There is a Japanese director who is about to be forgotten, and there may be many friends who have not heard of him.
Since 1993, he has only made 5 films without hurrying, and 4 of them have entered the top ten of the annual newspaper.
The Japanese Film Magazine is a film magazine founded in July 1919. It is the most authoritative award and the highest honor for Japanese cinema.
He is Ryosuke Hashiguchi.
You all love to watch GAY movies, people have already made 3,
"Twenty-year-old low-grade fever", "Quicksand Fantasy Love", "Three Hearts and Two Sexes",
The variations show the delicacy and beauty of the male gay emotional life.
("Low Fever at Twenty Years Old")
("Quicksand Fantasy Love")
("Three Hearts and Two Sexes")
It may be that the pattern of romance and love is too small,
He also portrayed a couple's 10-year married life in the most acclaimed novel "Things Around".
Depicting the changes in Japanese society over the past ten years,
Today, Xiao Shijun wants to say that the director launched a new work "Lovers" after seven years, which was exhibited at the Tokyo Film Festival in 2015 and became the first place in the top ten of the year, and recently there has been support in China.
Douban score 7.5,
The style of painting in the short review is a bit split,
Like the sky is full of exaggeration,
Hate to leave no room for approval,
Obviously, this work also belongs to the "turnip greens have their own love" hanging.
Frankly speaking, Xiao Shijun didn't like it,
Accustomed to watching Hollywood dramas with tight plots and gripping hollywood dramas, and then watching such works, I think this narrative method without climax is simply anti-human.
So this push is written for the sake of scolding people!
Little Ten Jun then lists a list of sins:
What about the rain and dew that is said to be good?
In many love movies that show multiple protagonists,
The director will do his best to give the actors the space to perform,
But Ryo Hashiguchi uses non-professional actors, so the distribution is quite arbitrary.
There are three loves in "Lovers", but there is no obvious boundary between the protagonists, and there is no direct connection.
It's like a wayward cut of life,
The three protagonists take turns to appear, without any regularity,
However, there is a very drama-stealing housewife Hitomi, and her emotional experience is also the most resonant.
(After all, the widowhood of the other two protagonists, homosexuality is still in the minority)
Hitomi people to middle age, but have an immortal girl's heart,
And a group of aunts at the same time gathered together to chat about royal gossip, eagerly worshiping Her Royal Highness the Princess,
Even write novels and draw comics yourself,
The soft and cute style is really handy.
But her life with her husband and mother-in-law is a lifeless,
In the movie, the husband gently tapped her on the shoulder as he passed by her before taking a bath.
An unexplained expression appeared on her face,
Then she went out to buy condoms, and then Xiao Shijun watched a passion scene without passion.
(Perfunctory without even taking off the top)
As naïve as Xiao Shijun, he really did not understand this kind of difficult love.
True love takes place on a sunny afternoon,
She was riding a bicycle harmlessly, but suddenly jumped on the saddle of a delivery man she had met by chance the other day.
Under his guidance she rode with him to chase the chickens that had been running away. (It's really catching chickens)
This seemingly comical scene includes elements of the budding of love.
Sunshine, afternoons, frolicking and chasing.
(Trance thought I was watching a European and American fresh movie)
After getting acquainted, this person took her in a suit and shoes to visit his chicken farm.
He asked Hitomi what his dream was? Then invite her to join her career,
Then it's time for a confession of love,
And he said, "How much are you going to pay?"
This sentence has become a honey laugh in the eyes of many people,
And that's not all.
It is not so much that the director should prefer Hitomi and give her the most expressive scenes in this movie.
It is better to say that life loves to flirt with such an ordinary woman.
In addition, there is a bachelor in the movie, and his life is also gloomy and heavy at a glance.
The work needs to keep him on the boat all year round, and the water's edge is a place where the breeze is sprinkled with sunshine.
But there was only his body temporarily released there,
His heart was crying and waking up in the dark morning,
In the bathtub where there is no hope of talking to the toy duck, (this sentence should be the most he said himself)
In the darkness of the night, where there is nowhere to go to the glare of the little couple on the street,
The most painful thing is the conversation he had with the staff when he applied for insurance.
Waiting, wandering and patience for survival, from smiling requests to helpless accusations,
Seeing this, Xiao Shijun was afraid that his director would let him blacken into an angry beast, and then kill him.
So here comes the second charge,
What about good movies as the art of dreaming?
