Sakurai, a small theater actor, has a stagnant career, is frustrated in the love scene, and his life is sloppy. In the garbage heap-like home, he wanted to do it himself, but when he hanged himself, the rope was broken and did not die, and even the search for death was so unsuccessful, which can be called a model of a loser. Inadvertently, he found that he had a ticket to the bathhouse, and he was ready to wash it and die.
Professional killer Kondo is well-dressed, and he has just finished his business driving his luxury car and listening to Beethoven blocking the side of the bathhouse. When I was sorting out my sleeves, I found the blood that had been left behind. So he also stopped at the bathhouse, and before getting off the bus, he had a stinky face full of it and said that he was not satisfied with his life.
An extreme failure with nothing, a very successful but involuntary. The lives of the two people were reversed because of a piece of soap.
Kondo slipped on the soap and fell into amnesia, getting Sakurai's hand and thinking he was a depraved actor. When he came to "his own house" with the help of Miss Sanae, the whole person collapsed. He had no idea that he was such a failure.
"Now that the idea of seeking death has been forgotten, what matters is what to do later."
Kondo is still a solid and strong person in his bones, and although he thinks he has nothing because of his amnesia, he still lives an orderly life in the role of Sakurai. After learning that I was an actor, I took over the work, bought books to study, and took notes. Seriously and really live, he even became a smallly accomplished dragon set actor, and his life was formal. From Kondo's various points of view, Sakurai's original life was not actually a dead end.
Sakurai stole Kondo's key, but still looked like a child, Kondo was meticulous, and the family was magnificent and neat and orderly, but he was quickly dirty by Sakurai. Inadvertently, Sakurai is involved in Kondo's killer life, trying to maintain his "sense of justice", but is hunted down by the gang.
It can be said that although the two people have reversed their lives, they still return to their respective origins. In a sense, Kondo actually got more.
Many people say that the failures they have experienced in life are ultimately because they have no money. Sakurai, too, thinks he can change his life with enough money. However, the large amount of cash in the Kondo family did not save Sakurai's life.
Kondo, on the other hand, relied on a meticulous, serious and down-to-earth attitude to get smoother and smoother in his acting career, and finally won the favor of Miss Sanae.
Finally, at the funeral of Miss Sanae's father, Kondo inadvertently recovers his memory and helps Sakurai and also helps himself escape the crisis of the gang. The two men went back to their own lives.
Sanae initially announced to her colleagues that she wanted to get married and was looking for a "serious and pragmatic" man, and Kondo met such a person who was 100% compatible with her. They are not good at words, and they will seriously plan everything in their lives and strictly implement them. The attitude of serious life may not be like this for another person, so when it is all over, Sanae, who thinks that kondo has forgotten, has a lonely look in her eyes.
However, Kondo himself found a life of his own in the process of amnesia, he drove full horsepower to crash the car on the telephone pole in front of Sanae, trying to lose his memory again in this way, but this is not important, the hearts of Sanae and Kondo have long been linked.
This film is directed by Kenji Uchida self-written and self-directed film "The Method of Stealing the Key", the script is a very simple identity exchange, but it uses a lot of contrasts and contrasts to create drama, a down-and-out actor and excellent killer life is diametrically opposite, the attitude of doing things is the opposite, which causes a huge contrast between the lives of the two people, but also makes the two people who later exchange identities have a more thought-provoking contrast.
Sakurai is disheartened, impatient and perfunctory. Although he got everything Kondo had, he quickly ran out of money and did not want to make progress to make himself a poor man. Although Kondo fell into a depressed life, learned that he had failed to commit suicide, but quickly let go of all this, lived his every day steadily, insisted on his goal every step, and finally succeeded.
No matter how difficult life is, work hard in a down-to-earth manner, life will always usher in a turning point. But how difficult is this, some people say: "Excellence is a habit." "Indeed, in the process of watching the movie, it is difficult to write everything on the life notes like Kondo and Sanae, and do everything well. Many times procrastination is often the main theme of life, such an attitude may be comfortable, but let a lot of beautiful ideals, want to do things smashed on their hands.
In addition, there is a dark line that is also very interesting, that is, Kondo has been emotionally frustrated because of money problems, resulting in his original personality with a little indifference, and indifference to the outside world makes Kondo's work appear particularly calm and meticulous, and he is always impatient and angry. Such a self Kondo was disgusted in his bones. Rich, but particularly boring, such a life is actually not what Kondo himself wants, he still wants to be an ordinary person with a temperature. Finally, I hit the electric pole with a car, on the one hand, because of early seedlings, on the other hand, I also want to escape the cold life of the past.
In the career of an actor, it is full of laughter, which is reflected in the flashing group photos in the film, and it is also the source of Kondo's continuous efforts. Life should have a temperature, and many times you can't have the opportunity to change your own silent situation like Kondo did. Thinking clearly about what you want in a lifetime is often more important than hard work.
A lifetime of struggle to get but not what you want, this is also a failure, just like the sad Kondo at the beginning of the film, the appearance is bright but the heart is lonely as snow. Fortunately, the reunion at the end of the movie gives the comedy a warm ending.
Let's talk about the two male protagonists, Teruyuki Kagawa and Masato Sakai, who are the two peaks of the Japanese film industry. When Kagawa Teruyuki was young, he was sprayed "can't act" and was once disheartened. Later, he stood out with one supporting role after another. Remember that "big brother and sister-in-law have a good New Year"? It was played by Kagawa Teruyuki against domestic pressure, and this attitude of treating history objectively and not evading, coupled with good acting skills and hard work, made him deeply loved by Chinese audiences.
Masato Sakai is a "genius-type" actor, and it is needless to say how popular "Naoki Hanzawa" is, but Sakurai, who performed in this movie without any success, can be seen that his play path is wide and can be retracted. But Sakai Masato is also a model of "late success", once fell to the point of becoming a nude model, and finally persevered to success. After becoming famous, he maintained a reading habit for many years and made him a columnist.
In everyday times, many of the idealistic sighs that are often heard are essentially the consequences of self-procrastination. Everyone has the opportunity to change themselves, it may take a long time, it may take them to make unimaginable efforts and pains, but as long as you work hard, you will eventually get a good result, even if you have achieved nothing in your life, struggling in the cause you like is also a kind of fun in life. (End of full text)