Yumiko Shaku: Her semi-ancient yet scorching "I Am" photobook!!!!

 

 This and the next post may seem extremely odd but there are some good reasons for doing them. One is that this has been a slow time for posts though think they will be picking up very soon. Another is that I've been viewing the "Black Familia" drama, am about to write up the fourth recap and will start publishing them in a few days. The biggest reason could be is that Yumiko is one of may all time favorite women and when I began to start watching Japanese dramas and films fifteen years ago she may have been my #1 woman!!!! But when I started this blog Yumiko was mainly an actress so wasn't doing any more gravure work though this book came out less than a year after the blog began. So I kind of forgot about Yumiko over the years but she was in the drama just mentioned and even at 45 years in age(!) still looked tremendous, shame her character of Namie died after two shows.

 After this post is another photobook of her from 2000, thought it'd be nice to have some comparison pics to see how she's aged gracefully over the years. If these posts are popular will have more books as I have six more! The very first Japanese drama I viewed was "Kikan na Aneki" and Yumiko had a large role in it, the show aired in 2005 but didn't see it until four years later. She played a hostess and will admit I was smitten with her from the first second!!!! Have seen her in at least four other dramas plus three films, she had the lead roles in "Sky High" and "The Princess Blade" which I highly recommend. Yumiko is getting up there in age as on June 12th she will be hitting the age of 46 but she honestly looks at least ten years younger. She still does a lot of acting but mainly doing guest appearances on dramas, back in 2015 she did get married. Usually I don't post about married women with children but all her photobooks were before that. This book was released by the Bomb magazine in August 2012 and it'll probably be her final one. At the time Yumiko was 34 in age and bet she did this book to show how attractive she still was and how much better he looked than women ten years younger. Will have more bio info in the next post which is for a 2000 photobook, this book contains 74 pics and Yumiko did prove her point as she looks so much better than gals in their twenties....