Wikipedia tells us that the audience of youth films is mainly teenagers or young adults, such as first love, adolescent anxiety, adulthood, rebellion, conflict with parents and other serious themes are generally complex and intertwined in a movie, mainly to attract young male and female audiences to watch. That is to say, youth films actually put the youth of our generation on the big screen and resonate with the audience. Today, Da Wet will talk to you about Chinese youth films and Japanese youth films.
Japanese youth tablets
Youth films are a very important branch of Japanese cinema, and the so-called "cruel youth" style is a genre that even Chinese audiences know very well.
《Confession》
Douban score: 8.7
What is the evil in human nature in the arrogance, ignorance and despair of youth?
An ordinary middle school, 1 year B group is about to usher in spring break. The students, who did not know the height of the sky, were making a lot of noise, not knowing that a storm that had lasted for months was coming towards them. Grade teacher Yuko Moriguchi (Takako Matsuguchi) completely ignores the chaos and quietly makes a final confession to the students. The single mother raises her lovely daughter (AiShida) alone, but the daughter eventually drowns in a swimming pool. The police decided it was an accident, and Moriguchi determined that his daughter had died at the hands of two students in the class. She quietly accuses prisoners A and B and announces revenge in her own way. After this, Moriguchi resigned as a teacher, and the students of The First Year B Class also ushered in spring break with fear. At the beginning of the new semester, a cruel storm hit this group of ignorant and fearless boys and girls...
All About Lily Week
Douban score: 7.8
Campus violence, aid communication, how cowardly people can be, and how strong they can be.
Yuichi Renami (Hayato Ichihara) lives in a secluded town with his mother, stepfather, and younger brother. He is in the Kendo Department with his classmate Shusuke Hoshino (Shugo Shinobu), and the two become good friends. Hoshino was originally a student with excellent character and learning, but he was jealous of his classmates. When a group of classmates returned from Okinawa during the summer vacation, Hoshino changed into a different person. Then Hoshino began to take pleasure in bullying his classmates, and the methods were cruel, and Yuichi was not spared. Yuichi has a reclusive personality and likes the singer Lily Zhou, and at the Lily Zhou forum he established, he met a person named "Green Cat". Yuichi and Blue Cat both live an easy life, the two encourage each other and agree to meet at Lily Week's concert, and the appearance of "Green Cat" surprises Yuichi.
"Green Inflammation"
Domestic violence and murder, hope and despair, lamentations of youth.
Second-grader Shuichi Kushimori (Kazuya Ninomiya) lives with her mother Tomoko (Kumiko Akiyoshi) and sister Haruka (Apricot Suzuki). Shuichi's father died in a car accident in the early years, and ten years ago his mother remarried Takashi Tsone (Yamamoto Yuki), and the marriage died because of Sone's violent tendencies.
One day, Zeng Gen returned to Kushimori's house. Shuichi notices that her mother seems to have some hidden worries and is reluctant to kick Zenggen out of the house, on the other hand, Zenggen seems to have ill intentions towards Haruka. Resentful of her stepfather, Xiu yi has nothing to do, so she buys potassium carbonate through the Internet and decides to kill Zeng Gen invisibly. His plan went smoothly, but he himself got deeper and deeper...
Another major branch of Japanese youth films is pure love movies, and although some are also full of dog blood elements such as terminal illness like Korean dramas, they generally express the energetic, bright and strong spiritual world of teenagers, portraying the beautiful love and friendship between boys and girls.
"Love Letters"
Douban score: 8.9
"How are you?" I am fine. "The simplest and concise greetings, the simplest touches, the world's most extreme crush is just that."
On a snowy winter day in Kobe, Japan, Hiroko Watanabe (Miho Nakayama) was once again so sad that she could not help herself on the third anniversary of her ex-fiancé Fujii Tree. Unable to suppress her longing for her deceased lover, Hiroko Watanabe found out in the middle school classmates' directory that "Fujii Tree" had addressed when she was studying in Otaru City, and sent a love letter that she thought was sent to heaven.
《Flowers and Water Trees》
Douban score: 7.2
Hokkaido, Tokyo, New York, Canada, from high school to college to work, "will your future have me", lonely, uneasy, have you been poked in a long-distance relationship?
In 1996, Hokkaido East. For an exam not to be missed, the beautiful girl Hirazawa Saeki (Yui Niigaki) meets the sunny boy Kohei Kiuchi (Ikuda Domona). However, this encounter did not go well, Kang Ping was forced to withdraw from school because of a car accident that delayed Sasuke's exam and was ordered to withdraw from school. A bad start doesn't have a bad ending, and Kang Ping and Saeki know each other and fall in love and become a couple. As graduation approaches, their feelings are also being tested. Yasuhei inherited the family business and became a fisherman who fought against the sea, while Saebe was admitted to Waseda University in Tokyo after arduous preparations, and time and space became the biggest obstacle between them. During this time, Camping's family faced bankruptcy and struggled to make ends meet. Yarn branches are also constantly frustrated on the road to job hunting. The relationship between the two seems to be slowly dying out...
Honey and Clover
Douban score: 7.4
Simple and cute talented girl, slow and shy gentle and kind teenager, love at first sight and hesitation, beautiful and bitter first love.
The hairy boy Takemoto (Sho Sakurai), a freshman in the art department, is full of expectations for university life, and on the first day of entering the apartment, he is shocked by two people: Morita (Yusuke Iseya), a strange artist, and a talented and lolita autistic girl Hanamoto Yu (Yu Aoi), the two like Xiaoyu almost at the same time, but Xiaoyu and art teacher Asura (Masato Sakai) are related and are very closely protected by him. Another roommate, Masayama (Ryo Kase), is silently loved by the girl Yamada (Emi Kwan), but he is obsessed with his part-time boss, the beautiful and mature architect Rika. Two story lines intertwine everything about youth: college life, artistic dreams, crazy hearts, contradictory feelings. Against the backdrop of the sparkling people around him, the most simple and ordinary bamboo book slowly realized his growth from the initial confusion...
"Calling for Love in the Center of the World"
Douban score: 7.6
Light and sweet first love, irreparable old times, death and hope
Strong typhoons blow japan, Shotaro (Takao Osawa) finds that his fiancée Ryoko (Shibasaki Yuki) has left a number and disappeared, and in the process of searching for his fiancée, he even enters the memories of high school, when he was a teenager (Mirai Moriyama) and her first love girlfriend Agi (Masami Nagasawa). It was his deep pain.
April Story
Douban score: 8.2
New environment, new life, crush shyness and innocence, and a particularly pure and good-looking Matsu Takako
A 17-year-old girl, Yuno Yukizuki (Takako Matsu), comes from Hokkaido alone to study at Musashino University in Tokyo. She needs to face the new city, the new life, the new environment alone, she is very shy when she arrives at school, and her classmates discuss why she came to Musashino to study, in fact, an important reason for her coming here is because she has always had a crush on a boy named Yamazaki. After coming here, she found that he used to be a part-time sales clerk in a bookstore, and Yuno Bezuki began to frequent this bookstore, and gradually began to talk...
There is also a kind of Japanese youth film, which excavates things other than adolescent confusion and love, and the director combines other elements into youth films to bring the audience different thinking and enjoyment.
"Hot Blood College"
Douban score: 7.9
The violent aesthetics of hormone explosions, the youthful years of speaking with fists
Suzuran Boys' High School is a notorious school where a group of bad students who love to fight are gathered, they are called "crows" because they symbolize unlucky events such as bloodshed, and in order to compete for school hegemony, they are divided into many factions, the two most powerful forces are the Serizawa Army led by Serizawa Tama Yu (Takayuki Yamada), and the new forces of transfer students Takitani Genji (Oguri Shun) and the ground snake Kata Kirito (Kyosuke Yabe) join forces. With the intensification of the contradictions between the two factions, the time is coming for the two great crow legions of Genji and Serizawa to duel each other...
Flowers and Alice
Douban score: 8.1
Pure and beautiful pair of girlfriends, funny and cute love triangle
The young girl Hana (Suzuki Apricot) and Alice (Yu Aoi), who grew up together, are a pair of close friends, but the two have very different personalities, Alice is lively and active, chasing when she sees love, and Hana is shy by nature and does not dare to talk to the boy she likes. While accompanying Alice to the college boy who fell in love at first sight every day, Hana also secretly falls in love with Miyamoto, who often accompanies the boy.
"I heard that Kirishima is going to retire"
There is no cruel life, no sensational paragraphs, all the content related to youth. They all kicked off on a weekend evening, all starting with a seemingly serious news, and the face of the pyramid of power on campus slowly unfolded
For the vast majority of our children in China, the most important thing that accompanies the growth of the whole youth is the college entrance examination, and we have worked hard for this, and perhaps we have shed tears.
