Fifty years of life, like a dream and a fantasy. Whoever was once born, how can there be an immortal!
On February 21, 2018, 66-year-old Japanese actor Ryo Oisugi suddenly passed away after finishing a day of filming for TV Tokyo's prime-time TV series "Byplayers 2: If the Famous Supporting Character Challenges Uninhabited Island Life in TV's East Morning Drama", making this nonsensical comedy that reveals the actor's obsessive pursuit of his profession suddenly become heavy. A comedy suddenly becomes the actor's last work, and the TV station and the audience are just as confused about how to treat the work.
Due to the unexpected success of the first season, the second season was upgraded from a late-night TV series to a prime-time TV series, although the broadcast time was only two hours earlier, but the definition of the golden and late-night TV series was completely different, such as actors can not say meat strips when they are allowed to play freely, and a group of fifty- and sixty-year-old uncles should pay attention to setting an example for the younger generations in the industry when they laugh and play. But from the performance of the actors, the transfer to the golden file obviously did not bring real pressure to these experienced leading actors, and the performance was still as loose as ever, more real and comfortable than some reality TV actors.
The story is the same as the previous season, more precisely, it is consistent with the typhoon of the TV Tokyo TV series, which sounds very "ridiculous". The story of the last season fictionalized Zhang Yimou's remake of "Seven Samurai" to gather "six actors who support the Japanese film industry", and the result is that the eldest of them, Ōsugi Lian, set a "trap" to complete another virtual film co-produced by the past six people, and in the process of cohabitation, the six actors encounter different events and discuss what an actor is, why he is an actor, and how to be an actor.
Since Terajima did not participate in the performance of this season, the remaining five people participated in another fictional TV series filming, came to an uninhabited island, due to the mistakes made by Oisugi Lian, missed the opportunity to play a supporting role, downgraded to a mass actor who did not have the opportunity to stay in a hotel or a guesthouse, and once again faced the large-scale life philosophy problem of how to be an actor, what an actor, and why to be an actor.
The fictional TV series is TV Tokyo's morning drama "Island Girl", which is a parody of NHK's morning drama "Haenyeo" from the title of the TV series, the story structure and the plot setting. Due to the mistake of missing the boot time, the nameless supporting role was considered by the crew to deliberately skip the shift rather than accidentally in danger, please come to the performance, and after the five people returned to the civilized world, they found that if they still wanted to participate in the breakthrough of tokyo to challenge the overlord of the morning drama, they could only star in the mass actors, and even had to play middle-aged women in reverse - even so, in order to practice their professional beliefs, the five Ogisang still overcame difficulties and were willing to be the green leaves in the green leaves.
Life is like a play, and a play is like life. After the unexpected death of Oisugi Lian and then look back on the part that has been broadcast, many lines are no longer purely for the sake of ridiculing funny settings, the world is unpredictable, who thought that the character set as "in the show business circle, through the hardships, so no matter how sinister the environment can be strong to survive" The actor of "Oisugi Lian" will die unexpectedly? If anyone can anticipate a sudden change in the situation, probably no actor will easily say the lines that ridicule life and death.
For Oisugi, who has starred in more than 400 film and television works, if the lines that shouted for pain and happiness in the previous season, even if they were killed immediately after the performance, they could represent the actor's own heart, then Osugi, who was once regarded as one of the "actors who support the Japanese film industry", also lived happily.
What's more, everyone knows that being able to play the role of Buddha-figure in a TV series also has an irreplaceable meaning in addition to the spoof component. In the play, their roles may be able to find someone to act on their behalf, but the information that the actor himself can convey to the audience cannot be copied and replaced, even if Xiao Ri, who plays the Buddha-figure in the play, says the line "Will work hard to perform to comfort Mr. Ohsugi's spirit in heaven", in the play for fun, it is also a joke outside the play: For the actor who regards film and television as a creation, the actor is unique and irreplaceable.
"Byplayers 2" is a purely fictional, self-deprecating, spoof, and unorthodox comedy TV series, no matter how irrational and unconventional the plot is, the actor's love for his profession, respect for his career and competitive mentality are still clearly expressed.
Life is like a dream compared to heaven. Can immerse yourself in your favorite career, struggle happily, play a role that you like and the audience likes, and may not be willing to die, but there are no regrets, instead of nostalgia, it is better to cherish this work, and take laughter as the best condolence to Ohsugi.