Tokyo, Japan, 2020.
Reiko Kuki is an accountant for a toy company.
This year, girls who like to buy and buy are everywhere, but Reiko is not easy to find.
To what extent?
Try not to buy what you can, the items in the bedroom, you can count them with one hand...
"20 to send, 30 full reduction" and "buy one get one free" such a discount, absolutely can not tempt her, do not buy, immediately reduce 100%.
Go to the bakery, people are left one right one take a plate, encounter discounts, will not be able to help but buy more...
Reiko, on the other hand, insisted on buying only a separately wrapped walnut crisp, regardless of the surprise or even a little disgusted gaze of others.
What's even more exaggerated is that she caught a small plate in a grocery store, and actually considered it for a whole year before deciding to buy it home...
Her philosophy is: when spending money, we must do a good job of classification, think about what is consumption, that is, what is necessary for life, which is investment, which is waste, and minimize waste.
For example, the mother watched the live broadcast to buy an egg cooker, although it is very cheap, in her opinion, the pot at home can obviously boil eggs, there is no need to add, this is waste.
Keita Sarutobi, the prince of the toy company.
Walked through the back door into the company's marketing department, giggling all day, people in their 30s, still like a small child.
He was the complete opposite of Reiko and wanted to buy it right away.
Shopping malls, looking at shoes, trying on the right one, wanting, like a shirt, different colors for each one to come...
A friend made an appointment to go to the beach barbecue, he bought a lot of plates, used up too lazy to wash, just throw ...
After a few days of business trip to the United States, I bought and bought after work, and accidentally brushed off 7.76 million yen (490,000 yuan).
Everyone up and down the company is worried that if the boss's stupid son takes over the company in the future, he will not be able to squander his father's family business...
This is also what Qingtai's father is worried about.
He knows best that his son has no concept of money at all, and in this way, not only can he not manage the company, but it is even difficult to live independently.
On this day, he stopped his son's credit card, sold his son's apartment, and drove him to the company's finance department: here, learning how to spend money.
In this way, Keita became Reiko's apprentice.
It is conceivable that two people with completely different consumption concepts can get along more awkwardly...
Sure enough, in less than half a day, Reiko couldn't stand it.
For a lunch, Keita ordered 3 bento boxes, just because she wanted to try everything, and Bought 3 cups of coffee, because cold and hot wanted to drink...
Reiko ran to complain to her superiors: It costs 5,800 yen for a lunch, and I can't teach such a person.
"Money Breaks Love" is a romantic comedy produced by TBS TV in Japan, with a Douban score of 9.1.
Originally scheduled for 8 episodes, it has now been broadcast in 4 episodes, because Haruma Miura, the actor of Yoshita Sagittar, only starred in 3 episodes and suddenly passed away.
On July 18, 2020, Haruma Miura was found hanging himself in a closet at his home in Minato-ku, Tokyo, and was admitted to the hospital and declared dead at the age of 30.
Haruma Miura
Four days before Mingming's death, he was still promoting the upcoming "Money Break", and he was smiling in the photo...
Who would have thought that this would be his unfinished legacy...
Haruma Miura debuted at the age of 4 and starred in many classic works.
He is a teenager with a non-mainstream hairstyle and a kind heart in "Love Void", and his warm male smile has healed the youth of countless people.
《Love Sky》
He is a college student suffering from frostbite in the TV series "The Time I Exist", and he vividly interprets the pessimism and despair of patients about the future.
The Time I Exist
In the eyes of outsiders, he is a bright future star in the stardom, young and handsome, and can act, saving enough popularity and money...
Who knows, behind the smile is endless sadness.
There are many opinions about the cause of suicide, some people say that the high-intensity work pressure once made him mentally broken, and some people say that he can't bear long-term online violence...
The image comes from the Internet
Haruma Miura's mentor and good friend Oguri Shun once said in an interview: I really care about him, and sometimes I worry about him, hoping that he can live well.
It can be seen that the spiritual problem of Spring Horse has existed for a long time...
Two months after Chunma's death, "Money Breaks The Beginning" began broadcasting.
Many netizens angrily brushed five stars: because this is the last figure he left for the world.
In the play, the second generation of waste wood played by Chun Ma is not only a side of spending money, but also a warm and kind heart, full of innocence, and a positive young man.
Chun Ma once confessed: This role, to play a positive and not annoying, a little difficult...
Although there are only 3 episodes of scenes, you can still see his acting skills, natural, warm, especially the iconic smile, which is heart-wrenching...
Obviously it is a healing comedy, and when you think that this sunny boy is no longer alive, people unconsciously become sad...
It is said that the producers once thought of finding someone to replace Haruma Miura to continue filming, but the other actors in the crew could not get out of the grief caused by his death, and if they continued to shoot, it would be difficult to adjust their mental state.
And for the audience, watching comedy with a sad mood, can not enjoy it at all...
So in the end, the crew made a special decision: to make up the final return in a special way and say goodbye to the spring horse.
In the last episode, through the memories of others, everyone's thoughts and love for Keita are strung together.
Keita's father said: He has an innate talent that can make people smile. That child, it is enough to be yourself.
Talking about Keita in the play, why not the true portrayal of Haruma Miura?
