Netflix is fierce enough.
At the end of the year, it was even possible to release a big move.
A Japanese drama based on a popular manga.
The first episode made Uncle Fish head on the head and brushed it overnight.
It's so cool and cool, I haven't seen such a cool Japanese drama for a long time.
Today, I will give you a strong Amway -
Alice in the Land of the Dead
Alice in the present country
The drama is based on the manga of the same name by Japanese manga artist Aso Haru.
The manga began serialization at the end of 2012 and ended in 2016.
Although the length is not long, there are still many fans.
Ever since the big money Netflix bought the rights and decided to remake, many fans have been waiting for it.
In terms of the main creator, it is also directly pulled to the more mature comic team.
Director Nobusuke Sato, manga adaptation experience is very rich.
For example, "Killing City SP", "Library War", "Please Call Me a Hero", "King of the World" and so on, are all from his hands.
"The King of The World"
Remember the news that Netflix announced that it was going to shoot "Water Margin" not long ago?
The director is also Shinsuke Sato.
Suddenly, I felt as if I could look forward to it
The actors of this drama have almost all come to a big subversion of the image.
The male protagonist is also the star of "The King of the World" Kento Yamazaki.
He became a "high-IQ otaku" this time.
At the same time, the show will also adopt a dual-protagonist setting mode.
The heroine played by Tsuchiya Taiho can be described as quite eye-catching.
Accustomed to acting in romance dramas, she cut her hair short this time, and she was sassy and handsome.
The cornice walked on the wall to fight max, and his face was full of "can't afford it".
In addition, the "goddess" Sanji color flower is a sweet image of the past.
Transformed into an autopsy maniac, showing off his long legs, high cold and sexy.
There's also a surprise supporting character —
In "When you are a virgin at the age of 30, you seem to become a magician", Machida Keita is called "the best attacker in the world".
However, this time he was no longer an aggressive and handsome man.
Instead, he wore a yellow hair and became a street gangster who could carry and fight.
One work after another, the real "drama throws face".
These two stills are really the same person
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In addition to these, there are also actors such as Hiroro Murakami, Yuki Morinaga, Tsuki Sakurada, Asahina, and Abe.
This is almost half of the Japanese manga reform.
If you want to describe this Japanese drama in one sentence, that is:
Escape Room + Battle Royale.
Yes, the show's story structure belongs to a classic model – a live-action game in a confined space.
Going back to the source early, it will inevitably be linked to the classic Japanese movie "Battle Royale" released 20 years ago.
Hollywood has also produced many similar works, and integrated a variety of science fiction and fantasy elements.
For example, the earlier small-budget film "Panic Party", and later "The Hunger Games" and "Moving Maze" and so on.
Today, this kind of survival and escape setting is not new.
As the audience's tastes become more and more picky, it is not easy to shoot more appetizing.
But "Alice in the Land of the Dead" became that surprise.
From the very beginning of the setting, it was very attractive -
Turn the entire tokyo into a killing playground.
The story begins with three young men in Tokyo who are scrapped.
The protagonist's name is Ryohei Arisu and he was born into a wealthy family.
Although the mind is clever, it is not doing the right thing.
After graduation, he became an unemployed vagabond and played games at home every day.
Such waste of firewood, of course, the family is not accustomed to it.
The father felt that there was no face, and even his brother was always sneering at the side.
Unable to stand such an atmosphere, Yuqi willfully chose to run away from home.
It just so happens that both of his henchmen have also suffered a real blow.
The three of them simply met in Shibuya and played together.
It's just that in the middle of the day, the izakaya doesn't open anything.
I don't know where to waste the day.
Staring blankly at the crowded, bustling streets of Shibuya.
Unable to find a single goal in life, the wasted firewood youth stood dazed at the intersection.
Youqi sighed heartlessly:
"I really want to go to a strange country..."
As if a wish had been made, who knew that this unreliable wish would soon be fulfilled.
