In the past 2020, the damage caused by the new crown virus to the Japanese people is far less than that of European and American countries, and the number of infections in the epidemic of the Japanese people with strict self-discipline is far lower than that of Western countries. However, Japan is still the most "chest tight" country in this epidemic, and the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games may have a negative impact on Japanese citizens as much as the epidemic.
Tokyo is one of the few cities in human history that has been able to host the Olympic Games twice, especially the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, which was of extraordinary significance to the Japanese nation and people. After the end of World War II, Japan, as a defeated country, began to rebuild its country and society from a ruin, and ordinary Japanese people, who were also victims of war, created an economic miracle in the 1950s, laying a solid foundation for becoming a world economic power. Along the way, two landmark events have greatly inspired Japanese nationals, in addition to the Tokyo Olympics, which were first hosted by an Asian country in 1964, and the Tokyo Tower, which was completed in 1958. The 2005 Japanese film "Forever Three-Chome Sunset" swept the major awards of Japanese films that year, and an important clue throughout the film was the construction of Tokyo Tower that year.
The film revolves around an ordinary Tokyo community called "Yuricho Sanchome", with almost no plot and routines common in commercial movies, and is completely a trivial matter of the life of the japanese underprivileged.
The grocery store owner, Cha chuan, is a high-achieving student at the University of Tokyo who has never met a talent, and this talented person with literary dreams has to run a small family shop in order to make a living. He has an inexplicable affair with the beautiful tavern lady next door, and the two have adopted a little boy they never knew.
There is also a simple car repair shop opposite the grocery store, Mr. Suzuki runs the so-called "Suzuki Automobile Company" in the morning, and the well-meaning family takes in Rokuko, a girl who came to Tokyo from abroad to find a job.
The most surprising character in the film is the eccentric community doctor, played by the legendary Japanese superstar Yukazu Miura, who swept Asia in the 1980s.
The storyline of the movie "Forever Three-Chome Sunset" has nothing to do with the construction of Tokyo Tower, but the Tokyo Tower, which appears in different states from time to time in the movie, becomes the most impressive picture. There is no doubt that the entire construction process of Tokyo Tower in that year was the process of Japanese people repairing the wounds of war, and the completion of Tokyo Tower also symbolized the economic recovery of Japanese society from the ruins of war.
The spirit of the characters in the film is also in line with the thriving social atmosphere of Japan in the 1950s and 1960s, which may be an important reason why "Forever Three-Chome Sunset" can resonate strongly with Japanese society more than half a century later. Whether it is the vision of the frustrated literary youth for Japan's highest literary award, the Wasagawa Prize, or Mr. Suzuki's determination to develop his repair shop into a real car company, everyone in the "eternal three-chome" has their own dreams and strives for it.
Another interesting plot in the film gives Chinese audiences a sense of déjà vu, as television sets began to move into the family life of ordinary Japanese people with the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. At the beginning of the film, the children of the Suzuki family constantly ask their parents about the time when the TV will be delivered home, strongly conveying to the audience the signal of Japan's socio-economic recovery at that time. The whole neighborhood of Samchome gathered at Mr. Suzuki's house to watch TV, and such a familiar scene also appeared in the Chinese mainland 1980s.
The two Tokyo Olympics, which have been separated by more than half a century, have brought different feelings to the Japanese people, and there is no doubt that the 1964 Tokyo Olympics made the entire Japanese society strongly aware of the recovery of their country, while the ill-fated Olympic Games in 2020 made people feel a little embarrassed. The Japanese who experienced the economic miracle of the last century and the Tokyo Olympics are now dying of old age, and the ensuing aging has also had a profound impact on Japanese society.
The economic miracle of the 1950s and 1960s brought about the next two decades of economic prosperity for Japanese society, when Japan, the world's second-largest economy, could buy almost the entire planet. Subsequently, due to the "lost thirty years" brought about by the appreciation of the yen, the Japanese economic bubble burst, and a large amount of social wealth was concentrated in the hands of the elderly who experienced economic prosperity, and the result was that the entire Japanese economy was developed and stagnated. The elderly have no intention of consuming, the young lack opportunities, and the whole society advocates the exquisite and inefficient "craftsman spirit". Such a "low-desire" society is vividly represented in another Cannes-winning Japanese film, "Thief Family", which shows a world of difference in Japanese society in different eras.
Under the eternal three-chome sunset, Japanese society has moved from the era of the "economic miracle" in movies to the era of affluence and bland post-developed countries. This thriving era in the film is nostalgic to many Japanese people, but it is also doomed to never return.
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"Thief Family", the epitome of low desire in the Heisei era