This movie is as long and unsatisfactory as life, the length of 2 hours and 36 minutes makes people really feel that the general audience feels too long, the pace of modern people's life is too fast, I am afraid that too many people are difficult to endure to taste such a not very wonderful life segment, if the movie is long, you can choose not to watch, but life is long and unsatisfactory but still have to continue.
This Japanese movie with a horror title is actually a story of a family reconciling with their past selves, the story is not warm, but it will also make people feel a little touched after watching it.
A tunnel that never ceases to tell whether it begins or ends
The male protagonist of the film is a middle-aged man who drives a long-distance bus, Tokyo has his new girlfriend after divorce, Niigata is his home with a pair of children, he runs back and forth between Tokyo and Niigata, his life is like the endless tunnels he drives through in the bus, you can't tell where is the end, where is the starting point, he is also undecided about whether to choose a new girlfriend to marry or continue to live a single life.
The son is a handsome young man with a high education and a very good job, but he quit his job because of skin diseases on his body, and because of skin diseases, he was questioned by his sister's boyfriend's family, which led to his sister quitting the marriage contract.
The daughter has never forgiven her mother who left her, and she does not want to accept the dowry left by her mother.
Mom left the family and remarried, but it didn't seem to be satisfactory, and she also traveled back and forth between Niigata and Tokyo.
The man's father-in-law never wanted to sell his old house in Niigata because of his favorite loquat tree and his favorite record player.
The man's girlfriend is studying French food, her Japanese restaurant business is not good, she and her Shiba Inu are dependent on each other...
They all have their own irreconcilable past, the watch he bought when he got married still can't be taken off, and the skin disease on his body has never been cured, she will clench her right hand into a fist when she is angry, and she always has to go back to the old house to take care of it after divorce, he is sick and goes to the hospital but still listens to music with headphones every day, and the new lunch box she bought is packed and sent out, but he does not send it back to him...
A skin condition on his son caused him to quit his job
The movie lasted for 2 and a half hours, and when I first started watching it, I felt a little regretful, afraid that it would be a boring movie, and I felt that it was still quite evocative after watching it slowly. In fact, life is not so, at the beginning we will feel that there is too much boredom in life, but when we grow up, get married and start a family, we find that our past those pieces that are boring are so worth cherishing, the long life is so delicate and long, it also needs a long enough time span to examine, maybe people will be like the male protagonist after they want to find their past and reconcile with it, maybe people can feel the taste of this kind of film more when they look at this kind of film in middle age, but some things can only pass in the past The ending in real life is often difficult to satisfy, rather than going back to the past like a movie.
I don't understand why the male protagonist divorced at the beginning, presumably because he was busy with the work in Tokyo and did not give the ex-wife more space; I don't understand why the male protagonist resigned from his job in Tokyo, presumably he couldn't put down a pair of children in Niigata; he didn't understand why his ex-wife left two children, presumably he couldn't bear the burden of his life at the beginning; he didn't understand why his girlfriend didn't sell the restaurant to cook food, presumably nostalgic for his previous life.
The daughter eventually reconciles with her mother
At the end of the film, the loquat tree in front of the old house was made into chopsticks, the lunch box was sent back to the girlfriend, the son was cured of the stubborn disease and went to India, the daughter reconciled with the mother but wanted to leave home to start a business, the male protagonist resolutely left the girlfriend to want to reunite with the ex-wife, and the ex-wife also told the male protagonist that only he was the warmest here, fireworks bloomed in an unsatisfactory life, the movie has been snowing, maybe the ex-wife is right, although it is cold here, but the people here are very warm.
The ex-wife told him that the people here were warm
The above is not the real ending, the end of the movie the male protagonist hung up his girlfriend's phone on the bus that did not know where to go but cried bitterly, then we understood that in fact, he loved his girlfriend, in order to let the children return to the original home, he paid for work, love and everything in life, but the children left home to find their dreams, maybe we are the same, although always grumpy in the ideal of the beautiful, but farther and farther away from the beautiful, in fact, the most beautiful story may just be silently accompanied, It's like you're taking the midnight bus I drive back to your hometown, and then you take your memories to your heart and go your separate ways.
Saddled with heavy emotional baggage, he cried bitterly on the bus
In the movie, the snow has been falling and the sun is shining, but no one in the family has really reconciled with the past, but the girlfriend outside the family no longer blindly accommodates her boyfriend and sells the Japanese restaurant she does not like to do the French food she has always wanted to make.
The soundtrack of the film is very good, and the film is a commemorative film produced by Niigata Daily to celebrate its 140th anniversary.
The sign in the back is Niigata Daily.