Douban 9.2 points, nearly 70% of netizens gave 5-star praise, Japanese dramas have not been so cool for a long time

Japanese dramas that have been silent for many years do not see joy.

I never imagined that this time-traveling life comedy "Restart Life" has not yet finished broadcasting, and the Douban score has soared to 9.2 points, and nearly 70% of netizens who gave 5-star praise.

The whole network is full of praise: so exciting! It's so pretty!

Some netizens even called it too interesting, adding 4 "too" words, "Mrs. is too interesting"!

Isn't it a rebirth crossing drama that everyone is not unfamiliar with?

Why can its reputation remain at a high level?

With these questions, after staying up late to complete the drama, Uncle Chai can confidently tell everyone that this drama is indeed excellent, and the reasons are reflected in the following aspects:

01

Uncle Chai first threw a question to everyone:

If one day you suddenly die and are suddenly told that you have a chance to be born again, will you choose to live again?

If you were born again, what would you want to change?

This 10-episode "Restart Life" is written by Stupid Rhythm (real name Hidechi Shono), who uses his unique creative perspective to write a seemingly ordinary, but fantastical storyline rebirth comedy.

This stupid rhythm is not only a well-known Japanese funny artist, but also a well-known screenwriter and actor.

His self-written and acted works include "Live" and "Overhead OL Diary", both of which have been well received by the audience. The latter is a lighthearted and humorous workplace drama that has won the Mukata Kuniko Award, the highest honor in the Japanese screenwriting industry.

He is also good at writing boring details of life into harmless jokes.

In an interview with the media, he said that he hopes to do pure and interesting comedy, so that the actors will not have a hard time memorizing lines after seeing the lighthearted script.

As a series written by yourself, it is normal to make a guest appearance.

In this "Restart Life", he is the staff responsible for contacting people after death, and he is not smiling and serious on the surface.

And the appearance of this soul figure has become a soul Easter egg in the play?

"Restart Life" is telling the story of the heroine Asami from the plot point of view. She is an ordinary public official who lives an ordinary and monotonous life every day.

Once after work and meeting her girlfriend for dinner, in order to retrieve the straw wrapper that flew to the road, she was caught off guard by a car accident, which froze her life at the age of 33.

However, she reincarnated and chose to continue to be a human, but her previous life was not meritorious enough and she almost became an anteater.

So Asami desperately accumulates Yin virtue and stages life again and again, becoming a pharmacist, producer, and medical researcher in the play, experiencing different lives.

Secondly, the actors who starred in this play, the lineup can be said to be star-studded.

The heroine Asami is played by Sakura Ando, a proper powerful actress. A few days ago, the Japanese media released the "2022 Powerful Actor Ranking", and she topped the list of the best actresses in acting at the age of 30.

She starred in Nobuyo Shibata in "Thief Family", and the three-minute impromptu crying scene surprised all the audience. That year, the film won the title of Best Actress at the Japan Film Academy in one fell swoop.

Even movie star Cate Blanchett praised: "We are actors, we want to show such crying scenes in the future, no need to suspect, that is to imitate Sakura Ando." ”

What's more, the three dramas "Thief Family", "Hundred Yuan Love" and "Wanfu" played by Sakura Ando can see different changes in the eyes of their characters.

They are all laughing expressions, but the state and temperament of the three characters presented to the audience are completely different.

It is also Sakura Ando who has this super plasticity, and she was recognized as "Japan's most iconic screen muse" at the 30th Tokyo Film Festival.

In addition to the wonderful performances of powerful protagonists in the play, many big coffee actors also participated in the performance.

For example, Xia Fan and Kinam Harunatsu, who have excellent looks and acting skills, as well as Matsuzaka Momolee, Someya Masada, Naoki Tanaka, Shida Miku, Nakata Kurumi and Miura Toruko all add a bit of ordinariness and truth to this smiling life comedy.

Such a lineup brings surprises to every episode.