"Hot Girls at the Bottom"
Douban score: 8.3
Xue Scum studied hard and successfully entered a prestigious university, maybe we do not have such a counterattack story, but does Sayega's efforts have the shadow of your youth?
Many people in life are ordinary, no outstanding appearance, no counterattack story, more often as a supporting role, really ordinary is really true, there is no shortage of works in Japanese movies that record the lives of ordinary people
"Seinosuke Yokomichi"
Douban score: 8.8
I must be happier than you, because I know such a person, and knowing him is a kind of earning
In the late 1980s, a young man born in a harbor town, Seinosuke Yokomichi (Kengo Takara), appeared on the streets of Tokyo with a confused face. Like his somewhat strange name, Seinosuke seems to have a natural gap with the modern metropolis, but this big boy who is naturally optimistic and pedantic is soon integrated into his new life. In the noisy campus, he first meets Kurashi (Ikematsu Shoryo) and Akuzu (Asakura Yaki), and then briefly associates with Yusuke Kato (Tsuyoshi Ayano), who has secrets, and has a romantic relationship with the innocent rich family Senkin and Shoko Seno (Yuriko Yoshitaka), and seems to have a crush on Chiharu (Itobu), who has a wealth of life experience. Over the years, these people occasionally stopped and remembered the Seinosuke who had left good memories of their lives, and what kind of emotions would spring up in their hearts?
Chinese youth films
The shooting boom of youth films in China seems to have risen in recent years, and there is no distinct and unique classification and masterpiece like Japan, but in fact, there are still good youth films.
Eighteen-Year-Old Sky
Douban score: 7.5
The Chinese version of GTO, enlightened and dashing teachers, cute and simple students, although there are also shortcomings, but to a certain extent, close to the youth life of many people. This is a TV series from nearly 20 years ago.
Most of the early youth films carry the label of the director's own life experience and era, which is bitter and evocative.
"Seventeen-year-old bicycle"
The cruel youth of the alien teenager and the urban teenager, a metaphor for the tragedy of different cultures.
Seventeen-year-old rural teenager Ah Gui (Cui Lin) found a job in Beijing to deliver couriers, because he was promised that when he earned six hundred yuan, he could have the silver variable speed off-road vehicle that the company temporarily borrowed him, and he worked diligently every day, but just when the dream was about to come true, the bicycle was lost and Ah Gui fell into despair.
Xiao Jian (Li Bin) is a Beijing teenager of the same age as Ah Gui, but due to his family's poverty, he often has low self-esteem when maintaining pride. After his father repeatedly reneged on his promise to make a bicycle, Xiao Jian stole money from his family to buy a second-hand car in order to earn face and bubble horses (Gao Yuanyuan) in front of his companions, not wanting that this car was lost by Ah Gui. After Ah Gui discovers that the bicycle he relies on has been "stolen" by Xiao Jian, he begins to desperately retrieve it at any cost, and the two teenagers fight to protect their simple dreams.
"Sunny Days"
In that special period, a group of children in the courtyard, ridiculous, bullish, boring, with a little violence, passion, and sadness.
In Beijing in the early 1970s, when adults were busy "making a revolution" and had no time to pay attention to children, coupled with the closure of schools and nothing to do, young people with boys in the military compound as prominent representatives sought fun for themselves and squandered excessive hormones by coaxing, fighting, making trouble, and patting their mothers-in-law. Ma Xiaojun (Xia Yu) is such a teenager, one of his hobbies is to take advantage of no one else's family to open the master key lock, sneak in and play, it is in this way, the girl Milan (quiet) photo before his person into Ma Xiaojun's eyes. Through the "head" Liu Yiku (Played by Geng Le) in the courtyard, Ma Xiaojun saw Milan who had accidentally glanced at milan before in the artillery bureau, and began to officially regard it as a dream lover, but in Milan's eyes, Ma Xiaojun was just a hairy child, and her favorite person was the mature, stable and handsome Liu Yiku. Since then, Ma Xiaojun has ushered in a mixed adolescent life.
