Before "Love Letters", Shunji Iwai was a TV series director. There have even been children's dramas in my resume. Then I thought about making a quiet, "work like Yasujiro Ozu." Taking advantage of the gap in filming, he wrote the novel "Love Letter".
The story of Love Letters is simple. Unfold in two space-time segments. In the present tense, Watanabe Hiroko's fiancé Fujii died, Hiroko missed her fiancé, wrote to him according to the old address, and actually received a reply.
The writer was also named Fujii, and more coincidentally, she was a female high school classmate of the male Fujii.
Letters between Hiroko and Fujii, the daughter, lead to a high school memory. In the memories of the female Fujii, the male Fujii did not like to talk, had no friends, and once became angry, he pressed his classmates on the table and beat him fat. The momentum is like a beast.
A bit of a secondary two, keen to borrow all kinds of unpopular books in the library, do not read, just to write their names on the library card. A library card with the words "Fujii Tree" spread out in his hand and triumphantly told the female Fujii that this was called "Fujii Whirlwind".
English is very bad, only 27 points. Once, Fujii, a woman with a perfect score, got the wrong paper. In the pitch-black bike shed, two Fujii trees exchange rolls. The male Fujii is very good at learning, squatting on the ground and taking the female Fujii's roll to answer. The female Fujii had been by his side to give him a lamp.
It was very annoying when teasing people, and would ride a bicycle, rushing down the hill in a daze, and without saying a word, he felt a paper bag and buckled it on the head of the female Fujii. Scared her wow He ran.
These memories, which the female Fujii almost forgot, are secrets that the male Fujii has not been able to say in his lifetime.
The fight was because the classmates joked with them and made the female Fujii cry, and he stood up for the female Fujii. Countless borrowing cards with "Fujii Tree" written on it, And God knows, he definitely didn't write it about himself — he actually wrote the name of the female Fujii.
He is also not easy to learn, and the answer is purely an excuse, in order to spend time with the female Fujii in the two-person world can grow a little longer, longer. His prank is not a whim, to blame the female Fujii chaos as a red bride, to him and other female classmates to match, angry, only to come up with this trick to "retaliate" against her.
She certainly didn't know that in the winter of her father's death, he came to her house and asked her to help return a book, not just to return it. It was his farewell and his confession.
First we talked at the door for two sentences. Talking about his father's death, the male Fujii said at a glance, I am very sad, and the mourning has changed. The female Fujii smiled immediately. "What's going on?" "It's all right."
Has the female Fujii ever liked the male Fujii? Ignorant of that, maybe there is.
Then he rode ready to leave. She stood in the doorway, holding the book, watching him. A moment before stepping on the pedal, I was very reluctant, looked up, and looked at her again. Looking at each other, this is the most ambiguous and emotional picture in the whole film. But that's about it.
After this glance, he transferred to another city. The two Fujii trees never saw each other again. If she hadn't received a letter from Hiroko, she might never have remembered this male classmate with the same name.
She will never know that the book she wants to return contains the crazy little thing of "I like you."
The truth comes out at the last minute of the film. The highlight moment of "Love Letters". Several high school girls came to send a book to the female Fujii, which was one of the countless unpopular books that the male Fujii asked her to help return that year.
Prompted by the students, she opened the book again and picked up the library card in the book again, just like ten years ago. The only thing she didn't do ten years ago was to turn over the card and look at the back.
On the back, a high school girl with long hair and a uniform is drawn in pencil.
It's so similar that it's recognizable at a glance that it's Ten Years Ago, a 17-year-old female Fujii. The painter is, of course, a 17-year-old male Fujii. He was still so fond of making excuses, making excuses to turn her book, praying that one percent of her might inadvertently turn the card.
The wordless love letter was a decade late. But because of ten years of ignorance, the moment of accidental learning, "Ah, it turns out that I was liked by him like that" mood, became incomparably precious.
This is the end of a movie that has been watched a hundred times and is still in tears a hundred times. 27-year-old fujii held the book in her arms, she didn't know what to do, what to say, wanted to laugh, because she felt very happy, and wanted to cry, because she was so happy.
She sucked her nose, tears streaming down her cheeks.
The narrator was also very beautiful, "My incredible pen pal, Miss Hiroko Watanabe, a wonderful thing happened today. This thing is unexpected. Because I was shy, I didn't send the letter out. ”
The female Fujii did not tell Hiroko about receiving the male Fujii love letter. Nor did Hiroko tell the female Fujii that she had already guessed that her fiancé had a crush on the female classmate of the same name—and she did not tell the female classmate that the two of them looked very, very similar.
Released in 1995, Love Letters is Shunji Iwai's film debut. He won one Newcomer Award and two Director Awards for this film. Since then, it has become a hit. But it wasn't Kashiwara's first film.
Shortly before the filming of "Love Letter", Kashiwara Takashi was filming "Shadow of Youth". This lucky person who was casually sent a family portrait by the neighbor's aunt as a registration photo, participated in the "JUNON SUPER BOY" draft, and easily won the championship and debuted, except for singing rock, will not perform any performance.
