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The second installment of Gintama's live-action film series, Gintama 2: Rules Are Broken, was officially released in Japan on August 17, 2018, and according to the 2018 Japanese cinema film box office rankings, the live-action version of Gintama 2 has grossed more than 3.5 billion yen. Although the current "Gintama 2" live-action movie has not yet been determined whether it will be released in Chinese mainland, Chinese mainland audiences can still see the "Gintama 2" live-action movie through various channels. Jun Shibu felt that because of the problem of the plot scale of "Gintama 2", even if it was really released in the theater of Chinese mainland, the movie would definitely have to be deleted.
The live-action film series of "Gintama" has always been directed by Japanese director Yuichi Fukuda, and I have seen Yuichi Fukuda's previous TV series, such as the "Brave Yoshihiko" series, which is known as "Spit God Works" in the Chinese Internet, such as "Nietzsche's Teacher", and "Super Clerk Zuo Jiang Neshi", and should feel the tone and film and television style of Yuichi Fukuda. In recent times, among the young people of the Chinese Internet, the Japanese TV series "I Am Big Brother" has largely become an Internet celebrity drama, and this nonsensical and funny TV series is also directed and written by Yuichi Fukuda.
Yuichi Fukuda went to direct the live-action version of "Gintama", to be honest, Jun Shibu felt that Fukuda Yuichi was ridiculous and liked to play with the film and television style, which was quite compatible with the spoof and unruly part of the original "Gintama", and the temperament of both works was quite compatible. The first live-action movie of "Gintama" has been seen, and since Jun Shibu understands the tone of Yuichi Fukuda, the first live-action movie of "Gintama" is made like that, and Jun Shibu will not be surprised. For the overall style of the live-action movie of "Gintama 2", Jun Shibu is also more accustomed.
Yuichi Fukuda still added various Japanese popular culture memes to the "Gintama 2" live-action movie, and the anime meme is only one part of it. From the very beginning of the film, the House of All Things Trio joked that the first live-action film of "Gintama" was good at the box office, but it could not win the Japanese film award. The Trio also ridiculed the Japanese Film Awards for best actor in the Japan Film Awards, not to Oguri Shun, the actor of Sakata Ginshi, but to Sugata Shoko, Shinhachi spit out a sentence "Sugata Shoko is not bad", and Shinhachi was played by Sugata Shoko. In addition, the House of Everything trio also made fun of "Thief Family" and "Detective Conan".
"Gintama 2" live-action movie has a story line is the general to come to the folk to investigate, and the first relatively large explosive point in the film main film appears in this story line, that is, Sakata Ginshi and Shinba because the bar lacks a drinking girl, so they incarnate as a women's clothing gangster bridge section, not only that, even Katsura Kotaro also joined the ranks of pretending to be a barmaid. When the general came to the bar, various strangely dressed characters accompanied the general to drink and play games, and in the process of playing the game, the general kept losing, and then there were some relatively large plots. Yinshi helplessly complained on the side: It seems that the version released in Chinese mainland will be deleted again.
After the plot of the wine, there are several spoof plots that are still quite interesting, such as the trio of the House of All Things helping the general get a haircut at the barbershop; Shinhachi participated in the debate between the anime house and the three-dimensional idol house, and ended up fighting with Tobata Shichiro, who became the personality of the abandoned house; in order to help the character of the abandoned house, Fourteen Lang was restored to normal, they helped Fourteen Lang set a vr scene, and this scene spoofed "Evangelion"; in the second half of the film, even spoofed "Totoro" In the cat bus.
There is another storyline in the Gintama 2 live-action movie, that is, the return of the true selection group Ito Katarō, and the plot of Ito Toototaro to subvert the entire makoto group. This storyline is still relatively serious, but Jun Shibu feels that the plot of this paragraph is still the best depicted in the manga and animation of "Gintama". All in all, if you like Yuichi Fukuda's film and television style, as well as audiences who are more familiar with Japanese popular culture and Japanese otaku culture, this live-action movie even if you put aside the aura of "Gintama", there are still some fun and interesting places in the spoof nonsense bridge section.