Two years ago, the so-called "scumbag" memes suddenly appeared on social media.
With big black waves and fiery red lips, the anime girl with three points of thin coolness hanging from the corner of her mouth, three points of ridicule and four points of careless charming smile, the endless melancholy in her eyes, plus a sentence of "scum girl poisonous chicken soup", as if she were the queen of all sentient beings.
"Like I can, but you can't"
"It's too tiring to like one person, I want to like ten"
"I'm not a scumbag, I just have the world in mind and want to give every boy happiness"
If you are an old two-dimensional, it is estimated that you will be no stranger to the source of this set of memes. Among them, the anime girl comes from a classic anime "Three Sisters of Cat's Eye", which was born 38 years ago, which is the childhood enlightenment in the memories of countless teenagers.
This set of manga was created by the famous Japanese manga artist HojoJi, and his other masterpiece was the later famous "City Hunter", and "Three Sisters of Cat's Eye" was his famous work, serialized in Japan's "Weekly Shonen Jump" from 1981 to 1985, and the total circulation even rushed all the way to the mythical number of 20 million copies.
In 1983, the "Three Sisters of Cat's Eye" launched an animated TV version, which was introduced to the domestic broadcast in the 1990s. It is also strange to think that this anime with a rather adult style can be introduced, after all, compared with the juvenile hot-blooded manga of the same period, Hojoji's set of works that integrate crime, love, revenge, and conspiracy is quite adult.
The setting of the original work is quite novel, the protagonists of the story are three thief sisters, their father is a famous collector and painter, the three sisters disappeared when they were very young. Therefore, in order to find out the whereabouts of their father, the three sisters disguised themselves as strange thieves named Cat's Eye and constantly stole their father's collections.
During the day, the three sisters run a café, and at night they disguise themselves as the top thieves. Under such a setting, the comic unfolds a thrilling and light-hearted and romantic plot, and the three sisters of Cat's Eye not only fight with the police, but also stage a cat and mouse game with various criminal organizations and unscrupulous chaebols.
The three sisters of Cat's Eye are the eldest sister after the tears, the second sister after the pupil and the little sister in the next life, of which the eldest sister is responsible for the strategy as the captain, the second sister is responsible for the action with strong execution, and the third sister is the technical house responsible for the technology. It is worth mentioning that the second sister also has a boyfriend, who is the policeman Toshio Uchikai who wants to arrest the cat's eye gang.
In addition to the novelty of the setting, "Cat's Eye Three Sisters" is impressively full of long legs and tights, which really attracts a large number of male compatriots to watch, the big sister with a variety of styles, the second sister who is black and straight, and the cute third sister, making the three sisters of cat's eye become the "most famous sexy goddess in the Japanese anime circle".
A few years ago, some domestic film and television companies announced that they had bought the adaptation rights of the live-action film and television dramas of "The Three Sisters of Cat's Eye", intending to adapt it into domestic live-action dramas, which caused netizens to directly call out and refuse to ruin their childhood.
However, as early as 1997, Japan's Toho Company had launched a live-action movie version of "Three Sisters of Cat's Eye".
The film invited three Japanese goddess-level actors Fujiwara Norika, Inamori Izumi, and Uchida Yuki to play the three sisters, and the role of the big villain demon in the film was actually the domestic powerful actress Jiang Wenli, but after the release, it failed miserably at the box office and became the only version of the live-action movie so far.
In this issue of the "Cult Movie Awards", let's review this comic adaptation of live-action movies 24 years ago -
The Three Sisters of Cat's Eye
CAT'S EYE
This film is unpopular in the field of comic book adaptation of live-action dramas, and only a few hundred people have marked it on Douban.
At present, the rating is 5.3, and the general slot point is focused on the plot of Thunderman, but many reviews have expressed their affirmation of the casting of the movie.
Playing the role of the eldest sister in the next tear is the Japanese national goddess Fujiwara Norika, she is the Japanese Miss beauty pageant champion, and then involved in the film and television circle, but it was not until 1997 that director Lin Haixiangxiang starred in the movie "Three Sisters of Cat's Eye", which began to attract the attention of the film circle and laid the image of her sexy goddess on the screen.
The shape in the movie is actually quite a restoration of the comic, and the human setting is also a mature and charming route, and every move shows the charm and charm.