Finally, another prominent attraction of this play is the use of life scenes and details to resonate with audiences aged 30.

For example, Asami took a photo with her girlfriends when celebrating the opening of a department store, sang nostalgic songs on KTV, colorful kimonos at bar mitzvah, and traveled back to the era of film, BB call, and video tube television.

These living scenes, under the background of memories, are easier to heal people's hearts and make people feel warm and calm.

Therefore, the setting of these plots naturally resonates with the same 30+ audiences.

It can be seen that "Restart Life" can have such a high reputation, which is enough to see that the screenwriter uses fantasy settings and humor to make everyone have a strong interest in the story, and then walk into Asami's daily life, and then let everyone think, collide and resonate.

It's not so much a comedy reborn as a life film.

02

In many previous rebirth dramas, the protagonist returned to a certain moment in his life to live again, and had clear goals and pursuits, to complete specific tasks or achieve big dreams.

For example, revenge, making up for regrets, seizing opportunities to become big winners in life.......

However, this "Restart Life" completely breaks this routine, purely Asami grasps the tip of "Duoji Yinde" and lives a different life again and again.

Let's take a look at Asami's choice to restart her life in order to achieve her ultimate goal?

A 33-year-old single woman who has been living with her parents and sister for a long time, she completed her studies step by step during her studies.

Her life, like ordinary people, was as plain as water.

She works as a public official in her hometown, and her daily life is to go to and from work, occasionally meet stubborn customers, and complain to colleagues at lunch.

The happiest thing every month is having dinner and chatting with 2 girlfriends.

On this day, she commuted to work as usual, made an appointment with her girlfriends for dinner in the evening, sang K after dinner, and did not return home until late at night.

As a result, an accident occurred, and Asami bent down to pick up the straw wrapper that had fallen on the road, and unfortunately was hit by a truck.

Unfortunately, Asami had a car accident, and her life ended.

The same life, live again, what will you choose?

Asami arrives at the reincarnation transit station, and the staff tells her that if she is reincarnated immediately, she cannot be a human, but can only be an anteater.

Why can't you be reincarnated?

The reason is that Asami's accumulated yin virtue in her previous life is not enough, and she cannot be reincarnated as a human as she wishes.

In order to become a human in the next life, Asami desperately accumulates Yin virtue.

Asami, who has a 33-year-old soul living on her child, enters kindergarten and successfully prevents her classmates from becoming single parents.

She intuitively and accurately judged that a classmate's father had an unusual relationship with the female teacher, and she had to hit the pair of wild mandarin ducks, otherwise the classmate would lose her father.

Do it right away if you want.

Asami, who is very mobile, first obtains the phone number that her classmate's father stuffed to the female teacher, and then takes advantage of her parents' sleep at night, walks to the phone booth alone, and sends a threatening message to her classmate's father-"If you have an affair, I will make things bigger." ”

Because of this text message, he successfully protected his classmates and protected his family's happiness, and Asami was credited with it.

In junior high school, Asami discovered that the sociology teacher was not only very strict with the students, but also mentally PUA the whole class. So find a way to resist PUA.

After entering university, she restudied medicine and had medical knowledge, which revealed that the cause of her grandfather's death was actually taking the wrong medicine for a long time.

Asami restarts her "second life", and she gradually finds a lot of things that she ignored in the past.

In order to accumulate yin virtue and remake the world, she strives to change her past bad problems, such as no longer smoking azalea nectar.

Another example is Asami's coming-of-age ceremony after coming to KTV and meeting his old classmate Xiaofu, who had dreams of becoming a singer when he was young, and later no one knew about his experience, only that he had been working part-time in KTV.

Asami is very sober, she wants to persuade her old classmates to give up her dream of being a singer.

But Asami's words came to her lips, but she couldn't say them, she was afraid that her old classmates would be hit hard after hearing this, resulting in a bad life, and if she didn't do it, she would get her wife scattered.

Yes, why interfere with other people's choices, and who can be responsible for whose life?

