【June 11, 2021】Directed by Kenki Mieda and starring Riki Miyazawa, Ryo Kase, and Yoshio Harada, the movie "Invitation from orion Cinema" (オリヲン座からの招待) has been launched on the Joy Premiere APP exclusively on the entire network. The film is adapted from a short story by Jiro Asada, a famous writer known for his "Railroad Man" and "The Heavenly Firmament", which was called his "business card" by Asada himself, which is enough to see his love.
Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso has infected generations of audiences, unaware that in Kyoto, Japan, the story of a cinema is quietly unfolding. The cinema, called Orion, welcomed wave after wave of audiences, and its glory and decline are closely related to the history of the japanese film industry.
Orphans love movies and sit in front of the projector for a lifetime
In Tokyo, a special invitation was delivered to Ryoe's hand, and Orion, a small movie theater full of childhood memories, is about to close, and following Yoshie's memories, the audience and the protagonist return to the Showa era when the Orion Theater was founded.
Ruyoshi, played by Ryo Kase, is a young man born in the countryside, he was born in the era of the second heyday of Japanese cinema, at that time, the enthusiasm for Japanese movies was unprecedentedly high, when Ruyoshi first came to Kyoto in the 32nd year of Showa (1958), because he was obsessed with movies, Ruyoshi squeezed into the Orion Cinema full of audiences by virtue of the kindness of the boss lady Afeng, who was penniless at the time, and only relied on a body of enthusiasm to ask the then owner Matsuzo to take him in. Became an apprentice at the Orion Cinema.
Rukichi relied on his hard work to win the trust of the owner Matsuzo and his wife Afeng, when the business of the Orion Cinema was booming, and Rukichi needed to pedal his bicycle to transport film every day, but soon after, the owner Matsuzo died of an emergency illness, and the Orion Cinema had no main heart.
In order to inherit the owner's will, Rukichi, who was still ignorant of film screening, decided to continue to run the cinema with his widow Afoyo, but two people who knew nothing about the film industry suffered a major blow to reality, and the time turned to the showa thirty reality six years (1962), because of the rapid popularization of television, the Japanese film industry ushered in a comprehensive low. At this time, the quality of Japanese films is also declining year by year, the film is basically monopolized by large companies, as a small self-employed Orion cinema, it is not easy to survive in the context of the impact of television and the overall downturn of the film industry, in the film, Rukichi for leasing to the hot film, whispered to the leaders of the blockbuster factory.
Dressed as a clown to attract customers and attract children to watch movies, Rugi and Afon did everything in their power to maintain the business of Orion, and their relationship was spread beyond recognition by the gossip of the neighbors, only children like Ryoji and Xiaoyou were willing to come to this forgotten movie theater to watch old-fashioned movies... Finally, when Rukichi and Afon were finally unable to run the small town cinema, the cinema that poured the lives and enthusiasm of three people disappeared behind the scenes of the times like stars in the sky.
The adaptation of a short masterpiece is both a story and a film history
Expanding the short story to the length of a movie, not only to express the life of the Orion Cinema, but also to show the love between Rukichi and Afon, but also to intersperse the history of Japanese cinema in the film, director Kenki Miede can be described as painstaking, and finally presents "Invitation from orion Cinema" as beautiful as prose poetry. This is both a love movie and a fan movie.
The film began in the 1950s, starting from the "peach movie" of Japanese cinema in the 1960s, to the "Daily Active Pink Film" in the 1970s, and then to the film environment that still has hidden worries today, showing the Japanese film industry from its peak to decline in the past 60 years. Following in The footsteps of Ruji, the audience can feel the persistence of the older generation of filmmakers and their inability to resist the trend of the times.
"An Invitation from the Orion Cinema" is currently premiering exclusively, and for audiences who love Japanese movies or have a crush on the Showa era of the last century, this movie is not to be missed. The Dragon Boat Festival is coming, you may wish to use the holiday to feel the charm of the light and shadow of the old screen in the light and shadow.
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