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A longevity drama must have a reason for its existence.
Super high ratings, continuous popularity, the protagonist is radiant, the plot is always powerful...
However, Evergreen's American drama "Friends" has long come to an end in the tenth season, and the 12th season of "The Big Bang Theory" has also become the finale.
But there is a Japanese drama that began with the release of the first season in 2002 and continues to this day, in addition to the daily TV drama version, there are also SP and movie versions.
On October 17, it ushered in its latest season 17.
Such a long-lived Japanese TV series is the detective mystery drama, "Xiang Stick".
Its return this time is very low-key, currently Douban only has 11 short comments, but as one audience member said, it is a divine drama that can be put into the list of "the best Japanese mystery dramas I have ever seen".
Xiangba, which means partner or partner in Japanese, refers to the two people in the play who solve the case as partners.
Although the first season was officially launched in 2002, strictly speaking, "Xiang stick" was born in 2000. That year, the show launched a 3-episode special broadcast in June, and I didn't expect it to be very popular, so I couldn't help it.
What is particularly rare is that the popularity of the drama does not rely on which big-name star, but because of the wonderful plot and the characters, it has created a rating miracle, and the ratings have even reached more than 20% at one time.
One of the two protagonists has not changed since the beginning.
He is a senior police detective who always wears stereotyped products on his head and combs his hair meticulously, Sugishita Ukyo.
Sugishita Ukyo is a very worthy detective image in Japanese film and television dramas.
This year, a Japanese website announced the most powerful detective role selected by 500 readers, with Furuhata Renzaburo ranking first, and Sugishita Ukyo ranking second with Kaneda, which can be said to be a very attractive character.
He graduated from the Law Department of Toho University, went to study in the United Kingdom, and then returned to Japan to join the Metropolitan Police Department, solving many difficult cases.
However, when dealing with the hostage-taking incident at the ambassador's residence, he was forcibly seconded by the chief cabinet secretary of the National Police Agency, Onoda Gongxian, as a combat staff officer, but he was dismissed from his post at odds with Onoda Gongxian and was excluded and became a cold bench detective of the "special task force".
Even so, this did not hide his super case-solving ability and elegant personal charm, and for more than a decade, he and another partner formed the Metropolitan Police Department special department, assisted in solving and cracking countless cases.
The other is a mobile character who has changed several times since the show's inception. Previously, Kaoru Kameyama, Kobe, and Kai-Yuki stayed with Ukyo one after another.
In recent seasons, the role in this important position has been played by Takashi Takashi Anti-Machi, a national civil servant of the Ministry of Justice, Kanjo Tsuneyoshi.
Although the people around Sugishita Ukyo have changed, the setting of the two people moving quietly in the play has never changed.
Reasoning drama, in fact, is nothing more than whether the process of reasoning is wonderful, but "Xiang Stick" in addition to this, there is its difference - in this up and down of various detective or reasoning dramas, this long-lasting Japanese drama has remained interesting, delicate, enduring for many years, and has always been unique.
And this is in line with the elegant and calm and spoiled character temperament of the male protagonist Sugishita Youkyo in the play.
On the whole, "Xiang Stick" is a reasoning drama, and all kinds of reasoning are brain-burning. However, from the decomposition point of view, you can see a lot of character details from Sugishita Ukyo, showing a variety of life. In the process of reasoning, it also reflects many real social problems, and even superstructure problems.
And after more than ten years of acting, the workplace factional struggle in "Xiang stick" is no less than its case-solving reasoning.
Sugishita Ukyo, very particular, is a delicate middle-aged and elderly man.
He always wore a suit and gold-rimmed glasses, spoke slowly and logically, and even if he confronted a criminal, he always used unhurried speed to tell his complete logical reasoning process, and crushed the other party with an irrefutable chain of evidence.
He is extremely fond of English black tea, in the office, always holding a delicate cup of tea, brewing good tea, even if life is not so kind to him, he can find his most comfortable way to enjoy a cup of tea, thinking about the difficulties in each case.
Even on a business trip, he brought a tea set and used water from the thermos cup to brew tea leaves.
Even face to face with the suspect, do not forget to sit down for a cup of tea.
Tea has also become an important part of this role, and even the promotion of "Xiang Stick" has a special show of "Sugishita Ukyo" where black tea is poured on the spot.
On the one hand, this represents his refinement, on the other hand, it also represents his calmness, flashing a calmness that sees through the scenery of the world and realizes the great wisdom of life.
"Detective" Sugishita Ukyo has been portrayed and maintained by Japanese actor Toyotomi Mizutani for more than a decade.
In 2002, when he starred in the first season, Mizutani Washito was 50 years old, and he did not have a handsome appearance, but he had extraordinary temperament.
He won the Best Actor Award in a Japanese film in 1976 for "The Murderer of Youth", and was the youngest film emperor in Japan at that time.
After 17 years of acting, this role has also become one with him, and he has played this role like the eccentric personality of the great detective Sherlock Holmes, but also has an extremely calm mind and a pair of eyes that see everything.
To say how much this drama and Sugishita Ukyo, played by Yutaka Mizutani, are just one example: Tsuyoshi Aoyama, the author of "Detective Conan", once gave it his TV series debut!
In the 2011 New Year's Day special episode of "Xiang Stick", "the father of detective Conan" Tsuyoshi Aoyama starred as an forensics officer (the person in the circle below), and did not even have lines.
Not only that, Tsuyoshi Aoyama and Toyotomi Mizutani, the star of "Sobetsu", are each other's fans and admire each other very much.
Tsuyoshi Aoyama painted Sugishita Ukyo, played by Toyo Mizutani, in the famous detective's book.
Toyo Mizutani has a collection of 70 volumes of Conan and is a veteran Conan fan.
It is worth mentioning that Mizutani's salary for starring in the 16th season of "Xiang stick" last winter was exposed by the Japanese media.
He was the highest paid japanese actor last winter, earning 3.5 million yen (about 210,000 yuan) per episode, surpassing popular idol Takuya Kimura by 1 million yen per episode.
Why is this mystery drama so good?
In addition to the reasoning of stripping away the cocoon, there is also a detailed analysis of the human heart, human nature and life. Just like the cup of tea in the hands of the male protagonist Sugishita Ukyo, it is worth tasting repeatedly.
Therefore, "Xiang Stick" has been acting until the current 17th season, and it has always been tiresome to watch.