Hikari Ishida（石田ひかり）isn't someone that I would immediately associate with this music blog. During the 1990s, I usually saw her as an actress on TV dramas and commercials such as the one above.
The one drama that I remember Ishida from is Fuji-TV's "Asunaro Hakusho"（あすなろ白書...Asunaro White Paper） from 1993 which was one of the network's most popular shows and was also a hit among some of our club members at the Japanese-Canadian Students' Association when we had our JTV programme of showing such dramas for members who wanted to pick up some Japanese.
But apparently, she did have her time as a late 1980s aidoru. Her first single was "Emerald no Suna" (Emerald Sand) from May 1987 which portrays a group of friends at a beachside cottage among whom one young lady is pining for one of her buddies. Does she make a move or not? Sounds ideal as a plot line for one of those Fuji-TV dramas.
Written by Yoshimasa Inoue（井上ヨシマサ）, composed by Yuuho Iwasato（岩里祐穂）and arranged by Shiro Sagisu（鷺巣詩郎）, "Emerald no Suna" does have that aidoru vibe but I gather that Sagisu's magic also painted on a layer of some sophisticated groove. Ishida's cute and chirpy vocals were OK but I can hear why she focused more on her acting career after 1990.
I thought for sure you had written on Hikari Ishida before! I am sure that I have that album cover before somewhere, maybe it is in my library? No, I sure she must have appeared on this blog even if just in passing. Back in university remember watching「あすなろ白書」on a set of VCD one my friends had and becoming very fond of Fumiya Fuji's "True Love".
ReplyDeleteHer name was probably mentioned in the "True Love" article. Also, I have written about HikarU Nishida which looks similar.
DeleteAh, "Asunaro Hakusho." The show that put Kimura Takuya on the map. I remember Ishida on the show as well. Good show overall.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's hard after all these years imagining KimuTaku as a second banana on a drama but he had to start from somewhere.
DeleteShe's still going strong as a dorama actor!
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