Yoshinaga Sayuri, Canary of the North, 2012
The story is adapted from Xiang Jiamiao's "Reciprocating Book Jane"
Few people's first book is a hit, Yu Jia Miao counts as one, her "Confession" came out in 2009 and won the Honya Award, the following year won the film script starring Takako Matsu, when the director Tetsuya Nakajima, who had filmed "The Life of the Abandoned Matsuko", had just withdrawn from a commercial film that was not salty and not light, turned his head to see the story, and immediately slapped his head, he took it to rush to the Oscars.
Tetsuya Nakajima
"Confessions" lost to the Danish drama "Better World" that year, but with the title of "the latest work to be eliminated in Asian films", Director Nakajima became popular again, and also brought a 36-year-old housewife, she is Xiang Jiamiao.
Stills from Confessions
As soon as the movie came out, everyone understood, "This housewife writes revenge very powerfully." The story, structure, impact and lines of Confessions all seem to have become the embodiment of Tang Jiamiao's personality, and everyone is looking forward to her possible thrilling experience, but in the spotlight, she looks very ordinary, and before the novel came out, she did not do anything big to boast about, nor did she do anything evil that could make the headlines of the newspaper.
The restrained Xiang Jiamiao at the film promotion ceremony (first from the right)
Japanese housewives, it is really unfathomable...
In fact, at the very beginning, the Japanese housewife gave us the impression that it was more like the wife in Dazaiji's "The Wife of Wei Yong", who had been maintaining the family under the circumstances of her husband's alcoholism, debt, and elopement with women, and went out as a maid to pay off her husband's debts.
Later, with the development of the economy and the rise of women's consciousness, the image of this group slowly changed, the change in the Showa period was not obvious, and the Japanese housewives still heard the world with humility, gentleness, and diligence, but after the men were no longer scum, the image of housewives "going against the grain" was gone.
Speaking of which, this is not the first time that Japanese housewives have attracted our strong attention, the previous few years of "Day Face" is a benchmark work that pays attention to the life of Japanese housewives and their inner feelings, and this work that makes the derailment like the first love also caused a wave of enthusiasm in Asia at that time. At that time, this drama was also due to the extension of a social topic, and one of the protagonists, Li Jiazi, was the representative of "the wife of the day" and "the derailment of reason".
Poster for 2014 "Day Face"
Weekdays: After sending her husband to the company, she will seriously complete the housework
The wife who falls in love with other men during the day on weekdays
The same is true of Kakuda Mitsuyo, whose paper moon is also the subject of housewife bulun.
Screenshot of "Paper Moon"
The story is about a housewife, Umezawa Ewha, who lives a dull life with her husband who works at a bank, and because she is dissatisfied with her husband's indifference to her, Umezawa is deeply in love with Hikari, a young man who is attending college
It may be that the stigma is too much, but in the past two years, it has been careful, and there have been more comedic works such as "Mrs. Please Be Careful".
In "Mrs. Please Be Careful", the protagonist's wife is a former agent
(Although the play is really funny...) ）
In such a country that is highly sensitive to the topic of housewives and has many "fine traditions", it is not surprising that Xiang Jiamiao will attract special attention. Xiang Jiamiao is indeed different, she does not write about housewife incest, but the relationship between the protagonist is often not simple, she basically writes reasoning, but it is far from "Benge", more like psychological analysis, although love is written quite ideal and pure love, but it is inevitable to die, the relationship between the hero and heroine has been devastated.
"For N" ends with the protagonist Makoto Nishizaki as the murderer and goes to prison to serve ten years in prison.
In "Reversal" (TV series "Reverse Rebirth"), Kazuhisa Fukase's girlfriend receives a letter that reads "Fukase and Hisahito killed people", so they begin to disbelieve their boyfriend... This dead man had nothing to do with her...
"The Place of Flowers", one of the heroines, Miyuki and her husband Kazuya are married for three years, and Kazumimi. However, Miyuki's cousin Yosuke wooed Wamiya to start a business, but eventually reneged on his promise and stole Kazuya's blueprints and got his name in one fell swoop. Soon after, Yosuke and Kazuya and others went to the construction site to inspect, but Kazumi died at the scene...
In the letters exchanged by the protagonists of "Reciprocating Book", there is always a shadow of death lingering during...
In all of Tang Jiamiao's works, "Confession" is the darkest, the female teacher in addition to pity her daughter and husband, treat the people around her with extreme cruelty, "Reciprocating Shujian" is another level in this line, it only explains the case of the year in the final letter, the gentle wording of the protagonist who is both the guardian and the murderer, you almost think it is a fairy tale. This story can't help but remind people of "The Dedication of Suspect X", Xiang Jiamiao does not have so many reasoning plots, the perspective is more feminine, so when exposing the truth, it is more touching.
When She was young, she grew up with her parents in the countryside, with her back to the mountains and facing the sea, and went to the beach to play wildly in the summer, which can be described as a childhood life that everyone envied. After graduating from the university, he studied clothing in the Department of Home Economics, and after graduating, he taught English in Tonga with the youth overseas cooperation, and after returning to China, he became a lecturer in home economics at a high school, and married at the age of 27 and became a housewife. Although these experiences are simple, almost every paragraph will be reflected in the work, such as the rich and calm seaside town in "For N", which is Xiang Jiamiao's memories of her childhood environment.
Xiang Jiamiao did run to it later
Tonga, who "can see the straight horizon", went
Her father was a rare company employee and farmer, and her mother attached great importance to her education and fully supported her daughter's reading preferences, probably by chance, and the first book she encountered when she was young was "Strange Thief Lupin". Later, although I read a lot of books, novels such as detectives and reasoning were almost never interrupted.
When the housewife was five years later, she wanted to get out of the current situation of her own housewife, so she chose to write, during the day, she still lived a cumbersome and compact housewife life, and at night, she began to write wholeheartedly, from 10 pm to 4 am, without interruption. Nearly 30 works have been completed so far, and even among full-time writers, this number is very impressive.
She was not overwhelmed by the aura of "Confession", the year the movie became popular, she once wrote in her blog that "she continued to be a writer, and then no longer used "Confession" as a representative work", and in 16 years, she won the Yamamoto Goro Award with "Republic", she did not renege on her word, she did it.
Welfare time
"Reciprocating Book Jane"
Author: [Japanese] Minato Kanae
Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company
Producer: Wenzhi Books
Translator: Ding Shijia
Publication year: 2018-7
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