Poster for the Japanese version of the movie Harumi (1976).
Haruka, a famous book by Junichiro Tanizaki, depicts the unusual love story of the blind haruka and her disciple Sasuke. Because its original work is obsessed with emotions and reflects mysterious emotions in the abstract subjective world, it is difficult to be successfully visualized, and it has always been cherished by Japanese filmmakers. From 1935 to 2013, it was screened six times, including Shimazu Hokujiro's Harumin Copy: Akon and Sasuke/Harukan Copy: お琴と Sasuke (1935) (starring Tanaka Shiroyo and Takada Koyoshi), Daisuke Ito's Haruka Monogatari/Harumi Story (1954) (starring Kyomachi), Andō Nobusuke Irisaki's Haruka and Sasuke/Sakura (1961) (starring Fujiko Yamamoto and Kojiro Hongo), Kaneto Shinto's Hymn/Hymn Song (1972) (starring Tokuko Watanabe) and Katsumi Nishikawa's Harukami (1976) (starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura) and Kei Kaneda's Harukami (2008) (starring Nayo Nagasawa and Koto) have all produced their own versions.
Harumi Tsutomu, like Yasunari Kawabata's Dancing Girl/Izu Tsuneko, has long been regarded as a subject of cinematization of Japanese literature and as a classic text for raising the artistic standards of Japanese cinema. The six editions of Chunqin Tuo have evolved with the times, reflecting the level of artistic and technological progress of Japanese cinema in each period.
The Japanese DVD version of the film Haruka and Sasuke /お琴と佐助 (1961), directed by Sadanosuke Igakasa and starring Fujiko Yamamoto and Kojiro Hongo, is too charming in this version, but its beauty definitely ranks first among these versions
In Japan in the mid-1930s, with the gradual improvement of the audience's appreciation level and the maturity of the sound film industry, the increasingly sophisticated films began to pursue higher-level performance themes More and more people could not stand the childish theme of the almost stereotyped so-called "daily life realism" advocated by the "Shochiku style", and they hoped to adapt pure literary works to improve the artistic standards of their films At this moment, Junichiro Tanizaki, who was famous in the literary world, was naturally favored by filmmakers again.
Shochiku's student Shimazu Hojiro and one of the founders of the "Shochiku Style" Hiranosuke Goshomoto first adapted Yasunari Kawabata's debut novel "The Dancing Girl of Izu" in 1933, and thus achieved unprecedented success in literary adaptations, which may have aroused the desire of other directors in Shochiku, and two years later, Shimazu Yakujiro, at the instigation of his assistant Konzaburo Yoshimura, moved Junichiro Tanizaki's ancient singing "Harumin Copy" to the heroine and also locked in tanaka Atsushiro, the main actor of "The Dancer of Izu".
Directed by Yasujiro Shimazu and starring Atsuyoshi Tanaka and Hiroyoshi Takada, the film Haruka: Akion and Sasuke / Harumin Copy: お琴と Sasuke (1935) is a Japanese DVD cover
Unfortunately, Hojiro Shimazu did not go as smoothly as Hiranosuke Gosho's filming of "The Dancing Girl of Izu", and Shimazu Hojiro failed: rather than saying that "mentally healthy" people like Shimazu Hojiro could not understand Tanizaki Junichiro's almost biased and crazy artistic emotional world, it was rather that Tanizaki Junichiro's kind of utopian world that transcended real life was difficult (or even impossible) to visualize and visualize, even if it was later a period drama genius like Daisuke Ito and Sadanosuke Iekasa, and kanoTo Shinto in the 1970s. The remake of The Four Nishikawa's remakes is only barely stronger than the original Harumin Transcription, not to mention that simple realists like Yakujiro Shimazu had a harder time realizing what the novel said in the 1930s.
The most well-known version is the version made by Katsumi Nishikawa in 1976. The reason for this is not that Nishikawa is superior, but because the film plays Haruka and Sasuke - it is Yamaguchi Ando Miura and the two most popular jade girls in Japan at that time.
Stills from the movie Chunqin (1976).
【Xihe Keji's version of "Chunqin Copied"】
Katsumi Nishikawa and Momoe Yamaguchi locked in Harumi after Yasunari Kawabata's The Dancing Girl of Izu (1974) and Yukio Mishima's Shioru/Shiosu (1975). That is to say, the love masterpieces of the three great masters of modern Japanese literature will be concocted by Katsumi Nishikawa to concoct the version of "Yamaguchi Baihui". But what is quite embarrassing is that Tanizaki Junichiro's "Harukami" is not just limited to the beauty of material mourning in the classical style of "The Dancer of Izu" and "Shiosu".
Obsessed with aesthetics and at the same time pursuing the extremely ugly Junichiro Tanizaki, it is natural that "Chunqin Copy" is full of erosion and rich fishy ugly smell while being beautiful. This story of morbid love of the supremacy of the senses and the sadness of the heretics is contrary to the image of The Pure Jade Woman of Yamaguchi Nobue no matter how you look at it.
Naturally, Nishikawa Katsuji cannot compare the prestige of the film elders Shimazu Yakujiro, Daisuke Ito, and Sadanosuke Itugasa, and the film is only a master-like remake that has nothing to do with the director's author's will. Specifically, it is an idol film based on Yamaguchi Momoe and running water, which is in step with Yamaguchi's version of "The Dancing Girl of Izu" and "Shiosu" in the same period.
On the set of the film Harumi (1976), director Katsumi Nishikawa (center) cultivates the emotions of Yamaguchi Ando Miura
For the sake of safety, Katsunosuke Nishikawa hired Sadayuki Igugasa to participate in the screenplay, not so much as Katsumi Nishikawa's visualization of the original literary work, but rather than saying that he was remaking the 1961 film version of Sadasuke Iisoga.
Compared with the strong demonic perverted color of the original novel, the scale of "Chunqin Copy" filmed by Katsumi Nishikawa is obviously a few circles smaller, and even excessively simplification of the character's intention and personality, which obviously takes into account Yamaguchi's jade girl identity. Therefore, the film had a poor response in the critics that year, falling to 60th place in the annual ranking of the shun newspaper, but thanks to The Popular Wall, thanks to The Popular Wall, the pair of popular wall people, the box office was extremely outstanding, ranking eighth in the year.
The Japanese "cherry blossom complex" has a long history, and the great Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien directed a movie "City of Sorrows" (1989), which has an unforgettable narrative: "The Japanese most appreciate the cherry blossoms that bloom to the fullest and most beautiful time, and leave the branches and fall into the ground together, they think that life should be like that... In the Meiji era, there was a girl who jumped into a waterfall to commit suicide, she was not world-weary, nor was she disillusioned, she was facing such a brilliant youth, afraid that once it disappeared, she did not know how to be good. It is better to be like the cherry blossoms, at the most beautiful time of life, to leave the branches with the wind. ”
On the set of the film Harumi (1976), the Fukado department was giving Momoe Yamaguchi and Yukazu Miura a final inspection before filming
In this film, after the disfigurement, Haruna does not want Sasuke to see his face, and Sasuke resolutely stabs himself in the eye. While such a move is staggering, it echoes the story with an inevitable sense of inevitability and fatalism. Suicide or self-harm is to keep the beauty of the beloved in the heart forever, which is a characteristic of Japanese beauty, cruel rather than sublime. Bushido, as a representative of the cruel Japanese aesthetics, has planted this idea of "beauty" like cherry blossoms throughout Toei Island.
And this is the tragedy of the Japanese, the essence is feminine, graceful, once masculine, it is incomparably cruel. The heart-wrenching sense of tragedy framed by the movie "Chunqin Copy" stems from nothing more than the lingering idea of "material mourning" in Japanese national culture. In the grief of "material mourning", the cherry blossoms bloomed, buried the mountains, rose the water, and were extremely brilliant, but they were destined to fly away.
