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Japan's new film "Seven Meetings": An Outlier in Japanese Culture

author:West Wind Film Review

While the wine was hot, the revolutionary party patted the boss's shoulder: How come you are not dead? You're dead, how nice it would be to have all your property used to buy arms. The boss smiled: I don't die, I can make more money and buy more guys. Next to him, his daughter was not happy: Dad usually saves money to support you, and expects him to die, what kind of person.

The revolutionary party symbolizes idealism, at any cost for the sake of ideals; the boss belongs to realism, and the daughter represents the human society.

Very wonderful, unfortunately not my original, I am not so great -

The original is the alcoholic Chess Saint Fujisawa Hideyuki:

Japan's new film "Seven Meetings": An Outlier in Japanese Culture

Chess Saint

At the celebration party, Qisheng first dried a bottle of sake, Nie Weiping sent him a half-pound of the second pot head, drank with his left foot and hit his right foot, and the high friends were full of seats, and they didn't express a little impression.

Qisheng looked at the big boss who sponsored the chess game: How come you are not dead? You're dead, and the money is used to promote Go.

The big boss smiled and nodded his head, feeling quite comfortable inside. There are many rich people, how many can become legends along with the chess saints?

Japan is an island country with no eggs, frequent earthquakes, and extremely scarce resources, and the only way to survive is to cooperate and hold together, especially after receiving the baptism of Confucian culture. Therefore, in Japan, "not being able to read the air", being unremarkable, and causing trouble to others can be said to be very bad, even more serious than the nature of China's two hundred and five.

But for a culture to avoid a backwater, it must tolerate the outlier and maintain a state of tension of confrontation.

Are japan's high-ranking intellectuals as gentle as jade and bowed like Yasunari Kawabata and Chiji Abe?

You think too much.

In 2011, Kenta Nishimura won the Wasagawa Award, and the press conference was full of words: I wanted to go to the custom shop to cool down (I received an award call), but fortunately did not go. The audience laughed. In 2012, Tanaka Shinya received the Wasagawa Prize purely for the judges' face: Grandpa gave you a face and accepted it (the original text "もらっといてや?!) "Became the Japanese Buzzword of the Year").

Japan's new film "Seven Meetings": An Outlier in Japanese Culture

Similar to Hideyuki Fujisawa, Kenta Nishimura, and Shinya Tanaka, the octagonal director of the new Japanese film "Seven Meetings" is also an outlier, pretending to be a sleeping beauty anytime and anywhere in the highly competitive workplace:

Japan's new film "Seven Meetings": An Outlier in Japanese Culture
Japan's new film "Seven Meetings": An Outlier in Japanese Culture

The Japanese workplace emphasizes dedication, sacrifice, obedience, and discipline, for the octagon, all of which are floating clouds, and at the critical moment of performance, he has to take paid leave, accuse his boss of workplace violence, eat food without paying, and the superior needle tip against Mai Mang, the situation is not opposed, eat the company's meal, smash the company's pot:

Japan's new film "Seven Meetings": An Outlier in Japanese Culture

The girl has been working for the company for many years, in addition to dealing with documents, secretly releasing pressure with her company colleagues who have a husband, and the spiritual world is blank:

Japan's new film "Seven Meetings": An Outlier in Japanese Culture

The film's ability to use the tension of the actors' performances to create dramatic conflicts is good and powerful:

Japan's new film "Seven Meetings": An Outlier in Japanese Culture

Octagon's analysis of Japanese workplace culture is very thorough: the feelings of social animals for the company are like the foolish loyalty of samurai to the lord of the clan, this culture has played a huge role in history, but people should be the first, otherwise, the company will inevitably cheat.

A Japanese film that represents the workplace, this film is an example.

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