"Escape from Shame but Useful"
The just-concluded "Escape shameful but useful" can be said to be the most popular Japanese drama in the autumn, initially leading other dramas in the same period with a rating of 13%, and then climbing all the way up, and by the ninth episode, it has reached 17%, which can be said to be an exciting number after the continuous shrinkage of TV drama ratings due to the impact of the Network. In the end, the data of 20.8% also brought the entire ratings to a peak.
The cooperation between the popular actress Niigaki Yui, who is popular with her ageless cute childlike face, and the male artist Hoshino Yuan, who debuted as a singer and retired from the entertainment industry for a long time due to illness, was a little surprised at the beginning, but after watching the drama, I felt that the two were unusually compatible - the fantasy-loving Lotte girl and the elderly virgin of the single master gave birth to a bud of love that made people look anxious.
The roots of the story
This game is a girl manga of the same name adapted from Umino つなみ. Kaino's debut was in 1989 in 1989 after winning kodansha's Newcomer Award. However, looking at the list of works, most of the works are still based on short stories, and the only ones that can be seriously introduced are probably 5 volumes of "Little Huang Girl". However, there are enough Katsumi, in fact, in the Japanese girl manga reader circle, there is still a certain degree of popularity.
Cover of Volume 1 of the manga edition.
Until 1994, most of the works were centered on Kodansha's teenage manga magazine ,なかよし, but after a period of transition, from 1997 onwards, she began to create around KISS.
KISS is Kodansha's older women's magazine, and to this day it continues to produce famous works such as "Reiko Shiratori", "Symphonic Lover's Dream", "Firelight", "Tokyo Daydream Girl" and so on. A glance at the works listed can be understood, this is also a magazine that is easy to produce adaptations of Japanese dramas. "Escape from Shameful but Useful" is also like these other masterpieces, successfully adapted and presented to everyone.
The image of the male and female protagonists in the comic version.
It can be said that in 2015, with this work, it won the Kodansha Manga Awards Girl Division, which is the peak of The Seano's so far. So far, she has challenged many genres of girl comics, and "Escape from Shame" is her most mature work.
The success of the Japanese drama adaptation
The Japanese drama version of "Escape from Shame" has adapted the original to a certain extent, but at the same time retains the very interesting points of the original work.
The first is the new "contract marriage" setting. People familiar with girl comics and romance novels know that "contract marriage" has always been an old-fashioned road, and men and women have a situation of compulsion, reluctantly or unclearly marrying without emotional basis. Like the Korean drama "Full House of Romance", which was once popular, it is also a similar plot.
Photo of the male and female protagonist wearing high school uniforms.
The setting that the heroine has a high degree but cannot find her own suitable job has also resonated with many modern Young Japanese women. On the one hand, they feel that the current society should study more, go to work, and make themselves economically independent, on the other hand, they are limited to the traditional ideas of Japanese society, believing that doing housework and becoming a full-time housewife is their destination, but in this way they cannot achieve economic independence. The idea proposed by "Escape from Shame" made their eyes light up, and the setting of marriage with a housewife as a profession made the Japanese drama become the focus of attention after the first episode was launched.
There is also the idea of "Love Continent", "NEWS32", "Kaiyun Appraisal Group", "Newlyweds" and other well-known groups of Japanese variety show fans, which were used as delusional material by the heroine Moriyama Shiori, because they were filmed too realistically, and at the beginning of the first sentence, they scared a lot of people! In fact, this is reflected in the comics.
The comparison of the variety show "Love Continent" is the original version.
Not only the Japanese group, but also the national animation "EVA" and "Miss Conch", and the Otome game screen lines have also been borrowed (Miss Conch is only used in japanese dramas in manga). When I heard the familiar EVA music in the fourth episode, I guess a lot of A-house laughed crazy. Of course, these are official collaborations, some of the videos of the introduction of the show that are broadcast in Japan, and there are also narrators by Mitsushi Koto and Emi Ogata!
The use of the variety show "Newlyweds" is the original version.
Regarding what programs were actually used in the shooting of Japanese dramas, the materials of the works and what pinches were made, they have been sorted out on the wiki, which is very interesting, and it can be seen that the shooting team is very attentive. It can be said that the original idea is brought to the extreme.
The changes to the original work of the Japanese drama, especially in the change of characters, are very reasonable, which makes people have to lament the superb skills of the screenwriter.
A few points: The age of Miss Lily, the aunt of the heroine of the original work, Moriyama Shiori, was originally set at 52 years old, and the Japanese drama version was adjusted to 49 years old. On the one hand, it is because the age gap between the 4-character head and the 5-character head is a bit large, and it is necessary to consider that the casting and styling can not be too old, so it is necessary to adjust, on the other hand, it must also be because of the need to shorten the age gap with the male protagonist Tsuzaki Hiraku's colleague • supporting actor Kazemi Ryota. In the original work, The setting of Kazemi is 27 years old, and as the second male protagonist, there has always been a dark line between lily, but the gap between 52 years old and 27 years old is really a bit too big, and readers of the manga may ignore the real age gap because of the two-dimensional picture, but it will be different when filmed into a Japanese drama, so it must be adjusted. This judgment is very correct, when Kazemi and Lily really have a spark in the ninth episode, no audience will think they are inappropriate, right? It's still 17 years old (laughs).
Use the subtitle form and soundtrack of "Almighty Transformation King" to express the change of attitude before and after.
At the same time, in order to better portray the main characters, the Japanese drama version has also added a lot of supporting roles, such as the male protagonist also has a typical Japanese family father's colleague Hino, and Lily has added a male newcomer subordinate in addition to the existing female newcomer subordinates in the original work, both of which have played a great help in promoting the plot and shaping the characters.
