The second quarter of the much-anticipated Netflix Japanese drama "Naked Director" has been updated.
Many fans chased 8 episodes overnight and were hooked, but some people also said that they were abused by the new plot.
Two years ago, this large-scale Japanese drama featuring Japanese adult film director Murasai Toru turned out to be a new understanding of the erotic world behind this controversial character.
Two years later, Murasai set off again with his "satellite TV dream", this time, will he reap the glory again, or will he fail?
The first season of "Naked Director" focuses on the history of Japan's "AV Emperor" Murasai Toru in the 80s, telling the story of him entering the porn industry from an English textbook salesman, joining a group of followers, and breaking through the porn industry.
The story of the first season is raw and bloody. Murasai entered the pornography industry from the trough of life, rose rapidly, and was secretly calculated by his opponents several times, and was imprisoned many times, but he was always able to turn the tables against the wind and create one miracle after another.
His most high-profile achievement is to join hands with the legendary figure in the AV actress industry - Kuroki Kaoru, to make a pioneering pornographic film that subverts the past, and thus creates a pioneering road of "relying on pornography to change the world", and establishes his own AV empire - diamond image.
In the second season, the background of the story changes from Showa to Heisei, and in the context of the bubble economy in the 90s, Murasai's career has also turned from prosperity to decline, facing many crises.
The beginning of the second season is connected with the previous season, and Murakami still has a huge AV empire, has shot 1800 films, and cooperated with thousands of actresses.
He and Kuroki became the most popular topic figures in the country, giving TV interviews everywhere, high-energy output throughout the whole process, and even took to the streets to campaign, promoting their crazy ideas that "pornography changes the world".
When his AV Empire was in full swing, so did his ambitions.
Under the advice of bank consultants, Murasaito began to enter the satellite TV business, wanting to have a dedicated channel to serve users around the world.
However, it was this overly large illusion that eventually overdrawn his career. Because of the excessive investment in satellite TV, he was in debt of 5 billion, and eventually the capital chain was broken and out of control.
Because of his excessive enthusiasm for the satellite business, Murasai's original intention as an AV director was gradually lost.
In the second season, it can be seen that the set is all supported by junko and Mitamura, who is thinking about how to give gifts to the people of the satellite company to obtain the right to screen.
Even if he returned to the set, he could not create a film that surpassed Kuroki's masterpiece, but because of the unrestrained shooting of eye-catching hunting films, the partners left one by one: Kawada, who worked hard with him, Kuroki Kaoru, an important figure who achieved his AV career, makeup artist Junko, and his loyal followers Mitamura, rugby...
Although the departure of these people did not immediately destroy the cause of Murasita, they were like a signal, allowing us to see how Murashiro was separated from the people around him step by step, and went farther and farther on the road of falling.
Until the final financial crisis, the assistant roll money escaped, the actress refused to star, and the diamond image he created by his hand collapsed.
Once full of spirit, at the end of the play, he became a street vendor.
Investment failures, financial crises, and rebellions, Murasai has not escaped the development curve of many common characters in commercial dramas.
Obviously, this season's story is no longer as blood-boiling as the history of the previous season, it is about the history of a person's fall.
The so-called history of the origin is actually the framework of the traditional Japanese bloody inspirational drama, which tells the counterattack of a small person. The process of how Murasai to become an AV emperor from a rookie salesman is legendary in itself.
The large scale of the AV theme adds to the curiosity of the play. In the play, Murasai's series of creative techniques in AV shooting have a pioneering meaning for the industry. For example, the documentary style of This Fan, the "train bento" shot from the first perspective...
In addition, the controversy surrounding the industry itself in the first season – is it obscene to photograph the most primitive appearance of human beings?
The ruthless exposure of the pornography industry chain composed of police, gangsters and traffickers in the context of the Showa era also makes this drama have both depth on the basis of scale.
However, in the second season, the scale has been upgraded, but the characters have begun to decline. The sense of blood brought by the previous inspirational dramas has disappeared, and the sense of disillusionment of individual fate and dream disillusionment under the bubble economy is extremely strong.
All the aura faded, and the defects and background of the village itself were shaken to the ground.
In the second season, Murasaito is difficult to like anymore. His obstinate and self-absorbed behavior runs through the entire character's fall.
The scene where he parted ways with Kawada is enough to glimpse that he has long deviated from their original intention of cooperation. He made a billion dollars on unconformed AV works, and Kawada silently recycled these inferior films behind his back, preventing him from being caught and unable to make any more films.
But Murasai said, I don't shoot, it's a big deal to let others shoot.
He decided to enter the satellite TV business, but Kawada, as president, was the last to know. For Kuroki Kaoru, an important figure who has achieved his career, Murasai toto only regards her as a gold sign to make money, and no longer pays attention to Kuroki Kaoru's need to make a comeback to make a film. Even decisively enabled the newly recruited actress to replace Kuroki Kaoru's position, causing the other party to flee. Until the end, when he once again betrayed the flesh of the actresses and flowed the codeless video into the market, the many business legends he had previously created were completely peeled off, and the character of Murasai toto was completely destroyed. In the end, his true face is nothing more than a quick success, regarding women as commodities, and a bottomless arrogant businessman. From beginning to end, his character arc did not change much.
Not only has the character of the protagonist, Murasai, taken a sharp turn, but many other characters have also lost the brilliance and depth of their predecessors. For example, black wood incense. In the first season, her proactive gesture and advocacy of not shaving armpits seemed avant-garde at the time, and she was a legend representing women's sexual liberation.
But in the second season, Kuroki Kaoru hovered on the verge of comeback, always held back by the surrounding environment, replaced by new actresses, prescribed by advertising agencies, her sharpness and charm were weakened, and finally chose suicide to bid farewell to this contradictory role and return to the previous path. This return, like the character of Murasai Toru, dissolves the various pioneer independent characters set up in the first season, which is regrettable. Secondly, there is also a puzzling character is Amin. Amin, who was expelled from Murasai in the first season, joined the gang. The series uses many scenes to tell the tragic love between him and the mistress of the gangster, as part of the emotional drama, the entanglement of the two, and Amin's rescue of Sayaga's escape, which is both sadistic and romantic.
However came to the west of the village to penetrate this line. The play gives Amin a tragic loyal victim. He eventually spared Murasaito, who was scared to pee his pants, and even sacrificed himself to kill the gangsters and solve the debt crisis for Murasaito in order to fulfill his cause. However, this forced sensational setting did not prompt the characters to introspect themselves deeply, but became a tool for Murasai to return to the mental state of brainless arrogance. This is also the reason why the reconciliation of the seaside between Kawanishi and Murasai in the end is confusing.
Everyone advises Murasai to live like himself, but he has been doing himself all the time. As a biographical drama, "Naked Director" has gained a wave of attention using the setting of waste wood counterattack and large-scale themes, and the current situation of the pornography industry in the Showa and Heisei periods presented in the series is also extremely realistic and full of a sense of the times. Unfortunately, the second season's story is out of control in the shaping of the main character and the flattening of the side characters, which makes the completion of the show less. But even so, we still see a real and vivid village Xituo with the help of director Wu Zhengqing's lens. His rise and fall are due to the times on the one hand, and his controversial words and deeds and uninhibited attitude towards life on the other hand. And the praise and criticism in this needs to be interpreted by ourselves. Some people love him for ignoring the rules and confronting the truth of desire; some people hate him for treating women as commodities, arrogant and blind. But all of this makes up the real village of Nishito. Whether fame or notoriety, he is still the one who jumps up at any time, shoots in the streets, and is chased by the police when everyone is sighing.
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