The so-called good intentions do bad things, and it is wise to remain silent.

In the unpleasant singing voice of her old classmate, Asami "waved the flag" for him with a smile on her face.

Another example is that on the way from work, he accidentally took a video, which can help the former junior high school teacher clear the suspicion of "salty pig hands", keep his job and raise his newborn child.

Asami not only does good deeds and accumulates virtue, helps the people around her, cares about the things around her, and lives hard and down-to-earth every day, how she longs for her practice to be successfully reincarnated as a human being.

Even though Asami's virtue is as fierce as a tiger, she still can't escape the car accident, and she comes to the reincarnation transit station again.

The staff told Asami that Yinde was still insufficient, and this time he could only make a mackerel. Asami was not convinced after hearing this, and asked to choose another life.

03

Two reincarnations, three life careers repeated in turn.

It looks boring on the surface, but it shows the brilliance behind the protagonist's enthusiasm and hard work for ordinary life.

Asami embarked on her third journey in life, experiencing her first two career experiences, this time becoming a TV station staff member, during which she also jumped from assistant to producer.

The reason why she chose to work in the TV station is mainly because she likes to watch TV since she was a child, and she believes that TV can bring joy to many people, so that her accumulation of Yin virtue will be multiplied.

Because Asami considers it from this point of view, entering the TV station to work has indeed benefited countless viewers, and the merit is immeasurable.

In fact, the workload of the TV station is more difficult and tiring than the previous two professions, and I have to leave my hometown and come to Tokyo alone. But she still did not opportunistic, but completed the advancement of the workplace with her own efforts and enthusiasm.

What's more interesting is that Asami became a TV producer and was eager to adapt her personal experience into a series.

Colleagues also feel that this setting is good, but the plot just to prevent the derailment has no meaning to cross, if the protagonist restarts his life to show how to become a savior and other plots will attract the public.

In the end, Asami put her own experience into the original "Restart Life" on the screen, but unfortunately, before she could watch the work, she was hit and killed by an out-of-control truck.

Asami came to the reincarnation platform for the third time, and the staff said to her, reincarnation and creation of people have to wait, let's be a purple sea urchin first!

Asami sees whether her heavy species is a sea urchin or a sea urchin that is naked on the table for human consumption, and she decisively chooses the path of fourth rebirth.

This time she decided to try to accumulate more yin virtue and break all the deeds of her previous life.

So she put all her energy into her studies, so Asami became a top student, but the connection with her friends became less and less, and it was then that she really realized that the friendship she was accustomed to was so precious.

Asami, who studied single-mindedly, surpassed her old classmate Masato Uno, and the two quickly became friends. Masato turned out to be a reborn, but her rebirth process is completely different from Asami's,

In fact, Masato has been friends with Asami since kindergarten, but due to his rebirth, he had to fade out of Asami and the others' circle of activity.

It turned out that Masato was a pilot who crashed in the plane she was flying on, and the airline ruled her dead.

And this time, Asami, after graduation, entered the research institute and became a researcher.

During this period, she made great contributions to medicine, published many excellent papers, and saved countless lives. Because Asami's work was from the dormitory to the office, she passed her 33rd birthday safely and did not die again.

However, in the end, Asami gave up her reincarnation as a human in order to save her friend, and she chose her fifth rebirth, which is also her last chance.

And the last chance to be reborn, how will she choose? But this is the white space part.

Because there are so many uncertainties and so many unknown obstacles in life, perhaps what we can do is to live an ordinary life as full, comfortable and meaningful as possible.

"Written at the end"

Obviously, the philosophy behind Restart Life is telling us that life can be opened in different ways from the same starting point, depending on ourselves.

For ordinary us, there is no need to regret the past, the past has passed with the wind, can not be made up and corrected, the future seems to be full of hope, in fact, there are many variables and uncertainties.

So, what we have to grasp well is the moment.

Your own life, your own decision, and rebirth is the best opportunity now.

【Text|Keiko】

【Editor|Xiang Wanwan】