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What is the name of this documentary? What does it say?
NHK was Japan's first nationwide television station, and it was founded in 1925. With the same name as the British BBC, most of the high-quality Japanese documentary programs are from NHK.
Not only excellent, but also off the beaten path.
Shoot the industry's top figures, Miyazaki Hayao, Inoue Yuhiko, just routine operations, the same series, they also filmed a barmaid, a cleaner, a funny artist.
Writers are not unusual, it is better to take a picture of the writer's cat.
Compared to grand narratives, NHK cares more about humanity. For example, the "Documentary 72 Hours" series has won the most widespread resonance with the most prosaic shooting.
"For three days, the camera was on the street where people came and went, in the same era, we happened to pass by here, what happened, and where are we going?"
"Japan's Northernmost Bus Station" is from this series.
Although the documentary is only 24 minutes long, the people who appear in the film condense the various changes in life.
Perhaps, you can easily find in them your past, present, future, or shadow of your heart.
1
Cape Soya in Hokkaido is the northernmost point of Japan, and winters here are very long.
Accompanied by a fierce cold wind like a typhoon, the sensory temperature drops to minus 20 degrees. The hotel and shop are closed from December and will not reopen until April of the following year.
When you get out of the car, you will see only the boundless Sea of Okhotsk. The fierce wind and waves, the bone-chilling cold, swept in and overwhelmed the earth.
But every winter, travelers from all over the country are drawn here, the only station that sends them from all directions to the northernmost corner of Japan.
NHK recorded three of these days on camera.
The first traveler the production team encountered was thinly dressed. He came here in the IT industry only because he suddenly wanted to go north.
"I just want to tweet at the northernmost tip of Japan."
The tweet was not commented on by anyone.
In the adult world, loneliness is the norm.
There is no object to share the emotions, one person comes, and another person goes.
After dark, the wind gets stronger and the snow gets heavier.
The tourist did not wear gloves, he came from Saitama and did not change his clothes before leaving.
Facing the camera, he said, "I'm here to escape reality." ”
"A lot of things have happened this year, the work of dealing with people, many places can't cope with it."
After graduating from university, he took up a position in the local municipal government and recently moved to the window office. The more I came into contact with all kinds of people, the more I doubted whether I would be able to do the job.
Although there was only the white sea of winter, for him, this escape seemed to be of great significance.
"It was really spectacular, a little touched, it felt like I was saying, don't give in."
Although it is an understatement, you can feel the inner struggle.
It's hard, but I don't want to just give up.
The sea in the north only makes people feel endlessly ruthless and cold, and perhaps this is what fascinates people.
Two university students from Tokyo decided to spend the New Year here. Because I'm going to study abroad this summer, I want to make special memories of being with my friends.
A relationship of affection is always rare. Once they meet, confidants can always recognize each other from the crowd.
The sky began to light up, and they followed the plan to watch the sunrise with the other travelers.
They were greeted by a long wait. At 7:13 a.m., when the sun was supposed to rise, the clouds were still thick above the sea.
People left, but they didn't turn around.
Just leave regrets like this, there is no way to go back.
"I'm going to run out of cars."
"You can't take the next shift."
Near the station, passengers were preparing for their return journey, and on the empty hill, two young men were pleasantly surprised to find something.
Although the sunrise is not seen, sakhalin island can be seen in the distance across the sea, and it seems even more inconceivable in this season.
The sunrise and the island are also precious scenes. Thousands of miles, only once in a lifetime.
Just like life, it often backfires, and inadvertently, in another way, give comfort to people who are full of expectations.
2
On New Year's Eve, travelers with tents gather to celebrate the New Year together by the sea.
Some of them came all the way from Kyoto on a motorcycle, traveling more than a thousand kilometers, only because "this feeling cannot be described in words, as if it was driven by something, and it was necessary to come." ”
Some people met by chance on the ferry, and they were all temperamental people who came together.
Someone is doing repetitive work on the factory assembly line, following the rules, and tired of that kind of life.
Someone has just broken up with a lover, hoping to use this pain to resolve the other's pain.
As night comes, travelers with their own agendas gather in the cramped common rooms to await the arrival of the New Year.
Local residents brought a box of king crabs and cooked hot pot here. People were invited to visit, and the atmosphere in the bustling huts was warm. It's hard to imagine that before today, they were strangers to each other.
The vast world and the ruthless wind and snow, everyone is the loneliest soul in it, so when Pingshui meets, it can also pluck out the heart and lungs.
After eating the hot pot, everyone came to the monument at the end of the cape and counted down to midnight together.
The year of miscellaneous tastes is over, here, everyone says goodbye to the past, and after dawn they will return to ordinary life, scattered.
One of the men from Kyoto, who had a hard time finding a job, always made mistakes and encountered a rear-end accident, originally felt that he was unlucky, and before leaving, he took the initiative to find the production team and confessed that in this place, he left the best memories.
"Before you asked me why I wanted to come here, what I gained here, I thought about it last night, and found that after going to society, I forgot a lot of things, such as pure gratitude, everyone from all over the world, everyone's heart is very broad." 」
This kind of expanse is to mourn the late autumn and lie dormant in the cold winter. There is a button on the Soya Cape Music Monument, and when pressed, the monument will gently pour out a song - "Sogu Cape" by Seiyoko, constantly singing "Ice Floes Melt".
