Ryann Connell
Those seeking happiness in life could do worse than take a leaf from the book of fallen actresses who pose nude for photo collections, Motoji Takasu -- a man who's arranged about 500 such publications - tells Shukan Asahi.
Takasu says that many actresses who agree to bare all for the cameras are often in careers taking a downward turn.
But he says that most of the actresses are hardly bothered by their dwindling fortunes, writing their fall off as part of a life filled with ups and downs, with some of them not even regarding stripping as one of the lower points.
Takasu says Yoko Shimada, who co-starred in the movie version of James Clavell's "Shogun," was the most relaxed of all the actresses who have posed nude for him. Despite having made a name for herself outside of Japan, Shimada never was stuck up and was perfectly happy to chow down on a bowl of noodles at a neighborhood ramen restaurant. And even though she'd done some time in Hollywood, she had no qualms about posing nude for Asahi Geino, arguably the lowest of Japan's lowbrow men's weeklies.
"When I asked her why, she simply said because the magazine had asked her to do it," Takasu tells Shukan Asahi. "She didn't care about her past glories. She was simply living the moment to its fullest."
The nude photo collection producer says that apart from only a few very lucky actresses, most thespians have to spend some of their career struggling, which makes the times when they do have work all the more delightful. He adds that when these women act like stars, it's nothing more than a drama set where everything is for external appearances. Takasu says that the majority of actresses who pose nude normally live very quite private lives and that the majority who've undressed for him have been polite and humble even if their public persona has not always been like that.
Takasu says ordinary women are usually much more interested in fashion than actresses who undress for the cameras, caring little for their fashions.
"Ordinary women probably wear pricier undies than the big name actresses," he says.
Takasu says that actresses who pose nude generally know when they need to perform.
"Top actresses know when to turn it on and off. They know when they need to look good. They know the times they need to perform," he says.
Takasu says nude model actresses are usually so relaxed, they're unlikely to be the types to take their own lives. He urges people considering ending it all not to do so, no matter how down they feel.
"Nothing is ever so bad that you have to take your own life," Takasu tells Shukan Asahi. "I can't understand why these people don't just strip down to their last thread and bare everything to the world before starting all over again."
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