Whether it is as an ideal way of life or a beautiful artistic conception of personal longing, Xiaoxin exists with the characteristics of elegance, nature, simplicity, detachment and tranquility. Japan can be said to be the best in terms of the high production of small fresh movies, for example, Shunji Iwai is the most representative director. Here are some Japanese small fresh movies recommended for everyone, go check it out!
《Flowers and Water Trees》
Synopsis
The film is based on the emotional inspiration from Ichigo's song "ハナミズキ". The film was shot in Hokkaido as well as in New York and Canada. The story depicts a Hokkaido student, Saeki Hirazawa (played by Yui Niigaki), and Yasuhira Kinuchi (played by Doujin Ikuta), a student at Umikane High School, who meet and fall in love. Soon after, Saeote was admitted to a university in Tokyo, and the two began a long-distance relationship, and finally the two chose to give up for each other's sake. Saeki becomes acquainted with kitami (played by Ri Xiangi), the school's senior. And gradually grew into a career woman. And 10 years later, as if guided by the dogwood in the courtyard of Shazhi's hometown, a miracle has descended on Shazhi and Kangping...
2. "I just want to love you now"
On his first day at the university, Makoto (Hiroshi Tamaki) is reluctant to attend the opening ceremony for fear that others will smell the medicine on his body, and wanders around the campus alone. On the side of the road, I met a girl who was about to cross the road, and the story began.
3. "Love Letters"
A classic film directed by Japanese "image writer" Shunji Iwai. The film narrates a love letter originally sent to heaven out of mourning, but unexpectedly received a reply from the same name and surname, and gradually excavated a pure single love that has been buried for many years but has always been quiet, and after the truth is revealed, the past and the current love are entangled in an obsessive and poignant love. "Love Letter" was inspired by Kiyoshun Suzuki's 1959 short film of the same name, Love Letter. Shunji Iwai believes that memory is a driving force for him. The average person thinks that the past is the past, the present is now, and the two have nothing to do with each other. At a certain time, recalling the past events, it is natural to find some relationship between the past and the present, which in turn affects the present self.
4. "Shining with Tears"
The beloved mother died, leaving only one sentence: "Take good care of your sister Xiao Kaoru." "The fates of a pair of brothers and sisters who are not related by blood have been linked ever since. The younger sister and brother, who are worried about going to school, get along day and night, and begin to feel each other's inner weight, as well as the love that does not ask for return.
5. "April Story"
April Story is a film starring Takako Matsu and others. The film tells the love story of a Hokkaido girl, Yuno Yukizuki, who came to Musashino University in Tokyo alone to start a new life.
6. "Snow of Spring"
Snow of Spring is a Japanese film based on the work of Yukio Mishima and the first of Mishima's last novel, the reincarnation quadrilogy, The Sea of Plenty. The film depicts a tragic love story of a couple born into an aristocrat in the Taisho era who have experienced a bumpy fate, and the film has a beautiful picture, and the music and picture have achieved a perfect combination.
7. "Crying Out for Love in the Center of the World"
The film begins with the disappearance of Shotaro's fiancée, Noriko (Yuki Shibasaki). Shotaro follows the law to Shikoku, where the memories of his first love lie. Shotaro once again broke through the door of memory. Wandering in the labyrinth of memories, Shotaro gradually found the buried past, and the message that had not been conveyed once came to Shuotaro through more than ten years of time.
8. "My First Love Belongs to You"
"My First Love Belongs to You" is a Japanese love movie. Adapted from the manga of the same name by Kotomi Aoki. The story revolves around the two seniors of the protagonist of "Sister Lover", Yuki Rai, and tells a tragic love affair between a teenager who has recently passed away and a girl who has been in love for a long time.
9. "About the Rainy Season"
"Now, I Want to See You" simply describes a love story: it contains conjugal love, father-son love, mother-child love, and family love. Maybe there's a person in everyone's mind that makes you always have the idea of "as long as he/she's around you." In each ordinary day, each feels the presence of the other. Across the tunnel of time, even across the boundaries of life and death, from the campus era to enter the workplace, in the cycle of life and death, the only constant is the deepest love and affection.