The three mischievously made a fuss, but accidentally caused a traffic accident and alarmed the police.
They hid in the subway bathroom.
Suddenly, the lights went out.
The phone also failed.
When they walked out the door, they were surprised to find:
The whole of Shibuya was empty.
Their first reaction was that everyone else had been carried away by a mysterious force.
But judging from the title of the play, you can boldly guess another situation.
That is, they strayed into another otherworld.
Except that the world remains the same as Tokyo.
This brings us to the title of the play.
Because the surname "Ariki" is pronounced in Japanese exactly like the English word "Alice".
I see it —
The work deliberately borrows the name of the classic fairy tale Alice in Wonderland.
And the author made a gender swap here, and the protagonist Ariko became a male version of Alice.
What's even more interesting is that in the original fairy tale, isn't there only Mr. Rabbit who attracts Alice?
In this drama, the heroine "Usaki" also happens to be pronounced the same as "rabbit" in Japanese.
This parallel world resembles Tokyo and is known as the "Land of the Dead".
Dying, dying.
Or rather, hanging between life and death.
This also indicates that this is not a fairyland, but a place of precarious cruelty.
During the day, the three of them wander around the empty city of Tokyo.
Although I was confused, I couldn't help but feel some excitement.
Yuqi felt that his wish had come true, and he had come to a strange place where he could not look for a job or meet the expectations of others.
Recently.
At night, they discovered what was so special about the world.
The game begins.
Games are the most important part of the "Land of the Dead".
All who enter the area must participate in a random game that starts all over Tokyo.
Without exception, it is a game of life and death.
The night that Yusu and his gang came here, they participated in the first game.
The rules are simple, just escape from the Chamber of Secrets within a limited time.
There are many rooms in the building, each with two doors, a living door and a dead door.
But the door of life does not represent life, and taking a wrong step is death.
If you open the wrong door, you will be killed by the laser immediately, and those who can't go out will also be burned alive.
Soon, the girl who the protagonist has just known for less than 10 minutes becomes the first to die.
It seems that it is completely chosen by luck, but in fact, there are certain tricks.
At this time, the protagonist's aura began to threaten.
Yuqi, who is good at playing games, found hidden clues in time and led the rest of the people to successfully pass the level.
Once the game is cleared, the winner will receive a "visa" for a certain period of time.
But whenever the visa expires, a red laser will fall from the sky.
Violently killed on the spot.
If you want to survive, you have to renew, and if you want to renew, you have to keep completing the game.
The winner of each game will receive a playing card.
The number on the playing cards indicates the number of days that the victory in this match can be renewed.
In addition, the color and number of the playing cards also represent the type and difficulty of the game, respectively.
Plum blossom cards represent collaboration, spades represent physical strength, squares represent intelligence, and hearts represent human nature.
The higher the number, the higher the difficulty.
Although Yuqi has the aura of the protagonist, he is a game otaku after all.
There is no problem in fighting intelligence, and there is basically no hope of fighting physical strength.
Fortunately, in the second game, he meets his "Mr. Rabbit", Usaki.
Usaki is the daughter of a famous rock climber and is well-trained.
Climb with your bare hands and shuttle freely.
But whether it is to fight intelligence or physical strength, there is still a solution.
Encountering a red heart card game that involves human nature is the most terrifying.
The purpose of the Red Heart game is to make players "betray each other and kill each other".
At the stake in life and death, human nature often does not stand the test.
In the play, every appearance of the Red Heart Game directly makes the plot "take a sharp turn".
In the third episode, the game "Hearts 7" appears.
One man is a wolf, and three are sheep.
Once the two sides make eye contact, the identity of the wolf automatically shifts.
At the end of time, only the wolves will survive, and the others will have headshots in situ.
Several friends were forced to fight each other.
It's a game that's too sadistic.
At the moment of life and death, people's hearts are uncertain.
Although the game is called "Wolf Catches Sheep", it is the wolf who is actually caught.
If you want to live, the wolf must keep his identity.
When the game ends, the life is saved, and the protagonist's mentality collapses.
Only then did I realize that a game that can be completed by the brain or physical strength is not called a problem at all.
Human nature is the most insoluble proposition.
The game does not have heavy samples, the difficulty continues to increase, and one is more cruel than the other.
The element of playing the game alone is already too much to watch.
By the end of the episode, there was a big reversal.
What is it specifically, Uncle Fish will not spoil here.
Of course, this drama is not just about the single-line story of the protagonist breaking through the level and fighting monsters and upgrading.
During the game, the protagonist will encounter a variety of players.
The play also has a wealth of display and excavation of them.
For example, one of the climactic passages of the whole play -
A duel between a bald tattooed man and a beautiful bikini girl.
From the outside, it seems that this duel has long been divided into winners and losers.
Combined with the confusing lights in the bar, the whole scene is full of mystery.
No one can imagine what they were like before they entered the Land of the Dead.
In fact, the bald tattooed man with the crazy appearance was once a novelist who achieved nothing.
A beautiful bikini girl with an indisputable face was once a gender cognitive disorder.
He had high hopes of inheriting his father's karate.
But once he secretly put on makeup, was found by his father, and was swept out of the house.
His father's disapproval became the greatest pain in his heart.
Until the duel with the bald tattooed man, he untied the knot.
Using the "one move to defeat the enemy" taught by his father, the counterattack was successful.
The theme of growth accompanies every corner of this play.
What is the meaning of life?
This clichéd question is left in front of the protagonist from the very beginning of the story.
In a modern and highly developed society, people have too many choices, and they become lazy, selfish, and confused.
Nibbling old people, Nettes, squatting at home, game houses, waste firewood...
Aimless young people like this are now everywhere.
And the well-off youqi, in the face of the setbacks of life, chose to escape from reality in the game.
In the original comic, this criticism is even sharper and fiercer.
"Society, parents, security, safety... Being overprotected by these things, living a life of course... I'll just complain, I'm just a stupid stinky little devil..."
But when such a question is placed in the land of the dying, the answer becomes clear and visible—
Win the game and survive.
As a waste of wood in the real world, you have gradually grown up in such a game world where life is a bet.
I have met a variety of players, and I have become more and more aware of the complexity of human nature.
Later, the protagonist and his party even enter a secret organization in the Land of the Dead, the "Seashore".
The person who completed the game the most became the "king", and the other players became the "congregation".
The king is responsible for maintaining this utopia, allowing the congregation to indulge in entertainment while playing.
The congregation became pawns, constantly completing the game, allowing the king to accumulate more and more resources.
In fact, most of the people here are escaping from reality, just to get a temporary sense of safety.
There is no real utopia in reality.
Especially in such an extreme environment, it must be supported by cruel sacrifices.
In the barbaric world, how to uphold the goodness of human nature?
This has become another topic that cannot be escaped.
The vast city became a bloody purgatory.
The trials of friendship and survival are staged.
The extreme evil and the great goodness of human nature are vividly displayed here.
Do you want to protect yourself at any cost, or do you help your partner despite the danger?
In the face of desperation, this will be an unavoidable and difficult choice.
The saying "Afflictions see the truth" is most appropriate here.
The protagonist is able to stick to the bottom line in this world to survive to the end, not lucky, nor smart enough.
Rather, he always carried hope and the trust of his companions.
Gradually, I began to shoulder the expectations of others and took responsibility.
"We all just want to survive, but rather than surviving, maintaining the last dignity of humanity and waiting for death is perhaps the most worthy of the essence of being human." 」
This also coincides with "Battle Royale" 20 years ago.
Throw all the cruelty of the world and the ugliness of human nature before you.
Not to make you give in.
Rather, defeat it.