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Today we want to talk about the masterpiece of the famous Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi, which won the first place in the top ten best Japanese films in the "Movie Shunbao" at that time, and it was "Langhua Sorrowful Song".
Murai, a telephone operator at a pharmaceutical company in Osaka, has a crush on his male colleague Nishimura, but in order to save his father, who is short of public funds, he becomes the concubine of his boss Maju. Soon, because the family doctor Yokoo mistakenly went to Maju's house during his visit, exposing the fact that Maju was lying ill in the line apartment, Maju, who had entered the family of his wife Junko, was forced to give up his mistress.
Ayako, who has regained her freedom, wants to reunite with Nishimura, but when she meets her sister Sachiko on the street, she learns that her older brother Hiroshi, who is studying at university, has to pay off the 200 yuan of tuition he owes to graduate and work, so she cheats on Fujinoyuki, a stock dealer who covets her beauty.
Nishimura has proposed to Ayako, and one day when he was invited to visit Ayako's house, he met Fujino, who came to Ayako's house to seek justice. Ayako used Nishimura's presence to drive Fujino away, but Fujino immediately called the police and arrested them. The timid and fearful Nishimura distanced herself from Ayako when she was questioned at the police station, much to Ayako's dismay. Ayako is released and returns home with her father, but Hiroshi and Sachiko, who are completely unaware of the situation, scold Ayako, and her cowardly father does not defend her. Ayako, who was kicked out of her house by her loved ones, met Yokoo on the bridge in Dotonbori at night and was asked if she was sick. Ayako replied that she had female hooliganism and resolutely walked down the bridge.
"The Lamentation of Langhua" has received praise in Japan and overseas. Shi Qi pointed out in an article that "Langhua Lamentation" "is not a tragedy of crying, but a lively and cheerful personality of the beautiful heroine 'Wave'." She sacrificed her hue, paid off her father's debts, raised tuition for her brother, and had a deep affection for her boyfriend, but every man was useless and thought she was shameful. She would rather "be willing to fall" and "laugh at the rivers and lakes" from the past.
Luo Weiming also deeply sighed about the fate of the women in the film in the article "Mizoguchi Kenji Woman's Love": "After Ayako did not have to be a second mother, it was too late to be happy, and she rushed to meet the lover, but met her sister at the station, learned that her brother owed the tuition fee deposit, the intersection of life, should not be touched, Ayako then could not avoid the fate of the sowing, to continue to commit crimes." ”
Luo praised Mizoguchi's directing technique, first analyzing his clever use of single-lens long mirrors: "Kick Dou: Mizoguchi set up a mirror position like a big drama, and the stage drama watched a group of people around the bed to play because it was like a farce. A showdown with her boyfriend: The two stand against the wall on the far pillar of the square, the boyfriend backs the mirror, only to see Ayako constantly asking questions in front of him, and Mizoguchi does not receive any close-ups A distant cold-eyed bystander, because of helplessness. Later, he explained the big interesting scene choice: "The first time Ayako asked her boyfriend for help, the place where the two of them stood was in a state of decadence - it was really poor for you to see." The ending is on the bridge - where will Ayako's ending go from this shore to the other side? It makes people think. ”
"Song of Sorrow" is 71 minutes long and has 184 shots, with an average length of about 23 seconds per shot. The first fixed shot is a neon-lit view of Osaka's bustling district from night to early morning, ending with Ayako looking down at the filthy waters on the Ebisu Bridge. Other scenes are also photographed in dim light. The entire film is dominated by long shots, and only a close-up of Ayako's face appears at the end. The long-range is sometimes shot through a glass window or other foreground object, which not only makes the characters in the film feel trapped, but also has a certain sense of distance from the audience. Kenji Mizoguchi spent only 20 days filming the film "Langhua Lamentations" for inspection, and he was summoned to Tokyo by the Ministry of the Interior for questioning, which made him very afraid.
Fortunately, the film was successfully approved in the end, and it was not necessary to delete it at all.
"The Lamentation of Langhua" is based on the novel "Three Branches" published by Saburō Okada in Shincho magazine. In his History of Japanese Cinema, Iwasaki argues that kenji Mizoguchi read the novel and was "immediately drawn to the character of the protagonist, Mitsueko." Mizoguchi believes that the protagonist is a male and female equal rights theorist and at the same time a sadist, which is the basis for his interpretation of the work, and Mitsueko really impressed him strongly in this regard. He wanted to make Sanzhizi a living figure with flesh and blood in his own way. Born in Tokyo and living in the Kansai Studio for a long time, Mizoguchi felt that he was attracted by the strong feelings and realistic attitudes of the people in the Kansai area, which could not be seen in Tokyo...
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