After 21 years, the movie "Kikujiro's Summer", which is extremely familiar to Chinese audiences, is determined to meet with Chinese mainland audiences in theaters this year, and I don't know when it began, Japanese movies began to walk out of Kurosawa's "samurai era" and began to turn to the direction of the healing department. This style is appropriate and natural for Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Kore-eda, but the healing wind was pushed to the extreme in 1999 by a deviant in Japanese society: Takeshi Kitano.
When the classic melody in "Kikujiro's Summer" sounds, everyone's imagination of childhood and beauty will be reawakened, and many people may find it difficult to imagine that it was created by a "bad" artist.
Since he was young, he was not a peaceful person, he once stole the 600,000 yen dowry that his mother had painstakingly saved for his eldest daughter, and squandered it, so he formed a deep grudge with his mother.
After marrying his wife, he became acquainted with a female college student, and after she was bullied by the "paparazzi", he took a vote of brothers to raid the newspaper called "firday", and was eventually sentenced to 6 months in prison with a two-year suspension. It didn't take long for him to empathize with each other again, and a scandal broke out with Hosokawa Noriko, Yuko, and others. In 2019, the 72-year-old Takeshi Kitano divorced his wife and fled with his lover, who was 18 years younger than himself.
However, the Japanese have a special affection for Kitano Takeshi, after the nuclear leak, tsunami, earthquake, mudslide series of nuclear accidents, tsunamis, earthquakes, mudslides in Fukushima, Japan, a series of trust began to appear among the people, some media did a survey of the Japanese people with the title of "who will you trust japan to be the most assured", and as a result, Kitano Takeshi "defeated" many politicians to become the first.
Some people may wonder why Japan, such a stoic, well-behaved, orderly social and national character, has a cult of Kitano Takeshi.
In the eyes of the Japanese writer Jiang Feng, Kitano Takeshi grew up under his mother's feather duster, and his entire growth process runs through the conformist and even somewhat repressive society of Japan. Under this social atmosphere, an extreme emotion will brew up, and the maximum outbreak will be ushered in at the right time. Like a balloon that keeps expanding, when its endurance reaches the zero boundary point, it will eventually fall apart. This is not difficult to confirm from the fact that Japan launched an all-out war against all of Asia during World War II, and even challenged the United States with practical actions.
In the American writer Benedict's book "Chrysanthemum and the Knife", there is a very wonderful and accurate description: "The character of the Japanese is divided into two extremes, they are like chrysanthemums and war knives, they are both polite and arrogant, both civilized and barbaric, both aggressive and gentle, both fickle and stubborn, both conservative and radical, both obedient and untamed, both loyal and rebellious, both brave and cowardly, both arrogant and humble."
Speaking of this, I have to talk about a small story that Jiang Feng told, one year Jiang Feng was at the airport, sitting diagonally opposite him, there was a Japanese person on the phone, he had been talking at a loud volume if no one was around, at this time Jiang Feng walked over and said to him in Japanese: "Do you speak so loudly in Japan?" ”。 The Japanese man quickly bowed and ran outside with the phone.
In fact, whether you have been to Japan or not, probably everyone knows that Japan is a very ethical people, and they will not disturb others in any place. Obviously not, all our inherent impressions of Japan, including observance of order, not making loud noises in public, not spitting, not throwing garbage, etc., all their good character will not be established for more than a hundred years.
It is because the whole of Japanese society has established a very, very strong system of order, and everyone just lives and produces under this rule, which is why the Japanese people leave Japan and come to a country that does not pay much attention to these details, and they immediately release their instincts. The reason why the Japanese like Kitano Takeshi is actually largely because they are unable to break through the shackles of this social system, but they project their desire for self-release on a powerful person who dares to break through the shackles.
This is the same as the way we see those izakayas outside the izakaya in the middle of the night in the middle of the night, and the polite company employees will sing after drinking and vomiting on the trees, which is the most heartless release for those who are strict with themselves.