On the set of the film Harumi (1976), a shot of Tomotomo Miura and a mischievous face-to-face camera is being muzzled
The music, art, and photography in "Chunqin Copy" also left a deep impression on the audience, and the macro pictures that have always appeared, the extremely delicate and real but not trivial character movements, the light and soothing narrative rhythm, and the beautiful kimono with a very classical style all show Nishikawa Katsuji's exquisite craftsmanship of imagery. In the picture, there will sometimes be a fragrant guqin sound and three strings mixed in, and there will be a few plum blossoms looming outside the paper door, but the most touching thing is the actor's performance, Miura Tomokazu's lead is not hair, just right; Yamaguchi's light anger, I see pity.
Compared with the "yin" and "functionality" of Junichiro Tanizaki, author of "Harukami", Nishikawa's wishful thinking in the film's beautification symbols make him look much more elegant and gentlemanly than Tanizaki Junichiro. For example, in the original novel, Haruka and Sasuke clearly show a tendency to be abused and abused, but Nishikawa Katsumi almost writes off this tendency in the film.
On the set of the film Harumi (1976), Momoe Yamaguchi always laughed wildly before filming and then entered the cold frost of the plot
In fact, it was Nishikawa's clever trick of cleverly softening this tendency and confusing the audience by emphasizing the Japanese concept of hierarchy. Therefore, many Japanese film critics have been tricked and even pointed out that Nishikawa Katsuji is too much to beautify Haruka and Sasuke Yunyun.
The most beautiful scene in the film is Sasuke sitting on his knees as a servant, calmly wiping the ketone body of Harumina, who has just come out of the bath. The camera moves slowly, and Chunqin exudes a sculptural mysterious beauty throughout. Sasuke cares for his goddess with a craftsman-like devotion. In the face of her beautiful body close at hand, he neither dared to face it with arrogance, nor did he peep at it dirty.
On the set of the film Harumi (1976), the makeup artist was giving Yuwa Miura makeup touches
Moreover, Chunqin is blind in both eyes, even if she peeks, she is also bright and upright. But he didn't. He performed his duties as a servant with such duty, methodically, unhurriedly, so naturally, that you seem to be able to feel that at that moment his breathing was quieter than in the afternoon in the mountains. At that moment, he was a pure man with no distractions, and she was a holy and beautiful angel. The instinctive impulses of human beings were quietly shut out by them.
Some people say that there is no real love between Haruka and Sasuke. The subtext is that Haruka is only to satisfy her own physical desires to become obsessed with Sasuke. Those who hold this view believe that Haruka is always a high-ranking master, and Sasuke is always a humble and obedient servant. Only half of this perception holds. They do have an unshakable master-servant relationship between them, but the ultimate love between them is a love that is difficult to understand.
The film portrays a real and detailed portrayal of Sasuke's thrilling scene of blinding eyeballs with a needle: Sasuke walks away from the maid of the house and hides in the bedroom and sits in front of the vanity mirror. After breathing evenly, the hand holding the needle slowly moved closer to the right eye, carefully aimed at the eye Ren'er, the hand picked up the needle, and before it was too late to blink, the iron needle had already punctured through the cornea and pounded the lens. There was no bleeding, no tears. It is said that the move was neither painful nor itchy, but by the time he tried to stab his left eye, his left eye had instinctively closed with his right eye.
At this moment, Sasuke had to pull his eyelids apart with one hand, and repeat the action he had just made with the other... Such a tragic scene is creepy and at the same time indispensable. The indescribable super-visual spiritual world contained in the original work has finally been initially restored in this cult picture with strong destructive power.
The most "incomprehensible" thing is that After Haruka was disfigured and Sasuke secretly stabbed his blind eyes, Sasuke stumbled through one house after another and crawled to meet Chunqin:
Chunqin: Why did you do this?
Sasuke: Teacher, now that I'm like you, I can't see anything.
Haruka: Sasuke, it must be very painful, right?
Sasuke: It doesn't hurt. Compared with the suffering of the teacher, this pain is nothing. I can finally enter the world of teachers now, I see the teacher is ten years ago, always so beautiful and noble, I can't forget her.
Chunqin: Thank you... Thank you...... Now only you can't see my face.
Sasuke: Now you can rest assured that we can live peaceful and peaceful days as before, how good is that, are you happy?
Chunqin: I'm happy, I'm so happy.
Sasuke: You're relieved.
Momoe Yamaguchi and Yukazu Miura were making their looks and were walking to the set of the movie Harumin (1976).
This dialogue without any background embellishment will make people mistakenly think that Sasuke is stupid and Haruka is cold-blooded. However, when Yukazu Miura and Momoe Yamaguchi interpret the climax of this novel, they rely only on body language and partial expressions (both perform with their eyes closed at this time, because Haruka and Sasuke are blind at this time) to express the emotional fluctuations of the bitter lovers, which is relatively difficult. At this time, Sasuke was neither a stupid servant nor a cold-blooded master, but a pair of fateful lovers who depended on each other. It's really brutal and it's really beautiful. Apart from a sigh, there was only respect for Sasuke's extreme behavior.
Sasuke self-destructs the light, and forever isolates Haruka from the ugliness of the broken face. Haruka's otherworldly beauty became the eternal freeze frame in his memory, and Haruka's appearance, and even youth, resided under Sasuke's cerebral cortex forever. This enjoyment of beauty is supernatural and timeless. This is like a human revolt against its objective world! Sasuke himself said, "Since she became blind, the image of Master Mei has become clearer and more thorough, and she has tasted happiness that the discerning person cannot comprehend." Not only did he never regret it, he also secretly rejoiced!
The film Harumin (1976) is a Japanese DVD edition
After Sasuke became blind, he still served and cared for Haruka as before - bathing, changing clothes, massage, going to the toilet, in view of the inseparable for more than 20 years, knowing the huge and detailed parts of Haruka's body, Sasuke who was blind and blind could be competent. But you can imagine how troublesome it will be for a blind person to serve a blind person. It is the unequal deformed love between the two of them that makes this perverted relationship solid and enjoyable. The subtle emotional world in which they lose their vision and rely on tactile communication may not be what we discerning people can imagine.
【The "Big Matchmaker" of Momoe Yamaguchi and Yukazu Miura】
Whether it is Yamaguchi's fame or marriage, the Bole behind it has always been little known. It was Katsumi Nishikawa, as the director who made Yamaguchi "electrocuted" for the first time, who made the then 15-year-old Yamaguchi popular in the film world through "The Dancer of Izu".
The movie "Izu ののの
In honor of Yasunari Kawabata, who committed suicide in 1972, Katsumi Nishikawa is preparing to bring "The Dancing Girl of Izu" to the screen again. Although the 15-year-old Yamaguchi was already a hot singer, she had never been exposed to film shooting. There was no precedent for a singer who was acting in a movie for the first time in Japan at that time. Katsumi Nishikawa says he "saw Momoe Yamaguchi at first sight and thought she looked a lot like Fumiko (the name of the heroine in the film)."
The selection of the male protagonist is carried out through open recruitment. Due to the high popularity of the original book and Yamaguchi Momoe, the draft was extremely popular. The final competition unfolded between a college student and a young actor, who were originally on par, but because of the college student's accent, the balance of victory finally tilted to the other side. The winner's name is Yuwa Miura. So, in "The Dancing Girl of Izu", Yamaguchi Meets 22-year-old Tomokazu Miura. Their encounter caused a sensation in the Japanese film industry, and the Japanese said that "The Dancing Girl of Izu" is the most perfect and insurmountable interpretation of the classic.
The film "Singing/Singing" (1975) Japanese video version of the cover
If anyone is the one who knows best how to shoot Yamaguchi, there is no doubt that it must be Nishikawa Whoke himself. From "Izu's Dancer" to her, through "Shiosu", "Singing/Singing" (1975), "Harumi Copy", "Noju Tomb/Tomb of Noju" (1977), "The Flag of The Mist" (1977), a total of 6 collaborations, he knew Yamaguchi Momoe and Miura Yuwa, when Toho wanted to remake "Harumin Copy", Nishikawa Katsumi realized that it was for Yamaguchi Momoe and Miura Yuwa, and thus achieved the peak of the pair's literary and artistic films.
