Recently, the divorce of Japan's most famous director today, the 72-year-old Takeshi Kitano, has been stirred up. Regarding Kitano Takeshi's 17-year-old lover, about Takeshi Kitano's entire fortune for divorce, about the 20 billion yen assets owned by Kitano Takeshi, and about Kitano Takeshi and his wife having been separated for 30 years, it has become a hot topic of discussion. But on issues related to lovers and wives, about family and emotions, Takeshi Kitano has been wrestling with them for decades. There have been many reports of his illegitimate children and cheating before, and it is no surprise to know Kitano Takeshi and the fans who love him.
Takeshi Kitano's life is as legendary as his movie, and it is most appropriate to use his phrase "boring life, I don't want to die" to describe Kitano Takeshi's attitude towards life. Takeshi Kitano and his ex-wife, Kanko, have been married for nearly 40 years and are said to have been separated for nearly 30 years. In the process of Kitano Takeshi and Kanko getting to know each other and eventually getting married, Kanko gave Kitano Takeshi a lot of help in his career. Before Kitano Takeshi became famous, Kanko worked as a waiter in a tavern to earn living expenses to support Kitano Takeshi's career. In 1994, Kitano Takeshi was seriously involved in a motorcycle accident, causing facial nerve damage, so he almost ruined his good future, at this time Kanko moved into the ward next door to him, and took meticulous care of Kitano Takeshi's spirit and life.
But anyone who knows Takeshi Kitano knows that soon after marriage, Kitano Takeshi dated a female college student behind his wife's back. As for the matter of riding a motorcycle, according to rumors, Kitano Takeshi is also because he was secretly photographed by the media, and he thought that riding a motorcycle was easier to evade the tracking of the media, but the result was a big mistake, almost ruining his career.
After this serious accident, the Japanese entertainment industry generally believed that Kitano Takeshi was going to die, and his brilliant career was coming to an end. But what the public did not expect was that this serious accident not only did not end Kitano Takeshi's career, but in the process of facing death, Kitano Takeshi knew how to face himself and face life. And in this process, there will inevitably be entanglements about his wife and lover in his heart.
Shortly after this serious accident, Takeshi Kitano returned to the film industry. He directed "Bad Boy Sky" and self-directed and self-acted in "Hanabi". The film "Hanabi" is widely regarded as one of takeshi Kitano's most representative works.
Just as Bad Boy Sky is a kind of self-recovery for himself, "Hanabi" is an apology to his women and to his lovers. It can be said that I have long been prepared to die, and it does not hurt to even become a robber. Wife's words... If only it were dead. It doesn't matter what the wife does to her. It's just not that early to die. At the same time as making this film, he organized the Wife Adult Sudden Death Association. 'There is no longer a useless guy like me, and there is still some savings, as long as the wife dies, you can take it all out and use it'. But it's so easy to die. I'm out of luck. ...... It's really impossible to say anything. I can't do without my wife at all! When talking about the movie "Hanabi", Takeshi Kitano said in his autobiography "The Rest of His Life".
Seeing this passage, was it stunned, "Wife Sudden Death Association"? But here's how to explain, because Kitano Takeshi is a director and a screenwriter, so in order to better find creative inspiration, they will organize various associations to discuss. And this association, Zhou Youjun believes that it may be a discussion group organized by Takeshi Kitano in order to develop the plot of the film, in order to look forward to and enrich the details of the film. So don't misunderstand takeshi Kitano as a real underworld.
"Hanabi" is a fairly concise film with a plot, in which Takeshi Kitano plays a criminal police officer Nishi. Nishi's life suffered a series of blows, the child died, and his wife Sachiko fell ill with leukemia and will soon die. A friend and colleague Horibe was injured in the middle of a mission, resulting in paralysis from the waist down. After Horibe was injured, Horibe's wife and daughter left him.
Another colleague, Tanaka, was shot and killed while on a mission with Nishi, and Nishi considered it his responsibility, so he often received Tanaka's wife in his life. Yuko, who is said to have played Tanaka's wife, is one of Takeshi Kitano's lovers.
