Movie "Kamata March / Kamata March" (1982) Japanese Blu-ray edition cover
"Kamata March" is a community song of Shochiku during the Kamata period, originally composed as "Song of the Vagabonds" from the 1925 American opera "The Wandering King" (made into a film by Paramount in 1930), and in 1929, the song was re-written as the theme song of the Shochiku film Father and the Child. At that time, Shochiku used the Kamata Photography Office (located at the east exit of Kamata Station on the Tohoku Line of Kyoto), which was known as Kamata Shochiku (1920-1936), and in 1936, after the photography office was moved to Daifune, Kanagawa Prefecture, it was called Daifune Shochiku. The film Kamata March / Kamata March (1982) is a tribute to shochiku in the golden age.
The concept of the film "Kamata March" is very clever, vividly showing the main links of the filmmaking process, revealing some regular things in the film creation, which is both hilarious and contemplative. By showing the "special friendship" between Ginshiro (Tofu Kazema) and Yasuji (Hirata Man), and the story that arises from it, the so-called "humanitarianism" is a well-intentioned mockery. Konatsu's actor Keiko Matsusaka won praise from the audience for her delicate and subtle performance.
On the set of the filming of the film "Kamata March/ Kamata March" (1982), director Shinji Fukasaku gave a lecture to actress Keiko Matsuzaka
The film won the 10 Best Film Awards of the 1982 Film Shunho, the 37th Mainichi Film Competition Award, the Director Award, the Actress Award, the Fine Arts Award, the 6th Japan Film Art Association Awards Film Composition Award, the Actor and Actress Award, the Supporting Actor Award, the Director Award, the Music Award and the Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs Outstanding Film Award, and was named the 26th best Japanese film in the 1980s.
In the movie "The Conspiracy of the Yanagi Family / Yanagi Clan の陰謀" (1978), the producer of soy sauce, Kadokawa Haruki Shoto, Fukasaku Shinji beat the light comedy literary and artistic key of "Kamata March", Fukasaku Shinji was still upset at first, but the "Kamata March" that was unexpectedly fooled is still regarded as a classic. The reason for this is, on the one hand, the japanese studio has disappeared now, and the golden age of Japanese cinema that accompanies the life of the big pot rice is nostalgic and lamentable, on the other hand, the vulgar and spicy male and female love and brotherhood are eternal film themes.
Photographic script for the film Kamata March / Kamata March (1982).
In that year, Kadokawa Haruki submitted the "Kamata March" proposal to Toei President Shigeru Okada, but Was rejected by Shigeru Okada, and Kadokawa Haruki turned to cooperate with Shochiku. Shochiku is not without entanglement, shooting his own company, but using other people's yards one by one in Toei's Kyoto Photography Studio, but also asked other people's subordinates to be Shinji Fukasaku Shinji is from Toei, but who is called the costume sword film kingdom is not Toei, Fukasaku Shinji is kadokawa Haruki's most spoiled commercial film director in the 1980s.
However, Shochiku's directors despised a Guy from Toei who made a Shochiku commemorative film, and Nomura Yoshitaro made the 50th anniversary of Shochiku Obun Photography 4 years later, "Movie Tenchi/キネマの天天, "Movie World" (1986), and invited authentic Shochiku director Yoji Yamada to show revenge. However, Kamata Shochiku photographer Yuharu Atsuta said in the interview collection "The Story of Yasujiro Ozu" that neither "Kamata March" nor "Movie World" had filmed the atmosphere of Shochiku Kamata Photography. Understandably, Shinji Fukasaku does not have much affection for Shochiku, and he makes a film that is not so much "Kamata March" as it is a "Filmmaker's March".
Stills from the movie Kamata March / Kamata March (1982).
The film will be in the studio of the golden period of the film, the star-centered filming life, filmed vividly, the stars are jealous, bubble girls, fighting scenes, dragon sets are bitter, funny, ugly, as well as 1980s action stars such as Shinichi Chiba, Sanada Hiroyuki, and Shiho Mieko (all under The Command of Fukasaku Shinji), real knives and guns to demonstrate the shooting process, very enjoyable.
The first two no one knows, as for Shiho Mieko, she was also one of the action actresses who was the head of the horn at the time, starring in the Bruce Lee-style "Female Killer Fist" series, but it was a pity that she could not find it, but just by looking at her neat punches and feet in "Kamata March", she was already worthy of being a high disciple under Chiba Shinichi.
