Femmes Fatales | Feb 15 2017 |
She wouldn't have believed it at the time, but she hadn't reached her peak.
Above is Japanese actress Mayumi Asaka, who was born in 1955, first appeared onscreen in 1966, and tallied about fifteen roles up until the year 2000. That's about one every two years, which is perfectly fine, but nothing to amaze and awe. But since then she's been a beast, appearing in about eighty movies and television shows, often in recurring roles, pushing her credits up toward a hundred and fifty from the time she turned forty-five. The top shot is from the late-1970s, a decade during whose entirety she accumulated exactly two roles. If she wasn't thinking about quitting show business at that point we'd be surprised. The second shows her recently, still looking great. Perseverance paid.