At this year's film festival, "Red Hot Chili Peppers" was sold out as soon as it was sold, and then it was fried by scalpers to thousands of yuan a ticket.
Why do Imatoshi's works have such charm?
Today, we will talk about this god work!
"Red Hot Chili Peppers" is based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's "Dream Detective", and the fantasy adventure story told in the novel has aroused the interest of many film directors, who want to bring this story to the big screen.
However, there is really no way to turn Yasutaka Tsutsui's magical imagination into a visual picture, so this novel has a name in the field of film as "a novel that cannot be made into a movie".
It wasn't until Yasutaka Tsutsui met Imatoshi and the two hit it off that "Red Hot Chili Peppers" came to an end.
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One day in the future, people will begin to apply Freud's theory of using dreams to treat mental illness in practice.
Atsuko Chiba, who works at a psychiatric medical research institute, and the genius scientist Hirosaku Tokida, invented the "DC mini," an instrument that monitors the user's dreams, which can detect and alter the dreams of patients and is quite effective in treating mental illness.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, known as the Detective of Dreams, often uses the DC mini to treat people with mental illness, and this time she is treating Officer Fanchuan, who suffers from mental illness due to poor case detection and other reasons.
His dreams always have circus performances, movie scenes, scenes of victims and killers escaping. After the first treatment, Red Pepper and Fan Chuan agreed to continue treatment.
Psychiatrist Atsuko Chiba, Tokida informed Chiba, who had returned to the institute, that three DC mini prototypes he managed had been stolen.
Since the DC mini is still in an unfinished state, thieves can connect through the DC mini and other psychiatric healing devices at any time and place, invading the consciousness of the person who is using the instrument.
Intarō Shima, director of the institute, decided to discuss countermeasures with Chiba and Tokida first.
Unexpectedly, the chairman of the board, Jiro Kaneki, was already waiting for them in the director's office.
The chairman believes that exposure to dreams involves violence, dominates dreams, and self-righteousness leads to loopholes.
I don't think I should make something like a DC mini.
The director believes that DCmini can make significant achievements in the field of psychotherapy.
Dunzi believes that dc mini does not dominate the patient's dreams but feels the dreams with the patient.
As he was speaking, the director began to talk nonsense, jumped down from the institute, and fortunately fell into the tree, which was not a big problem.
By consulting the director's dream, Chiba speculates that the thief is Toshida's assistant Ice Room.
Koyamauchi, Chiba, and Tokida go to the Ice Room to investigate.
Qianye was caught in the trap, but fortunately was pulled by Koyamauchi in time to save his life.
It was difficult to save the director, and many staff members in the institute also began to talk nonsense and behave strangely.
The chairman had to order that the DC mini be frozen and no longer used.
Through the clues on Toshida's clothes, Chiba arrives at the playground where Toshida and the Ice Room played when they were young, but the Ice Room suddenly falls from the sky.
He has one DC mini wrapped around his head, while the other two DC minis remain unaccounted for.
The officer who came to investigate happened to be a red pepper patient again, and Officer Fanchuan had mental problems on the way home.
The director asks Chiba to enter Officer Fanchuan's dream again and treat him for his mental illness.
This time, Red Hot Chili Peppers led the police officer to the inner demon in his heart, and Fan chuan, who had never dared to face it, finally found that the murderer was himself, and the deceased was also himself.
It turned out that Fan Chuan had made a police film with friends when he was 17 years old, and the two of them met together on the road of the movie.
Fan Chuan gave up his dream because of his lack of self-confidence.
Friends died of illness after being admitted to film school, and regret for giving up the film career when they were young, as well as guilt for friends, eventually became Fanchuan's demons.
Tokida, who was scolded by Chiba for not doing the right thing, used his own DC mini to enter the dream of the ice chamber and try to find the answer, but was eroded by the dream.
Chiba once again incarnates as Red Hot Chili Pepper in a dream to rescue Tokida, who is responsible for checking everything in front of the monitor and waking chiba when she is in danger.
Sensing the strange red pepper, he found an ice chamber in a cave deep in the dream, which had long since turned into a shell and ceased to exist.
The chairman of the board of directors suddenly appears and attacks Chiba with a branch, and in the panic, Chiba makes the director wake him up.
The two came to the chairman's parents to face each other, but found that everything they had just done turned out to be a dream.
The seemingly upright chairman has long been psychopathic because of his disabled body and the pursuit of power.
Koyamauchi is also a well-mannered hypocrite, a physician at a treatment center during the day and a loyal servant of the chairman at night.
