Miyoshi Caihua office awkward dance
Your Name. "" set a box office record for the introduction of a film in Japan for 575 million yuan
"Doraemon: Walk with Me" grossed 529 million yuan in mainland China
"Spirited Away" grossed 488 million yuan in mainland China
On Friday, Japanese director Shijing Yaguchi's work "Dancing with Me" was released on the mainland. The director has directed word-of-mouth works such as "Five Teenagers Who Flutter water" and "Survival Family", and is well-known among Chinese film fans. However, the comedy song and dance film "Dance with Me" has been super cold in the Chinese market: according to Maoyan Professional Edition data, the film only grossed 484,000 yuan in the first three days of the first weekend; of which the first day box office was 337,000 yuan, and the single-day box office on Saturdays and Sundays did not exceed 100,000 yuan.
Although the box office of "Dance with Me" was affected by various factors such as the film's own niche, late introduction, and the quality of the work was not superior, the film's experience is still quite representative, reflecting the general cold after the introduction of Japanese live-action films into the mainland in recent years.
Zhou Dong praised her, and the audience did not buy it
Dancing with Me is written and directed by Yaguchi Shijing, starring Miyoshi Saika, Yagi Yu, Masae Nagatani, Takao Miura, and others. Among them, 25-year-old Japanese actor, model and singer Miyoshi Caihua has participated in "Confession", "Not Married", "Good Morning! "Spicy Teacher GTO 2014" and other classic Japanese dramas, at the age of 17 with the comedy "Good Morning! The role of the youngest daughter in "Ye Yue" won the "Best Newcomer" award at the 67th Japan Mainichi Film Awards; in the same year, she played the first female lead for the first time in the youth drama film "Departure of the Island Song Fifteen Spring", and the actors she cooperated with were old drama bones such as Kaoru Kobayashi and Shinobu Otake, and she won the "Best Newcomer" award at the 35th Yokohama Film Festival. In the popular Japanese drama "Alice in the Land of the Dead" at the end of last year, Miyoshi Caihua also starred. It is worth mentioning that Sanji Caihua starred in Jay Chou's MV "Say Good Don't Cry" in 2019, in which she played an urban girl who realized her dreams for her lover through hard work.
"Say Yes Don't Cry" has made many Chinese audiences remember this "beautiful and smooth" Japanese new generation beauty, but this is obviously far from enough to drive a movie's box office. What's more, "Dance with Me" is not a youth romance film that Miyoshi Caihua is better at and more acceptable to ordinary audiences, but a slightly niche song and dance film, and the plot is even more "brain-opening": because of an accidental hypnotic experience, the company's white-collar Shizuka Suzuki (Miyoshi Caihua) has a "strange disease", no matter when and where, as long as she hears the music, she will involuntarily sing and dance. So, when she made important proposals in the company, she danced in front of all the leaders and colleagues; when dating the boy she liked, she directly jumped over the tables and chairs in the restaurant...
There are a lot of song and dance plots in "Dance with Me", but the singing and dancing level of Sanji Caihua makes the audience suspicious. Among the more than 2,400 short comments on the Douban page of the film, the second hot comment that was liked by many people read: "Sanji Caihua dancing is really stiff and unimposed." ”
Douban high-scoring director, this time fell into the routine
The 53-year-old Japanese director Yaguchi Shijing has been playing steadily in the field of comedy and has created many high-scoring works. On Douban, Yaguchi Shijing scored a total of five works with a score of 8 points, of which the highest score was "Which Ah Na Na God Goes to the Village" produced in 2014, which received a high score of 8.6 points; in addition, there were 8.4 points of "Swinging Girl" and "Five Teenagers Who Splashed Water", 8.3 points of "Secret Garden" and 8.1 points of "Survival Family".
In addition to "Which Ah Na Na God Goes to the Village" is adapted from the original work of the same name, these high-scoring works are written and directed by Yaguchi Shijing. Girls who have to play jazz because they have bad stomachs because they deliver food to their families ("Swing Girls"), young boys who are attracted by beautiful coaches to form a men's synchronized swimming team but the coach goes home to give birth ("Five Teenagers Who Splash Water"), a family that wakes up one day to find that the whole city has inexplicably lost power and can only embark on the road out of the city ("Survival Family") in a daze... Like Shizuka Suzuki, a female white-collar worker who is suddenly hypnotized in "Dance with Me", the protagonists in Yaguchi's works are mostly ordinary people who are suddenly thrown out of their original track by accidents. The plot is imaginative, the narrative style is relaxed and lively and even a little "bad taste", but the core is warm and uplifting, which is why many fans are fascinated by Yaguchi Shijing. Some viewers commented: "Yaguchi Shijing's films, the story is simple, the spiritual core is also simple, but it can bring me real touch." ”
But when it comes to "Dancing with Me", Yaguchi Shijing seems to have fallen into the trap of "excessive relaxation". He tried to use the setting of "hypnosis" to ridicule the traditional song and dance film's routine of "singing and dancing without saying a word" in order to create laughter, but because of his first attempt at song and dance films, he was unfamiliar with the scheduling and rhythm control of song and dance scenes, which greatly reduced the effect of the film. Douban movie fan "hikari" commented: "It's a bit awkward to watch, and the sense of rhythm is really not very good." The plot is also very mediocre, always trying to find highlights, did not expect to be very old-fashioned from beginning to end. Douban film fan "Zhou Moumou" commented: "The more the director wants to oppose the routine, the more routine the shooting, and the road part of the last hour is a play, completely released, and the song and dance design is obviously more and more powerful." In fact, "Dance with Me" did not have a high box office in Japan, and only grossed 100 million yen when it was released in 2019. On Douban, more than 5,600 viewers scored an average score of 6.8 for "Dance with Me", which is only higher than 46% of comedies and 25% of song and dance films.
Animation IP is the hottest, and live-action daily movies are cold
In addition to the fact that the genre of song and dance films is already niche, and Yaguchi Shijing himself "lost his hand", the box office cold reception of "Dance with Me" is more related to the recognition of Japanese films among ordinary audiences. After combing through the introduction of Japanese films since 2015 (no Japanese film has achieved more than 30 million yuan in the mainland before 2015), the reporter found that as of now, the top 10 box office films introduced into Japanese films are animated films, of which the top three are: "Your Name" introduced in 2016. ", the box office of 575 million yuan; the introduction of "Doraemon: Walk with Me" in 2015, the box office of 529 million yuan; the introduction of "Spirited Away" in 2019, the box office of 488 million yuan. In this top 10 list, in addition to "Your Name." In addition to the two new works of Makoto Shinkai, "Weather Child", the rest of the works on the list are from ip that are familiar to Chinese and Japanese audiences, including Miyazaki's classic movies "Totoro" and "Spirited Away", longevity animation IP "Detective Conan", "Voyager King", etc., "Doraemon" has four theatrical versions on the list.
In 2020, due to the impact of the epidemic, a total of 9 Japanese films were imported Chinese mainland, which was more than half of the decline compared with 2019. Of the 9 imported films, there are 3 live-action films and 6 animated films, respectively. But in the end, there were four anime films in the top five at the box office, the first of which was "Digimon: The Last Evolution" at 125 million yuan; among the live-action movies, only "Masquerade Hotel" starring Takuya Kimura and Masami Nagasawa barely ranked fourth. 2019 was the explosive period of Japanese imports, with as many as 24 Japanese films released in the mainland that year, but the box office champion was won by an "old film" "Spirited Away" that had been released in Japan as early as 2001. The 2018 Japanese import film box office champion "Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island" is also an animated film, with a box office of 209 million yuan; this year also introduced Yaguchi Shijing's high-scoring masterpiece "Survival Family", which finally grossed only 11.403 million yuan.
It is worth mentioning that this two-dimensional "crushing" live-action movie situation is consistent with the performance of the Japanese domestic box office: taking 2017 as an example, none of the top 10 domestic movies in Japan at the box office this year are live-action original films.