When you think of Japanese drama, what is the first word that comes to mind? Most people think of fresh literature. One of the most representative of the fresh literary Japanese drama is "Little Forest" (summer, autumn, spring and winter).
This movie, which has a high score of 9 points on Douban, at first glance, is as unremarkable as boiling water. But gradually looking back, it seems that the life of the heroine is the life of our dreams. At sunrise and sunset, crops are planted and food is harvested.
In the movie, we see Komori's spring, summer, autumn and winter, following the market to harvest food. We feel relaxed because we live too fast to find solace in the movies.
But if "Little Forest" is the life that the young version yearns for, then what is the life that the middle-aged version yearns for? This is the movie I want to talk about today, "The Message of Amitabha", but I prefer another translation of this movie, "Message in the Mountains".
The film has been dubbed "a relaxation guide for adults" because it revolves around a middle-aged couple: Takao is a best-selling author and his wife, Michiko, works in a hospital. But in busy Tokyo, the writer is under a lot of pressure, and his wife has miscarried because of work anxiety.
Seeing that his wife was depressed, the husband decided to leave Tokyo and move back to his hometown, a mountain village in Shinshu, and the story began.
Let go of the original hurried footsteps, you can quietly eat a hearty breakfast with your lover in the morning when you should have rushed to the subway, listen to the birds outside the window, smell the fresh air; after eating, you can go fishing in the valley in the mountains, which is an experience that has never been experienced before, although it has been fishing for a long time, there is a small fish, but it can be happy all day.
If you think that there is only daily life in the mountain village, you are wrong. Japanese dramas are among the best in their control of feelings.
In this mountain village, they met her husband's mentor who was suffering from cancer, and they went to visit her, but they healed their hearts; they met the little girl Xiao Lily, who could not speak because of the disease, and later helped Xiao Lily to have surgery, and they also became friends; and Grandma Mei, who lived in The Amitabha Hall at the age of 96, benefited them a lot from her transparent life insights.
At the end of the story, there is a happy ending. Sayuri's surgery was very successful, Takao's life in the mountain village gave him a lot of inspiration, and Michiko became a full-time doctor in the village and became pregnant with a child. Everything is slowly getting better.
Our lives are very busy, and we need to stop occasionally and listen to our inner voices. If you're tired, let yourself go and give yourself a good rest. Rest is for a better start.
This movie is very warm, in addition to the beauty of the plot and the scenery of the mountain village, what impressed me even more was the actor of the heroine Michiko, Higuchi Kanako.
Driven by curiosity, I went to learn about Higuchi Kanako's past, and it turned out that at a glance, she was too young to be too good.
It is said that she was discovered by a scout when she was working part-time in a fruit shop and has since embarked on the road of acting. She starred in a gay film "Swastika" at the time, which was a very bold subject at the time. But because the role attracts her, she takes it without hesitation, and does not care about the world's opinion.
She once shot a group of photo albums "Fruit And Unpredictable Events" directed by the famous Japanese photographer Norinobu Shinoyama, which was one of the top five Japanese photo albums that year.
Because it is so beautiful, this set of photo albums has also become an opportunity for Japan to lift the ban on nude photography, which can be said to have changed the history of Japanese photography.
Higuchi Konanko is a combination of pure and lustful, and it is also a very typical Japanese girl's appearance, and the facial features are very soothing.
Her nose is not particularly straight, but it is very good at neutralizing the sharpness brought by the corners of her eyes, so there is always a gentle and delicate atmosphere between the eyebrows of the whole person.
Her purity and lust are inadvertently revealed, and she is born with walking hormones. She has a work called "Yang Yan", which was originally about the story of national hatred and family hatred, but in the end it became a personal show of Kanako Higuchi.
With the increase of age, Higuchi Konanko is like a bottle of wine that has been put away for a long time, becoming more mellow and more imperial. The whole person reveals a sense of lightness and alienation.
Another of her films is also worth watching, which is "Never Give Up" with Kazuya Ninomiya, in which she plays the mother of Kazuya Ninomiya, although it is the usual sensational means of Japanese dramas, she will still be touched by this blood and positive energy.
The adult world has never been "easy", and Mom and Dad didn't stop making money because it was hard to earn money, because life went on. Maybe we can't escape to a place as beautiful as Komori, like the mountain village of Shinshu, but we can take a vacation for our souls through movies, temporary escapes.
Finally, let's enjoy this beauty together, tomorrow will be full of vitality~