The social phenomenon mentioned in the film
Although the main trend is love comedy, the reason why this show is concerned and sought after is not only because of love. Part of the more important reason is the film's reflection of some social phenomena in Japan.
As mentioned earlier, the current situation of highly educated women like Moriyama Shiori in Japanese society is a big point. First of all, why did you choose a higher education for further study? The people who really study for the purpose of studying are actually a minority, and there are many of them, like Moriyama Shiori in the film, who chose to continue their studies because they failed to take up their jobs after graduating from college. However, even if you continue to study, you don't really have a goal, you don't really want to do something. Although there is nothing wrong with this, the result is that even if you continue to study, you still can't find a suitable job after graduation. I want to do what I like, but I also have to think about salary, and even the workplace environment... In other words, high is not low. At the same time, the employer also has some established views on highly educated women, such as the film's layoffs would rather lay off highly educated first, because high education means paying a higher salary, and they will also feel that "since you are so capable, you can find a job elsewhere."
In Japanese society, highly educated women are actually more difficult to find employment than imagined, and the pressure is also very high. According to the results of the Nippon Institute of Research, the proportion of female university students who are formally employed after graduation is 65%, and the proportion of female graduate students who are formally employed is 71.8%, but after a few years of adoption, the turnover rate exceeds 50%. The reason is that it goes without saying that "marriage" and "procreation" are two major realities.
The problem of women leaving their jobs caused by marriage and childbearing is inseparable from the current state of society in Japan. The inequality of the status of men and women in Japanese society is deeply rooted, although there have been people of insight who have protested and improved their opinions since a long time ago, but so far they have little effect, and the mainstream of Japanese society is still women to bear housework, childcare and household planning. The data shows that the proportion of Japanese men who bear these three things is almost the lowest in the world. The share of household chores is only 18.3%, and the average time spent doing housework per day is only 24 minutes. Fathers of children under the age of 6 spend less than 10 minutes a day in childcare. In this case, full-time working women also have to take care of the burden of the family, which is simply an impossible task, and women with families can only resign.
Parody of the TV show "Dissent! Counter! OBJECTION" to conduct a two-way debate.
Among the audiences who love to watch this film, there must be a large part of young women. Although this Japanese drama is still based on love comedies and does not give any preaching on these phenomena, in the hearts of every female audience, there will definitely be their own judgments, at least it can be seen that whose survival posture is the most beautiful.
I have to mention the rewriter of the Japanese drama script, Noriki Noriko. This spring's high-rated Japanese drama "ReprintEd! " is written by her. Her thinking and expressiveness about women and the workplace can be described as a thorough paper. At the same time, she is also the third time to cooperate with Yui Niigaki, the last cooperation was "Memorandum of Today", which was also a popular red drama at that time, and was a very noteworthy scripter.
"Love dance" craze
The ending song "Love", sung by the actor Hoshino Gen, has recently spread throughout the streets of Japan, but the song's popularity is not only because the melody is good, but because at the end of the play, the actors cooperate with the song and dance an ED dance!
Dancing at the end of a Japanese drama is not the first of its kind, but it is only the dance of this one. The crew proposed this project, let Hoshino Gen write a more dance-like song, and then invited mikiko, a choreographer of perfume, to choreograph, and it took 3 months to complete the full ED dance. Since the first episode was broadcast, it has become a popular term for SNS, and then NICO or YouTube, and there are constantly users flipping this cute dance. The crew is not to be outdone, or has been prepared for it, and has also released different versions of "love dance" in later episodes. Not only fans, but also many local radio stations, other programs, other celebrities and even other institutions have begun to jump "love dance", such as Nogisaka 46's Inoue Sayuri, figure skating Yui Yu strings, and even the US Embassy in Japan have released videos of flipping. And with the rise of ratings and the spread of popularity, it is estimated that more celebrities, groups, etc. will join it! The ED Dance project was a huge success!
The U.S. Embassy in Japan collectively danced a video of "Love".
Now someone on Twitter has drawn a decomposition of the movement of the whole dance, if you want to learn, you can try it yourself
Escape really works
There has been no mention of the title "Escape shameful but useful". The first appearance in the play is the second episode, after the two decide to contract marriage, because they care about the opinions of the people around them and decide to hide the truth, Shiri feels that this is also an escape. Ping Kuang rightly said that escaping is also a choice, even if escaping is shameful, but it is more important to live.
But is this really the case? In the tenth episode, Ping Kuang has already punched himself in the face with his inner monologue: there will always be times when people can't choose to escape.
And what about the chestnut that also chose to escape? Although the previous view that the "contract marriage" is completely based on interests and rationality is a new view that many women are also very impressed, but with the development of the two people's feelings, the last two words still reveal the real answer to whether "contract marriage" is feasible or not - when Tsuzaki Hiraku took her to the gorgeous hotel and was ready to really propose to her, Morizo Shiori looked at the calculation results of the formula he came up with and said aggrievedly, "Are you proposing to me because you can reasonably not pay me wages?" I am against exploitation in the name of love! ”
She also punched herself in the face, who had originally proposed indentured marriage.
It can be said that because of love, the result is different. Marriage still requires love after all. Avoiding a problem is not the same as solving a problem. However, it is precisely because of this round of evasion that there is an opportunity to promote the development of the relationship between the two, so it is still useful to escape.
Finally, attach the full version of "Love" without subtitles.
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Japanese Wikipedia 5 good luck pulled by the loss of enemy, new viewership ..."Shame on the run" Japan is the world's best country where husbands don't do housework Can't highly educated women be happy? Three burdens to hunt them down Yuri-chan's way of life in the drama "Escape Shame" "So I think I have to live coolly"
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