Erika Sawajiri, returning with a seminude CM! However, no Japanese dramas or movies upcoming
Erika Sawajiri was dismissed from her agency in September last year. However, it seems that she just can't forget her time in the spotlight and, along with husband Tsuyoshi Takahiro, has been doing a little job hunting.
According to magazine Women's Weekly, it seems to have been decided that she will do a seminude CM for a cosmetics company.
"In the past, she probably would have wanted to let her agency know that she was resuming work. But since she now can't, it looks like she won't be doing any domestic dramas or movies for the time being." (Production company source)
However, because contact between her and her agency, a major one at that, has been cut off, returning to work won't be so easy.
"She's even contacted the record label she worked with as a singer under the name ERIKA, telling them she'll do anything, she just wants to be allowed to work. But everything's very unclear right now, and it seems that they've cut her off too." (Record Company source)
The Japanese entertainment business is a strict one, after all. So right now, her conduct isn't living up to her old nickname of 'Lady Erika'.
"At the end of last year, Sawajiri really seemed to be trying to make an appeal to her old agency. The cut off from them was something of a defeat, and a feeling like no one would be there for her. For that reason, she wanted it to be officially stated that she had reached an amicable settlement with her old agency. That way, she could try to play it off as the company having given her a temporary leave of absence."
As soon as they returned on the 28th of December last year, Mr Takashiro embarked on a strategy to get Erika back into work. However, the condition that this work couldn't involve movies or dramas was there right from the start. So, if they were thinking about other things one can do in Japan:
"There are casting companies that Mr Takashiro has personal conections with, but it seems like he's set up a subsidiary company with Sawajiri's entertainment work as the main priority. The first part of her return will be this cosmetics CM, and they're going forward with all this talk of a seminude one." (Advertising company source)
There are bound to be people in the know about this. The company in question is Takano Yuri Beauty Clinic. We managed to get in contact with a representative of the company producing CMs for this company.
"To be accurate, while we do not have a contract with Ms Sawajiri, we were certainly in contact with her agency requesting her as far back as two years ago."
With Mr Takashiro going around sponsoring her so vigorously, he should probably take note of the fact that this didn't materialise two years ago. The two plan to meet with the company in February as well.
The CM production company representative also commented, "Ms Takano wants to help Ms Sawajiri, and I think that's why she wanted her for this role."
Since the impact of her comeback is important, a job that shows off her beautiful figure is perfect for her. According to some information, there is also talk of her having been chosen to do a commercial in China for Shanghai World Fair, so this CM is just the first step.
It's just that work as an actress that seems to be hard to come by. Well, it seems to be coming on little by little. It seems that people have really started to notice her great efforts and her attitude.
source: http://entameblog.seesaa.net/article/140027064.html
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