Last year, a show "Actors Please Take Place" allowed mainland audiences to see Er Dongsheng's "poison".
His eyes are "poisonous".
As a mentor, pinpoint problems like a scanner.
His mouth was "poisonous".
Netizens are called anti-correctional masters.
In the face of the "pear blossom with rain" after the actor's defeat, Er Dongsheng did not have a good word to serve, but instead blurted out a "speechless" with a stinky face.
"No, no, no, no
To tell the truth, if you change people, you may be afraid of offending people, but Er Dongsheng will definitely not.
Although Er Dongsheng modestly said that he was inferior to his two brothers Qin Pei and Jiang David, no one knew that he had been the first male protagonist in the eight years of Shaw's films;
He can write and direct, and has won several Academy Awards;
The superstars who passed through his hands could not count with their fingers: Yuan Yongyi, Shu Qi, Cecilia Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Chow Yun Fat, Andy Lau, Zhang Guorong, Wu Yanzu, Liang Chaowei...
Moreover, Er Dongsheng is also recognized as making money and is one of the most successful directors in commercialization.
That didn't change, though, and the movie was above all else in his eyes.
For example, in a recent program, Lu Yu wanted to interview Er Dongsheng, but he ran to minus 23 degrees, and there were blizzards and sandstorms in Inner Mongolia.
It turned out that Er Dongsheng was scouting for a new movie.
72 hours of continuous follow-up shooting, like a long march on foot.
Since the morning, he and his team have driven tens of kilometers, from a lake to a village, climbing snowy mountains, tossing and turning, tired to the point that Lu Yu can't walk, and the 63-year-old Er Dongsheng is still like beating chicken blood.
That's where he is on set.
For him, every movie is cherished like a "child".
When Lu Yu asked about his failed works, Er Dongsheng was very calm, saying that there is no director in Hong Kong who has not planted a heel, and the box office is not the criterion for judging the quality of a movie.
Indeed, low-grossing ≠ bad movies.
Just like Er Dongsheng spent ten years conceiving and writing the script in three years——
《Shinjuku Incident》
Before the film was released, it was once placed high hopes.
It cost 150 million yuan, clusters of superstars, many big names in China and Japan, and all have unconventional performances.
For example, this is a film in Jackie Chan's career that has rarely been released in the mainland.
At that time, he ignored the opposition of his wife Lin Fengjiao, broke the rules previously set by He Guanchang, the founder of Jiahe Company, and played a "layman" who had no kung fu and was always beaten, and finally hung up.
But this has made his most authentic performance.
For example, Wu Yanzu carries a punk gothic killing Matt mix of makeup, drugs and drugs, and the image of the type man is completely destroyed.
Another example is the Japanese powerful actor Naoto Takenaka, who played a stable Chinese strength.
In addition to the starring role, a dry "green leaf" is also brilliant, Qin Pei, Lin Xue, Qian Jiale, Kato Masaya and other types are distinct, in just a few seconds, engraved in the audience's mind.
On the contrary, the only two "red flowers", Fan Bingbing and Xu Jinglei, have little room to play and have become decorations.
Their emotional line with Jackie Chan is dispensable.
It is said that this film can actually be saved in this battle?
Yes, it really pounced.
The box office only exceeded 10 million, and even half of the cost was confiscated.
However, with a score of 7.5 today, and the comments section, it is indeed undervalued.
It is undeniable that as a gangster theme, whether from fame or achievement, this film is not as good as "The Night of Mong Kok" and "Disciple" made by Er Dongsheng before.
But in terms of pattern, this film does not lose at all.
It focuses on the 1990s, when China's economy was just getting started, and many Chinese people chose to smuggle themselves to neighboring Japan to make a living.
The scenes that occur in the film are all derived from the real experience of Japanese Chinese.
The story opens with hundreds of Chinese taking a boat to Japan.
Not glamorous, but extremely downcast.
