Speaking of the manga of Kamakura Monogatari, some manga friends may be strangers, but if you talk about "Slam DUNK", I think manga friends know it. Kamakura is actually a small seaside town in Kanagawa Prefecture, where the slam dunk master is located, and the seaside where Sakuragi Hanamichi tugs tires to practice endurance during the summer vacation is probably the seaside of Kamakura.
Natsume's friend's account
The Tale of Kamakura is a manga that tells a wonderful story that takes place in Kamakura. The plot of the manga is roughly about a novelist Masakazu who lives in Kamakura and marries a beautiful wife, Akiko, who is twenty years younger than him. Because the novels written by her husband Masakazu are strange stories, Akiko, who marries Masakazu, has also become often able to see some "Japanese yokai" and become accustomed to them
Kamakura Monogatari
Therefore, when I first started watching Kamakura Monogatari, I really had the feeling of "Natsume's Friend's Account". However, the Kamakura Monogatari differs from Natsume's friends in that there is no Yin-Yang Master in kamakura Monogatari who can subdue yokai, only a scene of Japanese yokai and humans living side by side in peace and harmony. However, not all "Japanese yokai" are good.
Japanese-style monsters
In the Yellow Spring Kingdom, there lives a big bad monster, this yokai has been coveting Yakiko Masakazu, and designed a trap to make Yakiko out of his soul and have to leave Masawa. After Masakazu leaves, he realizes his inseparable love for Akiko. Therefore, Zhenghe braved difficulties and obstacles, and rushed to the Huangquan Kingdom alone, only to save Akiko. Finally Masawa rescues Akiko, and the ending is a reunion.
The male protagonist Masakazu of Kamakura Monogatari is full of yokai at home
Interestingly, in the Kamakura Monogatari live-action film, the actors who play Masato Masakazu and Mitsuki Takahata, who play Masakazu and Takahata, are exactly twenty years apart in reality, just like in the manga. In the live-action movie of Kamakura Monogatari, the actress who plays the role of Death is also an actress. Perhaps, director Takashi Yamazaki wants to tell everyone that death has no gender through the role of death played by Sakura Ando.
The train in Kamakura Monogatari
The live-action version of the Kamakura Monogatari movie, in addition to the more interesting casting, the scenes and special effects are also very fantastic and real, making people immersed in the scene and feeling the charm of the combination of illusion and reality, as if they really followed the male and female protagonists into the fantasy of the other world. In short, Kamakura Monogatari adheres to the consistent setting of Japanese mythical anime, showing the manga friends a wonderful world where humans, demons, monsters, and gods coexist.
The Train to the Land of Yellow Springs in Kamakura Monogatari
The main thing is that the live-action version of this manga movie beautifully shows the bondage of "life and death" that Kamakura Monogatari wants to express. Leaving aside the strange and bizarre world of the manga Kamakura Monogatari, the ideas that this manga really wants to express, like the previous "Dream Quest", are to tell people the preciousness of "love". After watching it, a little bit of touching makes the heart lake can't help but ripple, and has a longing and yearning for such a "clear" "love", which is a touching work of emotional delicacy.