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Charm of Kenichi Hagiwara - Shoken

From Japanese Movie " Ame no Amsterdam (Rain in Amsterdam)" I've been into the late 1960s to 1970s generation since several years ago. I don't know why but I'm very interested in older generation's people, trends, lifestyle, scenery, habit, TV drama, music, films, etc..   and not so interested in new things much.  There are many new discoveries through checking out old stuff while reading and watching it, which I didn't know before. and about several months ago, I happened to find a youtube video of  a famous Japanese actor called Kenichi Hagiwara who was my favorite actor in 1970s when I was a kid. His nickname is Shoken and he is also a singer of Rock/blues music.                      Shoken( 18 years old) singing ”Legend of Emerald” Shoken was one of the super stars in Japan mainly from the late 60s generation to early 80s. When he was 15 years old,   he joined an amateur music group band called The Tempters as a vocalist.   A

"A day without laughter is a day wasted." — Charlie Chaplin

I often notice Synchronicity in my daily life since I realized everything is synchronicity and there is no coincidence in life.  In the most recent occurrence, After seeing a video which showed an actress playing the music " The Entertainer " by Scott Joplin on a piano, this music started spinning in my head for a few days and I was often humming it.             " The Entertainer " by Scott Joplin       And then my husband thought I like it so he collected and put together a CD album which included that music along with some other similar music.  Also he was purchasing some movie DVD's recently and one of them was Charlie Chaplin's short movie collections.     And in that collection of Chaplin 's stories, the music " Entertainer " by Scott Joplin was used as one of the background music !  Both of us never knew about it, so it was interesting.  Anyways, today I would like to talk about Charli