In it, Momoe Yamaguchi is no longer an idol, let alone a naïve girl in the past, and performs a very different screen goddess: interestingly, Haruka and Sasuke Narita in the film are in love with each other, and yamaguchi and Miura Yuwa are also in love.
On the set of the film Harumi (1976), Tomokazu Miura refreshed himself by drinking coffee between shots
The price of the consummation of the relationship, as you know, is the sensational retreat of Yamaguchi Momoe a few years later, and the contrast between the front and back of the curtain has attracted the alarmism of "it is all because of you, the status of women has regressed to ten years ago", which did not hinder the footsteps of Yamaguchi Momoe, and then staged the picture that fans still flash back in their minds: at the farewell concert, Yamaguchi Baie squatted down with tears and slowly put the microphone on the stage and floated away; in the past few decades, Yamaguchi Momoe was not moved by high salaries, and did his duty as a mother... After Yamaguchi's retirement, Nishikawa Katsumi was no longer able to launch a good film.
However, Nishikawa Katsumi gave Yamaguchi Momoe the greatest understanding of his subordinates— "I don't think it is a pity that Yamaguchi bid farewell to the art stage and marry Miura Tomokazu, because the so-called legend itself is full of surprises." ”
On location in the film Harumi (1976), director Katsumi Nishikawa (left) and Tomowa Yamaguchi Momoe Miura pose for a group photo
【About the title of "Youth Film Director" of Katsumi Nishikawa】
Katsumi Nishikawa was born in 1918 in the Chitou district of Hatu-gun, Tottori Prefecture, Japan, where he set out as a writer. Although his original wish has not been fulfilled, as a director who has left a footprint in the history of Japanese cinema, Nishikawa Katsuji is the unquestionable pride of his hometown. In 2001, A film memorial was set up for him in The hometown of Katsumi Nishikawa. Among the several classic films that Nishikawa shot in his lifetime, the most talked about are the two versions of "The Dancing Girl of Izu", which pushed his career to the peak.
In 1939, Nishikawa entered the Shochiku Daibun Photography Studio, and Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, and Kenji Mizoguchi belonged to their peers, and now the latter have become masters, but Nishikawa's label has always been "youth film director".
Cover of the Japanese brochure of the film Shiosuke/Shiosuke (1975).
Indeed, from shochiku's traditional literary films to Reikinaga's nippon pure love films, to Toho youth films that pushed Yamaguchi Toshie to national idols, Nishikawa's modest and rounded shooting style, which had no characteristics at the time, also led to Nishikawa Katsuji's easy involvement in the wave of making pink films in the film industry crisis of the late 1960s, until 1974, when a newcomer was introduced to remake "The Dancer of Izu", and returned to the field of feature films.
Although Yamaguchi was only 15 years old at the time, although she was debuting on the big screen, she succeeded in playing a wandering dancer in a pitiful way, and she and Miura Yuwa were also praised by the audience as golden children. Director Katsumi Nishikawa has collaborated with Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura many times, including "Shiosu", "Harumi Tsutomu" and "Flag of mist" in addition to "Izu's Dancing Girl", which led to the birth of Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomomi Miura and the star couple.
The movie "Flag of mist/霧の旗" (1977) Japanese Blu-ray edition cover
With the insight of mining the jade girl Yamaguchi Momoe, a series of youth films with Yamaguchi Asake as the core set off in the 1970s, but it was too imprudent to conclude that Nishikawa Katsumi was a "youth film director".
At 4:40 a.m. on April 6, 2010, Katsumi Nishikawa died of pneumonia in Tokyo at the age of 91. Yoshinaga Saiduri delivered a eulogy and solemnly said "thank you." However, Yamaguchi Still did not issue a word to the public, but silently took her husband to the grave to pray for blessings.
