You know in my memory, the movies that the previous generation talked about the most, in addition to "Walter Defending Sarajevo" is "The Hunt", and objectively speaking, the hero Walter and the tough guy Takakura Ken in The Yugoslav movie, the way and state of being talked about are not the same thing, a very good proof is that Zhang Yimou naturally thought of Takakura Ken when he made "A Thousand Miles to Ride Alone", and Wu Yusen, a Hong Kong stylized director who was mixed to Hollywood and had a high-light moment, will also remake "The Hunt". But as I said last time, since the box office statistics of Chinese films have been played, the Japanese films released in Chinese mainland, there is not a single live-action movie in the top ten box office, all of which are anime works, which is really a bit embarrassing. However, in fact, the influence of Japanese films and Japanese literature on China over the years is not small, from Shunji Iwai to "Japanese Hou Takahito" is Hirokazu Kore-eda, to director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, who has just won the Oscar for best foreign language film, and in fact, the new era of reasoning led by Keigo Higashino has swept through China's wenqing. Come now, recreate the highlight moments, and review the embarrassing box office.
Highest-grossing work "Thief Family"
Gossip is not much, believe it or not. Since the Chinese mainland box office statistics, Japanese live-action films have not been without word-of-mouth and influence in China, but a real data is that the highest-grossing Japanese live-action films in Chinese mainland are from Kore-eda's "Thief Family", with a total box office of more than 96.75 million yuan Chinese mainland. Don't be surprised, this is after Shunji Iwai, the Japanese director who has a lot of fans in China is Kore-eda's masterpiece, nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the key to winning the 71st Cannes Palme d'Or, don't ask me what is the Cannes Palme d'Or? I can only tell you that chen kaige has only taken it once among Chinese film directors. After all, the Palme d'Or is known as the highest artistic award in the three major European film festivals. 1.407 million people gave "Thief Family" a high score of 8.7 on Douban.
In a sense, this is a movie that does not lose to Parasite. This is not to argue about which of the Palme d'Or or Oscars is more convincing, but to say that there is a certain degree of contrast in the film's attention crowd and the theme of the foothold. "Parasite" represents the fierce expressiveness of Asian films represented by Korean films; "Thief Family" is a gentle knife of the Japanese tradition typical of Yasujiro Ozu's generation, as far as Kore-eda is concerned. In fact, starting with the youngest Cannes film emperor Yumi Liu le in "Nobody Knows", Kore-eda has a very high evaluation among Chinese film fans, in part because of the closeness of the Eastern emotional expression. This "Thief Family" is very representative of Kore-eda's polyphonic and delicate style. In fact, this 2018 "Thief Family" and 2017 'Gintama' are already two films released only slightly later than in Japan.
"Bouquet of Love" Back to Pure Love
Released on February 22 this year in Chinese mainland" "Bouquet of Love", more than a year later than the film's release time in Japan, and it can be said that it stepped on the tail of China's most cattle spring festival stall, and did not accurately step on the drum of February 14, but as a representative work of Japanese pure love films in recent years, it still received 89.83 million yuan at the box office in Chinese mainland. It's not a pretty stunning box office figure, but there are 443,000 Chinese fans who scored a high score of 8.6 on Douban for such an old-fashioned "pure love theme" movie.
The story of the movie is very simple, an unfortunate night stranded two young people with highly compatible souls, just chatting in the tavern, the two people came together because "you were like this", just the continuous stacking of life details, it framed the love of youth. Then, the lovers finally failed to become dependents, and the same laughing canvas shoes eventually went to their respective adult worlds. Sometimes you have to admit that those feelings of youth belong to young people, to a person who believes in love at an age, who believes that love is as brilliant as a bouquet. Then, although you may blush when you hear the past CDs, everything is already a memory. The partial phrase "pure love movie" is like a kind of love experiment, making it even more unclear what love is. But it does serve as a background, witnessing the less purely loving worldly life. Therefore, pure love is actually a sad word.
The little embarrassment of the three-dimensional Gintama
Akira Kuchi's comic debut, but the box office of this live-action film really does not reflect the influence of Japanese comics, or two or three dimensions among young Chinese people. In fact, in the current situation, "Gintama" is definitely not the most sought after work of Chinese young people, not to mention that "Gintama" is promoted from the second dimension to the third dimension, and the live-action playing anime characters will have a high risk, which will put shackles on imagination and expression, and even cause embarrassment, even if this person is Sugata Shohui, the handsome man who came out of "Bouquet of Love", this movie is also the lowest comprehensive rating in the Japanese live-action movies released Chinese mainland, don't think that Japanese comics are not rolled in Chinese fans.
