During the more than ten years of the glorious years of Japanese drama, everyone could not mention Japanese drama without mentioning Takuya Kimura. And when you think of Kimura, do you think back to what works he performed?
I believe that if you are a fan of loyal Japanese drama fans, you can casually say a few sets of them. But well, when it comes to Kimura's film and television works, I believe that what you casually say is "Long Vacation", "Love Generation" and even "Hero", and few people think of other works.
These sets of works that everyone talks about the most have one thing in common: Kimura is a righteous professional who plays Yuppie ("Yo" is a pianist, "Love" is an advertiser, and "Hero" is a prosecutor), so it is natural to add subtle processes that everyone will think that actor Takuya Kimura is such an image.
And in this case, of course, it goes without saying that in this case, both the audience and the behind-the-scenes and even the investors will stereotype Kimura - "Kimura Takuya can only play a clean and upright role, and the rest is not discussed."
If so, even if the glory days of Japanese dramas come to an end, everyone's image of Takuya Kimura (in their minds) will remain until Heisei, Reiwa, and perhaps even forever.
So let's take a closer look at Takuya Kimura's many film and television works and examine what "Masquerade Hotel" means to him.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="59" > the box office of movies starring Kimura that have been released in Hong Kong</h1>
After inventory, we learned that several sets of Japanese movies starring Kimura and hong Kong have been released at the box office, so we might as well take a look at it first:
"Samurai's Point" 376,000 (Hong Kong, 2007)
"Legal Heroes" 4.41 million (Hong Kong released in 2007)
Space Battleship Yamato 2.75 million (released in Hong Kong in February 2011)
"Legal Heroes 2015" 3.17 million (released in Hong Kong in August 2015)
"ProsecutorIal Madman" 3.3 million (released in Hong Kong in August 2018)
Although "Samurai's Point" was written by Yoji Yamada, it was not surprising that it received a box office of 400,000. Japanese costume dramas (period dramas) have no customers in Hong Kong, mainly Kimura's fans themselves, and a small number of audiences who are really interested in movies enter the scene, and finally get such results.
However, excluding "Samurai", Kimura Takuya's film performance in Hong Kong is quite stable, but it has been stable until "Masquerade Hotel". But let's leave that behind.
As Wenchu said, everyone is righteous about the movies taken over by Kimura Takuya, the actor, and even in "Yamato", they are important figures responsible for defending the fleet, and slowly everyone will unconsciously feel that Kimura Takuya wants to play this type of character, otherwise the movie will not be asked to watch. Because of this, many people naturally define Kimura as a righteous Yuppie.
However, don't just blame the Hong Kong audience for thinking this way, in fact, even in Japan, many fans who think they are Takuya Kimura are the people who stereotype him the most.
Also playing prosecutors, why are the box office of "Hero" and "Prosecutor Crazy" still a bit far apart?
Technical problems, but a closer look, a little bit of the reason that others have explained: Hero's Kuri-sang fairness although hanging ErLang Dang but will preside over justice for everyone prosecutor, righteous everyone will cheer for him; but the most uphill in "Procuratorate" will become a villain because he insists on his own justice (especially against Ninomiya Kazuya).
As mentioned above, some viewers just don't accept such a situation and eventually become a distance.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="62" > perhaps an era drama that is incompatible with Kimura</h1>
Because I like to watch period dramas, I discovered another interesting place: in fact, Kimura Takuya has not made many period drama (costume) movies.
The Japanese box office of Samurai's Point looks good, but now that you look at it, the truth of the numbers game could be:
On the one hand, kimura himself performed, but on the other hand, part of the box office was a combination of Shuhei Fujisawa x Yoji Yamada. The latter has been quite guaranteed in both previous works. The good result of "Samurai's Point", I prefer to believe, Kimura is the result of benefiting from the latter.
Ten years after Samurai, Kimura took over the protagonist of the manga adaptation film Infinite Resident Ten Thousand Times. Riding on Takashi Miike, who has exhausted his talents, coupled with the "quite wild" of ten thousand times of modeling, "Living People", which was once highly expected by Johnny's, and finally the box office was quite dismal. As for the outsiders who have been criticizing Takashi Miike for destroying the original "Infinite Resident", I think the killing scene is very attractive (Miike's best skill), but unfortunately it is dragged down by the plot.
I believe that friends who have watched two sets of movies know that Kimura plays a subordinate samurai with no status in these two era drama movies, and the shape is different from his other movies but tattered. For audiences who like to watch movies, Kimura does take great care to play roles that are different from his own image (on the contrary, I think that his blind samurai in "Samurai" impressed me the most), but for takuya Kimura's fans who pursue clean and perfect professionalism, they may feel heartache, but I believe that he is still not very accepting of these roles.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="41" > "Masquerade Hotel" is the rebirth of Takuya Kimura effect? </h1>
Compared with "Procuratorate", "Masquerade Hotel" has achieved remarkable results in Hong Kong, in fact, it is not without reasons.
In addition to discussing the elements of the success of "Masquerade", such as the good combination of characters, Keigo Higashino, and Nitta, the characters of Higashino specially referred to Kimura, etc., some people also mentioned that the development and model of "Masquerade" belonged to the golden age of Japanese drama in the 1990s. So as the Cantonese saying goes, "The bridge is afraid of the old, the most important thing is to suffer."
Back in this era, Kimura worked as a detective to catch people, running to the hotel to go undercover and meet the heroine (and then learn different life tips in the hotel every time. For friends who watched a lot of Japanese dramas at that time, in addition to the needs of the plot, a certain part is their familiar memories, and the taste is quite suitable for the audience's appetite.
So what does it mean for him to see Masquerade Hotel at this point? Some people may ask kimura's elixir effect is back, but instead of saying this, I will interpret it this way: The Kimura Takuya effect is actually the collective memory of a generation. Then this effect is integrated into the smell of the movie, as other friends said that the classic Japanese drama pattern reappears, don't forget that the director is Masayuki Suzuki, who has filmed "Hero", coupled with the super popularity of Keigo Higashino, these previous experiences have made "Masquerade" a big hit in both Japan and Hong Kong.
The Kimura effect is there, but not much. The movie is a suspenseful reasoning movie that is a bit of a failure, but Keigo Higashino himself uses the hotel to say that life is varied, plus the speed is appropriate, especially for Hong Kong people, this kind of movie full of entertainment atmosphere, basically if it seems like such publicity, the box office is absolutely not a problem.
However, the biggest reason, in fact, as I mentioned in the previous paragraph, is that the reason why "Masquerade" is popular in Japan and Hong Kong, is that Keigo Higashino's setting of Nitta makes Kimura Takuya vividly appear in front of everyone, the appearance of Sven is clean, the righteous police, the professionals who treat everyone patiently and carefully, and the image that everyone (especially fans) expects is perfectly presented, which is indeed a lot of viewers.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="67" >what is the real problem that Takuya Kimura really has to face? </h1>
As mentioned above, what we found in the observation of "Masquerade" and "Procuratorate" is that when Kimura Takuya, an actor, wants to practice the work of an actor, many fans who belong to him rush out and say: He is not good at acting this, but he never thinks that this is the reason why Kimura's actor career is stereotyped and bound.
I believe Kimura wants to try something new, but seeing the reaction of fans, I believe that even he himself is at a loss.
Takuya Kimura's image at SMAP is so deep that even his own career in acting and film has been suffocated even if he tries very hard to change. But after watching "Living People" and watching "Procuratorate", I still think that in fact, kimura, who is still very motivated, is probably a lot of fans who have watched his works in the past.