Inamori Izumi, who plays the second sister, is also a well-known actress, mainly active in the Japanese drama circle, participating in the classic Japanese drama "Long Holiday", while the actor of the third sister's afterlife love, Uchida Yuki, is a popular idol in the Japanese showbiz circle in the 1990s, she and Ryoko Hiromi are beautiful girls who became popular with short hair, and are also the first generation of Sugi in the Japanese version of "Meteor Garden".
For domestic audiences, one of the highlights of this film is Jiang Wenli, who plays the villain demon.
Jiang Wenli starred in this film, in large part because she had a high popularity in the Japanese showbiz circle at that time. In 1995, Jiang Wenli starred in the documentary drama "Children of the Earth" jointly created by CCTV and Japan's NHK Television, which was a fire in Japan and also made the heroine of the play, Jiang Wenli, popular, so she was invited to make a cameo appearance in the role of the villain in the film.
In addition to inviting Jiang Wenli to star, the Japanese filmmakers also intend to add Chinese elements to this live-action version of "Catwoman Three Sisters", so that even the bloodline of the three sisters has changed - no longer the German-Japanese mixed blood in the comic, but the Chinese-Japanese mixed blood.
Unfortunately, however, this Sino-Japanese cooperation was not successful. The film is full of foreign directors' stereotypical imagination and exaggerated portrayal of Chinese culture from beginning to end, and many plots and bridges will only make domestic audiences feel confused and embarrassed, coupled with the production problems of the film itself, resulting in poor response after the release, and not many people have seen it.
The opening scene of the film is a cutscene, whether it is the style of painting or the scene art, it is very exquisite.
Subsequently, he switched from an animated character to a live-action actor, and explained the basic plot world view and character relationship with the bridge section of the three sisters stealing famous paintings, which is basically in line with the setting of the original work.
The story begins at the Kyoto Museum, when the ongoing exhibition of masters of modern art is abruptly halted, and a group of armed police officers surround the museum, led by Toshio Uchikai, a policeman who has loved and killed the three sisters for many years.
It turned out that the museum had received a signal from the three sisters of Cat's Eye that they were going to steal a famous painting at midnight.
Therefore, the local police waited in the exhibition hall of the famous paintings, and seeing that it was about to be midnight, the director of the museum suddenly came to the exhibition hall and talked with the officer in charge of the Uchida.
At 00:00, there was a sudden power outage in the museum, and when the lights were turned on again, the famous painting had disappeared.
The police saw that the famous painting was stolen, so they immediately chased it out, at this time, the second sister hiding on the roof appeared, and tore off the sticker on the wall in front of the museum director, revealing the real famous painting.
It turned out that the director of the museum was actually disguised by the third sister, and the famous painting was not stolen at all, but was covered with stickers of the same color as the wall, resulting in the effect of "black under the lights" to divert the attention of the police.
The inland sea officer, however, had been prepared, and when the two sisters appeared, they ordered the police to surround them.
At this time, the second sister used a lipstick bomb to get rid of the police siege, and then joined the eldest sister who was supporting outside.
The inland sea police officer quickly chased after it, so the three sisters and the police staged a flying car chase scene.
Only to see the three sisters driving a tricycle that can be invisible, easily throwing away the police brigade;
Not only can a tricycle be invisible, encounter narrow roads, but it can also be disassembled into three unicycles.
Although the three sisters threw away most of the police, only the inland sea officers chased after them.
There were not only three sisters hanging, but also the inland sea police officer, only to see him pull out a folding skateboard and pedal at a high speed under his feet.
However, at the end of the road was a cliff, and Officer Uchida had to stop, but the three sisters rushed out of the cliff.
It turned out that the three sisters' unicycles could also be turned into hot air balloons, and they escaped with the three sisters.
There is a saying that although this car chase scene is slightly in the middle two, it can be seen that the director's tribute to the comic is restored.
After the theft of the famous painting, the inland sea police officer once again watched the cat's eye thief slip away, and was scolded by his superiors.
Unhappy in his heart, he plans to leave the police force, not knowing that the criminal he is looking for is actually around.
It was also at this time that he met asamizu, an Interpol woman transferred from the United States.
The female police officer Asari offers to cooperate with Uchida, hoping to use the power of the Japanese criminal police led by Inlandi to help arrest a criminal organization named "Huang Longtian", and she has a clue about the true identity of the three sisters of Cat's Eye.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the city, a private plane slowly landed on the territory of local Chinatown gangsters.
