"The Last Letter": In memory of a lover who passed by

Author: Wu Mei

By then, Osaka Hadethichiro had an open conversation with his sister Yuri—I was talking about them as adults, not years ago, in the classrooms and hallways of school. Osaka Kyoshiro takes a camera and breaks into the ruined alma mater of the building, just to help him keep the story of his first love with the camera, how could he have imagined that it was there that he met Umi and Saka, the daughters of Hiroka and Yuri, and therefore followed the two girls into the old house where his first love girlfriend, Unsuka, grew up.

Sadly, Keishiro Otosaka, who had come to Sendai from Tokyo on purpose, was devastated when he found Yuri at the address Yuri had written on the envelope and learned from her that Mitsuru had committed suicide. To speak of anger, after a hard search of memory, to find the time when he married Ato who had married Unsaka and was abusive and then abandoned Unsaka, Otosaka's anger had slowly subsided in Ato's complaint at that moment. "Can this be a memory? But at that time, it was already confused", the past had been turned over, and Otosaka Kyoshiro wanted to use a camera to record the old campus with traces of his youth, and then go home to continue his life.

The unexpected encounter with the two young girls allows Otosaka Kyoseshiro to enter the unsung spirit hall.

The Japanese film "The Last Letter" is a remake of the Chinese film "Hello, Zhihua". The same is the work of the famous director Shunji Iwai, almost exactly the same story, the obvious difference is that "The Last Letter" is a soothing plot in Japan starring Japanese actors, a story of soothing plot, taste and taste of the past, while "Hello, Zhihua" is a vigorous emotional drama performed by a group of Chinese actors under the dispatch of Japanese directors.

Because of this, when "The Last Letter" premiered in Japan, the debate about the difference between "Hello, Zhihua" and "The Last Letter" rose and fell among the audience of art films here.

In "The Last Letter", masaharu Fukuyama performs a scene in which two girls come to the old house where Unsaki grew up to face the statue of Unsak.

How could the novelist Eosaka Kyoseshiro of a book forget what he wrote in the book "Unsuka"? "There are no recent photos, so I have to use the photos of her youth", Kasumi's explanation and the photos of The Unsuka on the Spiritual Seat suddenly drag Otosaka Kyoshiro back to the past, back to the scene when I first saw Nozomi in high school and the days when I was in college with Unsuka. So, when Umi explains why she had to hide the cause of her mother's death, we see Otosaka Kyoshiro, played by Masaharu Fukuyama, with a breath in his throat, and he can't respond to the little girl's free words, until she says tears fill his eyes, and the seemingly calm Otosaka Kyoshiro takes a deep breath and pleads: "Can you let me stay alone for a while?" ”

I think I'm not the only one who will make this conjecture, that is, after the two little girls who accompany him leave, Masaharu Fukuyama will let his character lament his remorse for breaking up with Unsaki. However, just by gently touching the pictures of Yuki's youth, he takes us back to his and Unako's high school days, their best days. At that time, the student union cadres were not ready to speak on behalf of the graduates; by then, Osaka Keishiro had earned a reputation for writing well at school. Unsaka asked Otosaka Toei to revise the speech for himself, read the revised draft, and encouraged Otosaka Keishiro from the bottom of his heart, "You will definitely become a novelist"—isn't this the best interpretation of "A Lady and a Gentleman"?

After rubbing shoulders with the people he loves, especially after learning that the girl he loves so much will be unladylike and prematurely dying in an unhappy marriage, should Otosaka Kyoshiro choke up or even cry out of the bookcase after taking out his only book, "Unsuka"? However, Masaharu Fukuyama made Osaka Kyoshiro endure the emotion of turning the river upside down, and calmly told Yuri's daughter Sakura, who pushed the door in: "This is the book I wrote." Saka is not Kazumi, of course, it is the first time to see "Unsa", of course, I don't know what this novel means, but Kaomi knows everything. However, when the immediately following Kaomi asked Otosaka Toei to sign the book, director Shunji Iwai actually made all three people laugh easily, instead of sighing, such a treatment is really surprising! However, after Umi pulled out a cardboard box and told the author of "Unsuka that I read this first," I thought the climax of "The Last Letter" came: when I opened the box, I found that it contained the love letters he had written to Unsaki in high school and the manuscript of "Unsuka". At this moment, Masaharu Fukuyama should let the role he plays break the emotional dike, he wants to tell the regret that he should not have carried out love to the end, he wants to blame himself for rubbing shoulders with his lover and then letting Unsak fall into a situation of no return, he must regret that he did not realize it earlier and then try to find Unsaki... However, Masaharu Fukuyama did not perform like this, and even, "even when the days were most difficult, he thought that the person who wrote his mother into the novel would come to pick her up." When I think of this, I am full of hope", when Kaomi said these extremely sensational words, Otosaka Kyosero was only wet in the corners of his eyes and choked up and unable to speak.

I pressed the pause button to imagine Masaharu Fukuyama dealing with the highlight in this way: As soon as I walked into the shrine and saw the unruly photo, Otosaka Kyoshiro couldn't help but talk about the reason why he had not been able to finally become a family member with the girl who fell in love at first sight. We, who accompanied Kazumi to listen, clearly heard that Osaka Kyoshiro was excusing himself. Yes, the emotions written in black and white in the novel are pure and beautiful, and when this beautiful emotion becomes a flower in the mist of the moon in the water, especially after the party of the relationship dies prematurely in an unhappy marriage, how can people not question the desperate love of Osaka Kyoseshiro? Otosaka Kyosero is anxious to confess to Uchimi that Unmi's death has nothing to do with him. When it comes to the emergency, Otosaka Kyoshiro actually grabbed the shoulder of the unsakan's daughter, and first gently and then frantically shook it, hoping that the little girl would be able to accept the novelist's words in the blink of an eye...

If Osaka Kyoshiro on the screen looks like this, in terms of the logic of the plot, it is also very smooth. The question is, how much psychological shadow will such Aosaka Kyoshiro bring to Kaomi? Although she has endured the bitter fruit of an unhappy marriage with her mother, although she has watched her mother give up her life without nostalgia, the little girl has never doubted that the sunshine is the main color in life, so she will tell Otosaka Kyoshiro, who loves her mother deeply in the novel and abandons her mother in reality, "When the days are most difficult, I also think that the person who wrote her mother into the novel will come to pick her up." When I think of it, I am full of hope! "It's really a gray area of disdain for indulging in life."

More fans of Shunji Iwai like "The Last Letter" better than "Hello, Zhihua", probably because of that beautiful moment, right? After the unscathed spirit hall came out, it rained. Osaka Kyosero, holding a transparent umbrella, stopped and turned around. Following his line of sight, we saw that the two girls, also holding transparent umbrellas, were smiling and waving goodbye... Osaka took out his camera, focused carefully, and then ingested two bright-looking little girls into the camera. We see that At this time, Masaharu Fukuyama was calm and kind. Calm, because he cherished every bit of the unsancelled after breaking up with him into his memory; and kindness, because he turned the memorial of the unsakable into a hint to the little girl: No matter how difficult the day is, please don't give up hope.

When you think about it, where is the most appropriate expression of Osaka Kyoshiro, which is given by Masaharu Fukuyama? It is clear that the screenwriter and director Shunji Iwai wanted Masaharu Fukuyama to perform! He wanted to use Masaharu Fukuyama's performance to tell his fans that he could commemorate a lover who passed by in this way. Unfortunately, we who are always in a hurry by life have difficulty emotionally and stably to feel the expression of Shunji Iwai, so Shunji Iwai recounts the emotions that cannot be forgotten, which is "The Last Letter". (Wu Mei)

Source: China Women's Daily