In 1978, the second year after the Cultural Revolution, I began to study hard for the college entrance examination two years later at nanhe county no. 1 middle school in my hometown of Hebei Province. I remember that just a few days after the "National Day" that year, the small county town suddenly became restless, everyone was excitedly talking about a Japanese movie "Pursuit", the only cinema in the county was full, and the flow of people who left and entered the scene intersected, and the iron gate of the cinema was crowded down. This kind of pomp and circumstance was comparable to that of the 1972 North Korean film "The Flower Girl" when it was released. It is also unprecedented, but the feelings brought by the two films to Chinese audiences are worlds apart. "Flower Girl" focuses on the theme of sadness, and the audience needs to be prepared to wipe the tears of the handkerchief. And "The Hunt" brings people a full range of shocks. Remember that the ticket price that year was two cents, which can buy 4 steamed buns in a middle room, which is really reluctant. Skipping class in the evening, jumping off the wall with two friends from the same village, watching four games in a week, entering the class is excited to talk to the classmates about "Duqiu" and "True Beauty".
After watching it, it's like being "cheated", and there is no cure, the movie "The Hunt" and its characters, plot, dialogue, music, etc. The sound and picture have been tossing in the heart for more than forty years, and when I can't stand it, I am warm in the computer, of course, I prefer to watch the original Uncut Japanese version, which has the deleted Duqiu and Mayumi Cave "Passion" and Mayumi's naked driving at the Tokyo Hotel, and a section of encounter interlude starring Mizuko, not to pursue that low-level fun, It's just that I prefer a work that is artistically complete. The movie "Hunt", Cui Lantian's "Peach Blossom Temple", Tong Xiangling's "Fighting the Tiger on the Mountain", and Luo Yusheng's "Reorganizing the Rivers and Mountains for Future Life" are already "drug addiction" in my heart.
Duchu's standard features: aviator sunglasses and a beige stand-up collar trench coat
The Hunt was premiered in February 1976 by Daiei Pictures Co., Ltd. in Japan, directed by Junya Sato. It was also able to come to China because of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations. On August 12, 1978, China and Japan signed the "Sino-Japanese Friendship Treaty", and on October 22, Deng Xiaoping was about to start his visit to Japan, in order to celebrate the signing of the treaty and create a good atmosphere for Deng Gong's visit to Japan, the Ministry of Culture held the "Japan Film Week" in Beijing and other seven major cities in October of that year, screening The Japanese feature films "Wangxiang", "The Hunt" and the documentary "The Fox's Story". Only "The Hunt" is a big hit, and it is no exaggeration to say that its pomp can be described as "a movie has fallen into a country" and has not faded over the years.
Ding Jianhua, who voices Zhen Yumi
"The Hunt" has received phenomenal praise and pursuit in China, and I was impressed by the following features:
Caters to the needs of the times. In October 1978, China had just ended ten years of cultural revolution for two years, reform and opening up as a national policy has not yet been launched, the public generally has a sense of "cultural drying-up", is in need of a "cultural Ganlin" nourishment, the movie "Hunt" at this time riding on the spring breeze of Sino-Japanese diplomacy, like a cultural thunder exploded in the land of Shenzhou, not only exploded people's ideological confinement, but also put too many Chinese unheard of elements through the film lens in front of the Chinese audience: grand and high-quality film production, The details of Japan's modern life, the distinctive personality of the actor group, etc., have become a platform for Chinese audiences to understand Japan, a country that is both familiar and unfamiliar, and everything is fresh and curious. It can be said that the social influence of a Japanese movie "The Hunt" is shocking, awakening the Chinese people's desire to pursue "truth, goodness and beauty" in the world.
Impressive Sheriff Yamura
The film itself is highly artistic. The big theme of "The Hunt" is the victory of justice over evil, it integrates adventure, science fiction, crime, fashion, reasoning and other film elements in one, the plot is ups and downs, the character personality is vivid, the performance is real in place, the details are vivid and vivid, it has a strong artistic appeal, the classic plot and character dialogue in the film, especially the sentence of the person Tang Ta in the play: "Go forward from here, don't look at both sides, you will melt in the blue sky", Chinese audiences are familiar with "Heavenly King Gaidi Tiger, Pagoda Town River Demon" as well as a number of family treasures. I remember that in the early 1980s, the famous Chinese cross-talk actors Yang Zhenhua and Jin Bingchang quoted a large number of "Hunt" lines in their work "Playing Chess", which achieved great success. The music in "The Hunt" is also a highlight. In addition to the simple rhythm but strong artistic charm of "The Song of Duqiu", the electroacoustic music played with electronic instruments that appears many times in the film is refreshing, especially the electroacoustic music of Duqiu in the hospital corridor, Duqiu taking medicine, Duqiu and Tangta Zhengkang showing off on the roof, etc., feeling that every sound is struck in the hearts of the audience, setting off the tense and exciting atmosphere absolutely in place.
