The well-known Japanese screenwriter and playwright Hashida Shougako died of acute lymphoma on April 4 at the age of 95.
In late February this year, Hashida Shougako was hospitalized in Tokyo for acute lymphoma, and after being transferred back to Shizuoka Atami City Hospital near her hometown, she returned home to recuperate on the 3rd, but died of illness.
She has long looked away from the affairs behind her, does not do any farewell ceremonies and funerals, and quietly bids farewell to the world.
Below, Jun Budaya introduces this Japanese master screenwriter.
Hashida Graduated from the Faculty of Letters at Waseda University, and joined the Shochikusha Script Department as a student and began writing scripts.
Hashida's works feature women as the protagonists, and the representative work is "Ashin", which can be recorded in the annals of Japanese drama.
This 1983 NHK morning drama tells the story of a woman who struggles, struggles and starts a business in order to survive, creating a seemingly weak but hard-working and determined woman.
After the broadcast of "Ashin", it triggered a social phenomenon known as "Ashin syndrome" in Japan.
Episode 186 set a record rating of 62.9%, the average rating of the whole series was 52.6%, both of which set the highest rating record in the history of Japanese dramas, and it has been nearly 40 years, and there is still no Japanese drama ratings that can approach this number.
▲ Hashida Sugako with actors playing "Ashin" of different ages (left 1, Tokyo, 1982)
In 1978, the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship came into force, and exchanges between China and Japan have a greater political guarantee on the basis of the previous long-term people-to-people exchanges.
As an important carrier of cultural exchanges between the two countries, film and television dramas also began to play their important role at this time, and "A Xin" is one of them.
The show also caused a huge response when it was broadcast in China through CCTV in 1985, with a maximum rating of 80%. (Replayed by Hunan TV in 2007)
There is also a plot in the play that at that time, Ah Xin did not have enough to eat and could not fill his stomach, and as a result, many viewers sent food stamps and rice to the TV station, hoping to transfer it to Ah Xin.
"A Xin" is not only a women's drama that shows women's life experience and mental journey, but also a spiritual model for everyone under the trend of the times.
In the 1980s, when the wave of reforms was launched, the term "going to the sea" became a hot topic at that time. The broadcast of "The Story of Ashin" at this time just conforms to the needs of the public psychology and ignites the entrepreneurial dreams of a generation of Chinese.
In addition to China, the play was later broadcast in 63 countries or regions around the world, in addition to the exquisite shooting, compact plot, sincere and picturesque scenery, the main thing is that the background of the play' era, the content of the story and the traditional human virtues such as inspiration, hard work and diligence expressed are commonly pursued and praised by mankind.
Japanese dramas that caused an almost crowded viewing frenzy in China during the same period as "Ashin" included "Blood Doubts" starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura, and Hashida Shougako was also one of the screenwriters of this drama.
The whole drama involves ethics, disease, life and death parting, and other major problems in life, and such a plot has been imitated in various ways, and has to have the screenwriting skills of Hashida Shouheko, and many later Korean drama screenwriters have to pay her tuition.
"Blood Doubt" actor Ken Uzui and director Yasuo Lower flag died in 2014 and 2019, respectively.
Another masterpiece of Hashida Shougako's long-term influence in Japan is "Cold and Warm World".
The first part of "Cold and Warm People" was broadcast in 1990, with an average rating of 21.3%, a total of 511 episodes in 10 seasons, and is the ace family drama of TBS TELEVISION, and until 2019, it was still launching a new special, which is a work that has influenced generations of Japanese audiences.
In 2008, this drama was introduced through CCTV, and although it did not cause a sensational effect in the new century, it also gained a fixed audience.
Some viewers commented: "This is one of the best TV dramas today, and the level of screenwriting is very high, showing the lifestyle, hobbies, specific language actions, and relationships between people in Japan' middle and low-class people." "
"Cold and Warm People" has been broadcast on CCTV for 4 years, and domestic director Lei Xianhe is very appreciative of the screenwriter Hashida Shouheko: "Every character image in the play is so distinct, flesh and blood, because the screenwriter has put a lot of effort into the character at the beginning of writing to make the characters in the play so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people." Chinese TV dramas should also be inspired from it, in fact, many Chinese TV dramas are heavy plots and not heavy characters, the incident is over, and the TV series is over. "Cold and Warm World" is a mirror worth learning from our filmmakers. "
Screenwriters who can write such interesting works are naturally also interesting people.
▲Photo of Hashida Shougako and Izumi Pinko
Hashida Shougako once said: "The Japanese news is basically very dark, and I hope that my plays will warm people's hearts." "Every time she finishes writing a season of "Cold and Warm World", she travels the world by boat to reward herself.
The actress Izumi Who starred in "Ashin" and "Cold and Warm People", and has been in deep friendship with Hashida Shougako for many years and loves the same family, and she spent her last time with Hashida.
Through a television program, Izumi tells about Hashida's last days, and before her death on the 4th, she changed hashida into the dress she often wears when traveling the world by boat, and put on makeup for her.
Hashida said to Izumi Hirako, "Don't be sad [when I die], I'll just turn into a thousand winds beside you." He also joked, "However, it is not certain that I will go first." ”
Hashida Shougako has long looked down on life and death, and she revealed at the age of 90 that she wanted euthanasia.
At that time, she said that her husband died 27 years ago, she had no children under her knees, the only family member was pet dogs, and she was not sure when she would suffer from diseases such as alzheimer's disease, and she did not want to live in a state of forgetting relatives and friends, so she began to contact the issue of euthanasia.
Not wanting to cause trouble to others is Hashida's principle, and she has long told her friend that if she notices dementia one day, she should be reminded immediately so that she can fly to Switzerland to perform euthanasia.
She didn't shy away from talking about death, and she had planned how to bury her later, not wanting to owe anyone in this and future lives.
Hashida Shougako said that although many people are lying in bed, they have lost their will to survive and are depressed, so it is better to deal with the aftermath and let themselves choose the way to leave, so she called on the Japanese authorities to establish relevant regulations on euthanasia.
Because of the income from writing and royalties, Hashida Shouheko was financially safe, and it took 2 years to break up and leave, so that he would not bother others to sort out the relics after he left.
Although Hashida Shougako has left this world, her influence is still there, and her foundation created the Hashida Awards in 1993 to recognize outstanding TV shows, TV series, newcomer actors and screenwriters who have made significant contributions to Japanese television culture, and is now an important award in the Japanese television drama industry.
In addition to Hashida Shoukako, the famous actor Kuniaki Tanaka (who died at the age of 88) recently left us.
Kuniyoshi Tanaka also left a memory for a generation of Chinese, he starred in the first foreign film introduced in China after the reform and opening up, "Hunt" (as Yokoji Keiji), he and the lead actor Ken Takakura, became the screen memory of a generation of Chinese people. Kuniyoshi Tanaka is also the archetype of admiral "Yellow Ape" Porusalino in One Piece.