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In the movie "The Dedication of Suspect X", I have seen three versions, the Japanese version, the Korean drama version and the domestic version.
I often see people commenting that the Japanese drama version is better than the Korean drama version, and the Korean drama version is better than the domestic drama version. But I think that no matter which version it is, it has its own wonderful places, and there is no way to compare, and there is no need to compare.
When watching this film with a darker tone, the sigh that often springs up in my heart is: How can there be such a high-IQ crime? The plot is so peak and roundabout, so brain-burning? If it is not a criminal police officer who is also a genius who solves the case, will it become a unsolvable case? Why are murderers and accomplices who help cover up crimes so hateful? I always feel that after these darknesses, there are so many helpless, struggling, and lonely souls who are eager to keep the last bit of warmth.
For a long time after watching it, my heart has been lamenting the amazing brain circuits of the screenwriter, recalling the intricate plot, and lamenting the warmth of the world's human feelings.
After learning that the author of "The Dedication of Suspect X" was Keigo Higashino, I felt that I knew very little about this writer, so I began to pay attention to the information about him. I learned that he was a prolific writer who had published more than 50 novels since 1998, won many awards in Japan, and was named the "King of Reasoning" by the media!
Keigo Higashino
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Keigo Kashino, born on February 4, 1958 in Osaka, Japan.
In 1985, he finally made his debut with the campus youth mystery novel "After School", which won the 31st Edogawa Random WalkIng Award.
In 1998, he published the novel "Secret", which was shortlisted for the 52nd Japan Mystery Writers Association Award and the 120th Naoki Award. In the same year, "The Secret" was filmed as a film of the same name.
In 1999, he published the novel "White Night Walk", which was shortlisted for the 122nd Naoki Award.
In 2001, he published the novel "Unrequited Love", which was shortlisted for the 125th Naoki Award.
In 2002, he published "Kidnapping Game", which was popular in the film and television industry and was adapted into a Japanese drama and movie.
In 2003, he published the novel "Letter" and was shortlisted for the 129th Naoki Prize.
In 2004, he published the novel "Magic Night", which was shortlisted for the 131st Naoki Award.
In 2005, he published the novel collection Black Laughter Novel, which contains 13 novels.
In the same year, he published the novel "The Dedication of Suspect X", which won the 134th Naoki Award and the 6th Benge Mystery Novel Award.
In 2008, he published the novel "Meteor Trip", which was filmed as a Japanese drama of the same name in the same year. He also published The Afflictions of Galileo and The Relief of the Virgin.
In 2009, "Paradox 13" and "Beautiful Murder Weapon" were published.
In 2010, he published works such as "Whose Cuckoo's Egg Is" and "Platinum Data".
In 2011, he published the novel collection "Crooked Laughter Novel".
In 2012, he published the novel "Relief Grocery Store", which won the 7th Central Public Debate Literary and Art Award.
In 2017, the film of the same name, adapted from "The Dedication of Suspect X", was released in China, directed by Su Youpeng and starring Jiang Kai, Lin Xinru and Zhang Luyi. This is the first time keigo Higashino's work has been adapted into a Chinese version.
On February 2, 2018, the movie "Langya Relief Grocery Store" based on "Relief Grocery Store" was released in Japan.
It can be seen that Keigo Higashino is a particularly prolific writer, writing almost 1-2 works per year. What I never expected was that my favorite Japanese drama "Relief Grocery Store" turned out to be the work of Keigo Higashino!!
In other words, Keigo Higashino has not always been a mystery novel, how can he be so comfortable in describing human nature and warmth? I can't help but sigh that Keigo Higashino is really a writer who always surprises people!
So I am even more curious, what kind of childhood, what kind of family, what kind of life experience made such a talented writer?
By chance, at the Quancheng Study Room (affiliated to the Jinan Municipal Library) located near the west gate of Thousand Buddha Mountain, I stumbled upon Keigo Higashino's autobiography "My Dangling Youth".
To be honest, I don't really like reading books like this. I think that the average accomplished person who writes an autobiography always likes to render his past different to show their talent. Since success is a matter of course and a matter of course, there is no suspense, and it is always tedious to read.
But in the end, I didn't lose my curiosity about Keigo Higashino, and I still wanted to learn more about the growth path of this "Reasoning King". But when I opened the book and started reading, I suddenly dropped my jaw! I thought I would see the history of the struggle of a child who worked hard and studied hard no matter what the conditions, but I didn't want to see in this book, I saw a Keigo Higashino who was completely different from what I imagined!
In addition, the most attractive thing about this book is that the style of the whole book is very relaxed. Keigo Higashino changed the rigor of his previous speculative fiction, and the witty and humorous words in the book suddenly attracted me, and people involuntarily followed him and relived the various troubles of the entire growth stage.
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Keigo Higashino, who eventually grew up to become the "King of Reasoning", was born into a very ordinary family, which had a depressed business and sold ornaments such as clocks and glasses and precious metals. Although his mother was more worried about money, she always told her children that they wanted to study and rely on their own efforts.
