Sakai Noriko

Personally, I think Noriko-chan's greatest "hair" years was 1989-1990. She had really nice long black hair. It was that time where she was getting away from that "Wanna be a boy-boy-boy" short hair look when she first started. Great MVs showing examples of my taste in her hair include Love Letter and All Right, both of which you can see in her PROMO MAXX 1 DVD.

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ha ha i like her hair look just as 96,98,02(in hawaii's looking)and now(my signature)

Here's an Adobe Photoshop exercise I did to master my skills...

Original photo (April 2003):
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Cropped the portion of the photo I wanted to keep:
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The final result (well, I'm still working on it, actually...):
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I'm still trying to get out as much of the green and pink residue as I can. Man I wish I had a drawing pad...

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Dammit, Groink! It's so close to 2005, you should treat us to an early Christmas preview of the upcoming Noriko-chan shrine! :beatyou: :hehe:
-PCM

pcmodem wrote:Dammit, Groink! It's so close to 2005, you should treat us to an early Christmas preview of the upcoming Noriko-chan shrine! :beatyou: :hehe:
-PCM

If you're referring to the announcement in my banner... It's actually going to be an entire portal just for Noriko-chan, complete with a photo gallery, and a database with all of her lyrics, licensed product information, drama/movie information, and much more.

It'll be somewhat like JDorama.com in terms of some features, but with a different twist... A registered user can put into the database his entire Noriko-chan collection, including photo books, CDs/LPs/45rpm's, dramas/movies, and other items. And for each item, you can place a rating, or write a comment about it.

I'm still coding the site (based on phpBB 2), so it'll be at least a couple more months until its beta test. I'm hoping for March on the beta, and April for the official opening. I'm still learning MySQL and PHP, so there's still a learning curve involved on what I can and cannot do with the site.

Here's where the site will be sitting:

http://www.norikosakai.us/

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some old noriko pic:

http://www18.tok2.com/home/yotchans/noriko3.htm

I love Noriko Sakai the way she cry the way she smile especially in the show under same roof. She is so cute when she is smiling :muack:

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Merging.

Here's is a performance of Noriko Sakai at the 46th Kouhaku performance.
http://www.youtube.com/?v=5NwA1B-Okd0

tanjobi omedetou...noriko-san..... :mrgreen:

I think its really fitting that her birthday is on Valentines Day.

Btw did anyone get her 2007 Calendar?

azn_wrx wrote:I think its really fitting that her birthday is on Valentines Day.

Btw did anyone get her 2007 Calendar?

Yeah it is fitting. :hehe: She's doing horror movies now the Grudge2 and Yogen.

ahochaude wrote:I saw "Noripi" in Juon 2 last night!

Hooo baby! :love_eyes:

Yeah its really scary.

yay! finally i found the page of my dear actress :) miss her so much from the time of hoshi no kinka and under the same roof ... she was so kawaii ^^ ... the last time i saw her was on Ju-On 2 ... she's still kawaii despite her age <33

Joining the "Yuko-Takeuchi-Akiko-Yada-Bum-for-a-husband-club":http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-5111

latest updates was that Noriko Sakai and her son went missing just tonight, 6pm, August 4..police already conducted a search..
http://forums.tokyograph.com/showthread.php?p=12970#post12970

Here's the lastest on Noriko Sakai. They found her son, but she is still missing:

Sakai's son found safe in Tokyo
Thu, August 6, 2009 (11:20am EDT)
The whereabouts of Noriko Sakai (38) remain unknown, but at least her 10-year-old son was found safe on Thursday night. The boy was left in the care of one of Sakai's friends in Tokyo. He is said to be in good health.

Sakai and her son had both been missing since Monday, when Sakai's husband Yuichi Takaso (41) was arrested for drug possession on a street in Shibuya. At the time of Takaso's arrest, Sakai was reportedly nearby in a parked car, but she has been unreachable after that.

No signal has been detected from Sakai's cell phone since the arrest, except for a brief time on Tuesday night when it was traced to the vicinity of Mt. Minobu in the Yamanashi prefecture. Sakai's father had been living in Yamanashi until he passed away in a traffic accident in 1989. Police are continuing to search for Sakai in that area.

^ That's worrisome... :sweat:

You'd think the son would have some knowledge of his mom's whereabouts...

latest update:

Police Issue Arrest Warrant for Noripi

The Japanese media are hitting fever pitch with the news that Tokyo police have issued an arrest warrant for actress/singer Sakai Noriko (38). Her management agency Sun Music Production, refused to comment on the latest development except to say they are checking the facts. When "Noripi," as she is popularly known, and her young son disappeared after the drug arrest of her husband late Sunday night, the general feeling was one of sympathy. The consensus was that she was simply overwhelmed by the shock of what was happening and trying to escape the inevitable media glare. But today it was revealed that police have discovered stimulant drugs at the Kawasaki home shared by Sakai, her husband Takaso Yuichi, their 10-year-old son, and Takaso's mother. Though she has long had a squeaky clean image and is a popular TV "mama-san" role model, Sakai has had more than her share of troubles. Her mother died when she was young and when her father remarried, the family moved to her step-mother's home in Saitama Prefecture; her father died in a traffic accident in 1989; in 2000, shortly after Sakai returned from maternity leave, Mizoguchi Nobuo - her manager since her 1985 debut - hanged himself at the Sun office. The only sign of her since her disappearance was a brief signal from her mobile phone, the origin in Yamanashi Prefecture just 30km from the scene of her father's fatal accident. This morning, the news that her son was safe at the home of a friend in Tokyo seemed to be the beginning of a resolution to the incident. But with an obviously rattled Sakai now the subject of a manhunt, the media are understandably nervous about the possible outcome.

japan zone

^ Wow, this is getting very complex... :sweat: