This is the preamble
"The Sin of Love"
Directed and written by Sonoko Wen, starring Miki Mizuno, Kenma Tsuki, Megumi Kagurazaka, etc., based on the murder that occurred in Maruyama-cho Lover's Hotel Street in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo in the 1990s as the main axis of the story, it describes the story of three women, Kazuko Yoshida, a female criminal who chased the mysterious hunting and murder, Mizuko Ozawa, an elite university teaching assistant, and Izumi Kikuchi, a housewife who sold herself.
The whole movie has been in a state of madness. The connection between love and sex is intuitively depicted, and the highly visual performance impressed the audience.
Some movies make you feel warm and hopeful after watching it. Some movies make you feel hopeless and empty after watching it. The film directed by Yuan Ziwen is naturally the latter.
Unequal family relationships, childhood shadows, repressed desires in the heart, etc. After infinitely exaggerating and amplifying the clues of life, it became this piece, including his past films.
The most interesting thing is that after many collaborations with actress Kagura Megumi, the two went to the marriage hall... And Sonoko Wen has repeatedly filmed footage of Kagura's dedication to art...
"The Light Tree"
The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Nobuko Takaki, who won the Junichiro Tanizaki Award.
The veteran movie star Kumiko Akiyoshi, who is known for her bold and beautiful acting skills, is still graceful on stage.
True love may only be in a moment, true love may only be in the middle of the relationship. 25 years ago, he fell in love with her by an accidental glimpse; 25 years later, he guided her back into the world of desire...
The film tells the story of a woman who lives with her daughter after divorce and a man with a wife and children, and finally has an extramarital affair.
"There Is No Fault in Her Life"
The film is adapted from Ryuichi Hiroki's novel of the same name.
Typical Japanese melancholic style, there is very little soundtrack, there are many sounds in the scene, and it is a bits and pieces of life from beginning to end, depressed and restrained.
The rhythm is even more weird. If it is slow, after reading and thinking about it, there are really a lot of things to talk about, group like plays, there are many characters, and each character is still a rare little impression; However, because the narrative is too calm, there is no conflict and breaking point at all, and the 120-minute movie, when watching, is still a little tormenting.
With Fukushima as the main stage five years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Miyuki Kanazawa lives in a temporary house with her father, works at the city hall on weekdays, and takes a highway bus to Shibuya on weekends to work as a call girl. She lied to her father that she was studying in an English speaking class in Tokyo... It mainly talks about people's various pains, helplessness, hesitation, and confusion about the future after the earthquake disaster.
《She》
In the 2021 lesbian lily movie, the two actresses can be described as dedicated to art.
The original work of the film is the lesbian manga "Ultramarine" written by Jen Nakamura, which tells the love-hate entanglement between two women, Nagasawa and Shinoda - Nagasawa has been in love with Shinoda since high school, and Shinoda was subjected to domestic violence by her husband after marriage, and the phrase "You help me kill him" made Nagasawa a murderer.
The first thirty minutes are quite strong, killing people passionately for a straight person, Kiko Mizuhara's acting skills combined with the scale, and the belated title, after the emotions were pushed to the peak, I thought it would be a very good LGBT work, but unfortunately it flows to the back, the long shots that are realized by the photographer, and the empty shots that appear really empty for the sake of beauty, all become exhausting in the lengthy story.
"Snake Tongue"
Based on Hitomi Kanehara's novel of the same name, the film focuses on the rotten life of young Japanese people, telling the story between a teenage girl obsessed with body modification and two bad youths.
The double description of the living state and psychological state of Japanese young people in the original book, empty and degenerate, indifferent and helpless, is as unbearable as it is, as if it is the epitome of the collective decline of Japan's original ecology under the financial crisis.
The heroine Louis is young and frivolous, with the loneliness and emptiness that all young people have, in addition to the ultimate pursuit in her bones, the pursuit of that 'feeling of living', she is also a little special - 'pain is dull'. Muddy every day, enjoy silence with headphones, and isolate yourself from the world.
It is precisely because of the pain that I feel alive.
"Paradise Lost"
Based on the novel of the same name by Japanese writer Jun Watanabe, Hitomi Kuroki dedicated her life to art in the film and won the Best Actress Award in Japan.
The film describes the life and death love story of a pair of middle-aged lovers, and focuses on expressing a concept and attitude towards life, death and love.
The uniqueness of "Paradise Lost" is that it presents the commonplace theme of extramarital affairs from an aesthetic perspective and the paradox of human existence revealed by the film's deep narrative, which resonates strongly with the audience.
The female protagonist is also good and evil, coupled with the bohemian, ambiguous and tragic color hidden in the male protagonist, a sense of fatalism, but it is just pure and elegant.
I used to watch this movie with a curious mentality, dragging the progress bar to find the shot of Hitomi Kuroki dedicating himself to art. The story of the original work is actually very weak, and the author Watanabe's strength is not how tortuous and moving the story is, but interspersed with this story, a large number of his personal opinions on the affairs of men and women, which is the essence of the novel.
Photo: A Qing