Yoshinaga's image of "pure girl" complements the pure love and youthful style of Nishiwa Kazumi's films, setting off a wave of rage in the Japanese film industry. "The collaboration with director Xihe has left a lot of good memories in my life, and my heart has always been full of gratitude to the director." After learning of Nishikawa Katsumi's death, Yoshinaga Koyuri personally wrote a memorial for Nishikawa Katsumi that night. Sayuri Yoshinaga said she still can't forget "the figure of director Nishikawa working tirelessly until late at night," and that in 1964, when they were working together on a film, Nishikawa was injured in an accident, but "the director did not take a day off, but still insisted on shooting with injuries."
In the dressing room of the movie Harumi (1976), the makeup artist is styling Momoe Yamaguchi
【Confirmation of whether Momoe Yamaguchi is a star or an actor】
Momoe Yamaguchi's identity is an idol in Japan, and the idol is neither a singer nor a haiku. They usually debut as teenagers, are controlled by the firm, sing and act on the show to do everything, this concept is very important. The early Kurihara Komaki, Miura Yukazu, or Hamasaki Bu were not idols but were often mistaken for idols by Chinese. Nakamori, Takumi Kimura, or Kazuya Ninomiya are often mistaken for singers or actors by Chinese, but they are really idols in essence.
The status of idols is very awkward, whether they sing or act, they are actually looked down upon by real professionals. This was the case since the 1970s, when Momoe Yamaguchi once wrote in his autobiography about his pain of not being identified as an idol.
Momoe Yamaguchi was always smiling in her free time shooting of the movie "Harumino" (1976), and she said that as soon as she entered the plot, she felt very depressed
But now when people mention the first day of the 1970s, it must have been Momoe Yamaguchi. She debuted for 7 years and rose to the top of the Japanese pop scene at the age of 21 (female idols often peak in their twenties, such as Nakamori Akira).
She was the first singer to sell more than 10 million copies, and as an idol, she crossed the iron curtain of the art world to become one of the Showa Sankahimes (the other two being Miku Skylark and Matsuda Seiko, the three corresponding to the 70'S and the developed 80'S of showa and economic take-off after the war) and the 7th most respected artist in Japan, which proves the lofty status and reputation of Yamaguchi Toshie in the art world.
Therefore, it is certain that Momoe Yamaguchi was indeed the most popular female star of the 1970s. In the music scene, she was undoubtedly the first day after the enlightenment of the idol golden age (80s).
"Modern Pictures" made a special edition of the movie "Chunqin Copy" (1976), and the magazine was full of stills and photos related to the play during the shooting of Yamaguchi Ando Miura, anyway, as long as the faces of these two people appeared, everything was easy to sell.
In terms of acting, Yamaguchi Ishie is actually the uncrowned queen of Japanese dramas, and the ratings of the red series she starred in (which one can't be remembered) are still in the top ten to this day.
Momoe Yamaguchi's ratings are still the number one actress today (of course, it is also related to the times, when the main way for the whole family to entertain was television).
It is worth saying that the film side has to be a different matter. First of all, movies are not TV series, and their artistic value cannot be compared. Yamaguchi's acting skills are not superb, first of all, she is not old enough, the girl role is a one-dimensional role, and does not need a deep performance method; secondly, she is an idol and has not seriously carried out professional acting training.
The most important actresses at that time were Yoshinaga Koyuri and Matsusaka Keiko, two actresses who could enter the history of Japanese cinema, and they were popular in Japan at their peak, with superb style, superb acting skills, and continuous masterpieces. Momoe Yamaguchi's contribution to Haiyu is far from comparable to theirs.
But in general, Yamaguchi Washie was indeed Japan's first female star. In the music world, the status is very important. Mei Yanfang, Zhang Guorong, Chen Baiqiang, these god-like names today all have a common idol - that is, Yamaguchi Baihui, and for this reason alone, her status is beyond doubt.
As for acting, it's certain that this wasn't her job or her strength, but that didn't stop her from being one of the highest-grossing actresses of her time.
Kadokawa Bunko's novel Harumi Scribe, published by Kadokawa Bunko, Japan– a book cover with stills from Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura