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New Film Express /Issue 4/
Author| Song Yuanyuan (Nagoya), Tong Zhenqing (Osaka)
Editor of this issue| Ninon San (Hangzhou)
Unsung Love, shake it yourself.
Director: Akiko Ōku
Screenwriter: Akiko Ōku
【Love】
Release date 12/23/2017
Starring: Tsutomu Matsuoka / Daichi Watanabe / Kona Ishibashi / Shimakai Kitamura / Koji Furodate
Rating 2/5
The film is based on the novel of the same name by Wasagawa Award-winning writer Yaya Tsuneyoshi, and is the first time matsuoka has starred in the film. Everyone can enjoy the big close-up of Matsuoka Moyu, learn her undue outfit, and even hear her singing voice at the end, which is undoubtedly a movie that fans are looking for.
From the story point of view, it is basically a "chick movie" routine. Matsuoka plays a 24-year-old ordinary female clerk who has not yet fallen in love. In addition to having a fanatic interest in a variety of strange extinct creatures, she is an ordinary brain-hole girl who loves fantasy. Faced with the first accusation of life from her colleague "Two", she can't help but think of the male god "One" who was secretly in love when she was a student, and planned a classmate meeting to meet "One" again. In the "one" luxurious high-rise residence, she finally realized the huge gap between her and the male god, recognized the reality, and finally accepted the confession of "two".
The development of the story here was originally too vulgar to be vulgar, fortunately to the fans' long sigh of relief, Matsuoka Moyu immediately turned the style and fled from the dating scene before kissing "Two", because "Two" confessed that in order to know her better, she learned a lot of information from her girlfriend, which made her feel betrayed deeply.
This is probably one of the few highlights of the movie. The character of Matsuoka Moyu does not put love in a higher position than the integrity of the self, in the face of the polite social rhetoric of the male god "One", and the soft and hard bubble of the face of the colleague "Two", she still chooses a more independent self. This sentiment may resonate with some female audiences.
Mr. Tomoe Tomoe, Love and Volvakia
导a: Sayaka Ono
【Record/Plot】
Release date 12/09/2017
Starring: Oji / Ayu / Apricot Furi / Hasumi Hasumi / Mihiro
Rating 4/5
According to a survey by a Japanese advertising agency, 7.6% of the country's population belongs to the gender minority. People's understanding of gender in contemporary society is constantly diversifying: physical gender, psychological gender, gender orientation, appearance gender. The protagonists in the movie have intersex people who are born with both male and female gender characteristics, there are "cross-dressers" who love girls' fashion and wear women's clothes, and middle-aged men who hide their wives and children and only wear women's clothes on weekends to become "women".
According to Wikipedia' definition, Wolbach's bacteria are the most common parasitic microorganisms in the biosphere, mostly parasitic in arthropods, including insects and some nematodes. The study found that Wolbachia disrupted hormone secretion in the host' body, eventually turning the male host into a female. Under the control of this microorganism, gender is no longer a fate that is powerless to change, and this microorganism seems to connect the fractures caused by the traditional gender division, providing a place for the wandering people floating in the gender blank space.
The prototype of "Love Walbach" came from the "Women's Clothing" (meaning a man in women's clothes) entertainment program produced by director Ono Tsuneyoshi on television, and the director spent 6 years continuing to follow the lives of 8 of them. Each of them, in the past, struggled with confusion about their biological sex, between their true selves and their defined identities, but they all bravely chose to break out of the rules imposed by society and chase the seemingly unattainable freedom.
Transgender people, intersex people, homosexuals, the word "LGBT" has gradually jumped into the public eye in recent years, and even too often to risk being labeled. Last year, Japanese director Naoko Ogiue's work "The Dense Seam of Life" questioned the old female/mother identity through the heroine Renko, a character who broke the traditional gender division.
Unlike the caution of "The Tight Seam of Life", "Love Wolbach" stands on an almost radical private position, pushing into the heart of the characters. The handheld camera always follows the protagonists, leaving no room for even extremely private personal feelings. This carpet shot strafing brings the most real emotion, giving the film an undisguised transparent texture, or a little deliberately because the directness of the shot is revealed, so as to obtain another sense of truth.