Keigo Higashino did not have a gifted trait when he was a child, and like many children of that era, he was naughty, rebellious, and even not interested in learning at all, and knew how to play all day long.
In his witty description, I saw that he, who eventually became a writer, would feel doubly troubled by being asked to read by his mother! From elementary school to sophomore year of high school, he never finished a book in its entirety, which is really surprising!
Although the biography of Galileo once succeeded in attracting Keigo Higashino, it also made him more determined to refuse to read, because he came up with the formula like this:
"The greatness of science→ learning outside of science is not as good as → language and the like do not learn→ language is reading→ so it does not matter if you do not read."
When I read that when he was in elementary school, he was always used by the vendors at the school gate to use all kinds of tricks and tricks to cheat out pocket money, I had the same experience as a child.
When he was in junior high school, his parents, in order to save money, sent him to a notorious bad school, which was full of violence and decadence. At that time, his only wish was to be able to graduate from junior high school with sound limbs!
In the violent junior high school, he used to play mahjong day and night, and he was crazy about the Beatles. He was chosen as the class president because he looked more like a good student.
In that chaotic environment, he could even insist on not taking a crooked road, be able to stand alone, insist on different flows, and even maintain a little innocence. One day, after finding that a girl in the same class had disappeared as if she had evaporated, he suddenly remembered that the girl was "a little cute to laugh at."
In high school, he was obsessed with "Bruce Lee" all day, and was caught sneaking into the girls changing clothes with other boys, and would steal to play games in the game hall, in order to save money and play clever tricks to tamper with the monthly pass time. At that time, his so-called "lofty ideals" could only be admitted to the university with the lowest admission score.
After failing the college entrance examination, he entered the repeat school, and he is still the happiest student in the school. Even during the college entrance examination, he could stare at the beautiful teacher who was proctoring the exam.
He never attended a day's tutoring class, never hired a tutor, and spent most of his time wandering around school or the streets. He did not like to read since he was a child, but he became obsessed with speculative fiction by chance, and thus began his journey of writing speculative fiction.
Screenwriter Shi Hang commented on the book:
I read the book and knew that he was living the same twitching youth as we did, so I was relieved.
Book reviewer Su Gengsheng:
A writer is not born out of thin air, he has also experienced very inexplicable years. This book can help you better understand Keigo Higashino and his work.
It is this kind of "dangling" youth that allows him enough time and energy to experience and understand the warmth and coldness of human feelings in the world, and cultivates his courage to laugh at setbacks and an informal and broad mind. Because he did not just focus on learning, but had more time to experience different things, it also saved all the talents that he would use for a lifetime.
After winning the Edogawa Rambling Prize for the first time, he ushered in a period of silence that lasted for more than a decade. But during this time, he withstood the pressure of survival, still did not give up his love, and insisted on creation. It is precisely because of that period of "shaking youth" that he has long been given the spiritual strength not to be afraid of difficulties and failures!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="52" > fun childhood that will create an interesting soul</h1>
I remember going to see the exhibition of Jinan painter Yan Jizhao, when drinking tea and chatting, he once said a sentence after the 70s: "People in the 70s are the last generation of romanticism." I'm impressed with that.
I think so, not that there is no romanticism in the post-80s and 90s, but that people born in the 70s have romanticism in their hearts, which is a universal existence.
Because the childhood of our time, which was full of wilderness in the fields, and the free and free adolescent life, were later replaced by rich material life or electronic products or heavy schoolwork. This is what I often lament with my son Yang Ge: Don't look at your material abundance now, but when it comes to wonderful things, it is far less than my childhood!
I still remember how my childhood self selected the best glue from the river, and then painstakingly kneaded it into a small bowl, and then fell to the ground fiercely, just to let the thin bottom of the bowl break a big hole that no one else could compare; I also remember how to climb up to the tree like a little monkey, just to take out the still hot bird eggs and cook them; and how to go down to the river to touch the fish and touch the river mussels, catch the grasshoppers in the autumn and grill them into a bunch, and hit the flashlight on a rainy day to touch a bucket of zhi monkeys. There are also seven friends standing on a bicycle juggling and finally crushing the bicycle...
These memories are long ago, but they are deeply imprinted in my mind. It seems that like Keigo Higashino, my youth is also very "dangling"! Therefore, I am even more convinced that a rich and interesting childhood will definitely create an interesting soul.
Recommend Keigo Higashino's autobiography "My Dangling Youth", and his films that remake each of his novels and novels, especially "The Dedication of Suspect X" and "The Relief Grocery Store". I believe that after you read it, you will be like me, deeply in love with his works!
About the author: Oriental Flower Road lecturer, Oshina Art Lecturer, Internet writer, freelance writer, like to use words to record what they feel, like to pay attention to @ Wenxin Waiter