As soon as the New Year closes, there are two words that are particularly sensitive: go home.
Spring Festival, ticket grabbing... It's all a topic that people who work hard in different places can't avoid.
Uncle Meat saw a news two days ago that from January 3 to 26, a total of 280 million Spring Festival tickets were sold.
This means that even if it is all round-trip tickets, at least 140 million Chinese are on the road this Spring Festival.
The movie that Uncle Meat said today is also related to "going home".
It's just that this young man who is going home may not be the same as you and me.
Mohican returned to his homeland
Director Shuichi Okita, self-written and directed "Antarctic Chef" and "Yokomichi Seinosuke" are all excellent works.
Shuichi Okita used to cut the proposition apart and observe its core.
"Antarctic Cooker" uses the story of a chef entering the Antarctic scientific expedition group, showing that the scientific expedition personnel who have endured separation for many years, behind the anxiety, sadness and depression, is the strong expectation of "home".
"Yokomichi Seinosuke" is even more, with a long 160 minutes, with the memories of different people, to restore the appearance of the young Yokomichi Seinosuke in the strange town, behind the memories, there is a deep human feeling.
So is Mohican's Return to His Homeland.
Shuichi Okita cuts open the word "return to his hometown", revealing the bondage and conflict between two generations: we are the same, we are different.
Nagayoshi (Ryuhei Matsuda) is the lead singer of a dead gold band who works hard in Tokyo, but... His band was a little intimidating, and no one listened to it except for a handful of brain-dead fans.
Aji (Akira Tsujimoto) is an old man who lives on Tonoshima Island in the Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima Prefecture, and usually wears a gentleman's outfit and conducts a elementary school wind band to play the music of his idol Yazawa Nagayoshi.
They are certainly different: an alternative pioneer, working hard in a bustling metropolis; a deep gentleman, spending his old age on a remote island.
But they are also the same, all surnamed Tamura.
Osamu Tamura is the father of Nagayoshi Tamura.
The flag set up by the son is "if you don't mix well, you won't come back", and after working hard in Tokyo for six or seven years, you have never returned home (a stallholder).
But now, he had to go back.
Because his wife Yuka sauce (Atsuko Maeda) is pregnant, why do you have to go back to your hometown to get married?
Yongji, who bears the head of a mohican (chicken crown head), wads through the mountains with Yuka sauce and returns to Tonoshima Island.
Just five minutes after entering the house, I could see that Ah Zhi and Yong Ji were two grandfathers.
Hahaha, the old man usually looks at the board straight, making a mistake and Yongji is exactly the same, the bloodline of this thing, ah, really not to say.
The two grandfathers fought back, but as soon as they heard that their daughter-in-law was pregnant, the little old man's eyes lit up.
Although he and Yongji still had a straight face, when they turned around to call the old brothers to eat happy wine, the way his eyebrows were flying and his nose was shaking, he had already betrayed him——
However, on the night of drinking, something went wrong.
Ah Zhi drank it down, was sent to the hospital by a family, a check, the cancer is advanced, has spread to the whole body, surgery can not be done.
(Surgery) can't be done on the island, not even if you go anywhere else
Is this marriage still married?
Terminally ill, father and son, wedding, originally all tear gas.
But "Mohican Back home" is not, it is like "Yokomichi Seinosuke", it can make you stop hahahahaha. Even Uncle Meat dared to say that there was not a single old terrier in it.
But I don't know when, the corners of your eyes are wet.
The old man was lying in the hospital with no strength in his breath, still with a hard mouth, gasping for breath and saying that he was going to kick Fei Yongji.
-What else do you want to meet, things you want to do and so on
- Yes, kick you out
Asians are inherently introverted and not good at expressing love, and the traditional father-son relationship is a typical example of it, and the daily "I love you" that can't play the Western way at all.
But not to say, not to love, the love between father and son, more in action, just like the north island's poem:
You call me to be a son, and I follow you as a father
In "Mohican Returns home", Aji and Yongji never put "love" on their lips, but this -
Don't look at the son now playing with death metal that his father can't understand, but his musical enlightenment is that when he was a child, his father taught him trumpets and took him to listen to "Hiroshima's most bullish rock musician" Yazawa Nagayoshi, and even his name was a tribute to idols.
The father's call is the root of the son's play of rock and roll.
You, after leaving middle school, do you continue to play the trumpet?
In addition to the straightforward scene of taking over the family grocery store for his father, there are also a large number of shots of the son hanging behind the father in the film.
It seems that the relationship between father and son is estranged, but we who are also East Asians understand at a glance that the director is expressing his son's following of his father.
The son's following is the origin of his father's strict discipline of him.
One of Uncle Meat's most impressive clips is this:
Dad wrote on his bucket list that he wanted to eat Yaskawa pizza again on his sixtieth birthday."
But so many years have passed, and the mother who ordered the food can't remember which store she ordered.
Guess what your son said?
Buy them all!
The goods blew up the phones at yaskawa's three pizzerias.
The shopkeeper said: Your home is too far away, and the pizza will not taste good after delivering it to the island, so you can't send it. Son: But my father has cancer.
No matter what the store said, he said one thing: But my father has cancer.
It would feel sad, right? But Shuichi Okita added such a bridge section, several little brothers competed who delivered the pizza to Tamura's house first, and Uncle Meat was about to be laughed to death by such an arrogant fat brother...
But looking back on this clip, it's more not funny, but moving: everyone is doing their best to fulfill a father's last wish.
You see, the grief was broken off by Shuichi Okita's joke, but it didn't dissipate, it just shattered into a ubiquitous powder.
In the end, Nagayoshi left his hometown of Tonoshima island and continued to work in a foreign country, Tokyo.
But the blood of father and son has once again completed the inheritance -
In the boat away from home, Yongji lies on his wife and listens to the sound of his son kicking his belly. About thirty years ago, Aji also heard Yongji's voice like this.
Don't forget, when Yongji blew up the phones of all the pizzerias, the neighbors said this about him:
Exactly like his father, he didn't listen to people
Yes, despite living very different lives, fathers and sons will always have the same bloodline.