On the occasion of Women's Day on 38, a movie showing the greatness of women is finally online, and the long-awaited movie "The Spy's Wife" is a holiday gift for everyone.
Starring: Yu Takahashi Aoi
Co-stars: Saka Kota / Tsunematsu Yuri / Minesuke / Genri / Masahiro Koide / Takashi Sasano
In the "Top Ten Movies of 2020" selected by Japan's veteran film magazine "Movie Shunbun", "The Spy's Wife" ranked first and won the best picture.
The top ten of the "Film News" usually use the artistic value of the film as the selection criterion.
Internationally, the film was even more brilliant, being shortlisted for the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa won the Best Director Award, which is 17 years after Takeshi Kitano in 2003.
It was also previously selected as an official recommended film at the Hainan Island International Film Festival, and Xie Fei, the fourth generation of famous director in China, gave a very high evaluation.
The main actors of "The Spy's Wife" are Yu Aoi and Takahashi, which is their cooperation for two consecutive years after "Love Doll", and this time they are still acting as husband and wife.
Set in Kobe on the eve of the Pacific War of World War II, the film tells the story of Takahashi's life as a trading merchant suspected of being a spy for the Allies, and his wife, played by Yu Aoi, who goes through a test of love and faith with him.
A merchant couple who originally lived peacefully and securely in Kobe, Japan: Yusaku Fukuhara (Issei Takahashi) and Satoko Fukuhara (Yu Aoi) were changed by Japan's war of aggression against China.
Fukuhara's wife, who was temporarily absent from Kobe for some reason, and his nephew Takemoto went to Manchuria, China.
Here, Yusaku stumbles upon a creepy state secret— Japanese Unit 731 conducting human experiments on germs in China.
As a world humanitarian, Yusaku intends to tell the world about this. Yusaku exchanged "taking you back home" and asked the nurse to provide him with photos and materials of Unit 731.
Military police officer Taiji Tsumori (played by Masada Higashiide) tells Satoko that her husband has brought a woman back, and his jealousy and complicated emotions make Satoshi entangled, and even tries to expose Yusaku's "treason". However, after Satoko learns the "truth", she makes amazing choices....
This film is about the story of exposing the cruel truth even if they are recognized by the state as spies, an ordinary couple of small people are involved in historical tragedies, and there are many reversals.
This is a rare film in Japan that reflects on World War II in depth, directly and bloodily unveiling the unknown conspiracy of Japan during the Manchukuo period, ironically satirizing Japan's militarism, and the well-known domestic filmmaker Yin Xiang said that "this one must be seen by the people of the whole country."
The screenwriters of this film are two of Kurosawa Kiyoshi's students, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Nohara, and there are many places in the look and feel that they are like TV series.
In fact, this film was originally produced by NHK TV's SP drama 8K shooting project, and later made into a movie, presenting such a perfect anti-war historical film.
Kurosawa Kiyoshi, who is good at suspense thrillers, did not take the lead this time, and even gave the audience unlimited staying power after watching it, and the interaction between Yu Aoi and Takahashi's life is also a highlight.