Honestly, I'm a bit of an aesthetic for Gintama, maybe like I'm past the age of "pure love movies", so I prefer Attack on Titan, but obviously the live-action version of Attack on Titan is more disastrous than the live-action version of Gintama. The live-action version of "Gintama" scored 6.9 points in Douban 200,000 people, the performance is very general, in 2017 in Chinese mainland lag behind japan for two months, the box office of 81.436 million yuan has been quite good. When I was young, I once thought that if "Slam Dunk Master" made a live-action version, Wu Qilong dyed a red hair and it was really suitable, and later watched "Big Slam Dunk" starring Zhou Dong, I dismissed the idea of "Slam Dunk Master" shooting a live-action version.
The thought-provoking "The Mortician"
Before "Driving My Car" this year, the 81st Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film "The Mortician", a 2008 film, released in Chinese mainland in 2021, this 845,000 people scored 8.9 points on Douban, and this film depicting the "unspeakable industry" earned 66.22 million yuan at the box office in Chinese mainland. Honestly, such a niche genre, such a lagging release time, it is already a miracle to get this box office.
We should remember that Daigo Kobayashi was originally a person with cello dreams, but he was tricked into entering the mortuary job by being deceived by the deception, from being tempted by high salaries to thinking and understanding life and death in the process. Over the years, there have been many publications on thinking about "life and death fatigue", and in addition to success studies, how to view life and death is also a popular category. "Entering the Mortician" is still an Oriental way of facing, not violent and not excited, but with calm and solemnity, so that you suddenly understand that the tone of the cello is also a metaphor, so slowly and slowly, the atmosphere has arrived.
Shunji Iwai's late arrival in "Love Letters"
How to describe Shunji Iwai and his "Love Letter", as a classic of a generation of literary youth, it is not an exaggeration to say that Shunji Iwai has a bit of magic, and Otaru has also become a tourist destination in Japan because of this movie. "Entering the Mortician" is only a 2008 movie, "Love Letter" is a 1995 movie, Fujii Tree, Kashiwara Takashi, inside and outside the play, bedside silhouette, snow shouting, 65.2 million yuan box office including more than 30,000 in 1999, consider inflation, "Love Letter" Chinese mainland box office should be higher than "Mortician".
"Dream Traveler", "Swallowtail Butterfly", "All About Lily Week", "Flowers and Alice"... Shunji Iwai does not seem to be able to surpass the pure beauty of the "Love Letter" in the polyphonic expression of pure love. Especially the one that hides the end of the whole movie, the sketch of Fujii behind the borrowed book card, and the love that Kashiwara Takashi failed to express. 1.44 million people Douban scored 8.9 points, you feel it. In a sense, you could say that "Bouquet of Love" and "Love Letters" echo each other.
Chen Kaige led the Japanese grafting
From Japanese dramas to Hallyu, there have been many remakes of Japanese and Korean works in the past two years, but there are also many embarrassments. First of all, Higashino Keigo fever, tragic remakes include "Relief Grocery Store" and "Suspect X's Dedication", from the results of rough, "Relief Grocery Store" box office 223 million yuan, "Suspect X Dedication" box office 400 million yuan, but the quality of the film is worrying, especially compared with the Japanese original version, it is easy to feel the "Relief Grocery Store" water and soil dissatisfaction, and "Suspect X's Dedication" is not even as good as the Korean version, people have indeed accumulated crime films in recent years. However, the most embarrassing is "Late Night Canteen", Huang Lei thinks that he has done several food variety shows and warm man settings on the ride, the web drama "Late Night Canteen" is embarrassing to the toe, Douban hit 2.9 points! The movie version that Leung Ka Fai threw out, Douban 4.9 points box office 24.2 million yuan, food culture landed in a foreign land, between the mainland food stalls and Tsim Sha Tsui Night Market, ashes.
In 2017, Wu Yusen, who has obviously exhausted Jiang Lang's talent, cut off the last piece of gold on the plaque of his directorial career, and he actually pulled Zhang Hanyu and Masaharu Fukuyama to play the idea of "Pursuit", the box office of 106 million yuan is not humiliating, but the Douban score of 4.5 is a complete ruin to the "late festival". The last thing to say is chen kaige, adapted from the dream pillow tapir "The Legend of the Demon Cat" of the same name movie, in fact, many times I personally look down on some of Chen Kaige's behavior, but I did watch the dream pillow tapir's book and Chen Kaige's movie, considering the black powder and the water army, 1.333 million people played 6.9 points is relatively pertinent, first-class art, second-rate story, personally feel that it is worth a look at the work, 468 million yuan box office, has been recorded, Chen Kaige's box office ceiling. I believe that as a representative director of the fifth generation, he will not take the box office of a certain "Chosin Lake" one day to compare with zhang Yimou of the same generation, but in another weight, a "Overlord Farewell" and a Palme d'Or are indeed a spiritual steel plate that is enough to support. (Jiang Nannan)
Edited by Wang Cui
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