<b>Following</b> Keigo Higashino's "The Dedication of Suspect X" and Shoji Shimada's "Summer, Portrait of a 19-Year-Old", there is another Toei literary and artistic work that has been targeted by the mainland film and television circles, that is, the TV short film collection "World Wonder Story" that has swept the island country for 25 years. Today, Gao Qunshu, the director of "Tokyo Trial" and "The Sound of the Wind", posted on Weibo, saying that he had purchased the film adaptation rights of "Beauty Jar" in the Japanese "World Of Wonders" series of short films.
Screenshot of Gao Qunshu's Weibo
The Wonderful Tale of the World is a multi-element television masterpiece produced by Japan's Fuji Television, starring a number of popular actors (Akashi Saury, Shiro Sano, Toshiro Yanagi, etc.), and the series began broadcasting in 1990 for three seasons. During the broadcast of the TV series, some special episodes were also broadcast, such as spring, summer, autumn, winter, Tanabata, Christmas, etc., which became special episodes of spring, autumn and winter after 1995, while after 1997, it was fixed as spring and autumn specials, broadcasting two seasons a year, each episode of 5 stories, until now. Most of the stories are adapted from urban legends and tell a series of exciting suspenseful fantasy stories.
"Beauty Jar" starring Satoshi Mu
"Beauty Jar" was broadcast as the "Shiqi Spring Special" in 2005, and is one of the top ten classic short films of "World Wonder Story". Starring his wife Satoshi Mu, the male protagonist of the story is a senior student Kentaro, he has an inseparable girlfriend, but he feels tired of leaving her, in the name of exam preparation, he lives in a single apartment, inadvertently found the obscene uncle next door where the beautiful women continue, so he found a beautiful woman can at the uncle's house, according to the instructions into the bathtub containing 40 degrees hot water, cover the lid and wait for 30 minutes, you can produce a beautiful woman, and the beauty who loves him can only disappear when it reaches the shelf life...
Recently, it is also the rhythm of the Remake of Japanese dramas, after the announcement of the adaptation of Japanese mystery novelist Keigo Higashino's novel "The Dedication of Suspect X", directed by Su Youpeng, it is said that this will be the first time that Keigo Higashino's work has been put on the mainland big screen. Another reasoning master, Shoji Shimada's novel "Summer, Portrait of a 19-year-old", was once rumored to be adapted into a movie by Dasheng International, starring Huang Zitao. The works of these two novelists are not only major adaptations of the Japanese film and television circle, but also South Korea is also keen to shoot related film and television dramas.
The last wave of large-scale remakes of Japanese film and television dramas in the domestic film and television circle also dates back to the end of the last century, such as "Carry Love to the End", "Beijing-Hong Kong Love Line", "I Want to Marry You", "18-year-old Sky" and other domestic youth idol dramas, and copied well-known Japanese dramas such as "Love White Paper", "Long Holiday", "Lover", "GTO Spicy Teacher" and so on. Nowadays, the filmmakers have remade in the form of purchasing copyrights, which is a kind of progress of the times in any case.