Written and directed by Japanese ghost director Shiyaguchi Yaguchi, starring Miyoshi Caihana, and starring Yu Yagi, Takeshi Muro, Takato Miura, Akira Takashi Takashi, Akira Takashi Takashi, Akira Takashi Takashi, and other Japanese actors, the comedy film "Dance with Me" will be released this Friday (January 22). Yesterday, the film held an advance viewing meeting in Bona Joy City, and the brain-opening plot made the scene laugh.
The setting of "Dance with Me" can be said to be a combination of comedy, song and dance, and road movies, telling the story of Shizuka Suzuki (Miyoshi Caihua), a white-collar worker working in a first-class company in Japan, who was accidentally hypnotized by a hypnotist who looked unreliable, and got a "strange disease" that even doctors could not detect: no matter when and where, whenever he heard the music, he would involuntarily sing and dance.
This "strange disease" has brought great trouble to Shizuka's work and life, in order to return to normal, she had to go back to the hypnotist, but found that the other party ran away because she owed a bunch of loan shark money... Together with Chie Saito (Yu Hachijo), former assistant hypnotist who is also thinking of getting justice, she embarks on a journey to find a hypnotist to "cure the disease". Then, a series of absurd and funny stories began.
When it comes to song and dance films, many viewers can't help but think of Indian movies, male and female protagonists can always suddenly sing and dance anytime and anywhere, but due to cultural differences, this setting will make Chinese audiences feel a little embarrassed, who will suddenly dance and sing on the street for no reason? But "Dance with Me" gives the most reasonable explanation this time, because the heroine is hypnotized! So as soon as she hears the music, she will involuntarily open her legs and sing and dance, but people can't help but watch it, and this setting also lays the foreshadowing of self-growth.
Director Yaguchi Shijing is not only satisfied with making funny song and dance films, he also adds the setting of road movies. In order to "cure the disease", the heroine and her gang had to embark on the road to find a hypnotist, but because everyone was so poor that they could only raise money while going up the road, selling mobile phones and singing. The heroine's strange illness also helped solve a lot of problems along the way, but I never expected that halfway through the drive, even the car was deceived... "Dance with Me" Unexpected and reasonable baggage frequently appeared, making the scene laugh one after another, making people look very decompressed!
The director of the film, Yaguchi Shijing, is a famous gold medal director and screenwriter in Japan, who has directed a number of Douban 8-point films, whose works are warm and humorous, and he especially loves to analyze life in a funny way. The movie "Dance with Me" ostensibly talks about the journey of the workers to treat the disease, but in fact, in an absurd and funny way, it truly shows the current situation of the life of the workers in the workplace, under the pressure of the nine-to-five work, in fact, everyone's heart still retains the yearning and persistence of the ideal, and meets the unknown of life.
The film "Dance with Me" won the "Best Audience Choice Award" at the Toronto Japanese Film Festival and the "Audience Silver Award" at the Fantasy International Film Festival. It was also screened at the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival and received praise from domestic audiences. Starring Sanji Caihua has been well known to Chinese audiences for starring in the MV heroine of Jay Chou's song "Say Good Don't Cry", as "Japan's new national goddess", her performance in the film is also a highlight.
"Dance with Me"
Release date: January 22, 2021
Director: Shijing Yaguchi
Starring: Ayaka Miyoshi, Makoto Nagatani, Mari Hayashida, Kodai Miura
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Country/Region of Production: Japan
Duration: 102 minutes
Synopsis: Shizuka is hypnotized by a hypnotist in the film, and when the music starts, she can't stop singing and dancing. Shizuka sang and danced at an important meeting of the company because of this "special function", and slipped away under the faces of colleagues, determined to find a hypnotist to let him lift this "special function". Along the way to find the hypnotist, I met many people, the hypnotist's assistant, the private detective, the underground street dancer, the woman who wore the wedding dress and made a big fuss about the ex-boyfriend's wedding... After the hypnotist helped herself to unlock the "special function", Shizuka was no longer the same as usual life, gave up indulging in the boring environment of the office, and cooperated with the hypnotist's assistant to open a studio to teach children to dance, and found herself.