10. "I want to tell you"
The main story of the movie is that a girl named Kuronuma, because she looks like Sadako, has been called sadako since she was a child, no one wants to be friends with her, and this girl has been lonely. On the first day of high school, he met a boy in the same class on the road and gave him directions, which led to a story that followed. She had always liked this boy, and this boy was silently watching her. In high school, Kuronuma began to open his heart and had two very good friends, and finally harvested a very beautiful love.
11. "Little Forest"
Synopsis
Sometimes in a crowded city, in a neon-lit, red-lit city, do you feel more lonely? Don't know what you want? The surrounding sounds are too noisy, but you can't hear your own inner voice. The protagonist of the movie "Little Forest", Ichiko, escaped from the city, moved to the small mountain village of his hometown, and lived a self-sufficient life in nature.
12. "The Sunset of The Eternal Three Chomes"
Set against the backdrop of a shopping street in Sanchome, Yuricho, Tokyo, Japan, the film recreates the lives of ordinary people on the streets during the period when Japan's economy began to recover in 1958. Very warm old.
13. "All About Lily Week"
Some life trajectories in a quiet village. They are pure but have sorrows that do not correspond to their age. The friendship, affection, and love between them, like a fleeting flowering period, came and went. The cycle of fate between reality and virtuality, can not escape. I thought it was our youth, but I saw a gray that couldn't fade. When the wheat field turns from green to yellow, then from yellow to green, when the new season comes, is everything back to the past, and is what Yuichi defends still intact?
14 "Goodbye to Our Kindergarten"
Yang Wu, a good friend in kindergarten, dropped out of school due to illness and was unable to attend the graduation ceremony. Connor, Takushi, Mikoto, Toshiyuki, and Youyi, who are in the Violet Group of Chaoyang Kindergarten, sneak out of the kindergarten and catch a chuo line train from Shinjuku to Takao to find their best friend, and a series of incredible adventures occur along the way. "Goodbye To Our Kindergarten", a movie that will make you feel childlike.
15. "Flowers and Alice"
"Flowers and Alice" is about the introverted flower and the living wave of Alice, the good sisters' swaying thoughts of spring and the wonderful love triangle of the boy they like. Shunji Iwai is known as the "standard-bearer of the New Japanese Film Movement" and is known as "Wong Kar-wai of Japan", and the picture of the film is very beautiful. The narration of the film is also very delicate.
16. "Million Dollars and the Bitter Worm Girl"
The film tells the story of suzuko, a girl who is not used to living in front of everyone, is hurt by something, and lives alone with the 1 million earned from part-time work. Whenever she saved a million dollars, she would go to strange places. Shaved ice shops by the sea, peach orchards in the mountains, and big cities are displaced from unfamiliar cities. The film is starring Yu Aoi and really gives people a very comfortable feeling.
17. "Which Ahhhhhhhhhhhh
"Which Ah Which God Goes to the Village" is the work of director Yaguchi Shijing, continuing his usual comedic style. The main actors are Masami Nagasawa and Shota Someya. It tells the story of Hirano, an urban youth who has just graduated from high school and has no expectations for the future, because he is attracted by the beautiful woman on the cover of the magazine, and goes to the "Shingo village" in the mountains to engage in logging work.
18. "Seagull Canteen"
It tells the story of a Japanese-style restaurant on a street corner in Helsinki, Finland, where owner Yukie uses a simple and delicious traditional Japanese food, rice balls, as the restaurant's signature dish, hoping to retain guests with the simplest but most warm traditional hand-rolls.
19. "Natural Substructure"
Adhering to the traditional techniques of Japanese cinema, Yamashita uses a large number of empty shots and fixed shots, such as the lush countryside in summer, the green rice fields, the beaches where we spend summer together, the goldfish and fireworks of the summer festival, the Japanese large ball fans... Whether it is 16-year-old Xia Fan or 18-year-old Okada Shosheng, he himself lives at the most abundant age of youth.
20. Spring Love Letters
Morita Yoshimitsu's "Spring Love Letter" is like experiencing a cherry rain falling on the shoulder, or just coming out of the thick sycamore of the small street, which is very pleasant. The earliest people who mixed BBS and chat rooms are estimated to be greatly moved, and the mail exchange is fascinating at first sight and romantic. The film does have the flavor of Haruki Murakami's novel, and the director and screenwriter seem to like his novels, and on the shelves are "The End of the World and Cold Wonderland" and "Dancing Dance", with a Douban score of 8.4.