Guo Jingming's favorite Japanese director is Shunji Iwai, and his favorite work is his "Lily Week".
So later countless literary and artistic youth also fell in love with Shunji Iwai and Lily Zhou.
Japanese literary films always focus on youth, and literature and art are often one of the main characteristics of adolescence.
So naturally, Japanese literary and art films can naturally grasp the hearts of wenqing.
Recommend to you a few Japanese literary and artistic films that need to be quietly savored.
1. "All About Lily Week"
All about Lily Shush (2001)
Director: Shunji Iwai
Starring: Hayato Ichihara / Shugo Oshinari / Akira Ito / Akira Ajii
The film was adapted by Shunji Iwai based on his own novel about the Internet.
It tells the story of a group of 14-year-old teenagers, bullying classmates, assisting in socializing and other cruel and indifferent daily life.
But the scenery of the film is a pure and heartbreaking pastoral beauty.
Lily Zhou is a fictional singer in the film, pinning on the loneliness and restlessness of teenagers in adolescence.
The film places the struggles and viciousness of teenagers naked in front of us.
The interspersed online forum dialogue from time to time shows the soft and lonely hearts of teenagers.
This is the cruelty of Japanese literary films.
2. Tokyo Variations
Tokyo.Sora(2002)
Director: Hiroshi Ishikawa
Starring: Manami Hongami / Haruka Ikawa / Yuka Itaya / Hidetoshi Nishiki
Six girls, six dreams, fluttering slowly over Tokyo.
That's all this movie is all about.
All kinds of small details of life make the audience unable to suppress the pain in their hearts.
Girls alone in a foreign land, girls who do part-time jobs, girls who aspire to become writers...
Everyone seems to be a person everywhere around us, even ourselves.
There is nothing special about life, just monotonous repetition is enough to make the audience breathless.
3. "Dream Traveler"
PicNic(1996)
Starring: Abduction / Tadanobu Asano / Koichi Hashizume
It is also a film directed by Shunji Iwai.
After he became famous for his debut novel Love Letters.
This work that still continues his aesthetic and implicit film aesthetics is released.
The film follows the adventures of three insane children fleeing a mental hospital.
Through an alternative cinematic language, the loneliness of growing up and the fragility of freedom are demonstrated.
There are many symbolic and suggestive lens languages in the film, which is also the favorite of Wenqing.
The black feather flying dance at the end of the film is also sought after by countless fans, which is the perfect embodiment of "Iwai aesthetics".
4. "Speed 5 cm per second"
5 cm per second (2007)
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Starring: Kenji Mizuki / Yoshimi Kondo / Onoe Akira
In recent years, the favorite Japanese director of literary and artistic youth is none other than Makoto Shinkai.
The aesthetic painting style of the wallpaper level and the implicit and repressive narrative are perfectly in line with the needs of sensibility.
And "5 Centimeters per Second" is regarded as the beloved by countless fans.
The film tells the story of the lovers of the green plum bamboo horse who eventually become strangers.
The title speed of 5 centimeters per second is the speed at which cherry blossoms fall.
Uncle Cheng didn't know if there had been any shadow.
In his films, long-distance love is always the protagonist.