As the plane landed, out of the cabin were five bald men with Qing Dynasty braids. The group of five seems to be dancing like a group of demons, surrounded by a demon queen Wang (Jiang Wenli) dressed in a cheongsam, shining on the scene, as if the Manchu Qing Empress has fallen.
Immediately afterward, a group of servants and maids came out of the cabin carrying a man in a wheelchair wearing a veil and a dragon robe.
Miss Wang pretended to tell the black boss deeply:
I brought the Emperor here!
The actor here uses Chinese dialogue throughout the whole process, although it is not clear what dynasty it is, but through the dialogue and the plot behind, it is implied that Miss Wang's identity is the empress, and she is the same as the wheelchair-bound emperor, who has been dying overseas, and has established a huge underground kingdom, always retaining the etiquette and system of the previous dynasty.
Under the arrangement of the black boss, Miss Wang took the emperor and the brigade to live in a hotel in Chinatown. The black boss looked at the other party living in his own territory but not an outsider, and he was anxious at that time, and he said a few words, which made Miss Wang very unhappy.
The black boss pulled out his pistol and was about to shoot at Miss Wang, but in an instant Miss Wang turned into a cloud of smoke and disappeared.
It turned out that Miss Wang was actually pregnant with demon skills, no wonder she was called a demon queen.
Later, a young killer wearing a ghost-headed samurai mask appears, and with a Hidden Blade, he kills the Black Boss and her men in a few moves, and this killer is the son of the Demon Queen, the top killer Black Flag.
The words are divided into two ends, and the little sister of the three sisters is born in tears, and in real life, she is a college student majoring in mechanical engineering.
On this day, she met Xiao Li, an international student, in the school's laboratory.
Because their fathers are painters, this makes The Next Life Tears and Xiao Li gradually become acquainted and become friends.
Later, a local banker receives a warning from the Three Sisters of Cat's Eye that he will steal a famous painting from his hand.
Not surprisingly, the security operation was still led by the repeatedly defeated inland sea police officers.
The theft began, with the eldest sister appearing and diverting the guards from the inner sea police and guards;
The second and third sisters then cooperate to crack the vault code, but when the two enter, they find that the banker has been killed.
The two had planned to evacuate, but the third sister refused to give up her father's painting, and at this moment, the killer black flag hiding in the corner came out.
Black Flag and the second sister began to fight, and in the melee, the painting was cut in half.
Seeing that the third sister was about to die under the black flag sword, he did not expect that the black flag did not hurt the killer after seeing the third sister's face.
At this time, the female police officer asari who had been tracking down Huanglongtian arrived with a gun, and the gunshot attracted Uchida, and the three sisters of Black Flag and Cat's Eye quickly withdrew.
Black Flag returns to the lair, where the demon queen blames him for not killing the cat and performing the family law flogging on him.
Black Flag endured his mother's whipping without uttering a word, and after the demon queen finished beating, she hugged her son in pain and told him with tears:
I did it all for you, and only by killing them can you become the sole heir to the throne.
On the other side, the female police officer Asasai, who knows the true identity of the three sisters of Cat's Eye, comes to the café alone and offers to cooperate with the three sisters.
She told the three sisters that only by eliminating the Huanglongtian organization could it be possible to find the missing father of the three sisters.
At this time, the young third sister learned that her father was still alive, and immediately said that she wanted to find Huang Longtian's lair and rescue her father.
However, the eldest sister did not agree, she recalled that before her father disappeared, she was taken away by the demon queen organized by Huang Longtian, and the other party was powerful and had magic tricks, and could not act rashly.
The third sister refused to give up, so she took her father's portrait and went to her classmate Xiao Li alone to talk to her, and came to the Chinese restaurant opened by Xiao Li's family.
Xiao Liu accidentally saw the portrait, and her eyes were instantly filled with shock, because the person in the painting was very familiar to her.
At this point in the story, in fact, the truth is about to come out:
It turned out that the father of the three sisters was actually the only bloodline of the emperor of the Huanglongtian organization, and many years ago, Miss Wang found the father of the three sisters. In order to protect his young daughter, the father was forced to agree to leave with the demon queen, and was controlled by Miss Wang to become a puppet emperor.