The script is easy to understand, cheerful and vivid, the lines are market-like and catchy, "mash-like personality", "characters and women must use their own abilities to grab yo"... The performances of several stage actors are slightly exaggerated, but they are extremely infectious, and the emotional mobilization is excellent, which makes people feel happy and sad. The whole play is integrated, elegant and popular. "Kamata March" has since become a classic model play that has been repeatedly interpreted - in addition to winning the Naoki Prize in 1982, there are several stage plays, and it has been performed by Takarazuka to this day.
Pictured: The December 9, 1982 issue of Japan's Weekly Star magazine features three crying and laughing stars in the film Kamata March/Kamata March (1982), with Mitsuru Hirata, Keiko Matsusaka, and Dufu Kazema
The dragon set, called Obeya Haiyu in Japan, is named after the dragon suit actor who is ready to share a large room in disguise. Dragon suit actors generally have to serve a popular star, the more popular the star, the more they take over the drama, the more their work, in other words, a star raises a group of dragon set actors. "Kamata March" Ginshiro and Yasuji have such a relationship. The silent and simple Ahnji, who longs for the handsome to bubble up Ginshiro, is grateful to him like a parent, and can give up money, fame and even life for him.
Silver Shiro made the belly of the actress Xiao Xia bigger, and Anji took care of her aftermath and married her; in order to earn milk powder money, Anji took on all kinds of difficult plays and wrestling plays; after slowly cultivating feelings with Xiao Xia, in order to make Silver Shiro's career resurrect, he risked death and rolled the steps. Many years later, Stephen Chow's "The King of Comedy" (1999) is a reference to "Kamata March".
Pictured: The 1982 Japanese film Shunbao's late October issue routine introduction film "Kamata March / Kamata March" (1982), after the film fire, was very upset; when the director chose the original team to go to Shanghai to shoot "Shanghai Fusheng Ji / Shanghai バンスキング" (1984), he immediately carefully prepared for the late October 1984 issue to select "Shanghai Floating Life" stills as the magazine cover, and made a long report during the period.
Cover of the late October 1984 issue of the Japanese Film Shunbun
It is not uncommon to put on a play within a play, and the three-person relationship and so-called love in "Kamata March" can also be noisy and almost tossed, and the stars and dragon runners are particularly difficult to like. However, the lighting of feelings is in response to the opening of the film to tell people how to turn "false love into real love", and in turn, chuchu poor Xiaoxia is regarded as the typical embodiment of Japanese women.
Japan is really a strange nation, and the relationship between Ginshiro and Yasuji in the Kamata March is difficult to understand according to Chinese simple concept. In the context of the Japanese nation, it is natural. For example, in Japanese AV films, there must be a starring actor responsible for "showmanship", and there must be a "juice man" who is responsible for creating momentum, Ginshiro is the main actor, and Yasuji is one of the "juice men". However, this "juice man" was lucky enough to get a close-up.
Poster for the Japanese version of the movie Kamata March / Kamata March (1982).
Anji, a small person, is not proud of his appearance, only promises, but he is portrayed as flesh and blood. It is not that he does not understand the worldly feelings and interests, from the scene with Xiao Xia returning to his hometown to see the old mother, he is like a rich squire, but in the studio doing a dead dragon set, a lowly life, repeatedly wasted, no one cares. And the last outbreak of the scene, the psychological drama that he had hidden before, spilled out, the dragon set is also a man, but also a man, not to mention that people may still be an invisible squire second generation.
Before rolling the steps, he was treated like a star by the crew. Anji also took advantage of his willfulness, enjoying the comfort of the stars arching the moon and being nodded. Some Japanese film critics have interpreted this passage as followed by the ultimate act of humiliation, which is the irony of authoritarianism. This has the meaning of over-interpretation, but this paragraph makes Anci look like a normal person, and the image of the little person is more plump.
The plot of the staircase roll in the film is from the real story of the new selection group in the 1958 Toei version. Anji's prototype is Toei Ryuto actor Shioji Akira, and the plot of buying insurance is also from Shioji Akira himself.
The film "Kamata March/Kamata March" (1982) was advertised in a local newspaper when it was released in Taiwan
Shigeru Okada, president of Toei, rejected Haruki Kadokawa and said that he would definitely not sell it, and the film sold 1.76 billion yen, once again proving Kadokawa Haruki's vision and The power of Shinji Fukasaku. In fact, among the three protagonists of this play, "Yasuji" Hirata Man and "Ginshiro" Kazema Dufu were both unknown pawns at that time, and the two became famous for this.
Ginshiro played by Kazema Dufu is handsome, but it is too bad, too painful, and nervous, and it is difficult to gain the favor of women in the 1980s. The other male protagonist is Anji hirata, ugly, saccharine, kind, and fierce at the critical time, which is of course only an object of praise, not a dream lover.