In the "Shadow of Youth" crew, he was scolded by the director for being a dog bloody head, "I have figured out that I am not suitable for acting." ”
So when he received an interview with "Love Letters", he refused a hundred thousand times. It was Shunji Iwai who enlightened him, "Don't act for the sake of acting, just talk about what you learned like a normal chat." ”
After the performance, he was really fragrant, "'Love Letters' is the treasure of my life. That year, Kashiwara was the same age as Fujii, both 17 years old. Shunji Iwai praised him, "Kashiwara Takashi is a reliable big brother who always leads the children in doing things. ”
(A year after "Love Letters", Takashi Kashiwara finally met Miki Sakai in "White Line Stream", but!) Rejected! ）
25 years later, the former big brother, known by the Japanese media as "the last beautiful teenager at the end of the 20th century", is 42 years old this year. Fortunately, 42-year-old Kashiwara Takashi, has experienced divorce, negative news, career troughs, completely, without the slightest, without a little collapse.
He grew from a beautiful teenager to a handsome uncle.
Shortly before his 42nd birthday, news began to come out that the Chinese version of "Love Letters" would be reprinted. Recently, the heroine was officially announced, it is Chen Yihan. A breath of foreboding before shooting is a bad film.
Chen Yihan, 36 years old, whether he plays 17-year-old Fujii Tree or 27-year-old Fujii Tree, is a sadder story than sadness.
Netizens have a list of candidates, Zhang Zifeng, Zhou Dongyu, Song Zu'er, and even, Ouyang Nana, who is not sober in acting, and Shen Yue, the little princess of Ptu, are all moving.
But the male protagonist, dare not think.
Who else would be so suitable to stand behind a white curtain and hold a book that is beautiful in the world. Fujii is a 17-year-old Takashi Kashiwara and will always be.
He's not just handsome. There are many kinds of handsome, there are sunny handsome, such as Wu Lei, there are clean and kind handsome, such as Liu Haoran, there is a cool handsome with a sense of story, such as Yi Qianxi.
But apparently, none of them are suitable for Fujii trees.
I can't imagine Wu Lei's introverted personality not speaking.
He grew a cheerful, heartless, lungless, shiny face. If he likes a girl, he should hate not being able to be around her 24 hours a day. Pass her a note to class and ask her to come home with her after school. She cried and immediately handed her toilet paper. She dared to be a matchmaker for others, and immediately shouted, "What, what I like is you!" ”
Playing Fujii Shu, he can only play the part of the buckle paper bag, and the skin is very happy. Wu Lei has no way to have a crush, and it is difficult to hide his heart. It must be that he holds back the suppressed love, I believe in a situation where he is in love with the big sister.
(Please arrange for Wu Lei to play "The Love of the Sage")
Yi Qianxi spoke little, was introverted, shy, and forced him to speak meaty words, and he would tense his hair and stand up. This part is consistent with Fujii trees.
But Fujii didn't say it because he was arrogant. He will not die without saying, to say, must not be ordinary three words. He carefully planned everything, went around in a big circle, and as for the result, whether the other party would find out or not, it did not matter to him. He was cold on the outside and hot on the inside, and on the inside, he was an extremely romantic, gentle and sullen person.
Yi Qianxi can be gentle, but it has nothing to do with sullenness. He is a conglomerate type. Even a sweet love affair could not make him relax. If he falls in love with someone, he doesn't say it, and he can really do it for the next life without saying it.
Therefore, his liking seems to bring depression, bitterness and darkness. Like "Young You", it is a cruel youth story of marginal people, and it is more suitable for being put into Takeshi Kitano's movie. And Shunji Iwai is good at pure love, and Fujii is a pure love boy.
Neither can Liu Haoran. He did not jump to Wu Lei's life, but he also had the same problem as Wu Lei, and his energy was too sufficient. For them to play a high cold face paralysis, the acting skills are more godly in order not to be embarrassed.
And, Liu Haoran is too close to the boy, is a real high school life, will sit at the same table with you a classmate. Fujii is also your classmate, but he can stick to his seat every day, flip through comic books, listen to songs, sleep, within a hundred steps, wind and rain, lightning and thunder, hugh think he lifted his eyelids.
Fujii trees are cat families, and Liu Haoran belongs to the canine family. He doesn't have the arrogance, the stubbornness and coldness that refuses to be thousands of miles away. The point is that Liu Haoran only scored 27 points, which is already the biggest violation.
There are also two candidates, Chen Feiyu and Wang Junkai.
Wang Junkai is introverted, no problem, reserved, no problem, violent and rough, no problem in practice. The problem is that he is a baby face, always giving people a sense of young teeth, as if he can't understand love when he grows up to 25 years old. Like Wang Yuan, he is purely friendly with the opposite sex.
Chen Feiyu's problem is the same as his role as Yu Huai. Yu Huai is at best a class marshal, Chen Feiyu is not only a school marshal, at least a handsome, provoking other school girls to gather at the school gate just to see him.
His handsome, outwardly piercing, inflammatory. Fujii tree is the opposite, he is in a pile of gray-headed male classmates, silently handsome. He was handsome and didn't know it. Being confessed to death by female classmates does not understand why it is popular.
Chen Feiyu should be able to receive such a message every day, "You are so handsome! "To be a classmate with him and have the same name and surname is something I will never forget."
But it could also be a time filter. Nowadays, beautiful teenagers bloom everywhere, the yield is huge, and a husband can be born overnight and forget a husband - how can it not be picked out of a Fujii tree?
Beauty is prosperous, prosperous, like a dream. Star-chasing girls indulge in it every day, harvesting sweetness and happiness. May their happiness not be a bubble, the times roll by, and retain a "last beautiful teenager at the end of the 21st century".
There is still a pure love era of writing love letters.