Netflix is too good at choosing themes.
There are "Stranger Things", "Naked Director", and then "Alice in the Land of the Dead" and "Squid Game".
Each blockbuster is accurately stepped on the audience's curiosity psychology, how to blame how to come.
After filming the pornography industry tycoon Murasai toto, he also stared at the paralyzed "old hooligan" in the Japanese literary and art circles.
That's right, it was takeshi Kitano, who was making a big fuss about the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics.
He is a world-class director who can stand shoulder to shoulder with Akira Kurosawa.
He is also an old drama bone with superb acting skills, the soul of Japanese cross-talk, and a funny and comedian in the variety industry.
Takeshi Kitano, a strange man who is not limited by the secular framework.
And this movie is about his story —
《Asakusa Koko》
1
The story is set on a strip show.
This was the starting point of Kitano Takeshi's acting career.
In the gap between each strip show, the theater will use comedy performances to string the stages.
The audience's drunken intention is not to drink, the show is wonderful, and the applause is always sparse.
But Chisaburo Fukami (Hiroshi Ozumi), who performs on stage, has real skills.
The tv trend has swept all over Japan, and live performances are naturally declining.
Of course, Takeshi Kitano (Yumi Yanagi) started out as a little brother who helped people run errands on the elevator.
None of them have any skills, but they have a dream of becoming a comedian.
Impressed by Fukami's talent, he secretly practiced the tap dance that the other side was good at.
Day after day, I was sweating profusely, and I didn't know how many pairs of shoes I had worn out, so I jumped out of shape.
But the effort was worth it, and Fukami took him as an apprentice and gave him the leather shoes that were suitable for tap dancing.
His debut stemmed from the absence of an actor.
Suddenly, I don't even know the lines, what if it is cold?
Kitano Takeshi moved a little clever -
Since it is an anti-string, then draw an ugly female makeup and make people laugh with their vision.
But this act caused Master to scold him.
Listen up
Don't try to please the audience
It's up to you to tell the audience
What's interesting
Takeshi Kitano followed his master's teachings and continued to hone his skills, and his talent for comedy was gradually revealed.
Master knew very well in his heart that the golden scales were the things in the pool?
Not to mention that the income of the show is getting smaller and smaller, and it is already on the verge of closure.
With the acquiescence of his master, Takeshi Kitano left the theater and transformed from a comedian into a manga.
Although it didn't go well at first, he and his partner became a hard-to-find celebrity with the wind of manpower.
The television station quickly sent them an invitation.
Their paragraphs and content have never been limited.
Touching on the essence of life, everything can be ridiculed is their signature style.
But TV stations don't eat this set.
Live broadcasting is imminent, but there is no spare paragraph that does not violate the rules.
Takeshi Kitano, who was waiting in the background, crossed his heart and decided to stick to his original intention and talk as it was.
Unexpectedly, the performance was a huge success.
Since then, Takeshi Kitano has entered the public eye.
2
Once Takeshi Kitano and his master had a drink at a tavern, when he first learned the art.
Master got up to leave and asked Kitano to bring his heels from the next table for him to wear.
Was Master drunk?
In fact, because of the funny thing, he has been carved into his bones.
After Kitano Takeshi became famous, the two masters and apprentices reunited again.
Unlike the last time, Kitano took the initiative to replace master's shoes.
Master also had a tacit understanding, and after putting it on, he began to pretend to be stupid:
"How did I suddenly get taller?" Stupid! Do you see this like my shoes?"
The whole house burst into laughter.
This is the echo of the film's narrative approach, and it is also a sign of the progress of Kitano's comedy skills.
He was no longer the stunned young man who would only follow his master's ass around, but had grown into a comedy artist who could stand on his own.
Master didn't say anything, but the corners of his mouth were raised unconsciously.
At the end of the film, the elderly Takeshi Kitano returns to the place where his dream began. The gray building was instantly lit up with his arrival.
This is followed by a five-minute long shot, which is gradually awakened as he steps.
He walked through familiar corridors and rooms, where memories of decades ago are fresh in the world.
Finally he stopped on stage, his memories overlapping with reality.
Master was as angry as he had been then, as if time had stopped at this moment, and nothing had changed.
In terms of lens language, "Asakusa Kid" also has a clip process that is worth playing.
Strippers in the theater dance a beautiful dance, and Takeshi Kitano at the back door of the theater is practicing tap dancing.
One side is forced to give up their dreams early because of their livelihood, and the other side is still struggling for their dreams at the bottom.
Two cross-cutting dances, two different circumstances.
Both magical and realistic.
3
Make up the suffering into paragraphs and laugh it up.
It's the charm of comedians, the way they declare war on life.
This is also the most fascinating part of "Asakusa Kid".
Spicy thoughts, turned into the ridicule of the shortcomings of the needle, inject black humor into the boring daily life.
The severed finger can be used as a paragraph, the embarrassment of the apprentice giving money to the master can be resolved by pretending to be greedy for money, and the parting of death is just another joke.
What an open-minded mind.
"One Day for the Teacher and Lifelong Father"
In Kitano Takeshi's impression, Master was a proud man.
Even if you are hungry, you must maintain a decent appearance, and the top hat shoes are never meticulous.
Won't bow to anyone.
But it is such a person, when the apprentice goes to challenge the vast world, puts down his dignity to go to various comedy practitioners, and lowers his posture to ask everyone to take care of his "incomplete" apprentice.
When they reunited, Master had not performed for a long time because the theater had closed.
The guests of the tavern came to takeshi Kitano, and the two cooperated to complete an impromptu comedy. Entrusting the disciple's blessing, the master heard the long-lost laughter of the audience.
That is the inheritance and reinforcement between master and disciple.
But he was like a father, with a hard mouth and a soft heart. In his heart, he was obviously proud of Kitano Takeshi, but there was not a word of praise on his lips.
Even when the apprentice wanted to take the car, he refused to let go and said that he wanted to meet again, but went around the bend and said that if there was any money left, he would remember to take it back and return it to him.
Kitano Takeshi also tried his best to maintain the dignity of his master, and both sides knew it, and neither of them said anything.
Although the film is over, takeshi Kitano's story continues.
Perhaps some people still remember the tap dance in "Kikujiro's Summer".
Although the Master is gone, he continues to live in another form.
That is the continuation of the master-disciple friendship.
Takeshi Kitano's later style of behavior has the shadow of a master.
It seems cynical, but it faces life with an extremely serious attitude.
From a comic book to a talented director and actor today, he has continued to realize his dreams.
As he once wrote:
Although it is hard, I will still choose that hot life.