"It's the story of the men who challenged the impossible with 50 men against the enemy army and 80,000 people."
Recently, the movie "King of the World" starring Kento Yamazaki, nicknamed "The Little Prince of Manga", released a trailer about one and a half minutes long.
As can be seen from the trailer, the production of this movie is also quite luxurious.
Cass luxury
Kento Yamazaki, Ryo Yoshizawa, Masami Nagasawa, Kana Hashimoto, Sota Hongo, Shinnosuke Manjima, Shinnosuke Abe, Motoki Fukamizu, Masahiro Ujima, Yorun...
They are all popular, familiar and powerful actors at the moment, and they can pick out the girder at will.
Luxuriously made
The director is Nobusuke Sato, who has directed several title films of the game "True Three Kingdoms" and directed films such as "Abandoned Treasure Island", "Gantz", and "Dog Heart".
In order to pursue the magnificent visual effects of ancient times, many of the scenes are taken from China.
Unlike the famous war scenes in the Japanese historical dramas we usually watch, the feeling of dozens of people fighting at the mouth of the village.
Also, its movie theme song "Wasted Nights" was sung by the Japanese popular band group One Ok Rock.
It is worth noting that this is a story made by all Japanese people, completely related to the ancient Chinese Qin Dynasty.
"The King of the World" is the author Hara Taijiu based on the "History", telling the story of a teenager who is staged in China during the Spring and Autumn Period of the Warring States period of the BC, and grows from a poor orphan to a great general who assists Yingzheng and helps him realize the unification of the world.
When many people are affected by Amway's comic, they may complain in their hearts, "This style is so ugly, how can you read this kind of comic?" Don't look! ”。
After turning a few pages, I found: "What a fragrance! Can't stop at all! ”
"King of the World" has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since 2006, and has exceeded 38 million copies of the manga's cumulative circulation by 53 volumes.
In 2013, he received the highest recognition in the Japanese manga industry, the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award.
In the 2017 annual sales list of Japanese manga, "King of Kings" ranked third, losing only to One Piece and Attack on Titan.
Because of the manga's high popularity and excellent reputation, "The King of The World" was animated in 2012 and developed the mobile game of the same name in 2018.
This bloody manga has become a popular work sought after by Japanese teenagers at present, and it has also made Japanese people eagerly focus on China's Spring and Autumn Warring States Period.
On some Japanese fandom forum websites, there is a lot of discussion about "The King of The World".
For example, the ranking of the military values of each military general in the Warring States period:
For example, the relationship analysis of the characters in the comic:
Many people will explore the real history of the Warring States period, what the characters are, how the Qin Dynasty was unified, and even go straight to Xianyang in Shaanxi to start the "Holy Land Tour" tour.
There are many chaotic stories in China like this, which are deeply loved by the Japanese public because of the dramatic characters of the protagonists.
The elements of the Spring and Autumn Warring States alone have appeared in many games, film and television works, and have attracted a lot of attention.
For example, some time ago, the famous fluttering moth "Political Brother".
Looking back, there are countless manga, film and television works based on Chinese history and culture, written by Japanese writers.
For example, "Dunhuang", released in Japan in 1988, tells the story of a scholar protecting cultural relics during the Northern Song Dynasty in China.
The scenes of the film are mostly restored according to history, and the creation of war scenes is absolutely first-class, and it is the box office champion of Japan that year, with countless awards, which can be called the first war scene in China's historical theme.
In 1980, it was curated by Japan and made a documentary to explore the way of Chinese cuisine, "Chinese Food Culture".
It seems that there is a feeling of "China on the tip of the tongue", in the era when China was still a "country on the bicycle", introducing the food culture of Beijing, Guangzhou, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Sichuan, which still seems incredible.
Then there are some anime that we've watched since we were kids.
Like "China Little Boss", it was once thought to be a domestic animation.
Like "Chaos Horse 1/2", various stories with the background of strange Chinese legends, the protagonist's martial arts practice.
Like "Dragon Ball", a funny and bloody story that combines the legend of ancient Chinese Dragon Ball with "Journey to the West".
Speaking of "Journey to the West", as one of the four famous works in China, it can also be regarded as the favorite source of creation for Japanese people. Countless works have been re-created in the hands of Japanese authors, and they can be regarded as well-known Chinese mythological stories.
Four TV series, seven movies, and countless animations, and Japan was the first country in the world to make a Journey to the West (1978) TV series, the world's first Journey to the West (1960) animation was also produced in Japan, and the earliest film works can even be traced back to 1940.
Although some people say, "After reading Japan's Journey to the West, I want to poke myself in the eye!" But it also can't resist the people's love for the theme of "Journey to the West".
In addition to the theme of Chinese mythology such as "Journey to the West" that has been favored many times by Japanese works, people's favorites should be regarded as the theme of the Three Kingdoms.
Unlike another of the four masterpieces that Chinese children have come into contact with since childhood, Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Japan's emphasis on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms dates back to the Edo period.
The influence of the Japanese public on the culture of the Three Kingdoms began in 1948 when the famous novelist Eiji Yoshikawa published the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Then manga artist Mitsuki Yokoyama spent 15 years turning Hideharu Yoshikawa's Romance of the Three Kingdoms into a manga, and the biggest benefit of manga is that it is easy to understand, which allows more people to contact this chaotic story from ancient China.
Many people during the Showa and Heisei periods, under the influence of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, can be said to have a handy grasp of the characters and history of the Three Kingdoms, and even questions such as "Where did Liu Bei do in a certain year and month" can be answered one or two times.
With this special three-country complex, since then, the Japanese manga industry, the animation industry, especially the game industry, the Three Kingdoms theme has become a fantasy in the hands of countless artists.
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To explain why the Japanese people love stories of the chaotic world like the Three Kingdoms and the Spring and Autumn Warring States, and why they are so obsessed with the heroes of the chaotic world.
A sentence from the "King of Kings" comic may be answered - "The strong will be defeated by the next strong, and the times will continue to change, which is why the chaotic world is so interesting." ”
Heroes are born in a chaotic world, and the heroic spirit of being able to write and fight, and having courage and strategy is convincing, and it can appreciate important philosophies such as life in the chaotic world.
This is exactly the hot-blooded spirit that people yearn for in the blood of a group of middle two souls.