Let's talk about the pure love youth films that have risen in China in recent years, the mainland youth film boom is influenced by Taiwan's "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years", Taiwan's pure love film is influenced by Japan, and the mainland is influenced by Taiwan, which is still relatively different, so it is necessary to separate it. Let's take a look at Taiwan first
"The Girl We Chased Together In Those Years"
Those ignorant emotions that make people and the protagonist feel empathy, different stories, the same youth
Youth is a heavy rain. Even if you have a cold, I still hope to go back and drizzle it again. Life is a non-stop battle, and when it has not yet gained the favor of the goddess, the left hand is always just an auxiliary!
"My Girlhood"
Obsessed with idol stars, crushing the school grass male god, fighting handsome, crazy pursuit of school flower goddess, important people are around
Successful white-collar Lin Zhenxin (played by Chen Qiaoen) was oppressed by his superiors and complained by his subordinates, and fell into the deep memories of his girlhood. It turns out that the heart of an ordinary girl (played by Song Yunhua) has a hilarious but full of sweet memories of her first love. The girl really had a crush on the school grass Ouyang Feifan (played by Li Yuxi), but always failed to match the charm of the school flower Tao Minmin (played by Jian Yanrui), which made her distressed, but an accident made her and the school bully Xu Taiyu (played by Wang Zhou) form a "lost love front alliance", they were bound to win love, staged a scene of fierce, funny youth fun, and in the process of getting along, the feelings of the two also underwent subtle changes... A few years later, can Lin Zhenxin, who has come to the adult world, regain his original intention?
"The Secret That Cannot Be Said"
Douban score: 8.0
Through the retro complex in the terrier, the essence is still a moving campus love, seeing that there are netizens on Douban who said that "there are 100 Korean dramas between the mainland's youth films and Taiwan's youth films", is this really the case?
Ye Xianglun (Jay Chou) is a transfer student at Tamkang Arts High School, and his father (Huang Qiusheng) is a teacher at the school. On this day, classmate Qingyi (Zeng Kaiying) took him to visit the school, and then he came to the old piano room of the school alone, and he was attracted by a piano piece that came from somewhere. He goes to one of the old piano rooms and meets Lu Xiaoyu (Gui Lunmeng), where a pure love story takes place. All along, Ye Xianglun felt that Xiaoyu was full of mystery, but he couldn't understand her further. Ye Xianglun asked Xiaoyu to meet in the piano room, Ye Xianglun thought that Qingyi was a light rain, and was seen by Xiaoyu when kissing Qingyi, and since then Ye Xianglun has not seen Xiaoyu again. Ye Xianglun searched everywhere for Xiaoyu and discovered the whole truth of the "secret that cannot be said" by Xiaoyu
"To the Youth We Will Eventually Pass Away"
Douban score: 6.5
The youthful nostalgia of the small fresh style, the epitome of many nostalgic girls, the cheesy dog blood romance.
Little Times series
PPT-like editing, MV-like shooting techniques, materialistic paper drunken fans, control multinational companies like a family, the most extreme obscenity is just that
This is an era of dreams shining, and it is also an era of ideal cooling; this is the worst of times, this is also the best of times, this is our little era. This is the youth story of a group of fashionable young people in the current era, and it is also a true portrayal of their lives, and it is also a microcosm of our times.
"There is a place that only we know"
Douban score: 4.9
No sick groaning, pretentiousness, no substance, nothingness.
"You never know that two unannounced calls will lose two of your loved ones and your life will change." The beautiful girl Jin Tian (Wang Likun) was betrayed by her fiancé, and her only relative in the world, Grandma Chen Lanxin (Xu Jinglei), also died of illness. This girl suddenly lost the direction of her life, as if she pulled up her suitcase and flew to the romantic city of Prague. As for why she came here, she didn't have a definite reason, perhaps because this was the place where Grandma had lived when she was young. Jin Tian does not want to be as muddy as before, she tries to do something extraordinary, so she meets the handsome and handsome cellist Peng Zeyang (Wu Yifan) in a noisy dance hall. In the name of love, Jin Tian seems to have established some kind of connection with his deceased grandmother, and the love affair that happened to Lan Xin decades ago seems to repeat itself in a different way.