The Ice Room was also used and abandoned by the two, and Koyamauchi told Red Hot Chili Peppers that the Chairman and he could freely enter the dreams of others through dc mini, and the trap in the Ice Room's home was also designed by Tao.
Red Hot Chili Peppers puncture the fact that Koyamachi exchanged flesh and ice chambers for DC mini, and Koyamauchi, who was exposed for his true face, began to torture Red Peppers.
Forcibly stripping Red Pepper's consciousness, Koyamauchi, who has always had a crush on Chiba, can't bear to kill her who is exposed.
Clashes with the chairman, who feels that Koyamauchi has betrayed him and wants to strangle Chiba.
Due to the connection of the dream, Officer Fanchuan, who witnessed all this, broke through the screen to save Chiba.
During the chase, Officer Tomogawa finally defeated his inner demon and decisively pulled out his gun and hit Koyamauchi.
Qianye, who had a hard time returning to reality, found that the real world was invaded by dreams, and the parade in the dream took to the street, knocking and moving forward. Growing and chaotic.
Just as Shida's puppets frantically attackEdo and Chiba, Red Pepper and Tokida, one of Chiba's personalities, appear and save them.
Faced with the out-of-control Tokida, Chiba wants to rescue Tokida, while Red Peppers wants to stop the chairman.
Chiba wakes up Toshida in failure and confides her heart to Tokida in a dream, and it turns out that she has always been in love with the genius Tokida.
The chairman of the board of directors who has merged with Koyamauchi has become a black giant, and the dreams of people with severe paranoia can swallow up light and do everything.
Red Hot Chili Peppers chose to merge with Chiba, who confessed everything, to deal with shadows with light, to deal with dreams with reality, to deal with death with life, and to deal with men with women.
Chiba defeats the chairman, and the real world finally returns to normal.
Fan Chuan walked out of his heart, and Chiba married Tokida.
That's the end of the film.
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As a leader in animation, Red Hot Chili Peppers brings out the strengths of animation as a form of expression. Its shaping of dreams can be said to be unprecedented and unprecedented.
In the face of strange dreams and unexpected plots, the audience was stunned and could only clap their hands and applaud.
In the dream, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, incarnated as the Great Saint Sun Wukong, showed 72 changes, pinocchio, mermaid, Little Red Riding Hood, Tinker bell in Peter Pan, Sphinx and other characters.
So many characters incarnated by Red Hot Chili Peppers are a portrayal of the innocence and romance in her character, in stark contrast to the high-cold beauty Chiba.
The scene design of many echoes in the film is also very interesting, and Chiba once again helps Toshida get out of trouble echoing the scene where she helps Toshida get out of the elevator at the beginning.
The highly similar footage touched the audience and added a lot to the emotional drama between Chiba and Tokida.
For example, Red Hot Chili Peppers exposed Koyamauchi's betrayal of his flesh to the ice room in exchange for 3 DCminis, but in fact, in the first half of the film, when they were investigating in the ice room's home, Koyamauchi looked at the same-sex magazines collected by the ice room with complicated eyes, which had been paved.
In terms of innuendo society, director Imatoshi is also ruthless.
"Red Hot Chili Peppers" has a large number of satirical fragments of the current situation of Japanese society, such as suicide office workers, underage girls and voyeurs, otaku wandering the streets, scheming power competition, rampant religion, horse gambling, Imatoshi shows his reflection on Japanese society in the work!
The film's references and references to film history are also praised, for example, the recurring clips in The Dream of Officer Fanchuan actually come from movies such as "The King of the Drama King", "Tarzan of the Apes", "Roman Holiday" and other movies, and Koyamauchi fixes the scene of red hot chili peppers like butterfly specimens from "Butterfly Spring Dream".
The director also borrowed Officer Fanchuan to pretend to be the big director Akira Kurosawa to introduce the audience to two professional terms of film shooting - cross-axis and pan-focus.
Even inserted his own movies "Unma's House", "Millennium Actress" and "Tokyo Godfather" in the film, the three works are good works, recommended for everyone to watch.
At the end of the film, the movie "Dreaming Children" recommended by Red Hot Chili Peppers to officer Toshi Toshi to see is actually another new work by Imatoshi, but due to Imatoshi's untimely death, we may never see this work again.
On August 24, 2010, Japanese animation director Toshi Ima died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 46.
Heaven is jealous of talents, and there is one less dream master in the world.
I only hope that I can see his last work in my lifetime, "Dream Machine".
"Red Hot Chili Peppers" is such a new discovery every time it is re-brushed, about lies and truth, about dreams and reality, and the girl who crosses the dream is so beautiful.
Every shot in Imatoshi's pen is worth savoring!