Hello everyone, I'm the eldest cousin.
Takeshi Kitano's most recent appearance in front of the public is probably because of his dramatic divorce experience.
The 72-year-old "elderly" Kitano Takeshi resolutely divorced his wife Kanko, gave a large amount of 20 billion yuan in breakup fees, and kept a house for himself.
Unfortunately, there is no "good day" for the wife, and within a few days, the lover has run away. After the money was gone, the wine and meat friends did not pay attention to him.
He laughed at himself: He knew it was so difficult, it was better to be with his ex-wife.
For this tragedy of "no money, no wife and lover running away", he talked about it himself, but he was not sentimental at all.
Because he is Takeshi Kitano.
A man who "lives a boring life and doesn't want to die".
He is a cross-talk actor, tap dancer, funny entertainer, TV host, actor, director, screenwriter, editor, picture book painter, pure love novelist... Well, proper slash old youth.
In Japan, Takeshi Kitano was initially active as a funny entertainer and later became the most photogenic TV host in Japan, recording 7 different TV shows a week at the same time.
He joked, the scale is so large that it makes others blush and smack their tongues; when he pins and needles, discusses current politics and people's livelihood, and is so blunt that people clap their hands.
Kitano Takeshi gained the hearts of many Japanese people, so much so that he was often encouraged to become the "Prime Minister of Japan".
For domestic friends, the contact with Kitano Takeshi began more from his movie "Kikujiro's Summer".
The reputation of this film has been good, with a Douban score of 8.8, ranking in the Douban Movie Top 127.
Kikujiro's Summer has been called the most autobiographical and tender work in Kitano's creative process.
Takeshi Kitano's films used to be like this, and everyone even gave a name to this bloody and violent style - Takeshi Kitano's violent aesthetic.
Movie "Humpback City"
Even if it is a literary film, it is also with a dark, psychedelic atmosphere, full of pressure and powerlessness.
Movie "Hanabi"
Kikujiro's Summer is very different.
There are lush and emerald childhoods, there are seaside people in flower shirts, there are octopus-headed aliens, there are rogue but gentle uncles, there are little brothers in pink shirts, and there is the cheerful and light soundtrack of Hisaishi Jean.
Movie "Kikujiro's Summer"
Wong Kar-wai commented on it: "Unlike Kitano Takeshi's previous style, full of funny and touching warm works, Kikujiro's Summer appeals to a return to gentleness. ”
Recently, "Kikujiro's Summer", which was released 21 years ago, was first put on the big screen in China, but the box office was slightly dismal.
Probably, few people know that after reading these seemingly light-hearted and witty shots, there is a heavy childhood of Kitano Takeshi.
As the "future of Japanese cinema" hand-picked by Akira Kurosawa, his life experience is more interesting than any of his films.
One last trip to find mom
One summer, 9-year-old Masao stood alone on the empty playground, and the other children followed their families to the summer vacation.
He grew up with his father dying early, his mother working outside the home, living alone with his grandmother, he was weak, lonely, eager to find the mother he had never met.
With the help of a neighbor's aunt, an unreliable uncle accompanied Masao and embarked on the road to find his mother.
This uncle can probably be called the worst traveling companion.
On the first day, he took Masao to gamble on horses, and not only lost the 50,000 yen travel expenses, but also blamed Masao for not guessing the number correctly.
In this process, masamune keeps his head down, his eyes are cowardly, and he strives to be a child who does not cause trouble to others, even if he rubs into a middle-aged hooligan who causes trouble everywhere.
Because they had no money, the two of them had to take a ride to Tokyo to find their mother.
Along the way, there are many ridiculous stories, in order to get on the ride, Masao was painted with a big flower face to pretend to be pitiful, the uncle pretended to be blind and sympathetic, put nails on the road to try to puncture other people's tires, and after being refused to take the car, he smashed other people's glass with stones.
As a funny artist, Kitano Takeshi can always hold the laughter point in place, revealing a kind of sadness and bitterness when revealing the powerlessness and rogue nature of the little people.
The laughs in the film are often mixed with spicy irony.
For example, while the uncle said, "Adults are sacrificing for children", while stealing a meal group next to them.
Kitano also cleverly installed many homage bridge sections.
After the juggling stops were useless, they camped out in a broken station for two days, relying on stolen rice balls to feed themselves.
In the bridge section of the broken station, the totoro of Miyazaki is paid tribute to Hayao Miyazaki, who end up covered with burdock leaves and walk on the path, although sleeping on the street, but still walking briskly, and the purposeful journey always makes people hopeful.
In front of the broken station, Takeshi Kitano danced a tap dance, a dance that began a little strange and greasy, essentially in memory of his mentor Fukami Chisaburo.
At that time, Kitano Takeshi did not listen to his mother's arrangement to become an engineer, dropped out of college and ran to the song and dance club as an elevator brother, met Chisaburo Fukami, and rewrote the trajectory of the rest of his life.
After learning his talents with his master, he went out to form a comic talent group (similar to a two-person talk show), and later became a TV host, actor and internationally renowned director.
After Kitano Takeshi's career was successful, he went to visit Chisaburo Fukami with tobacco and alcohol, and as a result, that night, after Kitano Takeshi left, Chisaburo died in an apartment fire, which was estimated to be caused by cigarette butts after investigation.
Since then, Takeshi Kitano has practiced tap dancing every day to remember his mentor.
The uncle played by Kitano Takeshi exposes the disposition of a rogue, selfish, greedy for money, pretending to be great, greedy and cheap, unruly, stealing chickens and dogs, fighting and making trouble, and gambling badly.