"You at the Same Table"
Douban score: 5.9
You lose not to time and reality, but to the writer and director
Lin Yi (Lin Xinxin), a young man who has successfully established himself in the United States, receives a wedding invitation from his first love girlfriend Zhou Xiaoyan (Zhou Dongyu), and Lin Yi, who has mixed feelings, is ready to return to China to participate, and on the way to the plane, he recalls his story with Zhou Xiaoyan for more than ten years. Teenager Lin Yi fell in love with this quiet little girl when he first saw zhou Xiaoyan (Zhang Zifeng) at the same table, but until he graduated from high school, the two did not follow up. When the two were admitted to the same school in college, they met a group of friends such as fake international student Tom (Sui Kai), literary and artistic youth Wang Erde (Wang Xiaokun), Fat Boy Gong Bing (Gong Ge), silent man Li Xiao (Li Mincheng), timid little girl Zhao Xiaoxi (Zhao Siyuan) and beautiful woman Cao Yang (Cao Yang), and immediately began their enthusiastic youth...
Gardenia Blossom
Douban score: 4.5
Gardenias rot, gardenias rot
Xu Yue (Li Yifeng) and Yan Yi (Zhang Huiwen) are an enviable couple on a college campus. Promising to be the lead singer and teammate of the famous gardenia band in the school to make a professional debut, Yan Qi and three friends with dance dreams have the opportunity to study abroad, just when the dream seems to be within reach, but in reality they encounter many obstacles. When Yan Qi is on the verge of collapse, Promise becomes the arm that supports her; in order to rekindle hope in Yan Qi, Promise and his teammates decide to prepare an unexpected surprise for her. And this "surprise" actually made the impulsive young man pay a big price...
"The Left Ear"
Douban score: 5.6
Can I swear words? No? Then I have nothing more to say
The simple and beautiful Li Er (Chen Turing) is deaf in her left ear and cannot hear sounds, however, the physical defects do not make her feel inferior, on the contrary, her personality is docile and gentle. By chance, Li Er met a girl named Bar La (Ma Sichun), whose personality and Li Er are diametrically opposed, she is unrestrained, unruly, and yearns for a free life. In Bara's body, Li Er saw the rebellious and persistent side of his heart.
In pure love youth films, we will often fall into pretentiousness, and if we jump out of this emotion, we can also make good films with realistic significance
"Young You"
Because of this film, school bullying has once again attracted social attention
Chen Nian (Zhou Dongyu) is a high school senior who is about to take the college entrance examination, and the suicide of the same school girl Hu Xiaodi (Zhang Yifan) has put her life in a difficult situation. After Hu Xiaodi's death, Chen Nian is bullied by a trio led by Wei Lai (Zhou Ye), who, although on the surface appears to be a well-behaved superior student, is actually vicious in his heart, and Hu Xiaodi's death is inextricably linked to her. By chance, Chen Nian meets a small named Xiao Bei (Yi Qianxi), and over time, sincere feelings develop between the two of them. Xiao Bei promised Chen Nian to secretly protect her from Wei Lai's bullying, but this decision triggered a chain reaction. The police officer in charge of investigating Hu Xiaodi's death, Zheng Yi (Yin Fang), is vaguely aware of the strange atmosphere on the campus, but his investigation has been repeatedly obstructed by the school authorities.
Dog Thirteen
Reflects the dilemma of Chinese-style family education
Li Play, a 13-year-old girl, lives with her grandparents due to her parents' divorce. In her adolescence, she craves understanding, companionship and love. In the Chinese education of "to be obedient", Li Play also completed her "coming-of-age ceremony". In the movie, the father hopes to complete the reconciliation and communication with his daughter through a pet puppy, Li Play named the dog "Einstein", and the surging youth of the dark tide was accidentally lost by "Einstein", opening its turbulent and helpless growth path.
Carnival
It can be called the Chinese version of the melting pot
Xiaomi (Wen Qi) works in a hotel in a scenic area. One day, when Xiaomi was on duty, a man brought two girls who looked like elementary school students to open a room, although he had all the concerns in his heart, Xiaomi opened two rooms for them with the idea that more was better than less. Later, in the surveillance video, Xiaomi saw the man enter the room of the two girls under half a push and a half, and Xiaomi, who was vaguely uneasy in his heart, recorded this scene with his mobile phone. The two girls, one named Meng Xiaowen (Zhou Meijun) and the other Zhang Xinxin (Jiang Xinyue), the man is their "dry father". After the East Window incident, Xiao Wen's mother called the police and found the lawyer Hao Jie (Shi Ke), hoping that the law would return them justice. However, contrary to expectations, the lack of evidence makes the suspect unable to convict, and the most critical evidence is in the hands of Xiaomi.