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Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

author:West Wind Film Review

Like many fans, my deepest impression of Yuan Ziwen is the heavy taste of "Cold Tropical Fish" (2010):

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

Yuan Ziwen's new work "The Red Postbox on Escher Street", the poster is a bit strange:

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

The story is that director Masashi Kobayashi's new film "Mask" recruits actors for only one condition: they must be mailed through physical letters, and it is the red mailbox that strings together all kinds of girls...

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

During the audition, Natsume was nervous, appeared a bit reserved, and did not enter the role at all:

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

Natsume didn't say anything during the introduction of herself, but in her imagination, she opened her heart:

To be honest, I'm a bitch...

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years
Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

Kobayashi's fan base:

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years
Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years
Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

Too exaggerated:

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

The crew hurried to get these fanatics out.

In order to inherit the legacy of her deceased husband, she was very engaged and explosive when she wanted to be an actor's Kiriko audition:

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

Passer-by A, who has been running the dragon set for many years, invites two young people with the dream of being an actor to his home to enjoy his "performance" of 4 to 15 seconds per play, which is a different green leaf and has a very deep understanding of passer-by A:

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years
Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

As soon as passer-by A's house, the boy said good pity, and the girl was furious:

What did you say?!

I was laughing at how pitiful they were.

Are you laughing at them? The girls' eyes were red: they were dedicated!

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

They're the worst actors I've ever seen!

Xia Worm could not speak ice, and the girl was so angry that she turned her head and left.

Anko kills her father, who has been raping her since she was a child, and when she auditioned, she didn't follow the script, and holding down the actor who played the role was a violent beating: I hate your script, I don't want to act in your play at all!

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years
Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

Kobayashi's girlfriend Fangzi is a screenwriter:

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

Anko, who does not play by the routine, triggers Fangzi's inspiration:

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years
Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

After the defeat, different groups had different reactions, some crying and wiping tears, some unhappy, and the sun rising as usual:

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

Kiriko was selected as the heroine, the whole family was ecstatic, but unexpectedly, the boss forcibly stuffed his three related households into the crew, the power of capital Tarzan pressed the top, and director Kobayashi, who was powerless to resist, was dizzy and directly lay on the street.

How about losing the election, being a passerby is also good ah——

The girl who never gets discouraged:

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

Kobayashi suddenly found the screenwriter's girlfriend Fangzi from the viewfinder:

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

It turns out that Fangzi is long gone, imagining her symbolizing inspiration, artistic ideals and beautiful everything, And Kobayashi begins to chase wildly at all costs...

The strange poster thus has a new interpretation, and under the erosion of capital, the film art has long been unrecognizable:

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

There are two inspirational films in Japan that are also mainly actors, both of which were once released in China, one is Fukasaku Daijin's "Kamata March" (1982), which was translated and produced by the release and swept the Chinese box office that year:

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years
Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

There is also "The Tragedy of W" (1984) starring Hiroko Yakuza Maru:

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years
Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

These three inspirational films, on the level alone, are naturally the most profound gods, but "The Tragedy of W" and "The Red Mailbox on Escher Street" focus on the hard work of women, and it is not an exaggeration to say that each has its own strengths and weaknesses.

The biggest feature of "Red Mail" is that each character is the protagonist, and the role is even, in order to highlight the theme of "I am the protagonist in my life".

Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years
Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years
Love Letters to Passers-by: Japan's Best Inspirational Film of Recent Years

Yuan Ziwen showed his powerful ability to arrange scenes, direct the performances of actors and edit, but unfortunately the golden age of Japanese cinema was already the stars of last night, otherwise, with the help of a screenwriter of Hashimoto's level, Even if he was not as good as Akira Kurosawa, he would definitely dedicate more and better masterpieces.

The climax at the end of the film violently beats the boss's related households to highlight the theme and increase the drama, this paragraph is certainly relieved, but it always feels too hard.

Overall, this is a rare inspirational masterpiece in Japan for many years and is worth recommending.

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