The big name of "Relief Grocery Store" must have been heard of by many people even if they have not seen it. It is a novel written by Keigo Higashino that tells the story of a hayashi grocery store that solves people's troubles. On the surface, it seems to be very different from Keigo Higashino's consistent criminal reasoning, but in fact the structure of the novel is quite ingenious, through the help, Q&A letters string together the past, present, and future three time and space, closely linking a group of seemingly unrelated people.
In the past, when everyone went to Chinese class, the teacher would always say that writing prose should be scattered. Anyone will say this, but it is quite difficult to implement, and "Relief Grocery Store" is Keigo Higashino's attempt to simplify the complexity once, but there is a lot of mystery. Many people don't understand why "Relief Grocery Store" can become Keigo Higashino's masterpiece, in fact, it is simple to see the power.
Like Keigo Higashino's other novels, "Relief Grocery Store" is also a popular IP for film and television adaptations, and at the end of the year, the Chinese version of "Relief Grocery Store" was released, starring Wang Junkai, Di Li Reba, and Dong Zijian, and the film received 220 million yuan at the box office, with average performance.
In order to show the difference, the Japanese version of "Relief Grocery Store" made a slight change to the title of the film when it was released in China, called "Langya Relief Grocery Store".
Box office results... I was quite cold when I watched the 3rd, just over 8 million.
Frankly, it's hard to adapt Keigo Higashino's novel. Adaptations and remakes mean trade-offs, but Keigo Higashino's strongest is the structure, followed by the plot. The so-called pulling the whole body, once the structure and plot are changed, then it will affect the change of the overall content. It's a bit mysterious, but it's true, you see all the remakes of Keigo Higashino's novels, whether it's "The Appearance of Suspect X" or "White Night", they can't reach the height of the original. Probably the best of them is Detective Galileo, because it was converted into a TV series...
Therefore, although it is the Japanese's own "Langya Relief Grocery Store", in fact, the appearance can only be said to be average, and the Chinese version is put together, reluctantly, at least "Langya Relief Grocery Store" is not as "embarrassing" as the Chinese version.
This article is not intended to elaborate on movies, whether it is the interpretation of the timeline, the relief of chicken soup for the soul, or other similar articles. I would like to talk about the director of this movie, Ryuichi Hiroki, who is famous in a certain circle.
This circle is not suitable for children.
Ryuichi Hirogi, now 54 years old, is a leading Japanese soft porn film, he was originally the assistant director of another underground soft porn film director in Japan, Nakamura, and began to direct himself at the age of 28, and completed his debut film "Sexual Abuse!" Violent Women".
At the age of 28, in 1982, when the entire Japanese film production was facing the impact of a new force, in the history of film, we call this force the "New Wave". Unlike the Film New Wave movement in other parts of the world at that time, the Japanese Film New Wave was particularly bold.
In the words of pulling traffic, that is, the scale is very large, all kinds of lower three roads emerge in an endless stream, experimental, obviously the content is very exciting, but it makes you look uncomfortable. Many friends are familiar with the famous director Nagisa Oshima's masterpiece "Sensory Kingdom" was filmed in that period. In the list of many of the top ten banned films, "The Kingdom of the Senses" has a place.
The obsession of Japanese films with the bodies of men and women is intertwined with their anxiety about nuclear contamination and their ambivalent feelings about officers. One of Japan's earliest soft porn films, Black Snow, tells the story of a prostitute inspired by the red ideology to assassinate a U.S. military officer.
Although the environment is like this, Ryuichi Hiroki has not taken the path of politics and body. This rough-looking old man was more interested in the nature of spirit and flesh, what pleasure was, and did a long time of video experiments for this, which also led to his long-term wandering on the edge of the industry and not being accepted by the mainstream.
It wasn't until the 1990s that he gradually went from the underground to the ground, combining his "fetish" for soft pornography with popular stories, becoming a very prominent representative of Japanese erotic films.
There is "The Season of Unchasteness", which talks about masochistic relationships and the sexual fantasies of functional novelists.
There is also the urban sad "Tokyo Garbage Girl".
The most famous of these is Ryuichi Hiroki's "Oscillator", which has earned him international fame.
After stepping into the relative mainstream, the experimental atmosphere of Ryuichi Hiroki's films was much weaker, replaced by a strong sense of loneliness and a special focus on women. All three of the above films are in fact all about women's loneliness. There is sex, but it is difficult to have love. There are tools, but few men really understand them.
So, in a way, Ryuichi Hiroki and Wong Kar-wai, who is also obsessed with urban male-female relations, have a bit of a counterpoint.
In recent years, Ryuichi Hiroki seems to have changed his personality a bit, and more and more have begun to make some warm and pure love movies, which makes people a little... Accept incompetence. For example, "Flickering Love", which talked about first love the year before, and "Summer Beauty's Firefly" of the Healing Department. "Natsumi's Firefly" also has grocery stores like those in "Relief Grocery Store" and old people who run grocery stores.
Maybe, the grocery store is a complex for Ryuichi Hiroki.
Time and space are wonderful. In the story, the Nanaya grocery store connects multiple time and space of multiple characters; outside the story, the movie also connects Ryuichi Hiroki, and now, it seems that two very different mental aspects are connected.
Perhaps, after people get old, sharpness, sharpness, hormones, will really decrease accordingly. After all, no matter how strong the body, no matter how strong the willpower, no matter how good the life is, it cannot beat time.