Abe Hiroshi is the kind of actor who is blessed with his clear silhouette and confused eyes, and he can capture the audience's attention as soon as he appears.
When I first saw him in a Chinese movie, he was only a supporting role, but he could unceremoniously steal the light of the protagonist. Moreover, the male protagonist he plays in this film is Keigo Higashino's hot detective.
Even though the years are merciless, the charm continues unabated.
Only a wise woman like Naoko Matsushima, who combines beauty and wisdom, can keep pace with him.
The movie "When the Prayer Ends".
Movie poster for "When the Prayer Ends"
Adapted from Keigo Higashino's novel of the same name. Directed by Katsuo Fukuzawa, it stars Hiroshi Abe, Naoko Matsushima, Fumiyoshi Koichi, and Junpei Mizobata.
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The film tells the story of a father and daughter who have gone into hiding in order to escape debts and repeatedly committed murders, and are solved by the criminal police officer Kyoichiro Kaga in an anecdotes about their past in search of their deceased mother. Through the gradual restoration of several suspenseful murders, a lie that has been buried for 26 years is revealed. And under the lie, there is a connection between the two families.
Mother of abandoned husbands and abandoned children
Kyoichiro Kaga's mother, Yuriko, ran away from home when he was ten years old without saying why, and there was no news. Kaga believes that it is the father's responsibility to run away from his mother, and his relationship with his father begins to be estranged.
After Yuriko left home, she went to the sake house to become a drinking maid, and she and the acquaintance Mianbu Shunichi pitied each other, warmed each other, and developed a relationship and spent a happy time.
Until Yuriko's death, the owner of the sake brewery informs Kaga to collect his mother's relic, and Kaga discovers a calendar with the names of the twelve bridges every month.
Kaga, who has a serious Oedipal complex, wants to know everything about his mother, so he chooses to work at the police station in Tokyo Bridge, and has not been transferred or promoted for more than ten years. Only to find his mother's later partner, Shunichi Mianbu.
Stills from "When the Prayer Ends"
Father who made a makeover
In order to raise a small white face, Asami's mother borrowed a huge amount of money from her father's seal to run away from home, and the debt collectors harassed her day and night, and even wanted to fight Hiromi's idea, in the dark of night, her father Tadao Asakai took Hiromi and began to flee to live.
Desperate, Tadao wants to jump off a cliff to end his life, but Hiromi accidentally kills Kazutoshi Yokoyama, a nuclear power plant worker. In order to protect his daughter and at the same time to survive, Zhongxiong took the method of stealing beams and changing pillars.
He disfigured the bodies of the workers, creating the illusion that he had jumped off a cliff and died, and at the same time used yokoyama's identity as a worker running around.
Over the years, Zhongxiong has used different pseudonyms to hide in Tibet, and twice he has been recognized as using the method of killing people and killing mouths, the deceased being Bomi's lover teacher and Hiromi's classmates.
By then, Hiromi had become a well-known stage director. Zhongxiong grew older and committed suicide by burning himself in order to complete his daughter's self-reliance.
Ending
Hiromi's highly decomposed body was eventually found by the police. At the same time, the case of arson and self-immolation by homeless people at the sea has also attracted the attention of the police.
The facts of the case were complex, the case was confusing, and the police officers were at a loss for a while.
Kaga learned from his colleagues that the deceased's apartment also had a wall calendar with 12 bridges written on it, and he also joined the investigation team.
Under his meticulous reasoning, two seemingly unrelated cases at first are actually closely related, and a lie and truth that have been buried for 26 years gradually surface.
The two families, which were originally unrelated, were connected by the acquaintance of Hiromi's father and Kaga's mother.
The case was finally brought to an end when Hiromi's last directorial work in Meijiza ended.
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The film expresses a theme of suspenseful reasoning and human warmth.
The positioning of the film is a suspense film, which is also full of killing and lies, and behind the killing, it is actually the connection of family affection, and behind the lies, the essence is a lonely soul waiting for comfort.
While the root of the tragedy lies in the fact that a mother suffers from depression due to her inability to handle child-rearing and complicated family relationships, a mother cheats and escapes. But the film reflects the affection of the two families in a large way.
A father's unpaid love for his daughter. The mother's hidden love for her son.
