images of something else (it escapes me already what exactly I was searching for), I chance upon these two old black and white photographs of a young asian lady. Her simply pure and innocent image immediately caught my attention:
http://img.shblog.jp/image/raw/chomatome/55d19859afc2d.jpg
http://articleimage.nicoblomaga.jp/image/64/2014/e/9/e9772b6aa978da5b0dcc26395c653b572071069d1396506035.jpg
Initially, I have no idea who she was and even that of her nationality. At that time I just have this strong sense of feeling to find out who she was and to know more of her.
To my surprise, when I "google reverse image" searched the photographs, it turns out that the cute young lady is actually not young anymore (she was born in 1945!) and is now a fine old woman of substance!
Then I discovered a video of this young lady performing a song (with another guy), which, to my mind, sounded so familiar. The other guy, it turns out to be the then younger idol of Natsu-Bappa, Mr. Hashi Yukio. That prompted me to do a re-visit of Amachan to check that out!
So what do you know?! It does not only sounds similar but is actually the same song after all. I suppose that must be the actual performance by which the re-imagined scene of then young Natsu and Mr. Yukio for Amachan was based from! I didn't catch it at first then, but still, to my surprise, her name was even actually mentioned in Amachan Episode 115 (@ 12:46) by the character of Mr. Yukio!
Here's the original video of that song performance (together with Mr. Yukio) from the original girl idol behind that song, Ms. Sayuri Yoshinaga:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7gUdZqgCJY
And as a bonus to your readers, here's another performance (a bit old-school by now but then) from an even younger and cuter Ms. Sayuri singing a song taken from her film Izu Dancer (1963) which I also have the pleasure of watching, but unfortunately, without subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54WwMkde0-0