Sad Sake - Sad Sake

Japanese: 《悲しい酒》 - かなしいさけ
Sad Sake - Sad Sake

... In 1962, she married Nikkatsu action star Kobayashi Akira (1938-), but this "marriage between two stars" did not last long, and they divorced in 1964. The following year, 1965, she won her first Record Grand Prix (the 7th) for her song "Yawara" with Koga Masao as composer, and in 1966 she had another hit with Koga Masao's "Kanashii Sake," demonstrating her dignity as the "Queen of Enka" and "Queen of Popular Songs." However, from the late 1960s through the 1970s and 1980s, due to changes in the pop music world (and the society surrounding it), she was unable to produce any new hits, and she was subjected to much social criticism due to the repeated arrests of her younger brother Kato Tetsuya and the rumors of her ties to organized crime. ...

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Japanese:

… 1962年,日活のアクション・スター小林旭(1938‐ )と結婚,しかし〈スター同士の結婚〉は長続きせず,64年に離婚する。翌65年,作曲に古賀政男を得た《柔(やわら)》によって初のレコード大賞(第7回)を受賞,続く66年にも古賀政男の《悲しい酒》でヒットを飛ばし,〈演歌の女王〉〈歌謡曲の女王〉としての貫禄も示すようになる。 だが,その後1960年代末から70年代,80年代にかけては,歌謡界(そしてそれを取りまく社会)の状況の変化もあって新しいヒットが生まれず,また,弟かとう哲也のたび重なる逮捕事件,暴力団との関係が取りざたされたことなどもあって,多くの社会的批判を浴びることとなった。…

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