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Yutaka Mizutani
Ukyo Sugishita in Aibou, Necchu Jidai, Kizudarake no Tenshi. One of Japan’s defining actors, who has carried leading roles for more than half a century. Born in a town in Hokkaido, he joined a theatre company at thirteen and was playing leads in his teens. At twenty-six, as a teacher, he won the affection of the whole nation. Even so, he met the role of his lifetime only at the end of his forties. On 9 October 2002 the series run of Aibou began. That year stood in the middle of the ten years in which the waves of his fortune swing widest, and it was also the year in which the realisation of dreams came closest. Why did he bloom most fully in the most turbulent time? We read more than seventy years of his path against the phases of destiny and time.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Yutaka Mizutani (水谷豊) — Actor, singer and film director
- Period analysed
- 1952–2026
- Three pillars
- Day 辛酉 / Month 丁未 / Year 壬辰
- Void branches
- 子丑 (Rat–Ox)
- Void decades
- Ages 48–68 (壬子 and 癸丑 phases)
- Destiny area
- 0.94 The area of the triangle formed by the three pillars on the sixty-cycle circle (maximum 1.30)
- Format
- PDF, 15 pages — written in Japanese
- Price
- ¥50,000 including tax
Research Brief
What the case shows
- His destiny carries a grade of honour, yet blooms late after accumulated hardship. It is a structure that opens its own road in a single generation, without leaning on the blessings of the family line.
- The twenty years of his teens and twenties were a period in which elements that damage his destiny came round. Within them he took lead after lead and won popularity with Necchu Jidai.
- From twenty-eight, sixty years follow in which elements supporting his destiny come round without a break. True to a star that sets fortune moving after marriage, Aibou was born eleven years after his marriage in 1989.
- On 9 October 2002, the year in which the realisation of dreams came closest overlapped with the most turbulent ten years of his life. On that day the series run of Aibou began.
- He holds a star that brings blessings through public office. His two signature roles are a primary-school teacher and an officer of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why did he bloom most fully in the most turbulent time?
- What overlapped on 9 October 2002?
- Why were both of his signature roles in public office?
- Why did a lead actor shine by standing side by side with a “partner”?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1952 | 壬辰 | 14 Jul — Born in Ashibetsu, Hokkaido |
| 1965 | 乙巳 | Joins Gekidan Himawari |
| 1968 | 戊申 | Plays the lead in Vampire |
| 1974 | 甲寅 | Kizudarake no Tenshi |
| 1976 | 丙辰 | Kinema Junpo Best Actor award for Seishun no Satsujinsha |
| 1978 | 戊午 | Oct — Necchu Jidai begins broadcasting |
| 1989 | 戊辰 | Jan — Marries Ran Ito |
| 2000 | 庚辰 | 3 Jun — Aibou airs as a Saturday Wide Theater feature |
| 2002 | 壬午 (天) | 9 Oct — Aibou becomes a drama series |
| 2008 | 戊子 (天天) | 1 May — The first Aibou film opens |
| 2009 | 己丑 (天天) | Receives the Hashida Award |
| 2017 | 丁酉 (天) | 17 Jun — His first film as director, TAP -THE LAST SHOW-, opens |
Year pillars change at Risshun, in early February. (天) = void year or void decade.
Contents
14 pages
- Destiny profile and chart
- Yin and yang charts
- Axis and type of destiny
- Ten-year phases
- The four layers of 9 October 2002
- The year of 納音
- 1965–1979: two phases of the unfavourable element
- 1980–2000: into the guardian phases
- Blooming in the most turbulent phase
- Official virtue and the return of 車騎
- The lead who shines beside a partner
- Independent systems
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii