The film tells: a bustling metropolis, there is a hard-working and unknown rock band. As a band member, Tamura Nagayoshi (Ryuhei Matsuda) is from Tonoshima Island in the Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima Prefecture, and he has been away from home for seven years. With a slim future and the recent news that his girlfriend Yuka Aizawa (Atsuko Maeda) is pregnant, the young man with the mohican head finally decides to stop the band and return to his long-lost home to get married.
After a long journey, Yongji and Yuka finally set foot on the land of their hometown. His father, Osamu Tamura (Akira Akira Tsujimoto), is now the conductor of the local school symphony orchestra and is very stubborn. When the disobedient eldest son returns home, it is indispensable to break out a quarrel. Fortunately, after all the hardships, Yongji still survived the day of the wedding. At the height of the festivities, the old father suddenly fell ill...
Inadvertently, everyone has to face life and death.
There are some movies that don't really care about spoilers. Even if you already know the plot synopsis, or guess the next dramatic conflicts and story twists and turns in the process of watching the movie, you still don't think the movie is boring, but you will think it is good, and even be moved to tears.
Although the plot of this type of movie is cheesy and has no novelty, the bland story will always be told in a different way, but it seems unconventional. After all, there is nothing new under the sun, and what is moved is always your own experience. The Japanese movie "Mohican Returns home" is such a clichéd but touching film.
Directed by Shuichi Okita and starring Ryuhei Matsuda and Atsuko Maeda, the film tells the story of growing up between a cancer-stricken but stubborn father and a rebellious son. Not to mention that such a story has appeared in many movies, and even your side may have been staged. It's cheesy.
Yongji, a rebellious son who insists on his musical dreams in Tokyo, has a Mohican haircut, and because his fiancée is pregnant, he returns to his parents' house in his hometown of Kojima to get married, only to find that his father is already terminally ill. In the process of taking care of his father, the father and son gradually untied the knot, re-recognized and accepted each other, and gave both sides the opportunity to grow together.
At the end of the story, Yongji has transformed from a boy who does not care about things to a reliable man and a reliable husband. At the same time, while accompanying Yongji to face such impermanent upheavals, his wife also transformed herself from a confused girl into a capable wife and a competent mother.
Although the themes that the film hopes to explore and express are serious, such as the generational relationship between fathers and children, the attitude towards life and death, and the pursuit of self-existence, the way of expression in the film is instead playful. It's like a cold-faced laughing smith, coldly giving you a hilarious place, and coldly giving you a serious place.
Such sudden reversals abound in the film. For example, one second before the father was seriously reprimanding the students, the next second was pulled by a group of old men to drink, and then he was drunk and transported home by his mother; for example, the first second the father and son duo also started to move their hands because of a word, and the next second the father called relatives and friends to come to dinner with a laugh; for example, when Yongji rehearsed The song of Yazawa Yongji for his father, the previous second was still seriously rehearsing jazz, and the second immediately became a rock style, and the camera swept through the portraits of Beethoven, Chopin and other masters on the wall. It's funny.
The whole movie has always maintained this rhythm, one will give you laughter, one will give you cry, and it has become a family ethics drama and personal growth movie with unique comedic charm in terms of narrative rhythm, plot development, character image, and emotional communication.