I've just downloaded two early Meisa movies (Tada was more about Miyazaki Aoi and Tamaki Hiroshi, I'm concentrating on films where the SP is the main character) so I'm going to see if my assessment will change, but one thing I've noticed so far that's very different in Meisa's roles as opposed to Maki's roles is that almost without exception, Meisa's roles are much more mature in film - she kisses more and has more adult scenes than Maki, and that's even at the beginning of her film debut. She rarely plays the school girl. It's an interesting sense of arrested development - Meisa played mature beyond her years while Maki was mining conflicted emotions as the otherworldly school girl or face of horror. I think she and Kame had moments of cuteness if not outright passion, and from the bits I've seen online, I think she clicked with Toma really well (no surprise. Toma has chemistry with everything and everyone) and I could even believe her with Matsujun (and on variety - the bantering and bickering with Nino is always fun to watch). Shun and Yuuta were so so, but if you move out of her age range (she often plays the love interest to much older men) - there is no chemistry. It also just feels weird to me as a viewer. I would feel the same way if the genders were reversed, because the age gap is so large - it's not just a matter of four or five years (my own personal barometer), it's much larger. Meisa may look older than her years, but my mind knows she's twenty three, and to be in love with a thirty five year old or whatever - it seems foreign to me.
Unless there is acting/writing strength.
I liked her with Mukai Osamu in Shinzanmono, that was pleasant to watch. I'd like to see her work with Yusuke Yamamoto again, they had some heat in Ninkyo Helper.
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Re: I'm having a problem with her recent projects
Date: 2011-08-25 02:40 pm (UTC)I think she and Kame had moments of cuteness if not outright passion, and from the bits I've seen online, I think she clicked with Toma really well (no surprise. Toma has chemistry with everything and everyone) and I could even believe her with Matsujun (and on variety - the bantering and bickering with Nino is always fun to watch). Shun and Yuuta were so so, but if you move out of her age range (she often plays the love interest to much older men) - there is no chemistry. It also just feels weird to me as a viewer. I would feel the same way if the genders were reversed, because the age gap is so large - it's not just a matter of four or five years (my own personal barometer), it's much larger. Meisa may look older than her years, but my mind knows she's twenty three, and to be in love with a thirty five year old or whatever - it seems foreign to me.
Unless there is acting/writing strength.
I liked her with Mukai Osamu in Shinzanmono, that was pleasant to watch. I'd like to see her work with Yusuke Yamamoto again, they had some heat in Ninkyo Helper.