"Heaven and Hell", starring Haruka Ayase, may be the best Japanese drama of this season in the hearts of many people.
Last night, the show aired its final episode with a 20.1% rating, the highest rating of all Japanese dramas broadcast this year.
Even in personal ratings, there were 12.0%. (The above 20.1% is household ratings, that is, as long as the TV is watching the show, even if the whole family is watching, and the personal ratings are accurate to the individual.)
The average rating of the whole drama is 15.47%, which is the highest rating among the nine TV series of TBS TV station starring actresses.
I inadvertently saw that Zhou Xun mentioned in the interview related to Women's Day that he was chasing this drama
The following Ishiya Jun will introduce this "Heaven and Hell" again.
There are many works about soul exchange in the world, and there are many japanese dramas with high reputations such as "The King of the People", and the representative work of the film is "Your Name", which created a box office myth.
This time, Haruka Ayase played a female police officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's search class, she had a strong sense of justice, and she was also snubbed by her superiors because she was eager to make a meritorious contribution and catch the wrong prisoner.
In the process of investigating a brutal serial murder case, she takes the lead in locking in the suspect with intuition and diligence, that is, the male protagonist Hi takayamadou (played by Ishito Takahashi).
Just as They were about to capture Hidaka, the entangled two rolled down the stairs and woke up exchanging souls.
Since then, the identities of the two people have changed greatly: the criminal police have become murderous, good has become evil, women have become men, and the originally strong Moon has suddenly become a weak party.
In order not to let himself be wronged and imprisoned, Mochizuki has to become an accomplice with the perverted murderer Hidaka to help Hidaka transfer the evidence of the crime.
Hidaka uses Mochizuki's identity to make it easier to kill people, and Mochizuki collects evidence of Hidaka's crime in difficulty, but the truth does not seem to be as she thinks....
The setting of "soul interchange" can play endless tricks, but how to use the setting brilliantly is the place where the real power is, and it is not easy to bring the audience a new feeling for the terrier that has been played badly.
The screenwriter of this drama is Yoshiko Morishita, who has created a large number of word-of-mouth masterpieces such as "Calling for Love in the Center of the World", "White Night", "Ren Doctor", "The Emperor's Imperial Kitchen", "Blues of Stepmother and Daughter", "Iris", "Don't Let Me Go" and so on.
Unlike ordinary soul exchange stories, Morishita chooses to unfold a surreal setting in an almost realistic way.
The whole story does not deviate from people's daily experience because of the existence of soul swapping, except for the moment of soul swapping, from the character setting to each specific plot point and its connection, it is particularly reasonable.
The flesh-and-blood and crying Moon is "real", while the other protagonist Hidaka is full of mysterious "virtual", the screenwriter creates an excellent suspense atmosphere through the virtual reality of the two characters, and the truth is pushed forward layer by layer, so that the audience can't help but want to watch the next episode.
The wonderful performance of Haruka Ayase and Takahashi in their lives undoubtedly adds a lot to the work.
Especially in Takahashi's life, after the exchange of souls, Mochizuki escaped from death and almost collapsed, in this episode, he brilliantly used Hidaka's body to perform The soul of Mochizuki, relying on his demeanor, voice, tone and movements, just right to show the mood and charm of a woman who is deeply in despair.
The sudden change of women to men has also made a lot of funny scenes.
In order to play this role that looks male and psychologically is female, he spent a year preparing.
He revealed that "I would suddenly behave like a woman, and then while consulting the female staff present with some very detailed questions, while figuring out the role, asking too carefully for fear of a little sexual harassment (laughs)." ”
Haruka Ayase is also worth a compliment.
Haruka Ayase was loved by the audience for her role in "Firelight", and her past roles were mostly cute personalities, but this time she was "blackened".
Whenever she smiled evilly, she always had to make a whole moth, and even slept with Wangyue's cohabiting boyfriend.
Incidentally, Haruka Ayase can be regarded as the queen of ratings among actresses of the same age, and the Japanese dramas she starred in, whether it was word of mouth or ratings, almost never failed.
This time became the highest-rated heroine in the history of Japan's 9 shows, and her starring role in "Mrs. Please Be Careful" in 2017 was very well received, and launched a movie version, which was just released in Japan last weekend.