And the demon queen's son, Black Flag, is Xiao Li, the third sister's college classmate. In terms of identity and bloodline, he should be the younger brother of the three sisters. Therefore, the demon queen told her son Black Flag that he must kill the three sisters at all costs and get rid of all the heirs to the throne, but Black Flag was moved by compassion because of the contact with the school.
As for the Demon Queen who came to Japan with the Yellow Dragon Tian Organization, the purpose was to find the symbol of imperial power, the Dragon Ball.
Therefore, she designed to kidnap the third sister, and used her father as bait to catch the second sister who came to the rescue.
Immediately afterward, the demon queen used transfiguration to transform into the appearance of the "second sister", pretending to rescue the third sister and successfully breaking into the cat's eye sisters.
Later, the three sisters receive a message from the Demon Queen: if they want to save their father, they need to exchange dragon balls for them.
The Dragon Ball is controlled by a consortium controlled by a group of Arabs, which is not only heavily guarded, but also guarded by a large number of mercenaries, who want to sneak in and steal the Dragon Ball, which is difficult to ascend to the sky.
However, in order to save their father, the three sisters decided to take a risk.
At the same time, the police received information about Operation Cat's Eye, and the Inland Sea Officers joined the Dragon Ball Guard Operation without exception.
At the beginning of the operation, the three sisters successfully infiltrated and successfully obtained the Dragon Ball, but were discovered by the mercenary group.
Just when he was in a desperate situation, the black flag of the killer who lurked in suddenly appeared, and a man hung up and killed the mercenary group.
The "second sister" ran away alone with the Dragon Ball, and just when she was feeling proud, she bumped into the inland sea police officer who was guarding nearby.
The inland sea police officer believed in his girlfriend very much, believing that the girlfriend could not be one of the cat-eyed sisters, so he immediately decided that someone was disguised. Unexpectedly, this "reverse reasoning" actually hit the right side, just exposing the true face of the demon queen disguised as the second sister, and knocking down the Dragon Ball.
The melee begins, the three sisters face the killer Black Flag, and the inland sea police officer and the eldest sister fight against the demon Queen Miss Wang.
The black flag against Xiao Ai was left everywhere, and he was eventually seriously injured, and Xiao Ai finally saw the true face of this old enemy.
The demon queen jumped on the helicopter by chance, and after the trapped second sister rescued herself, hijacked the plane, threatened the demon queen to tell the whereabouts of her father, but saw her father in a dragon robe on the plane.
The father tearfully pushed his daughter off the plane, and the demon wanted to kill the three sisters with a gun, but the son Black Flag blocked the bullet with his body.
At this time, the disconnected U.S. sea police officer finally came online, he thought that the nemesis Cat's Eye sister was sitting on the plane and wanted to escape, so he angrily threw the dragon ball to the propeller, and the plane malfunction eventually caused an explosion, allowing Huang Longtian to organize the regiment to be destroyed.
Officer Uchida breathed a sigh of relief, only to see a huge black cat balloon slowly rising with the three sisters and floating into the distance, it was obvious that the enmity between him and the three sisters would continue...
As a comic book live-action movie, this "Three Sisters of Cat's Eye" can be described as a veritable strange thunder film.
The plot of the film can be seen almost everywhere, the whole film can be summarized as "The Royal Three Sisters Fight vicious harem", the character relationship design in the middle is simply the culmination of the dog blood drama, the overall plot is biased towards farce, not to mention the portrayal of the villain organization in the film, which is simply full of foreign screenwriters' stereotypes and demonized imaginations of Chinese history and culture.
No wonder some people commented: Thanks to this is a movie from more than twenty years ago, if it is released today, many of the plots and characters in the film will cause great controversy.
In addition, the film obviously refers to the Hollywood film "Batman" series in the nineties in terms of art, using a large number of studio sets, but the wumao special effects flood the whole film, and many scenes feel too fake, resulting in a sense of cottage of the grass platform team.
The biggest problem with the whole movie is that as a crime action film, all the fight scenes in this film are flower fists and embroidered legs, and the actress's fight scene is basically to put a few poses plus turn over from time to time, and the whole process is boring and embarrassing.
In general, the biggest highlight of this Japanese live-action version of "Cat's Eye Three Sisters" may be the three-minute animation clip at the beginning of the film, and the live-action part is all disaster, but I don't know if the domestic remake of the live-action version will be more thunderous?