Ono studied under Kazuo Hara when he was a student, and the core of the methodology of this documentary ghost master is to provoke the subject with a camera and break the calm and objective position of traditional documentaries. "Love Walbach" can be said to be the same as the original male advocate of the technique, in addition to the female director to deal with personal emotional themes when a touch of rough tenderness.
Liar after lie Boo eight hundred
Director: Wu Zhengqing
Writers: Adachi Seiji / Masako Imai
【Drama/Comedy】
Release date 1/5
Starring: Nakai Koichi / Sasaki Sonosuke / Tomochika / Morikawa Aoi / Maeno Tomoya / Horiuchi Keiko / Sakata Toshio / Kinoshita Kunie / Tsukaji Takemasa / Katsura Sparrow / Terada Kogan / Ashiya Kogan / Kondo Masaomi
Rating 3/5 (first laugh of the new year)
The film is set in sakai, Osaka. Nakai Takaichi plays an antique dealer Nobuo Koike, a treasure connoisseur who takes his daughter to eat and drink in various households, and fools around with antique collections, and one day he meets noda (Sasaki Kuranosuke), a potter who is not poor and destitute. Noda, who is an extraordinary potter, uses his own tea bowl to counterfeit the works of Senritsu, the father of the tea ceremony, in an attempt to defraud Koike of a high purchase fee. Koike, who almost fell into a trap, finds Noda and invites him to join forces to create the "Tea Bowl of Illusion" created by Ritsuru before his death, and defrauds him of a huge amount of money. As a result, this farce became more and more unmanageable, and the two who were about to succeed encountered an unexpected crisis.
"Lies" was created by Takeshi Masaharu, director of "100 Yuan Love", and screenwriter Adachi Sei, plus NHK TV screenwriter Masako Imai. The cold winter in the south of Osaka, the revenge journey of the two careers, the wife and daughter of the waste wood uncle. The main spirit of the new film has a lot in common with the previous work. The jazz drum rhythm throughout the film pulls the tension of the film, blowing the wind and adding fire to the climax of the plot. Traditional Japanese houses, endless beer, on-board radio, steaming izakaya, and a highly contagious Kansai dialect make osaka's uncle taste.
This theme should be more than enough for the main creative team, and the positioning of the New Year chapter also adds a touch of lightness to the film. The shots of various foods make the author feel as if I am watching "Chinese New Year's Eve gourmets", especially in the scene of a group of people eating hot pot around the stove in the cold winter, which is simply a capitalized happiness. Looking back at 2016's Seto Inland Sea and the TV series "Spark", the influence of Osaka's manga culture on Japanese film comedy seems to be increasing, and the dialect Kansai dialect is gradually fighting for a place in the film industry.
ZenBone Zen and Bone
Director: Takahiro Nakamura
Producer: Hayashi Lin
Documentary/Plot
Screening Date 1/27 (Osaka)
At Arashiyama Tenryu-ji Temple in Kyoto, there is a strange Zen monk whose name is Henry Mitowa. A German-American father, he was sent to Japan by the American UA Film Company in the early 20th century, fell in love with Henry's mother, a geisha, in Tokyo's Shimbashi, and gave birth to his second son Henry in Yokohama in 1918. In 1940, Henry Mitowa traveled alone to the United States in search of his father. During World War II, he was sentenced by the U.S. government to be Japanese and sent to a Japanese shelter in the United States. After the war, Henry owns his own family in Los Angeles, only to learn of the death of his mother across the ocean. In 1961, after a gap of 20 years, he returned to Japan again, and this time in Kyoto, he chose to convert to Buddhism, immersing himself in tea ceremony, pottery, and writing books. After the first half of his life being turned over by the waves of the times, this poor monk, who was supposed to be in a peaceful old age in the temple, suddenly decided to make a movie at the age of 80, and has since embarked on the road of pursuing his dreams again.
At first, I was only attracted by the trailer of this film by chance, "Kyoto Tenryuji Temple + a Japanese-American mixed monk who speaks pure Kyoto dialect + documentary", and this combination alone makes people think about it. Later, it was discovered that the director of "Zen and Bone" was Takahiro Nakamura, who had made the rumored "Yokohama Marie". This film is the masterpiece that he spent 8 years preparing for shooting. The story also begins in Yokohama, a "Madame Butterfly" version of a realistic story staged in the harbor city of the early last century. Although he was a Zen monk who took refuge in a famous temple, this grandfather was definitely not a sect that sat on a straw mat and talked about the Dharma in a serious way. Watching him calmly talk about meat passages, the boundaries of Buddhism and customs were laughed at.
Whether it is Mary, who is dressed up and walking on the streets of Yokohama, waiting for the return of her lover from the ocean, or a Zen monk who is flipping her identity in Japan and the United States, the subjects chosen by the director are already rich in legend due to the particularity of the times and places. On the other hand, choosing such a character is like holding a hot potato in your hand, and it is far more difficult to eat than it seems.
(In conjunction with the screening of Zen and Bone, the Osaka Seventh Art Theater re-screened "Yokohama Marie" from 12 years ago))
This time, in addition to experiencing several books for a writer who has exhausted his mind to write several books, henry Mitowa, the object of this time, has a strong desire to express himself, and the camera fearlessly gives orders to the film crew, and the potential aggression of the camera in front of him can be said to be completely offset for most of the time. Probably also aware that the simple processing method can not be equal to the energy contained in the subject, in the film, in addition to the common methods of documentaries, the director also adopts the form of drama, animation, visually in addition to documentary photography, but also interspersed with photography, collage, comics and other styles, in a variety of forms to carry the life of this legendary monk. It's a bit dazzling, but who wouldn't want to see a cool, funny, and laughable story?
Bubble Search 3 Detective Is In THE BAR 3
Director: Teruyuki Yoshida
Writers: Ryota Furuzawa
【Comedy/Drama】
Release date 12/1
Starring: Hiroshi Oizumi / Kohei Matsuda / Keiko Kitagawa / Masaya Nakagawa / Atsuko Maeda / Jun Shison
Rating 3.4/5
In Sapporo City, Hokkaido, in the northernmost red light district of Japan, in the dark alleys of the red light district, "I" (Hiroshi Ozumi) receive a search request from his apprentice to find his suddenly missing girlfriend Reiko (Atsuko Maeda). So Takata and I began to investigate Reiko's whereabouts. This seemingly mundane case involves a mysterious woman named Mary (Keiko Kitagawa) and the underworld forces behind her (リリー・フランキー). The lives of "I" and my partner Takata began to be threatened as the case progressed.
ClubBing Detective is a popular detective series based on the popular writer Naoji Higashi's novel ススキノ探偵, which is set in Sapporo, Hokkaido. Strictly speaking, it should not be called a detective drama (the plot has hard wounds, and the direction of each film is too similar). I privately think that only by letting go of these flaws can I enjoy the mood conveyed by the film more. (Oh, I'll let go of the last sensationalism, but Toei's emotions are not as rampant as Toho's, and I can bear it).) Matsuda Ryuhei and Hiroshi Oizumi, who are fading at any time, as well as the silly white sweet Maeda Atsuko and the snake scorpion beauty Kitagawa Keiko, this film provides an excellent space for these stars to show their respective personality charms. However, the most indispensable character in this film is: Sapporo. The details of the city appear in the characters' lines and various memes, such as the 20 meters per hour in Gangbuk City, which in a sense can be said to be Hokkaido's originally boring story. Hiroshi Ozumi, a Hokkaido native, plays detective "I" who knows everything about the red light district, and the camera follows him to capture every inch of skin in Sapporo's bustling neighborhood. Many of the audience in the cinema are Hokkaido, and "Clubbing Detective" is a song dedicated to Sapporo and Hokkaido people.
Flower basket HANAGATAMI
Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi
编剧: Nobuhiko Obayashi / Kazuo Dan / Chiho Katsura
【Plot】
Release date 12/16/2017
Starring: Shunsuke Kurazuka / Shinnosuke Manjima / Keishi Nagasuka / Toshio Tsutomumoto / Hoka Yasaku / Ryoko Yamazaki / Tsukiwata / Takako Tokiwa / Tetsuya Takeda / Kiyotaka Minamihara / Masahiro Takashima / Wakaba Irie / Tsurutaro Kataoka
Rating 3/5
Among the top ten newspapers released earlier this month, the eighty-year-old director Obayashi Nobuhiko's "Flower Basket" ranked second. In fact, at the end of last year, the "Film Shunbao" had published three consecutive issues of the feature "Picture Writer Nobuhiko Obayashi and the "Flower Basket" and the War" to create momentum for it. The film that the director himself had been obsessed with for forty years and finally "burned his life" at the time of illness was extremely exciting from the beginning.
The film is the final chapter of Nobuhiko Obayashi's "War Trilogy" (the other two being "Flowers in the Air Nagaoka Hanabi Story" and "Forty-Nine Days in the Wilderness"), based on Tan Kazuo's short story of the same name. The original book does not specify the location of the story, but at the author's behest, the stage is set in Karatsu City, Saga Prefecture, in the southwest corner of Japan. The film revolves around the story of several young people living in Karatsu on the eve of the Pacific War, telling how their brilliant youth was dragged into the vortex of war little by little. In a sentimental atmosphere, a powerful indictment of war is incorporated. Affected by the 3.11 earthquake, Nobuhiko Obayashi, who has always had nothing to do with politics, finally began to face the war in the movie in the koshiro year. Borrowing from the character Manjima Makotosuke in the play, Obayashi shouts that "youth is by no means a consumable of war."
The inherent unity embodied in the "War Trilogy" is not only a change in ideological content, but also a different image style from the commercial production before this, but also closer to his early experimental works, to some extent, it can be said that the director's "self-release" creation. The gorgeous art and rich visual associations are reminiscent of Akira Kurosawa's "Dream" and Shuji Terayama's most heterogeneous films.
However, in the dazzling visual impact, it is also necessary to accept both exaggerated performances and boring editing styles. If these rough appearances could be seen as "Obayashi", forty years ago, should today's audience be emotionally nostalgic or roll their eyes at these cheap special effects? In addition, the film's anti-war theme is also self-inflicted, from "Grave of the Fireflies" to "In this corner of the world", which has long been a cliché. (Song)
Nagoya 剧场 Cinema Skole 举导 OBAYASHI Nobuhiko special broadcast: 100 min.
It's hard to describe Obayashi's latest work, Flower Basket. A youth group portrait drama depicting wartime teenage girls? Shocked from beginning to end in the cinema, after watching it, I remembered seeing the slogan written on the "Flower Basket" leaflet a year ago: "The final chapter of the war trilogy, the masterpiece of the soul of director Nobuhiko Obayashi." The boldness of the film, like the soul song of thousands of people singing in unison, lingers in the heart and cannot be dispersed.
Death seems to have sneaked into Karatsu Island in "Flower Basket" from Allen Poe's novel, waiting for an opportunity to peek not far behind everyone. The war in the Far East has left young girls and young girls who should be brilliant youth and death back-to-back, and the breath coming out of the abyss of death has eroded their flesh. However, through the haze of death that envelops the whole film, the author feels the strong vitality of director Obayashi, who is seriously ill, when he tries his best to realize his dream.
Director Obayashi's unique image aesthetics reached its extreme in "Flower Basket". The combination of natural scenes that change freely, the surrealist fantasy is reminiscent of Shuji Terayama's "Pastoral Sacrifice of the Dead", the beauty of the young girl's pure flesh is like the world of Yukio Mishima, and the scene of the village festival at the end, which is more luxurious and gorgeous than Suzuki Kiyoshun. "Flower Basket" is the pinnacle of Obayashi's creative career, an ultimate dream work, an eternal work.
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