Because they are "black workers" and cannot cross the border through the proper route, this means high risk, and some people are shipwrecked before they arrive in the capital of their dreams.
Those who successfully arrive often face the siege and interception of the police, and they live hard.
No, the iron head played by Jackie Chan, heard that his sweetheart Xiu Xiu was missing, so he came to Japan desperately.
He leaned under the eaves of his fellow countryman Ajay and looked for someone while doing odd jobs.
I don't know how long it took.
Once, when he was washing dishes in the dance hall, he actually saw Xiu Xiu.
I saw her dressed in a kimono, speaking fluent Japanese, and accompanying the leader of a Japanese gang organization, like a hostess.
Iron Head took one look at his current appearance and decided not to bother her.
Hope is dashed, where should the iron head go?
Actually, he had no choice.
Because his documents were lost on his way to Japan, he didn't want to keep them.
So, the iron head perked up and prepared to do a big job, earn money, and buy himself a legal identity.
However, he never imagined that in a foreign country, it was impossible to make clean money honestly.
He is forced to get involved in Japanese gang fights, witness burning and looting, experience deception and betrayal...
It is not difficult to see that "The Shinjuku Incident" is a special Hong Kong film.
Jackie Chan and Wu Yanzu spoke Mandarin in the original voice, were northeasterners, and drove tractors:
The story itself is also quite serious and sensitive.
The film is dark, the atmosphere is harsh, the killing atmosphere is strong, and it is full of uncomfortable shots.
For example, Ajay was taught several times by Japanese gangsters.
He was plunged into the flesh by the knife little by little, making a long cut;
He was also slashed off by a knife on his left hand;
Even the left hand that fell off was thrown into a hot wok of stir-fried chestnuts and stir-fried.
Take it out and get stomped under your feet.
Then there is a scene at the end of the film, where two waves of gangsters beat each other up, slashing with knives, cutting throats, and smashing hard stones... Even the Japanese police could not control that scene.
Although there are not many similar scenes, a shot of coldness makes people's scalp tingle.
Seriously, don't look at Er Dongsheng's most famous romance films, in fact, playing fiercely he is also rude to home.
At the same time, such blunt violence also made it difficult for the film to be released later.
It is classified as a third level in Hong Kong, and in the mainland, because the deletion will cause the plot to be incoherent and affect the quality of the movie, Er Dongsheng and Jackie Chan weighed the pros and cons and gave up the mainland market.
And this, but also directly cut off a large part of the box office.
In this regard, the director of the factory believes that the director has a loss, and the audience also has a loss.
Because the film contains countless blood and tears and hardships Chinese in Japan, it is not beautified and objective enough to be more real.
In the film, there are many detailed presentations.
Tetsuto, who had just arrived in Japan, rented a house with Ajay and a dozen other people, ate and lived together, and took care of each other.
They are all black workers with low wages and can only take one-third of the locals' salaries.
In addition, the work done is the dirtiest and most tiring work such as picking up garbage and cleaning sewers.
Jobs that the Japanese did not want to do were contracted, but in this regard, Chinese was still boycotted from time to time in the local area, and people marched in the streets to demand that the authorities arrest too many "black workers".
Since focus is a group, in addition to the surface layer, the film also deeply shows the twists and turns within the Chinese group.
Like a mercenary boss.
He relied on Japanese gangsters for business, and in front of the Chinese, he hung banners prohibiting Chinese entry in front of the store.
It's like "nest fighting".
They were originally one big family.
Under the leadership of the iron head, the group gradually grew, and he explained downwards that he must do legitimate business and be down-to-earth.
The result?
The interests of the brothers are smoked, and the hearts of the people become scattered and fragmented.
The above sections, including the factory director, will feel a little discomfort when they first look at them.
But, on second thought, this is also a rare point of this film.
Human nature is complex, desire is so naked, not facing it up, does not mean that it does not exist.
"Shinjuku Incident" not only shoots the general environment, but also the tragedy of the times and the tragedy of the individual.