I once saw such a sentence on Zhihu:
"There is only one Ghibli in the Japanese industry, and there can only be one Ghibli."
I take this for granted.
Regarding how much Japanese animation studio Ghibli has nb, how talented Ghibli's grandpa Miyazaki is, I won't go into it here.
Otherwise, it may not be enough to say three days and three days.
Today, I want to talk about a very different Ghibli animation.
It makes sense to say it's different.
In terms of content, it consists of several fragments of the story, without a large main body.
On the screen, the animation is composed of sketches and watercolors throughout the animation, with light colors and casual lines.
The character modeling gives people a sense of déjà vu of "Cherry Pills" + "Doraemon".
this...... Is it really the delicate and gorgeous Ghibli I know?
It's not a little bit or two, right?
However, it was actually produced by Studio Ghibli and directed by Takahata.
It's an animated film released in Japan in 1999.
(Hohokekyo's neighbor Yamada-kun)
The anime is based on The four-panel manga of the same name by Shouichi Ishii and is 104 minutes long.
In the Douban score, a total of more than 40,000 people scored an average of 8.8 for "My Neighbor Yamada Jun" (hereinafter referred to as "Yamada Jun").
It also won the 3rd Japan Excellence Award for The Animation Division of the Media Arts Festival of the Ministry of Culture, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
However, such an animated film of the last century, which even now seems to be outdated, left Ghibli with nothing to lose.
With a box office performance of 1.5 billion yen, it set a new all-time low at the box office at the time, which was a big surprise.
The resulting lethality not only pushed Ghibli to the brink of collapse, but director Takahata had to retire temporarily.
The pot that caused this fatal blow must be distributed to the box office on the one hand, and on the other hand, it must be distributed to its high production costs.
Don't look at the picture of "Yamada Jun" seems very simple, but in fact, it is very expensive.
The animation is said to be the first work in Ghibli to be completely graphical and animated entirely on a computer.
It has never used a single piece of animation film from beginning to end, and uses the most expensive production cost of fully digital technology animation, and it takes 3 times more effort than usual.
Box office and technical issues aside, what about the quality of "Jun Yamada" itself?
In my opinion, the quality of the anime Yamada Jun is quite high.
Its superiority is not how much of a shock to the soul it directly brings to people, but in the fact that it has a kind of skill, four or two strokes.
The whole animated film tells nothing more than the interesting things about the daily life of the ordinary family Yamada family.
The little stories seem to be bland, but in fact they are long-lasting.
The Yamada family consists of five people.
Dad is a somewhat macho social animal and the head of the family;
Mom was an obese, confused full-time wife who spoke in a thick Kansai accent.
My son is a middle school student who does not think hard in his studies, and his test scores are always "60 points long live".
My daughter had just entered the 3rd grade of elementary school, and she often seemed to have no sense of existence among a group of adults with funny brains.
And a grandmother who is nearly ancient, although she is nearly ancient, her spirit is surprisingly good.
The animation presents many fragments of the Yamada family's life, and the small things that come to hand can become interesting in them.
For example, in the "remote control war" when watching TV at night, the parents and the two of them are immediately knifed, the same as the water and fire, and if they are not careful, they will give each other an opportunity:
Or in the winter, the family put their feet under the warm table, and no one would get up.
When the water on the table is drunk and a person must be sent out to pour the water, it is necessary to decide using the method that has remained unchanged for thousands of years, but it is exceptionally good, the stone scissors cloth:
Or maybe the mother and grandmother are eavesdropping on the phone calls between their son and female classmates who have just entered puberty.
After all, the gossip soul of women can be burned:
There are also many humorous sections in the animation.
That night, Mom, Dad, and Grandma sat at the dinner table for a tripartite meeting.
The topic of the talks was whether to hire a tutor for his son, who had just failed an exam.
When mom said that students from prestigious universities needed thirty thousand yuan for two classes a week, first my father jumped out and said, "Give me thirty thousand, I'll teach";
Grandma also looked expectant and said, "I only need 20,000 words to teach";
At this time, my son also rushed forward and said, "I study hard myself, as long as ten thousand."
When the mother said, her heart was broken at the moment.
Each of these little stories is filled with a strong breath of life, which makes people feel intimate and real.
It is difficult to support a movie by just relying on the patchwork of funny passages.
The anime Yamada Jun uses two methods to connect these fragments of life, like using two silk ropes to string scattered beads into a necklace.
One of these two ropes is a haiku at the end of each slice of life.
Haiku is a kind of classical short poem in Japan, and its source is the absolute sentence of Chinese poetry.
The haiku that appear frequently in the animation is simply a stroke of genius.
There is a story about Dad who went out shopping and happened to be trapped by the continuous spring rain.
He called his family to bring an umbrella, and no one at the microphone seemed happy. Dad had to bear to buy an umbrella and prepare to go home alone.
However, just a few steps away, he saw his mother and one of their children coming to him with rain gear.
The animated shot slowly shakes from the ground to the drizzle in the air, and the haiku of the poet Wucun appears in the air at the right time:
What a spring rain
The cloak and umbrella that does everything
The haiku at the end of the story makes a normal life episode make waves.
What it embodies is a way for Japanese people to observe the world, to see the small things and to understand life with a sensitive heart.
The haiku that appears here seems to communicate with the natural seasons of the anime and the vast number of sentient beings with a charming magic, and then leads this to eternity.
As we said before, there are two ropes that connect the stories in Yamada Jun.
In addition to the haiku that are all over the anime, there is also a philosophy called "cherishing".
At the beginning of the animation, the son asked three questions about his life:
Where am I from?
Where am I?
Who am I?
No matter who throws such a question to, the other party will feel big.
But the animation tries to give it an answer.
It starts from the wedding of mom and dad, saying that after mom and dad get married, they need to experience the peaks and valleys of life together, and sometimes the waves of emotional discord will engulf their love boat.
At this time, the child is the best weapon to overcome this difficulty.
Regarding the birth of a child, the animation uses a very artistic metaphor.
Some of them came from big birds,
Some grow from cabbage fields:
In addition, there are also split bamboo to get, and from peaches to jump out, and so on.
Regarding children, the animation says that you should love your children with your heart, but you must also be willing to let go and let them go on their own.
Thinking of some time ago, a sentence circulating on the Internet that "the world is not worth it" resonated with everyone.
But is it really not worth it?
Not necessarily.
The anime "My Neighbor Yamada Jun" tells us that at least family affection is worth it, and the ordinary life in front of us is also worth it.
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