1905 Movie Network News Recently, a pure love movie "The Bride Spanning 8 Years", starring Ken Sugar Sato and the male god harvester Tsuchiya Taiho, directed by Keihisa Sete, based on real events, is expected to be released on Tanabata, telling the story of the husband who carefully takes care of his wife who fell into a strange illness and falls asleep, and wakes up miraculously after eight years.
Japan's word-of-mouth box office double, across the ocean for love
Many viewers do not know that this seemingly ordinary pure love movie has set off a climax in Japan before it was screened at the festival. It is reported that the film was screened in Japan on December 16, 2017, setting a record for the number one live-action Japanese film in the weekend box office ranking for three consecutive weeks. Blockbusters such as Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which was released in the same period, continued to compete for the top few box office rankings. He was also nominated for the Japan Academy Film Awards (also known as the Japanese Film Oscar) for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Score. "The Bride Spanning 8 Years" can be described as a box office and word-of-mouth. It came to everyone with a live-action version of the love miracle that touched countless people.
At the just-concluded Shanghai Film Festival, it opened the best opening of the live-action adaptation story with a sincere and touching index, and the countless fans in the exhibition circle further verified the excellent audience popularity of this movie in the Chinese mainland.
The movies, the people who watch the movies, and the people who make the movies are all impressed, and the word of mouth is bursting
Most viewers believe that the charm of a love movie is not to impress the audience with tears and the tragic sadism index of the story, compared with the popular "Tokyo Love Story", "Tokyo Tower", "Standing in the Center of the World Calling for Love" and other Japanese classic love films, "The Bride Across 8 Years" uses the simple love concept conveyed by the true story, the love across 8 years has touched many people, and has also triggered the redemption of some people's emotional crisis, and they are also thinking about the nature of love after tears. The pure love and authenticity of many urban romance films may not be comparable.
It is said that more than a month before the start of filming, Ken Sato came to Okayama Prefecture, where the story takes place, to experience life, not only to learn the local dialect, but also to feel the mental state of the characters. During this time, he devoted himself wholeheartedly and never returned to Tokyo. Sato and Tsuchiya also visited the Nakahara couple together, and in addition to the much-circulated wedding video, Nakahara Shoshi also showed the photos and videos they had taken over the years, and the two also met the little boy born to the Nakahara couple.
Douban netizens also gave a rating of 7.8 and came with a wave of sincere reviews. As Douyou said: "The story of Shoshi and Mai tells you that true love and beauty still exist in the corners of this world." ”
The release of Tanabata is expected to set off another mainland screen miracle, or will impact the box office of romance films in the same period
The movies, the people who watch the movies, and the filmmakers are all moved, and try to prove through the movies: there are still ordinary people's love miracles in this era, obviously, "The Bride Spanning 8 Years" is the best movie choice for Tanabata couples. Tanabata's romance films of the same period seem to be powerless in the face of this film that makes overseas audiences tear glands collapse.
What exactly is love? "The Bride Spanning 8 Years" answers this question with 8 years of time and restores the original appearance of love. It is rumored that the call for the release of Tanabata by the drama and the couple audience has gone all the way up, and the couples in love or the single youths who are lost in love want to take this opportunity to watch "The Bride Spanning 8 Years" with the people around them, and from the 8 years of time that Shangzhi accompanied the sleeping Mai, he reflected that he had done things for love, and the road he had traveled could be said to be very exciting.
While experiencing a real love miracle, the audience will also have the opportunity to witness the birth of a phenomenon of pure love movie. Some industry insiders predict that the film's choice to be released on Tanabata is very appropriate, but the quality of the film itself and the blessing of overseas box office and word-of-mouth will have a big impact on the box office of romance films in the same period in the mainland.