The recent Japanese drama circle can be said to be very hot, and a bunch of new dramas with very high attention and topic degree have been launched.
Among them, the most exciting and addictive is undoubtedly this "My Family's Story".
Although it has only aired two episodes, it is already addictive and quite a "divine drama".
Just started broadcasting, the Douban score has reached 8.6 points, but I think it can be higher.
I believe that many Japanese drama fans are already very excited when they hear the news of this drama.
The reason for this is nothing more than because of a name: Miyato Kankuro.
Kankuro Tsuto, the human "9" person.
From actor to director to musician, screenwriter and screenwriter have several positions, but the most famous is his identity as a screenwriter.
I believe that this name is also the reason why many people have fallen in love with Japanese dramas from the beginning and have become acquainted with Japanese dramas.
After all, there is such a sentence in the Japanese drama circle: "Gongjiu production must be a fine product."
This absolute "ghost talent" of the Japanese drama industry, known as "Dazai Osamu reincarnation", his screenwriting career can almost be equated with "divine drama".
"Tiger and Dragon", "Ikebukuro Nishiguchi Park", "Sorry, Youth", "Haenyeo", "Manhattan Love Story", "Meteor Trip" and so on, too many works have been named "Life Drama", "Divine Work", "Highest", "Insurmountable" comments.
Douban short review of "Tiger and Dragon"
The so-called "god" here does not only refer to ratings or influence, but also refers to Gong Jiu's strong creativity and experimental spirit.
It can be said that in practice, he has brought Japanese drama creation into another dimension, constantly breaking the boundaries of narrative mode. On various levels, we are impacting our imagination of Japanese drama, while at the same time firmly grasping the essence of the Yamato nation.
In Gong Jiu's works, there is no fixed form, only a huge brain hole without restraint, a disconnected and unbridled narrative logic.
Therefore, in the long-term creation, Gongjiu and the audience familiar with him jointly formed an intertextual "Gongjiu Universe".
This is also why this "My Family Story" is so highly anticipated.
Those "Gongjiu Bandi" that we are most familiar with have all returned, and the "divine dramas" that were once the most original have also begun to appear.
Just by seeing Kas, you can have a wave of intracranial orgasm!
Since "Kisarazu Cat's Eye", the best partner with Miyaku's long-term cooperation, Kaneko Fumiki, has added a heavy insurance to the drama.
The addition of actor Tomoya Nagase is even more significant, as it was his last work before he left the company in March this year to become a behind-the-scenes work.
The cooperation with Gong Jiu almost ran through his acting career.
From "Nishiguchi Park in Ikebukuro" to "Tiger and Dragon" and "Narcissistic Cop", the two have created too many masterpieces and memories together.
2005 Tiger and Dragon
There is nothing more romantic than saying goodbye to yourself in the most familiar and adorable "Palace Nine World".
Plus Toda Keirika, who has just gotten married and worked with Miyaku on "Meteor Trip".
In "The Tiger and the Dragon", we are familiar with the "master" Nishida Toshiyuki, Arakawa Yoshiyoshi and so on.
The off-line, rebellious, non-conformist cards of these actors, and the evil charm and cuteness of the slightly paranormal and unworldly affairs fit perfectly with the crazy world of Gong Jiu.
This configuration can't be unsightly!
This time, Gongjiu once again returned to his most amazing creative trajectory: the exquisite combination of tradition and modernity.
In "Tiger and Dragon", he let the gangsters speak Japanese rakugo, perfectly combining the fun of images and words, so that the traditional spirit of the worker "returns" in modern times.
In "Haenyeo", the growth trajectory of young girls makes the "haenyeo" and "idol idol" industries in coastal villages coincide and echo.
2013 Haenyeo
In "The Story of My Family", Miyaku once again chose two professions that were not compatible: Japanese Noh and wrestling.
The first episode is a standard Gongjiu narrative.
In the wrestling match of the male protagonist Kanyama Shouichi, he is interspersed with his explanation of his family background.
