"Loving someone is a pleasant thing."
The bright red is love, the cut is also love, and the pentagonal love as long as the wrong line is pulled, the rope will be knotted. Without understanding the rules of the game, without dexterous fingers and a clear mind, as long as you are not careful, the original sweet love will only leave sorrow in vain.
Adapted from a 1959 short fantasy novel by Murosio Rhinoceros, it depicts Akiko (played by Fumi Nijido), who can transform into a goldfish and a human body, and a surreal love affair with an old writer (played by Ryo Ohsugi).
In addition to the old and young matching, the mermaid love, the old writer's lover (played by Yoko Maki), who died many years ago, has also become a ghost and returned to the human world, even the wife who is sick in bed, the mistress who secretly communicates with her naked son (played by Han Yinghui), and even the dead Ryunosuke Wasagawa (played by Kengo Takara) is also manifested because she can't look at it.
"Honey Sorrow" interprets the character setting that even if a man lives to be old, his brain is still full of desire, and he can be popular with girls with talent. Of course, women are also full of men.
Fantasy crazy love, the delicate and deeper than the sea of women's hearts, adding lust, attachment, jealousy, sympathy and all other expressive power about love, as if the characters in the movie are emotionally excessive, all women only fall in love with this old writer who is more than half a hundred years old, and are obsessed with him.
The original work can be said to be a projection of the desires of the author Muros, Rhino, and even made his name "Rhinoceros" the signature of the writer. The film is directed by the film madman Ishii Yuelong, who is well-known for its impact visual and fantasy themes, retains the original literary sense of the work, and uses literary lines and bright and sexy colors to show women's delicate but also incomprehensible emotions for love in a dreamlike plot.
The soundtrack of "Honey Sorrow" is excellent, and the theme song "dance with me" shows the eccentric goldfish appearance with a western brisk rhythm tune, but also indirectly contrasts the emotional contrast of the film characters.
In the film voiceover, inheriting the use of Ishii Yuelong's previous work "The Love of Phantom Flowers", adding many sound effects such as goldfish expressions, spit bubbles, and water sounds, deepening the fantasy color of the film, and even balancing the tragic sense of masochism in the film.
When classic Japanese literature is remade into a movie and accompanied by Chinese subtitles, "Honey Sorrow" is indeed challenging for the audience.
The time and space is set around the time and after the suicide of Ryunosuke Wasagawa in 1927, and the original writer Muroso Rhinos himself is one of the friends of Ryunosuke Wasagawa, and on the eve of the suicide of the other party, he also went to Muroso's house to see the last side of the other party, so in the novel, he installed a role for his best friend, and understanding the background of the story rationalized the appearance of Ryunosuke Wasagawa.
In the movie, The Goldfish Akako constantly refers to herself as "あたい", and the female ghost constantly asks him why he calls herself "Renren" (the film translation). "あたい" is an early female self-proclaimed language, which actually has a sense of showmanship, while the goldfish with a visual age of only eighteen (the actual age is three years old), which is pure and cute on the surface, but always inadvertently, poses a sexy and seductive action, and even a reverie: "Uncle, the tail fin should be gently touched."
"Honey Sorrow" combines color and personality, corresponding to different characters to form emotions other than costumes. The time and space of the last years of Taisho and the Showa period coincided with the era of the extensive adoption of Western costumes, and the use of colors became bright and bold.
The three women reflect the costumes of different periods in Japan and the display of personality and identity: the eccentric and the "goldfish" who show love and possessiveness generously, with beautiful short hair and sexy red clothing;
The "ghost" who died ten years ago is conservatively in love but a little neurotic, always wearing a full white kimono;
The current "mistress" who holds a teaching position has an unreserved obsession with old writers, but under the dignified ponytail is a Showa dress cut from Chinese and Western.
The "old writer" who is circling between the three women is a traditional kimono in black, white and gray monochromatic with a Western top hat. In that era when the influence of Western aesthetics was gradually opened up, the love and hatred between the costumes and characters of "Honey Sorrow" also became a fashionable trend and romance on the table.
"Once a man is left out in the cold, he will find another person to warm up."
The literary nature of "Honey Sorrow" makes the lines in the play always directly hit the audience's heart, especially the non-human goldfish and ghosts, and the personality of saying whatever you want, but also makes the fantasy of the film covered with a layer of the biggest atmosphere of women.
Seemingly difficult dialogues have become word games in the movie. However, with the presentation of a variety of love, this film presents a long and profound sense of popularity. Because it is fantastic, it is incredible, but no matter what kind of creature or non-biological love is put into it, it seems particularly cute and sad.
"Humans, like goldfish, have the most beautiful round parts."
Has performed "Why Hell Is Bad" and "Mediocre Talent" to become the film queen of the second order of the tomimi, in "My Man" and Asano Tadanobu have a fierce bed scene, can be disembotaged and young, the second order of the tomi in "Honey Sorrow" played by the goldfish, can be said to be completely tailor-made for him role.
From time to time, the expression of puffing up the face when posing, the cuteness of several big goldfish dances, and the erotic teasing scenes, and even generously exposing the hips and beautiful legs, Fumi Nijido almost dominates the rhythm of the entire movie. Especially for fans of Fumi Nijido, "Honey Sorrow" is definitely the film that shows the most style and orientation in his works.
The golden lineup of the same queen, Such as Yoko Maki, senior movie emperor Ōsugi Ryo, handsome uncle shadow emperor Nagase Masatoshi, and new generation movie emperor Kengo Takara, even if it is only a small non-realistic story, does not have the slightest sense of putting the big whale into the small fish pond.
"There is a shadow of everyone in this woman."
"Honey Sorrow" may be for the general public, it is indeed not an ordinary ability to control. Seemingly esoteric lines and scenes, but there are corresponding and many metaphors, whether it is through surreal scenes, allegorical lines, unclear and unclear back and forth, this film is like a mirror, looking at what kind of person is sitting in front of the mirror.
After all, when the time comes, the way back will be divided into two, one will die of sunlight, one will come at night, and it is easy to get lost. People who don't know how to flip the rope, it is difficult to enjoy it.