The name "Lovers" should obviously be a love story,
But the aforementioned married women and bachelors have made it clear:
Romantic touching, make heaven and earth, love and hate, handsome men and beautiful women, these, all in the movie, not dreamy at all.
The three love stories are ordinary, monotonous, and real to the point of despair,
Widowed Bachelor,
Jun Shinozuka, who was not married, had not experienced the itch for seven years, and his wife died of indiscriminate death.
(The killer's improvised killing)
Since then, he has missed his deceased wife and hated the murderer in the work he repeats every day.
Revenge through resort to legal means is regarded as a belief in survival.
At the beginning of the film, he tells the camera about the good memories of the newlyweds,
The bitter smile at the corner of his mouth was very touching.
housewife
Hitomi Takahashi and her husband and mother-in-law are like decorations to each other in life.
Loneliness always haunted her,
And the delivery man for a time to dry firewood, like a naïve little girl to this relationship without hesitation elopement,
In the end, it turned out that the man was a drug-addicted liar.
When love appeared in her life,
She went from being a housewife who was busy with housework to a well-dressed girl, but to no avail.
Gay men,
As a lawyer, Shinoya was ostracized because of his homosexual status.
He was even deliberately pushed down the stairs and broke his leg, but no one apologized the whole time.
He has always liked his classmate Satoshi, who is already married and has children, and maintains a friend relationship with him.
But one day they were suspected of molesting their sons by the other's wives,
Thus losing the possibility of continuing to be friends.
They had been chatting in an empty house, and the sunlight refracted through the huge glass window projected Satoshi's figure on the ground.
The Four Palaces use their crutches to secretly draw the outline of the shadow in the shape of the shadow.
Let Xiao Shijun remind him of "Atonement",
The male protagonist played by Yimei gently touched the water in the pond where the heroine fell with her hand, that affection.
This "Lovers" has no ups and downs, and accommodates some trivialities in the length of 140 minutes.
Weave a picture of life, slowly reaching the heart.
Some people say that the director spent seven years polishing a film, but did not deliver a satisfactory answer.
The fact is that after filming "Things Around", he was defrauded and his career was implicated.
Of course, these seven years of time is a test of the audience's patience, but also a kind of grinding for the director.
Xiao Shijun's real thoughts after reading it were actually: surprise below, above the level.
Looking back at a few of his previous films,
Known for its emotional delicacy, three of the four films are showing the flow of feelings between young same-sex or opposite-sex, and in the fourth "Things Around", the director began to expand his horizons.
He set his ambitions on paying attention to the current state of Japanese society.
This is actually more evident in "Lovers":
For example, the indiscriminate killing of bachelor wives and the social discrimination encountered by gay lawyers are real social problems in Japan.
The director was interviewed when the film was released,
"Indiscriminate incidents" did happen several times in Japan, the story of the gay lawyer in the movie, you can find that he actually did nothing wrong, but because he is gay, he has been met with the wordless resistance of the whole society. This "very uncomfortable" atmosphere is now spreading throughout Japanese society.
The director himself, as a homosexual who has come out of the closet, must have a deep understanding of these things.
At the same time, the film also alludes to the 311 incident and the mentality of the Japanese people after the successful Olympic bid.
After the 311 earthquake, subtle changes took place throughout Japan. The Fukushima incident has not yet been resolved, tens of thousands of people have lost their homes, and some people still live a life of displacement. I myself think why I chose to hold the Olympic Games in this period, ostensibly to "entertain" the whole world as the slogan of the Olympic bid, but in fact there are so many people in need in Japan.
In the movie, Jun Shinozuka's colleagues discuss the good news of Japan's successful Bid for the Olympic Games.
But he was completely unable to empathize with his personal life difficulties.
Have you ever felt a suffocating despair,
Fortunately, the director is a kind silver child,
No matter which protagonist it is, he gives people enough hope at the end,
Xiao Shijun's favorite is that Jun Shinozuka sat on the wall with his colleagues and chatted after experiencing the grind,
He asked his colleague why he had one arm, and the colleague's performance was very calm, and finally he returned a relieved smile. (Colleague amputated)
We always lament that life is like a drama, and some people envy the plot of Mary Sue Jack Sue in the movie.
But after watching "Lovers",
What Xiao Shijun wanted to sigh was:
Finally, there is a movie about love that does not abuse dogs, and only wishes that your life is better than the movie.
Eat this Amway, maybe you will fall in love with a director.
Little Ten Lords love you,
Momoza~
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