In the tricky, exaggerated wrestling action and the countdown outside the field, the subtle sense of embarrassment in the male protagonist's life is conveyed.
This wrestler is the eldest son of the famous Japanese Noh family, The Kanzan family, and his father, Kanzan Shouzaburo, is the 27th Emperor of the Clan and enjoys the reputation of "National Treasure on Earth".
In Japan, the identity, status, and rules of the traditional Kabuki and Noh families are notoriously prominent and strict.
As the eldest son, Shouichi was supposed to inherit his father's mantle from elementary school.
But his father's cold, strict, and distance-sensitive discipline has left home for the past 20 years and lived alone as a wrestler.
Winning awards, getting married, having children and then divorcing, gradually fading away, and can only make a living by playing exhibition games.
But on the eve of retirement, the news of his father's critical illness suddenly came from home, and Shou Yi, who had been away from home for 20 years, decided to come to see his father for the last time.
Of course, it is more or less with the careful thinking of "can you get a little inheritance".
After many years of not returning, Shou Yi's family can be said to know nothing and are incompatible.
This seemingly illustrious family to outsiders is most appropriate to describe it as a mess.
His father was critically ill, his younger brother became a lawyer, his younger sister became a teacher, and there was no successor to the Noh skills.
Only his former playmate, his father's apprentice Shou Ji Wu, is still on stage and barely managing the housework.
Finally, the deceased returned, and the whole family sat together again, but it was for the sake of their father's inheritance.
This father, who has always been highly respected, was sentenced by the doctor to have only half a year's life expectancy, and suddenly began to release himself.
At the meeting of the clan family, he solemnly announced that he was going to get married!
The object is Sakura, a nurse played by Toda Keirika, and the two love each other so much that they call a you nong and me nong.
Sit on your lap in front of everyone and hold it high.
Of course, the inheritance was all given to this unknown nurse Sakura.
Seeing that everything was going in an unbelievable direction, Shouichi decided to return to his hometown, spending his last years with his father while hoping to revive the former glory of the Noh family.
"My Family's Story" officially kicked off.
The first two episodes alone are full of the iconic features of Gong Jiu.
The fusion of classical and modern, the rhythm of rakugo-like narrative, the baggage of slow half-beats, and the surprising fusion of words and discourse interests.
First of all, the shaping of the characters alone is extremely precise.
Gong Jiu can always quickly construct a character in just a few minutes after the character appears. In contrast, let us silently accept the multifaceted nature and possibilities of people.
These characters are always a little out of the ordinary, too alive to grasp, but also reasonable.
For example, from wrestling to Noh, what is the charm of this humble male protagonist Shouichi?
Because of his conflict with his father, he could not stay home for decades; he could immediately turn against him for the sake of inheritance.
I can't afford to pay my son's tuition, and it can be said that it is a waste of firewood.
But the reason why he left home is because his father, who did not smile since childhood, only came alive when he watched the wrestling match.
It is for this memory, but also for a compliment from his father, Shouichi became a wrestler after leaving home.
And when his father was already demented and forgot what he had said, Shou Yi could immediately and keenly change the topic and avoid the embarrassing scene.
As his ex-wife commented, he was "naïve and immersed in his own world." ”
This is a middle-aged man who has delayed his growth because of his father's indifference, sincerely staying on the training table of his childhood with the body of an adult, waiting for a long-overdue compliment.
And the father, who was once a national treasure on earth, is even more fun.
In the most serious internal meeting, the first thing my father announced was: Sakura sauce is wearing a kimono today!
All the apprentices and family members first watched Sakura circle with wide eyes and small eyes.
When playing with the smartphone, a bug suddenly appeared, and the keywords in the search bar were: "care, fornication, flesh." ”
In this contrast, the father's aging is no longer heavy, but full of jokes, but it is more complicated under the details.
Compared with the release of the self and the dizziness of Se Lingzhi, the father can not only silently complain that he "can't stand on the stage, it's a waste." ”
You can even be soberly aware of the love between the nurse and himself, and the care of the children who are pregnant with ghost fetuses.
