As the famous godfather of Japanese film noir, it is Takashi Miike,
What he is best at is heaviness and violence, and is a banner of the Japanese "cult" community.
The clean actor entered the image of Takashi Miike,
It was all muddy and dirty.
Hideaki Ito, who has always been known for his Svenness and cleanliness,
In Takashi Miike's movie, he became a murderous perverted uncle,
The juvenile Sensei Shota, who has become decadent and depressed under his lens,
Even Lin Shu is such a juvenile actor with bright eyes like Bambi,
In his work, he was also covered in blood, and he fell into a pool of blood and died in less than a few minutes.
And this time, Takashi Miike has taken a shot at the new generation of Japanese actors who are famous and powerful.
That is: Masataka Kuwata!
Masataka Wada is not the kind of actor who looks good at first glance, and even the second look is barely good.
After many years of supporting role career, after his acting skills were pure, he began to slowly explode,
In such high-quality works as "Unnatural Death", "The Most Perfect Divorce", and "April Fool's Day", he already has the aura of the protagonist.
Secondly, in Takashi Miike's new work "First Love", he plays a boxer who is terminally ill,
His usual soft and gentle temperament, a little more fierce,
As soon as he appeared, there were not many harsh words, directLY KO.
And Takashi Miike, in a convincing way:
"This time, I made a pure love film!"
However, within three minutes of the film, a human head rolled out...
Sure enough, you are a bad old man, very bad, still that Miike Takashi, or that familiar taste.
The plot of "First Love" is not complicated, and similar storylines can often be encountered in Japanese bereavement movies:
A downcast boxer, after learning that he is terminally ill, is depressed,
In the gap between the streets, I met a young girl with huge debts and entangled in the underworld.
The two quickly fell in love.
In the gray and dark black painting style dominated by Takashi Miike,
Everyone is like a battle of trapped beasts, and for the sake of fly-headed small profits, they have begun a desperate struggle about blood and tears.
In takashi Miike's story, everyone seems to have no exact purpose.
For money, for beauty, or for desire,
They seem to have a natural bloodthirsty instinct, without saying a word, it is a shot, it is a knife,
Illogical killing is takashi Miike's video style throughout.
Whether it is the bloody blood wind in "Hot Blood College",
Or is it still the gorgeous neon format of the Code of Evil;
Or the eerie nature of "Skin-Cutting Love",
Takashi Miike has always been able to show his style vividly in different human tragedies.
And "First Love" presents a kind of modern malaise and decadence,
Dirty rental houses, oil-stained barbecue shops, people with dirty faces, streets full of vomit...
Such a Japan seems to be the true face of Japan after the night falls, and it is clear from the colorful, clean and refreshing Japan during the day.
The night belongs to the characters under Takashi Miike's lens,
In the several groups of characters in "First Love", they have their own black painting style as soon as they appear,'
The boxer played by Masataka Kuwata is an orphan who makes a living in boxing and has a talent for boxing.
His career is on the rise, but he suddenly encounters bad news, there is a tumor in his brain, he not only has to say goodbye to the life of a boxer, but also has little time.
The young girl played by Sakurako Konishi, who pays off her father's debt, falls into the hands of gangsters.
She has been delirious under the influence of drugs for a long time, and can often see a perverted man wrapped in a sheet running towards her.
Late one night, frightened by the illusion, she lost her face and ran to the frustrated boxer.
The boxer, believing that she was followed by the person who attacked her, ended the man's movements with one punch, and became in touch with the girl.
After meeting a boxer, the girl always hid behind him,
Even if she could still see the sheet man, she was not as panicked and scared as before.
Although the first time they met, she had already decided that this person could protect her.
One is a delirious girl, the other is a down-and-out boxer who has lost his mind about life,
There is not much language between them,
Occasionally listen to the Walkman together, occasionally on the street, between subways, occasionally chased by people, occasionally meet in fists.
In this night light, there are some other seemingly insignificant people,
The gangster played by Someya Shota conspires to plot a plan to usurp the throne and get money and fame.
In the process of implementation, every link went wrong, especially when he himself faced a sudden accident.
His fluster and obscenity were in stark contrast to his previous strategizing.
Someya Shota can be regarded as the most promising of the new generation of Japanese actors.
His performance is different from the powerful explosive power of Sugata Shoko, he is more of a silent detail of moisturizers, slowly infected.
From "Mediocre Talent" to "First Love",
Someya Shota has always been a good actor who can play in various genres,
The teenager he played, the decadent uncle he played, the society C he played, the black helped him play, the obscene youth he played.......
And the performance of another new generation of male actor Masataka Kuwata is also refreshing,
In the past, the role of Masataka Wada was either a silly three-good youth, or an elite who was as gentle as a jade.
Even if there are a few attempts at the villain role, it has never been too eye-catching.
The boxer he played this time can be said to have changed a lot from himself.
Whether it is his body shape or his demeanor, he has a different enlightenment,
From thin and thin to the boxer's lean and athletic body, punching powerful and precise, like a professional boxer.
And in terms of demeanor, he deliberately adjusted the exposure of emotions,
Especially when he learned that he was terminally ill, several sets of reactions were exemplary,
From panic to loss of concentration, to disbelief, to sudden enlightenment, to the final mourning, the level is progressive, extremely soothing and real,
It should be said that Masataka Wada will not be too far away from the Japanese film emperor.
"First Love" is still a black core of Takashi Miike's style from the perspective of story structure.
A group of trapped beasts fight and kill, running around until their lives are exhausted,
This time Takashi Miike added a lot of absurdity when black humor,
The appearance of several groups of characters is like an absurd farce, disorderly, that is, the kind of random encounter, which happens and then ends.
And in the protagonist, he began to pour some soft emotions,
The affection between the two, the care and trust beyond the transcendence of desire, are rarely seen in his previous works.
Takashi Miike's "First Love" may also be a form of reconciliation with the years:
Takashi Miike grew old and became gentle.
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