In order to cover up the sins committed by his daughter, Hiromi's father has been wandering away and has since embarked on a path that cannot be exposed. When the murder was about to come to light, he took the form of sacrificing himself.
Kaga's mother left Kaga because she was afraid that one day she would hurt him with a knife. She was a woman who left her hometown, earned a living alone, and slept alone every night, missing everything about her son.
Two lonely souls, open in a bar.
And because of love, the daughter eventually exposed herself. Because of love, the son sorted out the case.
Father and daughter meet once a month at different bridges.
In order to understand the lovers who accompanied her father for the rest of her life, Hiromi took the initiative to find Kaga. She could have been well hidden, exposing herself.
Kaga is also using the help of solving the case to understand the deeds of his mother's life, and has been thinking about the names of the bridges on the calendar of his mother's relics. Thus, the case is stripped away step by step.
Kaga's father had been misunderstood by his son, and his son was not around before he died. In his letter to his son, he said,
This passage made Kaga suddenly realize that the wall calendar marked with a bridge a month may be the time and place where Hiromi and her father met.
After solving the case, he also re-understood his father, forgave him, and redeemed himself.
02
The film's tears are everywhere.
This family film wrapped in a suspenseful shell has too many sensational pictures, and the audience knows that it is a routine, and it has also earned enough tears.
First, Asano Tadao told his daughter one day that he was too old to escape and was tired. Only to see the white-haired man who had been running east and west for a long time, he was displaced from place to back, and standing next to his daughter stood next to him, which looked even more short and rickety. This face instantly made the viewer cry like rain.
Second, my father ended his life by self-immolation. Knowing that her father could not bear the pain of the fire, Hiromi strangled him to death with her own hands. The fire was raging, and the father and daughter could not keep each other day and day before they died, and now they were separated by life and death.
Some people say that this kind of love is somewhat twisted and selfish, and that's because it's not put in the shoes of others.
Both father and daughter are meant to fulfill each other.
In order to protect his daughter, the father can go to school normally, work, have dreams, poetry and distance, and willingly have blood on his hands.
In order to fulfill her father's high hopes, the daughter continues to live with hatred and guilt.
Her whole life seems to be under the control of others, even if she is successful in her career and famous, but the loneliness and loneliness behind her are not known.
At the end of the curtain, she was relieved. Because finally got relief.
03
Most of the pictures in the film serve the theme, mostly gray and black.
The life of the mother before her death. When father and daughter fled. The scene where the murder is exposed. The enigmatic story, with its gray-black color, adds to the atmosphere of tension and suspense.
What I remember most is that when Hiromi walked into the car of the nuclear power plant worker, the door was slammed shut. The camera zooms farther away, the empty wilderness, the boundless silence. No one knows what's going on inside.
Dark trolley. Obscene workers. A simple girl. It's creepy to think about.
After that, even if they knew that the worker was killed by mistake, I believe that absolutely no one would feel sorry for the worker, and only felt that he deserved it. Even produce pleasure.
And when Kaga and the nurse went to look for Hiromi, the dark red painting was like blood. It symbolizes the surging mood of the characters under the bright and gorgeous appearance.
04
The actors in the film are impeccable.
Playing Asano Tadao, Kohito Fumiyoshi has superb acting skills and is extremely infectious.
Under his interpretation, the murderer who carries two lives does not make the audience feel fast to get rid of it, but instead worries about his daughter's weight forward, hoping that they can have a warm ending.
The two young actors who play the daughter, either frightened or uneasy, crying scenes are equally moving, instantly allowing the audience to enter the play.
One Ice and Snow is smart, one is talented. A long-term deep and introverted voiceless, a wise and sophisticated can see through people's hearts at a glance.
From a distance, it is such a talented woman's appearance, such a commensurate, I think I can compose a shocking love song.
Only when you look closely can I know that it is a regret, a miss, and a time when we can't meet. A righteous cop and a murderer who is responsible for two homicides.
The two people chatted and prayed like this, one after another ambiguous eyes, a few words, cruelty and misery became gossip, in the memory and attachment, the story also pulled down the curtain.
In Keigo Higashino's pen, "When the Prayer Ends" is not the most exciting, nor is it the most intricate. It's just a story woven with lies. Here, Kyoichiro Kaga went from being a spectator to a participant. And become a key link in solving the case.