The post-industrial era not only made people's work classification more diverse and refined, but also made the characters forced and single, so you will see all kinds of "weirdos" in Japanese movies.
This screen-full "yellow" film is about such a "weirdo"!
The Gold Medal Man
The film is based on the director's own stage play "The Man Born in the Tokyo Olympics".
If the male protagonist is a person who pursues the process, he will be very happy.
An ordinary person can rarely have such an experience:
He has participated in various competitions, apprenticed in sushi restaurants, and become a well-known drama actor.
Travel the world, ride a bike through China and Myanmar, and cross the Pacific Ocean on a single boat.
Participated in the Japan Cross-Talk Contest with his wife, and of course, married the dream lover who was quite fateful when he was young...
But "winning the gold medal" is a result, and what the male protagonist gets from the above experiences is frustration and no happiness.
By the time he was in his 50s, you could see him in a mall, counting warehouses.
When encountering dangerous work, colleagues will let him do it, and he is happy to help to show his sense of accomplishment, mantra:
"It's nothing compared to living on an uninhabited island for seven months."
When it comes to the experience of uninhabited islands, perhaps the director feels that the most suitable place for him is uninhabited islands, giving him a chance to use all his talents.
He was full of passion, a single boat to cross the Pacific Ocean, the oar broke, the boat overturned, he used the skills of the 50-meter breathless swimming that he had participated in as a child to swim to the surface.
Drifting to the island, he picked up a wooden stick and defeated the vultures with his learned kendo, drilled wood for fire, caught fish with his bare hands, and compiled a device to collect fresh water.
In the long days of waiting, a person recited poetry to rocks and turtles, and wrote and performed his own drama...
These skills, all learned since childhood, originally just wanted to compete for the first, did not expect to use them all in the past seven months.
Impressive few stems:
The first one: the male protagonist rides a bicycle through China and Myanmar, and the result is that the bicycle is stolen halfway.
This one?
Isn't it the story of the car named Heyuan Keichiro who traveled around the world in a car, rode to Wuhan, and the bicycle was stolen, and later found it with the help of the people of Wuhan.
In the movie, it is said that it was lost in Myanmar, and it is still worth giving the face of the Chinese people.
Second: In order to regain a sense of accomplishment, the male protagonist convinces his wife to partner with him and participate in various competitions in the form of a combination.
Among them, the cross-talk (comic talent) competition is the most embarrassing, no one in the audience laughed, and they stepped off the stage, and the two were very embarrassed.
The male protagonist also felt embarrassed and said to his wife, "Let's disband this group", and the wife nodded "good, good, good".
Perhaps a question of language ambiguity in Japanese, the wife went on to ask:
"Let me confirm that it is the dissolution of our group, not the dissolution of marriage, right?"
Finally, Izumi has a different understanding of fame and profit, and Yokoi, whom he admired when he was a student, dies unexpectedly, and his mother accidentally has a car accident.
He gradually understood that what is important is the process of pursuit, life is so beautiful, how to toss is a waste.
Only by enjoying the whole process can we live up to the path of coming to this world.
Eventually the child issued a "hard work award" for his father, which was a lifelong supreme honor, and he began to cry silently.
After crying and crying, many years of grievances and heartache were all relieved.
Recalling those young and crazy days, the costumes performed on stage were reluctant to throw away, the medals were clasped on the chest, and I smiled and thanked all the gains and losses arranged by fate.
At the end of the film, the male protagonist begins to obsessively participate in the golf tournament of the Olympic Games, and his son runs home like a reincarnation like when he was young and says:
"Dad, I won the first prize in the race."
If this is our future child, what should we say to him?
I once heard one of Ray Charles's "Born Losers" and thought it must be a sad story.
But now, I would say it's a comedy, it's the life of most people.
That's the thickness of life.