Kyoto and Tokyo, from Kansai to Kanto, are two typical Japanese cities, but they present very different styles, alternating between the old charm of the ancient capital and the new trend of the metropolis. Growing up, we have glimpsed many Japanese cities through Japanese movies. In order to give me a "warm-up" on my first trip to Japan, I turned over the movies that depicted the details of Japanese life before I set off, and I reviewed them, hoping to witness the prototype of the movie picture during the trip. Today, these 7 movies are shared, maybe classic, or niche, to fill the time when we can't go out and travel, and we can also feel the foreign humanities and cultures at home.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > maiko </h1>
Director/Screenwriter: Zhou Fang Zhengxing
Writers: Zhou Fang zhengxing
Starring: Moe-no-Ue-Shiraishi / Hiroshi Hasegawa / Junko Tomiji / Eiri Watanabe
Runtime: 135 minutes
2005's Memoirs of a Geisha shows typical of old Kyoto, but the english dialogue that makes people listen to it is uncomfortable, and it is really difficult to be in it.
However, there is another "Maiko Maiko", which has a more delicate expression of Kyoto culture. For example, it is mentioned in the film that in order to become a maiko, you first need to speak fluent Kyoto dialect, but Kyoto dialect is different from Tokyo dialect and Kagoshima dialect, it is softer and softer; a maiko needs to master a variety of talent skills, including dance, musical instruments, music, and even familiarity with Kyoto history and culture. The difference between geisha and maiko is that maiko are trainee geisha and require more skilled cultivation to become a real geisha.
If you want to learn more about Japanese geisha, this movie is a good choice.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" > Kyoto Taiqin Monogatari</h1>
导: Yamada Yoji / Abe Tsutomu
编剧: Yoji Yamada / Tomoaki Sae
Starring: Hana Ebise / Yoshihiro Usami / Sôtarô Tanaka
Runtime: 90 minutes
Follow the three streets of Kyoto all the way west, past Guanglong Temple, and you will reach Taiqin. The thousand-year-old city once had a well-known Japanese film company. In this film, which combines documentary-style interviews and cinematic narratives, you can see how the tofu shops and laundries in small towns are passed down day after day in a watery and ordinary life.
Regarding the explanation of the origin of "Taiqin", philologists also expressed their views in this film: the leader of the Qin tribe dedicated a large amount of silk to the emperor and piled it into a mountain, which inherently had Great Qin, and "Tai" agreed with "Great" in many cases, and the prince and the sun had a little, so this was usually understood "to a deeper extent", and "Tai" became the honorific title of "Great".
The film is a true reflection of the ordinary details of Japanese life. Regarding the Japanese crosstalker in the film, it was only during our trip to Kyoto that we really had the opportunity to meet a stand-up comedian who sang in a scene that resembled the atmosphere and the movie.
< h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > late-night dining room</h1>
Director: Akiji Matsuoka
Writers: Katsuhiko Mabe / Kensaku Koshima / Tsuji Matsuoka / Yukiro Abe
Starring: Kaoru Kobayashi / Hayaki Takaoka / Toshio Tsunemoto / Mikasa Mikasa
Runtime: 119 minutes
This movie is a very famous classic. In bustling Tokyo, everyone carries their own story.
There's not much of a big city pulsating neon, but there's a late-night cafeteria located in an inconspicuous corner of the alley, opening warmly at twelve o'clock. The boss listens quietly to past diners telling their stories, trivial but all different, and waiting for the outcome of each story. These little stories are so ordinary that the audience may have forgotten them at the end of the film; but they are so real that they are permeated with the small thoughts of the characters in the flowing crowds of this flowing city. It is also like that bowl of bland but careful yam mud bibimbap, the taste is light, but it makes people eat the warmth of the heart.
