Director: Kenji Uchida
Writers: Kenji Uchida
Starring: Masato Sakai / Teruyuki Kagawa / Ryora Arakawa / Ryoko Moriguchi
Popcorn index: 3 1/2 barrels
If you want to see "The Crowd", you might as well watch this original movie
——Comment on "The Method of Stealing Keys"
Little Tea
This film is the original film of this year's Spring Festival "Surging Crowds". The domestic version has made a localization adaptation, but the plot and casting of the original film are more reasonable and accurate compared to it.
"The Way to Steal the Key" begins with the heroine Kanae starting a blind date and preparing to get married. Kanae is an editor at a magazine and is passionate about keeping journals and organizing her life step by step. Because her father will soon die of cancer, she is eager to find a marriage partner in a month's time, so that her father regrets before he dies, and her criteria for choosing a son-in-law are very simple - must be a healthy and hard-working person. Compared with the setting of the single mother in "The Crowd", this background and personality setting is easier to understand why the heroine will have a good feeling for an older and "accomplished nothing" fallen man.
In the Japanese version of the movie, the killer is played by Teruyuki Kagawa, the actor of the small actor is Masato Sakai, the uncle who looks obscene is actually a serious life, and his self-discipline, and the handsome actor is a person who lives in disorder and has a passive personality, and it is the contrast between appearance and personality that makes the film produce a stronger dramatic conflict and comedic effect. Unlike the domestic version, which hardly finds jokes from the lines, the comedic effect of the Japanese version is completely natural from the life of the story and characters.
The truth comes out at the end of the film. The killer turned out to be just a liar, and because of his wife's abandonment, he decided to use extraordinary means to make money. The seemingly poor third party turned out to be a wandering "social flower", a large amount of property swindled from the gold lord, which was discovered by Kameaki after being searched everywhere, and it turned out to be a room that looked inconspicuous at first glance. In the end, the gang boss who bought the murderer was arrested for trespassing and stealing... Compared with the exaggerated performance of the last "Surging Crowds" on the abandoned stage and the abrupt end of the siren, there is no doubt that the reversal of the original Japanese film is more reasonable, the character and behavior logic are more consistent, and even the identity of the editor of Kanae Magazine also lays the groundwork for the story, and the killer's notes finally become the key props for the protagonist's emotional sublimation.
Lara has said so much, the comparison between the two versions has clearly expressed my position, if you are interested in this story, go straight to "The Method of Stealing Keys".