Film / Reviews Mar 14, 2018
'Sakura Guardian in the North': A melodrama 'Sayurists' can be proud of
by Mark Schilling
Sayuri Yoshinaga is the last star of Japan's postwar studio era to still be a box-office force. Playing a pure-hearted teen in films for Nikkatsu in the 1960s, she attracted a huge, mainly male, following known as "Sayurists." Now 73 and appearing in her 120th ...