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Keiko Mizuhara, "The Noble Woman of Tokyo": Japan's high society and the class differences that are difficult to cross

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Keiko Mizuhara, "The Noble Woman of Tokyo": Japan's high society and the class differences that are difficult to cross

For the world of Asian cinema, the films made by Japan are quite influential, and they uphold a high level of quality, high content and quality in comedy, literature and even action films, and examine the greed, anger and infatuation of human nature. The recent film "Tokyo Noble Woman", which is also from Japan, is an adaptation of the works of the well-known Japanese female novelist Mariko Yamauchi, and is the second work of the new generation of Japanese female directors Yukiko Yukiko, which is a collection of the new generation of powerful factions such as Mizuhara Kiko, Motowaki Mai and Kengo Takara. The story focuses on two girls in Tokyo whose lives are completely different, one is a famous woman who actively wants to get married, the other is a country girl who works her own, two completely different people have intersected because of a man, the movie is like the Japanese version of Parasite, a glimpse of Japan's high society, but also to see the barrier between classes that is difficult to cross.

Keiko Mizuhara, "The Noble Woman of Tokyo": Japan's high society and the class differences that are difficult to cross

Adapted from the novel of the same name by the famous Japanese novelist Mariko Yamauchi, "Tokyo Noble Woman" is good at describing life in a realistic style, and her novels have been repeatedly adapted into movies, including "The Whereabouts of Haruko Azumi" by Yu Aoi and Mitsuki Takahata. This time, "Tokyo Noble Women" describes in detail the "social class" that has always existed in Tokyo, and Yamauchi said that before she came to live in Tokyo, what she could not understand was that there were aristocrats in Tokyo, "As written in the book, in the first-class private universities, there are students who go all the way from elementary school to university, which also means that they are the privileged class, if I had not come to Tokyo and had contact with people in that world, ordinary people may not have noticed it in their lifetime." So she started writing the novel after 10 years of living in Tokyo.

Keiko Mizuhara, "The Noble Woman of Tokyo": Japan's high society and the class differences that are difficult to cross

Film director Takako Misaki said: "'Tokyo Noble Woman' depicts two women from different backgrounds and different classes, their life trajectories and future paths. In fact, there are not many things in life that they can choose from. Despite this, they live their lives on their own." Yukiko Yukiko is one of Japan's most high-profile young screenwriters and directors, and her debut feature film, The Trouble with The Girl Mimi, won the Young Filmmaker Award at the 2008 Vancouver International Film Festival, and was nominated for the Rookie Award at the Asian Film Festival in Hong Kong, China, the same year, making her one of the few outstanding female directors in Japan. "Tokyo Noble Woman" is like the Japanese version of "Parasite", through the lives of two girls, see the difficulty of breaking the class difference, the film was released during the Epidemic in Japan, and also sold more than 100 million yen at the box office, with continuous praise, and was also screened at the Kaohsiung Film Festival in Taiwan Province.

Keiko Mizuhara, "The Noble Woman of Tokyo": Japan's high society and the class differences that are difficult to cross

After the well-known Japanese actress Keiko Mizuhara followed the topic of female love work "Bi Nu", she launched a new work "Tokyo Noble Woman", once again showing a different acting appearance. The film presents the life of two different worlds, Mizuhara Kiko plays a girl who is born ordinary and everything must rely on her own efforts to get results, while the new generation of powerful actor Menwaki Mai is playing a girl born from an upper-class family, with a golden spoon, the most important goal is to marry herself to a door-to-door object, two girls whose lives are far apart, accidentally have a moment of intersection, and each has changed each other's fate.

Keiko Mizuhara, "The Noble Woman of Tokyo": Japan's high society and the class differences that are difficult to cross

The story of "Tokyo Noble Woman" describes Thatharu Harunahara (Played by Mai Munwaki) from a famous family who was dumped by her boyfriend at the age of 26, seeing that her friends are married one by one, she regards marriage as an achievement in her life, anxiously arranging one blind date after another, and she finally meets the lawyer Yukiichiro Aoki (Kengo Takara). In another place in Tokyo, there is a toki Tokioka (Keiko Mizuhara) who has worked hard to get into the prestigious Keio University, but because of his poor family, he can't pay the high tuition fees of a private university and drops out of school, and he earns living expenses in Tokyo, but his former college classmate Koichiro has always had entangled feelings with her, and the two girls meet because of Koichiro, and begin to examine their own lives and start to find themselves.

"Tokyo Noble Woman" will be released on November 12.

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