Mui in eyes of Friends
Thanks to Akiko San for supplying following materials!
Articles written by Japanese friends who know Anita Mui
Mr. Oiji Ogura, a writer who has written several books about Hong Kong movies:
[I
was not so close to Anita Mui personally but I saw her several times. At first,
like Leslie Cheung, I was introduced her by Florence Chan. I think that was
around her first concert. Since then I have seen her concerts many times because
I and my wife happened to be friend of
Katy
Chan for a long time who produced Anita’s concerts. I remembered that Anita
saw and wanted a jewel accessory that my wife made for Katy. In the end Katy
gave it to
Anita
because she was so persistent. When Jackie Chan was recording a song, Anita came
with him. I saw her very sincere as an artist. The last time I saw her was at
the
backstage of Yumiko Matsutoya’s Hong Kong concert tow years ago. We talked
about her last film, JULY RHAPSODY 男人四十.
Whenever I saw her, she was very charming and cute, and caring
for other people. I felt she was somehow lonely person…..]
Source:
香港電影通信 #160
Ms Hiroko Shinohara, a distributor of some of Wong Kar Wai films:
[The first time I recognized Anita Mui was in ROUGE, and as a singer when she performed the theme song of DAYS OF BEING WILD 阿飛正傳. …I saw Anita several times. My impression about her was Big Sister with tough personality. One day during Chinese New Year holidays, I had a date with Carina Lau and her friends in Shinjuku, Tokyo. She brought Anita with other friends. No one noticed them. Then we started to play a Hong Kong game (I think that was the game Chow Yun Fat did in the movie 100 WAYS TO MURDER YOUR WIFE 殺妻２人組 ) in a hip bar. Anita was so into the game. She looked like a boy and had glittering aura. I thought she was cute in real life and this was her true persona to show only if she was with her close friends. After that she helped us to cover her concerts and come to our HK movie fans party as a guest in Hong Kong.]
Source: 香港電影通信 #160
Ms Noriko Serada, a film critic and translator living in Hong Kong:
[After
I moved to Hong Kong in 1989, one day, my friend who is now a costume designer
for films took me to
a
big gorgeous house. That was Anita Mui’s house. There were many people as if
it were their own house, although Anita was not at home. I was very
uncomfortable at such situation. So as soon as Anita came back, I greeted her
and left. Several days later, her home was burglarized. Then there were
unpleasant things happened around her one after another. I could not see her
just as an artist. …… I near-missed her over her last work Modern Beauty
Saloon commercial. One ad company called me, “Anita wants to go to shoot CF in
Okinawa for the saloon. Since you know Okinawa very well, will you help us?” I
instantly imagined Anita in a spiritual place called ??? would be very good. …
As you know, that was not realized. But if she went to Okinawa instead of Kyoto,
I am sure, she would have had a sort of spiritual cleansing experience….]