The sound of the wind and the waves echo in the distance, as if to say that when the fog is gone, life will always flow again.
3
The 24-minute flat and direct narration, the color of the sky and the sea has always been gray, but it has made countless people have an idea, want to go to this place to see.
Why?
Probably find the answer in a comment.
"Maybe I was too uneasy, and after watching this documentary, I always felt that the more I could be calmly happy, the more I hid the waves of sadness in my heart."
Such waves, everyone has in their hearts, but there is no chance to release them and gather into the real ocean.
Because there is no chance to release, there are countless fatigues and struggles.
When the trajectory of the first takeaway rider infected with new crown pneumonia in Beijing was exposed, people were sad: the rider received an average of about 50 orders a day, worked uninterrupted from 7 o'clock to 21 o'clock, and then rode an electric car to take his wife home after work, rain or shine, and did not dare to rest.
This kind of heartache is not sympathy, but empathy. It's not just that he doesn't have a choice, in the face of life, everyone doesn't have a choice.
@Curry Curry
The family borrowed money to open a restaurant for catering, and has been in debt for all these years, and seeing that this year it is finally going to pay off the debt, and an epidemic has knocked the whole family back to its original form. Every day when I open my eyes, I am very aggrieved and do not know what is wrong.
@Tortoiseshell
At the beginning of the year, chronic kidney disease was detected, and he recuperated at home, earning 20,000 yuan from the previous month to 2,000 yuan per month. What can I do, white-collar to freelance, a little bit of groping. Illness must be seen, money must be earned, and life must continue to be lived.
@ Jackfruit
I am often asked how you have spent the past six months as a theater employee. It's not what they think, they really can't care about sadness, and to be able to start work is happiness. The taste of being idle at home is too suffocating.
If struggle is the norm in life, what is more terrible is to compromise day by day, obey reality, be willing to passively accept, and constantly hint to yourself that everything will not get better, nor can it stop everything from getting worse. As time passed, he became insensitive, like a living dead.
In the northernmost part of Japan, a group of ordinary people who seem to have nothing to do or have a heavy heart come tirelessly to embrace the wind and waves and pour thousands of emotions into the world. A cold sea, full of human sorrow and joy.
Everyone is the epitome of all sentient beings, and they are also alone and dependent on each other.
It's not that no one questions whether "Japan's Northernmost Bus Station", the tourist promo, the collective kiki, is not too self-touching. Life has such kindness and dreams, making wishes after dark, and after dawn, everything becomes better.
Of course, the difficulties of the day will not be solved, but this experience may be able to support the person who owns it and regain the courage to face life. This documentary shows you that in places you don't know, there are many individuals like you who are chasing the wind and snow against the crowds, and you are not alone.
Because I long for the real feeling of being alive, I long for the real sting of the sea breeze.
4
"Japan's Northernmost Bus Station" is neither majestic nor atmospheric. It has no ambition, only hopes that the audience will feel one thing after watching, that the forms of "living" are diverse, and everyone deserves to be deeply understood.
People are born to suffer, but they are not born for suffering, and people are human only because we have strong emotional abilities, even if we are suffering, but we have been resisting.
The Rainbow Choir adapted Rocket Girl's "Calories" in the "Hot Us" program, and the brainwashing divine comedy suddenly had a different meaning, singing and crying Rocket Girl, and also singing and crying the audience.
"Coming out of the dirt, going into the window, sometimes satisfied, sometimes wanting to escape far away. What else can I do, I can only burn. The lyrics seem to tell the story of the debut of 11 young girls in a group, in fact, this is a song sung to every ordinary person.
Choir conductor Jin Chengzhi said when talking about his creative feelings, "In fact, we are all the same, we are all 'people'. We are all tortured enough by life, and we have lost our hair for the ideal, and we are all sandwiched in the structure, unable to move. ”
"Everyone is stuck in a road called themselves, turning back is not, forward and confused, can only burn." 」
This dilemma must have been experienced by everyone.
In an interview with NHK, there was a detail that "there is no place to stay, there is no place to go, I don't know where to go, I am very confused," travelers who are tired of family and workplace relations use the bus station in Japan's northernmost point as the destination and camp all the way," so they want to force themselves into such a desperate situation, put themselves to death and live again. ”
Life is not like this, even if it is always isolated, the cold wind blows, can dilute the sadness of the old days.
When CCTV News reported on this year's flood situation, some people said that three hundred acres of land, drowned not a single crop, thinking of things in the home will cry;
Some people also say that a few hundred dollars could not be brought out of the house, and they only cared about taking the only photo with their wives.
However, when the victims gathered in the square at night, a wonderful atmosphere was fermenting, and sorrow gave birth to strange power, accompanied by music, and everyone danced silently.
Even if they are silent, they can perceive hope from each other, and the comfort does not come from a specific person, but from a force that desires to live well.
The reason why life is moving is probably in it. Each of us is an ordinary person, but we "come and come", so we face life without hesitation, thank it for its ruthlessness, and meet its indifference.
When this resilience is linked together, I believe that everything will be fine.