Konatsu in the film Kamata March/Kamata March (1982) is played by Keiko Matsusaka.
The biggest star in the film is Matsutake head brand beauty Matsuzaka Keiko (let the amazing sister play the actress is actually quite awkward, fortunately Nomura Yoshitaro let "Movie World" restore her identity as the head of the family), the dew point scene is clearly arranged for selling money, and Xiao Xia kneels to wipe the floor, the short yukata seems to be like a miniskirt, the camera slowly pulls behind her, bare thighs and black bottom pants - in the previous year's "Sailor Suit and Machine Gun /セーラー服と機銂銃銃, Haruki Kadokawa also let Hiroko Maru crawl on the ground with her little shorts and fart, this is Haruki Kadokawa!
"Kamata March" is a representative work of Fukasaku Shinji, marking that he can henceforth be called a master of literary and art films. Fukasaku Shinji took it to remember the noise of the studio in the golden age of cinema, praised the preciousness of the true love of the little people, and presented the characteristics of hilarity and brightness in style. Director Shinji Fukasaku's shooting work has always been known as the "late night work group", which means that he always works until late at night.
At that time, domestic film magazines set aside a large number of coloring pages to introduce the movie "Kamata March/ Kamata March" (1982).
For this, Matsuzaka Keiko recalls that she still can't stop screaming, she said: "We were always shooting the Kamata March day and night, often working all night and all night, and the most terrifying thing was that it was the height of summer, and that situation can be imagined. However, although it was very hard, looking back at the "Kamata March" that had already come out, I felt that everything was worth it, and I especially liked the one with only the back, that set of shots was really fantastic! ”
The original playwright of "Kamata March", the deceased Takashi Tsuka once said, "There is nothing more difficult to engage in drama than the end." At the end of "Kamata March", Anchan Xiaoxia and Anji, who escaped death, are reunited, and the two cry and laugh, tear off the curtain, and the people behind the film come to the stage together. This is essentially a ritual to worship the work on the set and the film business, and to ritualize the production process of the film from the macro structure. If you can remember the voiceover at the beginning of the film, "The magic of making a movie is that anything is possible, day turns into night, and false love becomes real love", this fake drama is really so magical.
Pictured: Kazama Dufu acted in a number of tertiary films in his early years, which is the DVD cover of the movie he starred in, "Midnight Goblin/True Night Goblin" (1973).
Before Taking notice with this film, Düroff Kazama was also a bitter history of growing up: in 1971, he entered the Ryonza Training Center; the following year, he began to shoot some pornographic films at Nissai Company to support himself. Until 1981, he co-starred with Hiroko Tanaka in "The Fifth Movement of The Red Red/ Japanese フィルハーモニー物語炎の五楽章", which was well received. In 1983, he co-starred with Keiko Matsusaka and Man Hirata in Shinji Fukasaku's famous work "Kamata March", which was a great success, and won the Japan Academy Film Academy Best Actor Award and the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor that year with the role of A yin in the film. In 1984, he won the 7th Japan Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Yanghui Lou / YangHui Lou" directed by the hero of The Five Societies.
In the East, tragico-comedy films are probably the best made in Japan. This is consistent with their national characteristics: the intersection of sorrow and joy, a people who are accustomed to mixing sorrow and joy and drinking together. One of the best films of this type is the Kamata March.
The film "Kamata March/ Kamata March" (1982) original vinyl album cover
The 1980s and early 1990s were a honeymoon period for Relations between China and Japan, with the rise of political co-productions, and the introduction and dubbing of a large number of Japanese films, such as "Kamata March", which was voiced by shanghai film studios.
At that time, "Kamata March" may have been regarded as a funny comedy, and it is estimated that the meaning behind kamata Studios is far less convenient than the current conditions.
At that time, cultural hunger and thirst was a common phenomenon, and any movie that was caught was a good film (now it is estimated that no one will watch it after playing it a few more times) - especially the increasingly criticized cinema dubbing films, which can only be in the past forever and slowly withdraw from the stage of history.
The film Kamata March / Kamata March (1982) is an American DVD cover
Watching "Kamata March" today, of course, it is not as simple as reliving the joy of the 1980s, Fukasaku Shinji's grasp of the action scenes in it, the film's disclosure of the life of the filmmakers behind the sword and blade film, and the many stories outside the painting are enough to make people re-emerge a little emotion and a new understanding of this warm 80s comedy.
The process of watching "Kamata March" is the process of a generation of movie fans growing up, the process of changing the times, and perhaps the process of aging.