In the common evaluation of "old child", how much helplessness and fearlessness is hidden.
This kind of construction method through exquisite contrast, free jumping in detachment and reality, is one of the characteristics of Gongjiu.
In his episodes, there is absolutely no shortage of yellow strips, gags, secondary two and desertion.
We can see Toda Keiri smiling and squinting as she drives;
Toshiyuki Nishida was in a wheelchair when he suddenly spoke of rap.
We tend to feel a tension in his control of the sense of rhythm, these laugh points seem dense, but often lag for a while, in order to precipitate a warm introspection.
For example, in the face of the father-son relationship that finally broke the ice, the first challenge that Shouichi faced was to help his father bathe.
Seeing that the omnipotent father could not even take care of himself, he sat helplessly in the bathroom at the mercy of others.
Sad, touched, embarrassed...
The mood for a while is mixed.
But Gong Jiu often does not let the warm scene ferment for too long, and then the strange scream made when the father is in the bath and is touched by the little brother immediately regains the rhythm of the narrative.
Joy, humor, and contemplation are all mixed together without a trace.
But in such a laugh, Gong Jiu's family drama never avoids those complicated issues.
In "Sorry, Youth", how does the sister's past affect the sister, whether she hates her relatives or digests it alone.
2014 "Sorry, Youth"
Young people in "What about the loose era" at a critical moment in their careers are unable to face their own messy original family.
2016 "What About the Loose Era"
In this "My Family's Story", in just a few episodes, a complex life situation has been conveyed.
"Home" is the smallest community unit in human society, and only sentient beings have a home.
In the context of Japan, where the aging problem is very serious, what Miyaku wants to explore and touch on in this drama can be said to be quite ambitious.
When the eldest son returns home and the drama of the prodigal son turning back finally unfolds, we look at the father who was once in the limelight, because he can't remember the name of the vegetable, and is alone in the sunset.
But even if you are in a wheelchair, the noh drama that you once knew well can sing out of your mouth without a word.
What we can taste is not just "the son wants to raise and does not wait".
No matter how popular the characters are, they all have a day of dying old age.
How should a dying elderly person who has launched a "life reckoning" be treated after the social values and ethical constraints have been exhausted? And how do you get along with your loved ones?
It seems that the nurse who specializes in defrauding the feelings of the elderly is the one who really accompanies his father.
The embarrassing situation of the children is that their father's life is indeed full of vitality because of Sakura's company.
At the end of the old man's life, a perfect caregiver seems to be more meaningful than a child.
Under the sensational label of "old husband and young wife", what kind of ethical problems are lurking?
And within the family, the series also subtly tears the generation gap between father and son.
The relationship between Shou yi and his father has produced reflection and self-examination in the relationship between grandfather and grandson in the next generation.
When Shouichi saw that his son with a learning disability would actually sit for hours in order to learn Noh, he found himself more of a jealousy than a joy.
For him all along, his father was extremely stingy with praise. When you get to your grandson's body, you can open your mouth and come.
The words in this most intimate relationship are unsatisfactory, awkward, and dirty, and very familiar.
Of course, with Gong Jiu's urine nature, these topics will be infiltrated in the plot in the most relaxed, nonsensical and imaginative way, making people almost imperceptible and consciously entering the "home-world" constructed by Gong Jiu.
The son, who had already grown up, was trembling on the three-foot stage, trembling with his father's strict discipline, and painstakingly waiting for a compliment.
In the blink of an eye, his father, like a big baby, held his arms and waited for Shouichi to bathe him, secretly complaining in the bathroom that he had lost face in front of Sakura again today.
This cycle of care and being cared for, guided and guided, dependent and dependent, is the truth that we continue to experience in the continuation of the parent-child relationship.
Having said all that, the show has only been updated for two episodes, and it feels like there are still many things that have not been discussed.
Many viewers commented that it was as if they had seen the appearance of a masterpiece like Tiger and Dragon again.
Therefore, interested friends must not miss it, hurry up and catch up!