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[Global Times special correspondent in Japan Wenzhu Jin Huizhen] The 7th is the Chongyang Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, and gratitude and respect for the elderly is an important theme of the Chongyang Festival. Korean society also pays attention to the "filial piety" culture and adheres to the tradition of "respecting the elderly". The 24th Busan International Film Festival opened on the 3rd of this month, and South Korea's "Culture Daily" said on the 7th that the organizing committee of this film festival specially arranged a "Korean film with old drama bones" to commemorate the old drama bones who have shaped classic characters or left classic masterpieces in the development of the 100th anniversary of Korean films.
Kim Ji-mi, a 79-year-old veteran actress known as "Elizabeth Taylor of South Korea", became an invited guest in the above special session. According to South Korea's YTN TELEVISION, after Kim Ji-mi debuted as an actor at the age of 17, she has participated in more than 700 movies and is known as a "legend in the Korean film industry". "Culture Daily" said that from the 4th to the 6th, in the "Talking about Korean Movies with Old Drama Bones" session, the organizing committee invited young and middle-aged actors such as An Shengji, Jeon Do-yeon, Cho Jin-woong, Kim Kui-li and other young and middle-aged actors to review a number of classic films she participated in with Kim Ji-mi, attracting countless new and old fans to participate. In this session, South Korean actor Ahn Seung-ki commented on Kim Ji-mi: "Since 1960, Korean cinema has entered a period of prosperity, and Kim Ji-mi's predecessors were one of the representatives who made important contributions to Korean cinema in that era. Since then, she has also made films herself and dedicated herself to the creation of the Korean Filmmakers Association, which is worth remembering forever. ”
South Korea has no shortage of programs and materials that attach importance to old drama bones, and the more typical is the variety show "Grandpa Flowers" with a fire "Pattern" series - led by a young actor to travel around the world with 4 old drama bones. In the program, there are warm scenes of the two generations of the previous generations everywhere, which also boosts the ratings of the program. After the first season of 2013 hit a top rating of 6.5%, it launched three seasons in 2014, 2015 and 2018, reaching a peak of 9.6% when the ratings were highest. Korean media commented that when the audience sees the two generations of actors living in harmony, like the scene of "fatherly kindness and filial piety", they will think of themselves, and then understand the importance of "respecting the elderly". Li Shuncai, the 84-year-old veteran of "Grandpa Flowers", said in an interview in March this year that the audience's demand for the broadcast of the fifth season was very high, so he planned to participate in the filming of the fifth season of "Grandpa Fancy" this summer to repay the audience's love.
In Japan, veteran actors have been active at the forefront of the entertainment industry. In addition to being a guest in variety shows such as "Give It to Arashi" and "Chat 007", Japan's TBS TV also specially opened the variety show "Predecessor Japan" for veteran actors, inviting Ueda Shinya and other entertainment industry seniors to share their acting experience and life insights with the audience. Young artists in the Japanese entertainment industry are also keen to pay tribute to old drama bones in shows or interviews, such as Naoji Kobayashi of the EXILE group, who said in an interview that he benefited greatly from co-starring in a TV series with the predecessors of the old drama Sugi Ryotaro. In 2015, the Japanese magazine "Niki Weekly" held the "Best 100 Best Actors in Modern Japan" contest, and 8 of the top 10 male actors on the list were experienced actors over the age of 40, such as Shinichi Toki, Teruyuki Kagawa, masato Sakai, etc. More than half of the top 10 actresses are familiar faces of audiences in their 30s and 40s, such as Shinobu Terajima, Riki Miyazawa, and Takako Matsu.
In recent years, Japan has filmed many film and television works with the theme of the elderly: such as the 2013 movie "To See the Mother of little onion", which caused a huge response in Japan, telling the story of nursing staff caring for Alzheimer's patients, and director Morizaki Higashi also became a hot topic of discussion among Japanese audiences because of his 85-year-old age; In the 2015 action film "Ryuzo and His Party of Seven" directed by Takeshi Kitano, the leader of the old gang and the fraud syndicate composed of young people fought a fierce battle; There is also the true-story film Yaeko Humming (2017), which focuses on Alzheimer's disease and elderly care.