Photo: Mitsuyo Kakuda appears at the Shanghai Book Fair
In April this year, a Japanese drama "Home on the Slope" became very popular in China, and a story about the intersection of young women's careers and children caused a heated discussion among Chinese audiences. On the evening of August 15, during the Shanghai Book Fair, the original novel author of the play, the Japanese female writer Kakuda Mitsuyo, was invited to Shanghai to share with readers his new creative path.
No children, know the pain of bringing children
Mitsuyo Kakuda is a well-known Naoki Prize-winning writer in Japan, and she specializes in writing about the troubles of contemporary women's lives, such as "Cicada of the Eighth Day", "Garden in the Sky", "Paper Moon", "I Am Sasuke", and "She on the Other Side", which won the Naoki Prize. In kindergarten, Kakuda aspired to be a writer, so she went to Waseda University to study and won many literary awards, which was a realization of her childhood dream. She has written children's literature, she has also written columns, she has also written documentary literature, she has written about food, she has written about celebrities... For so many years, she has always paid attention to the desires in women's hearts, human desires are very complicated, mother's desires are very complicated, but in fact, many people do not understand the real desires of our parents in our family, the conflicts of their desires, their struggles, what they give up, these can be seen in Kakuda's novels.
What impressed the audience in "Home on the Ramp" was the scene on the ramp where there was a scene on the ramp where a mother pushed a child's car. "When I was writing, I was thinking, what kind of scene can reflect the hardships of mothers raising children, these young mothers are really in trouble, their lives are very difficult, and what comes to mind at that time is the picture of a mother pushing a stroller up the ramp." 」 Kakuda Mitsuyo said, "I am married, but I have no children, I have not thought about having children once, and some of my friends around me are also mothers, and I will hear from them that some things are very tiring to raise children, and it is a very tiring thing to have children." But there will still be many people who naturally want to have children. ”
Photo: Mitsuyo Kakuda communicates with readers
Regarding family and children, Kakuda's other work, "I Am Yarn And Beauty", even extends from the topic of mother to blood. "I Am Yarn Youmei" is written about the memories of a group of children who remember having fun with their parents in the villa when they were young, and suddenly one day after they stopped partying, and their parents were reluctant to talk about the reason for canceling the party. Later, after solving one puzzle after another, they found that they were all children born of artificial insemination, and perhaps the father was not really a biological father. Some fathers have no way to face this kind of thing, and some couples have worked hard to have children, but the relationship between husband and wife is not good, so the family has collapsed again. Mitsuyo Kakuda said, "When I was working on I Am Yarn, I watched an American documentary about sperm banks, but at that time, the situation in Japan was actually not like that at that time, and there was no law to pass this act. ”
Today, Kakuda Mitsuyo has completed more than a hundred works, many works of practical significance for Chinese readers, there is also a lot of room for thinking, "I pay great attention to the word in the early stage of writing, I will think about how to write line by line, but after 10 years, I think this is not very good, I will change the way, want to achieve the effect of covering up the name of the writer, you don't know who this writer is." 」 I wanted to be an 'anonymous writer', and it took a long time to achieve this effect, and I have been trying to attract readers to read continuously, not because of my style, but because of my story to attract readers." ”
My own drama, every time the feeling is different
In addition to the adaptation of "Home on the Slope" into a Japanese drama, her Naoki Award-winning work "She on the Other Side" was also made into a film. It is about the friendship of a housewife, and the stay-at-home mothers are exchanging their lives together, which is also very complicated, with desire, jealousy, and can also lead to killing. "In my own personal experience, friendship between girls is more difficult to maintain than boys."
Kakuda said, "It's not that girls are fighting with each other, it's because the change of the environment will bring about a change in relationships, in the student era, a few female students chatted very well in high school, but once they graduated or entered the society, some people worked in the workplace to become strong women, some people entered the family to become a good wife and mother with children, to take care of housework, naturally their time of life and rest is not the same, drink a coffee or something, the time is completely wrong, even if they meet, some mothers want to find some friends with children to chat." Career women will want to talk about the whole social environment and work situation, they talk about the topic is completely different, naturally more and more farther. This situation will change with age, I am now 50 years old, I found that I can find friends from the previous student days, because everyone's children are finished, don't care about them, have their own time, and can regain their previous friendships, dispersion is not a continuous state, nor that we have lost each other without intersection in life, but into the next stage of life There is still a time of overlap. ”
Photo: Mitsukazu Kakuda signs for the reader
In Kakuda's novels, female desire is associated with crime, and the TV series made of "Paper Moon" is also very popular, and the heroine once liked a young college student, but slowly, she was swallowed up by the material consumer world, and fell into the abyss of crime step by step. The poster of "Paper Moon" was adopted by the police department in Japan to warn everyone not to commit a crime
So many works have been made into film and television works, Kakuda Mitsuyo himself also watched, "When I watch related TV dramas in Japan myself, I watch an episode of crying, is this what I wrote, why is it so touching." I sometimes, like many viewers, think about what to do, so I want to help her and him..." Kakuda felt that if her work allowed readers to communicate with the women around her, it would solve many problems. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Wu Xiang)