If there is to be a "detective" country in the contemporary era, it must be Japan. Every year, Japan produces a large number of detective novels and detective film and television works, and most of the well-known contemporary best-selling authors have also written speculative works, whether it is "Benge school" or "social school", it seems that Japan itself likes stories such as "Rashomon".
In addition to shooting the works of domestic writers, Japanese detective mystery movies also like to remake some foreign classics. Generally speaking, eastern countries shooting Western detective movies will be a little problematic, because the social form, primitive environment, living habits, and character costumes are very different. However, this is not a big problem in Japan, Western costume scripts are an important part of Japanese stage dramas, and Japanese screenwriters are also very powerful, and will adapt the original book into a form that is relatively in line with Japanese society.
Thus, there has been Fuji Television's remake of Agatha Christie's classic SP drama (TV movie) in recent years. This series of remakes is mainly the Great Detective Poirot series, starring Poirot (called Takezune Katsuro in the series) is Japan's first kyogen nomura Mansai, so this version of Poirot also seems to have added a lot of comedic characteristics and playful style, which is very different from the round-faced fat man in normal movies.
"Death Date" is the third work in the series, the first two of which are Agatha's most famous books, "The Murder of the Orient Express" and "The Murder of Kuroido", adapted from "The Mystery of Roger".
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The story takes place in the 30th year of Showa (1955) at the Kumano Trail, a World Heritage Site in Japan. It recently welcomed a group of interesting guests, divided into three groups, one from the Domoto family, namely the old lady of the Domoto family, two sons, two daughters and eldest daughter-in-law, and the Domoto family's friend Ten Words; the second group was two ladies, the female congresswoman Ms. Uesugi and her autobiographical editor Ms. Asuka; and the last group was two casual guests who met by chance, detective Katsuru Takezun and female doctor Sarokanko.
The core character of the story is the old lady of the Domoto family, because she is the deceased in this story, the old lady is very arbitrary, because she is very rich, so she has a bad attitude towards anyone, and more importantly, she is very possessive, and she is completely restrained and disciplined her children, not allowing them to have too much contact with anyone in the outside world. The old lady's arrogance made all the tourists dissatisfied, and her family naturally hoped that the old lady would die early.
In the process of visiting the Kumano Trail, the old lady rested on a bench on the trail due to physical discomfort, others browsed freely and returned to the starting point at the agreed time, while Dr. Rosa, who finally returned, found that the old lady sitting on the bench was lifeless and found a small pinhole in her arm, so now the question is, who killed this hateful old lady?
This series of adapted films, currently in the third part, I think the best filmed is "Kuroido Murder Incident", whether it is from the adaptation of the original work, or the performance of the actors, the setting and arrangement of the scene, it is a very good adaptation of the film.
Relatively speaking, the first "Murder on the Orient Express" is famous for its world-famous and many remakes, so there is nothing new to shoot, and it has been made into two episodes, which seems to be very protracted and has no highlights.
And this "Death Date", itself is more difficult to adapt, after all, the place where the original work occurred is in Petra in the Middle East, there are more characters, and the portrayal of the character image psychology is much more complicated. How to adapt from a long novel to a TV movie with only 2 hours or so requires a lot of subtraction.
In terms of adaptation, the overall subtraction is quite good, and it also combines a lot of elements of Japanese localization, such as Kumano Kodō, Tengu, Shrine, etc., which are all plus points. But the biggest problem with this movie is that the adaptation of reasoning has some deficiencies, and the actions of some characters are too deliberate and flawed, so that high-end reasoning fans are not satisfied. Compared with the first two films, this can only copy the original characters, but can not completely copy its killing methods, so reconstructing the killing process requires the screenwriter to have a strong logical thinking.
Screenwriter Yuki Mitani is a famous Japanese screenwriter, writing stage plays or Ōkawa dramas is his strength, and the integration of plot structure and comedy elements is also very characteristic, such as "Sanada Maru", such as such a multi-character complex timeline of the murder of the adaptation, may be a little difficult.
In addition, Agatha Christie herself is a female detective novelist, the emotional description and character shaping in the novel are significantly stronger than other detective novels, and the two-hour movie will also dilute the original characteristics of the novel, and it is difficult for you to have a deep understanding of the characters in a short period of time. Before the adaptation of "Roger's Doubts", the "Kuroido Murder Incident", because the protagonist and the murderer are overlapping, but there is no shortcoming in this regard.
Overall, this "Death Date" is a qualified movie, but it is not satisfactory. Grandma fans who have seen the original can see how the shooting is, and the audience who have not seen the original suggest that it is better to watch the original first, otherwise they will think that Agatha Christie is just like this.
Of course, some people don't like the comedy and performance style of this adapted series, which I don't know what to say, after all, I have seen the third part, and I still talk about style, is it not myself and myself that I can't get by?
That's it.