The most common meals in Japan are also featured in the film. If you want to feast your eyes on Japanese food, watch "Late Night Canteen" again.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="04" > Yokomichi Shinosuke</h1>
Director: Shuichi Okita
编剧: Shuichi Chuta / Shiro Maeda / Shuichi Yoshida
Starring: Kengo Takara / Yuriko Yoshitaka / Sosuke Ikematsu / Akira Ito
Runtime: 160 minutes
Born in the harbor town of Seinosuke Yokomichi, who came to Tokyo to attend university, modern metropolitan life is a great contrast to this ignorant big boy. However, optimistic and innocent and kind, he quickly integrated into campus life, participated in club activities, and composed a romantic relationship with the rich family Qianjin, who loved to laugh, and was also full of curiosity about Sister Qianchun, who had rich life experience.
The 35-year-old photographer Seinosuke died saving a little girl, and people who occasionally stop to remember the Shinosuke who intersected with their lives will call it the big boy who can make people laugh.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="05" > Hai Street Diary</h1>
Director: It's Kore-eda
Writers: Kazukazu Kore-eda / Akio Yoshida
Starring: Haruka Ayase / Masami Nagasawa / Natsu fan / Suzu Hirose / Shinobu Otake
Runtime: 127 minutes
Kamakura, the ancient capital of the sea, is a small town formed by the mountains, and in an old house, the four sisters of the Kaeda family live. The father and lover ran away, the mother left home, the grandmother passed away, and the eldest sister took on the responsibility of the family and took care of the two younger sisters. When their father died, they took in their half-sister.
Without mixing the love-hate feelings of the previous generation, they treated each other kindly and remembered the taste of their fathers and grandmothers cooking. They patronize the sea cat canteen, where the hostess watches the girls grow up; they change into kimonos and light fireworks sticks on the night of the fireworks festival. The four seasons flowed, experiencing the clutches of the people around them, and they composed their own sea street diaries.
It is Kore-eda's films that always touch people in the details of ordinary life. He loves every one of his films and recommends them.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="06" > your name</h1>
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Writers: Makoto Shinkai
Runtime: 106 minutes
Although it is an animated film, I actually went online to check the Japanese customs mentioned in the movie.
In a small mountain village far from Tokyo, Miyamizu Mitsuba, a high school girl from a witch family, lives. I don't know when Mitsuba will become a high school boy living in Tokyo in his dreams. There are strange classmates and friends, gracious predecessors and bustling streets, everything is so tempting and real. On the other hand, Tachibana Tachibana, a high school boy who lives in Tokyo, always comes to a strange mountain village in his dreams and lives a new life as a girl. Xu is influenced by the mysterious comet, and Taki and Mitsuba exchange identities in a dream. They experience each other's lives, with anger, laughter and warmth.
This sci-fi anime shows many details of Japanese culture, from the longitudinal and horizontal shuttle of the Tokyo Railway to the fireworks festival and chewing wine in the ancient town of Yamanaka. It is said that offering the chewing wine sacrifice to the gods allows one's soul to communicate with the gods; when someone drinks the chewing wine again, he will return to a certain point in time as you.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="07" > the life of an outcast pine nut</h1>
Director: Tetsuya Nakajima
Writers: Tetsuya Nakajima / Soki Yamada
Starring: Nakatani Mine / Eita / Kagawa Teruyuki / Ichikawa Hajiko
Runtime: 130 minutes
This movie, which has the same mysterious imaginative color as "Angel Amelie", is nothing more than the story of a girl who wants to be loved, tries to love, and suffers abandonment all her life. Whenever life falls into a desperate situation, but new flowers bloom; whenever there is a new vision, it seems to be just a joke of fate. Worked as a middle school music teacher, lived with a paranoid writer, made a fortune with the underworld, murdered and went to prison after being deceived, met an honest barber, but he did not wait for her to return from prison, became a hairdresser after getting out of prison, and the lover she relied on was imprisoned for killing people in debt, and she was abandoned again. Finally she gave up on herself.
This exaggerated film does not reflect real Japanese city life, but it also portrays some atypical Japanese scenes.
Japanese movies, TV series, anime... Too many screen stories grow up with the post-80s and post-90s generations. When he was a child, he was fascinated by "Slam Dunk Master" and "Detective Conan", and when he grew up, he was impressed by Kore-eda and countless times. Japanese films reflect a large amount of local culture. Although our two countries are separated by only one sea, there are still cultural differences and mutual attractions. On days when you can't travel abroad, it's better to use the movie to feel the exotic atmosphere.