Reiko, who usually thinks he talks a lot, didn't start to miss him until he left: Somehow, I was lonely, I seemed to want to see him a little...
I don't know if it is an illusion, I always feel that in this episode, Reiko's actor Matsuoka Moyu is very haggard.
Her last dry laugh was even more heart-wrenching, not the emotion that the plot should have, but it was so real, it was the sadness of losing a friend, and it couldn't hide it...
In the last scene of the whole play, the words of the whole crew to Haruma Miura were played: Haruma, we will always like you.
Let people cry for a second...
As a netizen said: five stars to the whole drama staff and actors, I don't know what kind of mood they are in...
Speaking of the drama itself, even if we leave aside the legacy of Haruma Miura, it is a Japanese drama of high quality.
Original screenplay by Rimi Oshima, screenwriter of last year's hit Japanese drama "The New Life of Kai".
The details are vivid and interesting, and the topics discussed are quite interesting, not the rotten story of "saving women" meeting "wasteful men".
I have to say that this drama is too suitable for playing in this late summer and early autumn.
Kamakura B&B's Japanese wind, Japanese small fresh, clear sky, mountain forest, flowing water, temple, seaside, beach...
Interestingly, each episode also begins with a haiku quote, which is full of charm and quite healing.
And it explores a very grounded topic: spending money.
In this era of consumption, buying and buying has become an addictive hobby of urban people.
We are surrounded by shopping festivals, we habitually make up for it, use the pleasure of shopping, resist the pressure of hard work...
But shopping costs money, money is spent more, you have to think of making more money, bear greater work pressure, and more pressure, and rely on more buying to buy to alleviate...
This seems to have become an endless cycle.
The show is trying to remind us: Are you really happy after buying so much?
Qingtai in the film, casually buy a few bento, of course, he can't finish eating, and he doesn't have the heart to taste the taste of each box, and when the plate he bought is used up, he will throw it away, and he will not notice the pattern on it at all...
He seemed to have a lot, but none of them, which he had carefully admired.
Reiko is the complete opposite, she only buys what she really needs.
A piece of individually wrapped walnut puff pastry is small, but on Saturday morning, paired with a cup of ice-roasted tea and sitting down under a tree in front of the temple to savor it, it is enough to soothe the tired soul after a week of work.
Between work, enjoy a green dough, feel the refreshing grass fragrance with your heart, and get a moment of peace...
Reiko would hold out her palm and place it on her chest: Thank you Qingtuan, thank you 60 yen.
The 180-yen clear noodle soup, although there is nothing to match, but it is also very delicious when you taste it carefully, and you can eat it happily.
There is also squid rice that you can only buy by sneaking out of the car during the trip.
Q-bomb squid and a slightly sweet sauce, the soup penetrates and the sticky rice is intertwined, the key is that 4 squid, one is only 100 yen, very good value.
She sincerely thanked: thank you squid rice, thank you 400 yen.
There is a law in economics called diminishing marginal utility.
That is, as the consumer's consumption of a certain commodity increases, the increase in utility that the consumer receives from each unit of consumption of the commodity continuously increases, i.e., the marginal utility is diminishing.
This phenomenon is very common, for a simple example, when eating the first bread, very happy, eating the second, also very happy, but no longer as happy as when eating the first...
Eating the third and fourth, even if you haven't eaten yet, you don't feel so happy.
Our material life is already rich enough to think that the more we are satisfied, but in fact, it is not, perhaps, we just need, just right.
I don't know if Reiko knows this law, but she undoubtedly takes this to the extreme, cherishes and enjoys every one of the moments, truly lives up to it, and truly feels the happiness of every penny.
She buys things with a sense of ceremony.
Try to maintain a certain amount of things in the house. Increase the same, to think about it again and again, is really very much like, will be on a specific day, clean the house, welcome back.
Even buying small items such as earrings is not ambiguous, and the total number of possessions at the same time does not exceed 3, welcome back one, and properly dispose of one...
She will treat what she has kindly, use it carefully, and try to use it longer.
The crockery at home was missing a corner, and she would take the time to mend it.
Others ask: Why bother so much, can't you buy a new one?
She said: "People used to be like this, using it very cherished. It's fun to meet something new, but I think it's also fun to keep working with something. The more things are repaired, the more they will fall in love with them.
Reiko's life credo is: clean and poor, inner stability, is the ideal life.
Everyone, because of different backgrounds, different situations, has a completely different view of consumption, whether it is to cut the door or to be generous, whether it is thoughtful or passionate consumption, in essence, as long as it does not hinder others, there is nothing wrong with it.
But the lifestyle behind the concept of consumption is worth pondering...
We may not be able to live like Reiko, but her way of life has given us a lot of inspiration.
What people are distressed about is that their desires are not satisfied, and desires are like a bottomless pit, people always want more...
But in life, most things, it will be good to have them, and it doesn't matter if they don't.
She didn't make a lot of money, didn't buy a lot of things, but Reiko had a very happy and happy day.
She has the ability to find happiness, spends not much money, but spends it happily: eating is happy, playing ball is happy, doing massage is happy...
This ability grows from the bottom of the heart, and no amount of money can be exchanged.