My idol from the 80's...

I remembered I first saw him in 1986...totally blown away with his performance with Michelle Yeoh in 'Royal Warriors'....that gazing look, those fangs, that hair, those suave martial arts moves, really got into me... A protege of Sonny Chiba,..he was THE 'package'...
i thot i lost him since then, as I was so busy with I don't know what...
Little did I know that he got so 'big',..he was practically everywhere...in TV serials, commercials, theatres, more movies,...and it got him all over the world...Hollywood wanted a piece of him too, getting him in THE LAST SAMURAI and the upcoming SUNSHINE...anybody needs a Japanese star?...they'll cast him in..He was such a chameleon, that i failed to recognise him behind all those makeup and disguise meant for his roles...
I remembered that he usually get killed in his movies..be it as a hero, or a villain......and I cried when he 'died' in his role as the legendary Sakamoto Ryoma..brutal killing scene...but he 'died' beautifully and in the most handsome face, thrusting his cute samurai ponytail hairdo into the air...only to be ended with a painful thud on his chest...*aaawwww*
(To put down his whole filmography here would most probably flood my blog...so,..u want to find out more abt him?..go chk him out yrself...hehe)

ANYWAY..22 years later,...i caught him again when I stumbled upon THE PROMISE together with Jang Dong-Gun, Cecilia Chung and Nicholas Tse....beautiful,beautiful love story spun within a web of loyalty and courage..An international superstar in his own right,..with an enormous collection of accolades under his belt,...there's no mistake about it...
Multiple award-winning actor, dancer, singer, martial art expert, love magnet...

He is the one.

The only.

Give it up.

For..

HIROYUKI SANADA.


MY..
HIROYUKI SANADA..


P.S.
(Don't worry Stephen Chow, u are STILL my idol too...from HK,that is..)