But along the way, he slowly showed his vulnerability and tenderness. On a rainy night at the tattered station, he looked at the sleeping masao and said, "Turns out, he's just like me."
The same abandonment, the same missing mother, the same poor expression, the same hiding their feelings in the crowd, the male with Mu Ne as a coat, the uncle with hooligans as a cover.
On the way, they meet all kinds of people, different identities, mostly small people.
A young couple, the girl will throw orange acrobatics, the boy will mechanically dance, they seem to imply a truly healthy relationship, the mother is dexterous and gentle, the father is funny and handsome.
In this scene, a special shooting method is used, in the picture, four people are on the grass, the camera gradually pulls away, and the four words "forbidden to enter" appear on the outside of the picture, as if all this is a beautiful illusion.
This is not unrelated to Takeshi Kitano's childhood experience.
Since childhood, his father Kikujiro was an uneducated painter, a bully in the outsiders, who went home to beat his wife after drinking a lot of wine, and his relationship with his children was also estranged.
Kitano's impression was that his father had not spoken a few words to himself.
The only time he accompanied him was when he was 6 years old, when he went to see the sea with him, and as a result, Kitano Takeshi learned the dog pickpocket style, but his father almost drowned in order to show off his swimming skills.
In Kikujiro's summer, a bridge section by the sea is also installed in the key plot part.
When Masao and his uncle finally came to the door of Masao's mother's house after going through all kinds of difficulties, they found their mother holding a little girl and her new husband standing next to her.
Mom has a new family and life, and Masao is an abandoned past.
Here the camera gives close-ups of the faces of two people, blending shock, disappointment, loneliness and sadness.
One year old and one small, the two boys came to the end of the journey, but found that this was another version of the story.
Finally, the uncle left with Masao, while comforting him, "Let's go, we must have found something wrong."
The uncle threatened and lured the angel bell from the motorcycle male group, and made up a story to comfort the man.
"Just shake the angel bell and an angel will come to help you."
Subsequently, they met the motorcycle boy group and the pink T-shirt youth, and in order to comfort the man, the five of them went to a camping trip.
They are still a group of small people living on the fringes of society, even the games of teasing children are so rough and simple, no style.
There were no fish in the fish pond, the bald man pretended to be an octopus, and the fat man pretended to be chicken soaking fish. Play with your child 123 Wooden Man, which eventually evolved into a nude Wood Man version.
Masao finally smiled.
This summer, which could have been extremely lonely, because this group of strange people who lived in a mess but still tried to warm others gave him a summer full of colors.
Finally, the uncle in the film went to visit his mother, across the glass, no looking, no greeting, just staring at the distance.
At that moment, it is the reconciliation of the uncle and the mother in the film, and it is also the recollection of kitano Takeshi and the parents who are separated from the heavenly people.
The distance seems to be less distant, because as long as they are relieved inside, they will all turn into angels and continue to live.
Some people have speculated that in fact, Masao and uncle are both Kitano Takeshi, one is the childhood Kitano Takeshi, and the other is the adult Kitano Takeshi.
Through this story of "Finding Mother", we commemorate the most important people in Kitano Takeshi's life, father, mother and master Fukami Chisaburo.
Takeshi Kitano once said:
"In kikujiro's Summer, I confront my own childhood, as well as my mother, my father, not only my biological father, but also chisaburo Fukami, who taught me theater art, and Nagisa Oshima, who gave me my first film role, and they can all be considered my father..."
So how do we divide our childhoods? Is it no longer taller? College graduate? In love for the first time?
In Kitano Takeshi's "childhood", he is bounded by the life and death of his parents.
In 1999, Takeshi Kitano filmed "Kikujiro's Summer", the same year his mother Died Early.
At his mother's funeral, he cried in front of the most hated reporters, and the joke that had been prepared to be prepared to be "please baked until three points cooked" could not be said.
So, he wrapped his entire childhood emotions into this movie.
Kitano's strong tongued mother, Hayashi, was once the daughter of a fallen nobleman, and she firmly believed that reading would change the way out, and eventually sent all four of her children to college.
The eldest son is the chairman, the second son is a university professor, the third daughter is the owner of the homestay, and the last child is Takeshi Kitano.
Since childhood, Takeshi Kitano has been trying to escape his mother's arrangement, skipping school, moving out, being a funny entertainer, riding a motorcycle and falling to the face...
Finally, after his mother's death, he did not need to run away anymore, and he began to look back, looking back at the days when although the chickens flew and the dogs jumped, they often fought with their mother.
Takeshi Kitano with his mother
You'll see many interesting characters in Kikujiro's Summer.
In fact, they are all part of Takeshi Kitano:
The lonely and weak little boy Kitano Takeshi, the dreamer Kitano Takeshi who drives a van, the Kitano Takeshi who drives a heavy motorcycle, the Kitano Takeshi who groups the manga group, the Kitano Takeshi who has a young lover, the Kitano Takeshi who misses his mother and does not dare to meet, and the Kitano Takeshi who finally releases his father...
We will find that the image of the uncle next door played by Takeshi Kitano is full of various bad habits and shortcomings of Kitano Takeshi's father.
Many years after his father's death, Kitano Takeshi once again presented the image of his father from the perspective of the little boy Masao, without criticism or glorification, but just another bystander.
Parents still have a place in life, and parents only have a way to return to life.
This warm movie, which is a little funny, a little summer, and a little sad, is probably the most tear-jerking song that ends a lonely summer, or a long-standing childhood.