Ken Takakura, the male number one, and Ryoko Nakano, the female number one, were made ambassadors of civil diplomacy by movie stars. In the play, the actor of the male number one Duqiu, Takakura Ken, tall and cold, a resolute and courageous face completely conquered the Chinese audience, especially the female audience who is accustomed to watching the "cream students" in Chinese movies, and they have a special love for Takakura Ken, and the crowd issued a sigh of "where to find China's Takakura Ken", making China's cream students Alexander. Starting with "The Hunt", two other films starring Ken Takakura, "The Yellow Handkerchief of Happiness" and "The Call of the Distant Mountains", have also become a mess in China, and together with "The Hunt", they are called "Takakura Ken Trilogy", which will forever enter the annals of history. When Ken Takakura first visited China in 1986, he was welcomed and warmly welcomed in Beijing like a "mountain call tsunami". Ken Takakura has become an "idol" in China's film industry, and when he died in 2014, he was solemnly commemorated by the Chinese government and people.
Ken Takakura: Chinese audiences will never forget this face
"The Hunt" female Number One Mayumi, played by Ryoko Nakano, is more popular in China than Ken Takakura. When she first visited China in 1979, she was "frightened" by the enthusiasm of the audience, and the Chinese audience simply called her "True Beauty". Later, Nakano Ryoko visited China many times, donated a school, and became a non-governmental ambassador for Sino-Japanese friendship with Ken Takakura.
Ryoko Nakano: The eternal beauty of truth in the hearts of Chinese audiences
"The Hunt" introduced Chinese audiences to a large number of Japanese actors in the play. In addition to Ken Takakura and Ryoko Nakano, there are also Yoshio Harada, who plays Sheriff Yamura; Kuniaki Tanaka, who plays Keiji Yokoji; Akira Nishimura, who plays Akira Nagaoka, and so on, all of whom will live forever in the hearts of Chinese audiences along with "The Hunt".
In 1986, BYK (left) Ken Takakura met cordially in Shanghai
The film dubbing of The Hunt adds sparkle to the film. "The Hunt" is dubbed and produced by Shanghai Translation Studio, which is definitely a fine product among the best. Bik, who voiced Du Qiu, Ding Jianhua, who voiced Zhen Yumi, Yang Chengchun, who voiced Sheriff Yamura, Qiu Yuefeng, who voiced Tang Ta, Shang Hua, who voiced Nagaoka, etc., they are a group of voice artists, who most truly integrate their voices into the emotions of the people in the play, and reproduce the plot most accurately and beautifully, which is a classic in the classic.
In 1979, cross-talk actors Yang Zhenhua and Kim Byung-chang performed cross-talk "Playing Chess"
Kuniyoshi Tanaka plays Keiji Yokoji
Around 1980, in the era when China's art market was in disarray, imported films were popular, such as "Modern Times" and "Chaplin Film Series" in the United States; "Wanderer" and "Caravan" in India; "Bridge" in Yugoslavia, "Walter Defending Sarajevo" and other films have become famous. But in terms of the depth and breadth of its impact on Chinese audiences, it dwarfs Japan's "The Hunt." Regardless of the male and female number one Du qiu and Mayumi in the play, even the supporting role of Yokoji Keiji, who has only one line, is also a pleasing role in the eyes of our countrymen, and "Yokoji Keiji" has also become synonymous with "fool" and "two forced" in the daily colloquial language of the Chinese people. "The Hunt", a film that had a mediocre response in Japan that year, but with its all-round beauty, novelty, kindness and excitement, "viciously" hit the soft underbelly of Chinese audiences and "fell" our country, and its beautiful influence was deep and far-reaching. I am afraid that this phenomenon is rare in the history of world cinema.