Although the film also contains scenes of Takeshi Kitano's stylized violence, these violent scenes do not make the audience feel abrupt. On the contrary, when the plot is advanced just right, these violent scenes become an effective outlet for the audience to suppress their hearts. When the loan shark triad members demand that Xi repay the debt, and speak to Xi in a threatening tone, Xi, as a policeman, is actually threatened by gangsters because of economic problems, and this scene is handled quite depressingly. At this time, Xi suddenly inserted chopsticks into the eyes of the people behind him, and this seemingly violent shot appropriately expressed Xi's inner activities.
The doctor advises Xi to take his wife home to recuperate, and informs Xi that his current medical skills are no longer able to do anything. At this time, a series of tragedies occurred, but in response to all this, Nishi, played by Takeshi Kitano, still maintained his usual restrained expressionless face.
In Takeshi Kitano's films, not only the characters played by Takeshi Kitano, but also the rest of the characters have few lines. Often the characters with many lines are villains or unimportant characters, and these dialogue designs are only to set off the atmosphere.
The entire plot, dialogue, and graphics of "Spark" are handled quite concisely. Nishi's wife, almost the entire film has no few lines, Kitano Takeshi is through the scene design and character expressions, to express the heart of the characters, and the emotional interaction between the characters. And this kind of old husband and wife, there is nothing to say, but the familiar omniscience of the other party may be Kitano Takeshi's deep understanding of husband and wife.
In order to solve the economic entanglement, the West also wants to make a decision with the relationship in life. He chose to take a road of no return, and West robbed the bank by converting a taxi into a police car. Nishi repaid the proceeds of the robbery to a loan shark, leaving part of it to finance Tanaka's wife, and the other part to Horibe.
Takeshi Kitano's plot is designed to give money to Tanaka's wife, which is actually a model of his own emotional planning. In a sense, when making this film, Kitano Takeshi's state of mind was more inclined to live with his wife. Giving the money to another woman he deeply apologizes for should imply his attitude towards his lover at the time (and the actor who played Tanaka's wife was rumored to be one of Kitano Takeshi's lovers).
Horibe is Nishi's best friend, and in the film, he is also a reflection of Nishi's situation. Nishi's children and wife left him because of their unstoppable strength, while Horibe left him voluntarily because of his physical disability. Horibe's despair is due to the ruthlessness of his wife and daughter, while Nishi's despair is because of the ruthlessness of heaven. Horibe attempted suicide, but he did not succeed after trying, and later he used the painting tools given to him by Nishi, and in reality these paintings were all written by director Takeshi Kitano.
Towards the end of the film, Takeshi Kitano brings his paintings into the film with the character of Horibe, and his paintings are a good reflection of the film's theme, and when the screen screen switches between the real scene and the painting, what is shown is a natural, primitive shizumi, and the cruelty of the reality behind the shizumi.
While leading his wife to enjoy the view, Xi encounters continued harassment by gangsters, in the ice and snow of the north country. West did not hesitate to end up taking the life of the gang members. And these Syds are very hidden, or even if her wife knows, she cares more about enjoying a moment of peace with her husband.
During the trip, West and his wife had little dialogue, and their communication was carried out through some scenario design, such as playing cards in the car, such as going to the stone pile to pick up the camera cover. Takeshi Kitano uses these clever film languages to present the only romantic feeling in the couple's feelings.
Finally, the whereabouts of West and his wife were finally tracked down by the police, on a beautiful beach. West did not choose any compromise, and after enjoying the game with the child, they chose to end their lives. Kitano Takeshi uses such a cruel ending to show his views on the feelings of the husband and wife, and also uses this movie plot to express his apologies to his wife for cheating.
"The movie "Hanabi", when I wrote the script, I felt that this was the case, and my wife must have felt this way. It's the feeling that this person has finally come back, I want to come. Speaking of this passage, Takeshi Kitano said in his autobiography.
Spark won the Golden Lion at the 1997 Venice Film Festival, and after this film, Kitano's film career returned to its peak. Takeshi Kitano used the film to express his apologies to his lover and wife, and he tried to use the film to reconcile the two characters of wife and lover in his life, but the film is beautiful, and more than twenty years after the film's release, what should happen has not escaped after all. I believe that at the time of the final divorce, Kitano Takeshi's heart still carries a certain deep apology, for the lover, for the wife!