The new version of "Tokyo Love Story" has all 11 episodes played, the 1991 version of the finale is unforgettable, the new version is set in 2020, showing people's concept of love in the new era, so will the ending also change? In addition, The House Jun also came to analyze the differences between the two versions in detail, which may relieve some of the doubts in the process of watching the show.
Starring: Kentaro Ito
Co-stars: Shizuka Ishijima / Sho Kiyohara / Anna Ishii / Hidekazu Makoto / Satoshi Takada / Satonori Takada / Takahiro Koda, Eitaro Matsuo / giko / Takuya Nagaki / So Shoshu / Mariko Tsutsui
Synopsis:
After Ehime went to Tokyo to work with uneasiness, Rika went to the airport to meet him, and at the same time as the two worked, Rika also began to fall in love with Kenji, but what Wanji loved in his heart was Rimi, who had been secretly in high school, but Rimi's love was Mikami, thus starting a four-corner relationship...
The old version is a generation of classic Japanese dramas, which still have a very high status in the hearts of many people, in 2020, the Japanese social atmosphere has long been very different from 30 years ago, will people still be fascinated by the love story of country boys and urban girls?
The new version is inevitably compared, and some Japanese media launched an online poll to survey the audience's satisfaction with the new version of "DongAi": of the 355 people who participated in the voting, 42% of them thought that "the new version and the 1991 version have their own advantages", and 7% thought that "the new version is better than the old version".
Different Li Xiang
Although the protagonist of the new version has been changed to the male protagonist, Butiya Jun saw that the contrast between the two versions of Li Xiang is still the focus of the audience, and many people feel that Ishibashi Shizukawa has been "crushed" by Suzuki Ho Nami from all aspects, and is really not qualified for the role of Li Xiang as a goddess.
b on the site of a search, do the new and old two versions of the comparison of the video countless, most of the attitude is to support the old version, dislike the new version, you have to admire the enduring charm of this classic god work.
As a person who saw the old version many years ago, after watching the new version, BuYajun did not blow or black, and it was not bad, but it was not as bad as everyone said.
But at the same time, after watching the new version, you can also understand the dissatisfaction of many fans of the old version, in a word, everyone feels that the new version is not as good as the old version, which is not "giving energy".
In the old version, the screenwriter at the time, Yuji Sakamoto, took into account the acceptance of the audience 30 years ago, and remodeled Li Xiang into a playful and cute, as a comic drama, when the audience went back to look at the manga because of the popularity of the TV series, they would find that the Akamei Lika portrayed in the original manga was completely different from the perfect goddess in the "East Love" TV series.
The new version of Li Xiang is closer to Li Xiang in Chai Men Wen's original comic: short hair, unrestrained, willful, self-contained, and undisguised desire, Chai Men Wen said that she is a "barefoot woman walking on the grassland". Even in the concept of many people today, the original Li Xiang belongs to the "scumbag".
So in the first act of the first episode, we saw the more indescribable pictures and sounds
Nanami Suzuki gave Rika multiple filters, and her personal charm made "Toai".
The 1991 version of Li Xiang is warm and dedicated, sweet and direct, and the appearance also represents the mainstream aesthetic of the year: long hair, melon face, and a smile full of vitality.
Li Xiang gave her all for love, which seemed out of place in the society that generally lacked individuality at that time, and such a woman was almost impossible to exist in the real world of the 90s.
To the actor Ishibashi Shizukawa, who was born in 1994, she no longer portrayed the "perfect goddess" and "flower of Takaryo", but became a frank workplace woman that anyone can substitute, and the appearance is not as stunning as Suzuki Ho nami, but it also belongs to the "sense of atmosphere beauty" often found in Japanese dramas, the static god is like Wu Junmei, and the smile is like Ma Sichun.
The new version is set in the Reiwa era of 2020, and Shizukawa Ishibashi's new version of Li Xiang is more modern, more egotistical, more unwilling to compromise, and more real: neither accepting men who love themselves but don't love enough, nor do they accept men who love themselves but don't love themselves enough.
I haven't seen such a surging passage in a Japanese drama in many years
In 1991, Akame Rika, who gave her all for love, seemed out of place in the society that generally lacked individuality at that time, and such a woman was almost impossible to exist in the real world of the 90s.
In contrast, the new version of Li Xiang clearly reflects the independence and self of women in the 21st century. When Kenji says to Li Xiang, "Promise me not to go anywhere," her response is "I don't like to make an agreement with people."
Li Xiang was like a wild horse that had lost its reins, and no one or anything could tie her up.
She even thinks: "The time you don't spend with me is the other person's personal belongings." So, at the extreme, when he's not with me, it's his freedom to even like someone else. As long as the two of us are together, he is willing to love me with all his heart, and that's enough. ”
Whether it is a new version or an old version, the only constant is that Li Xiang is always ahead of the times.
Li Xiang in 1991 loudly told the world that women can also take the initiative to pursue love; in 2020, Li Xiang loudly declared that women also have the right to pursue a free life, and love cannot tie anyone's wings.
As Kenji said: "Li Xiang is like Tokyo, both casual and stimulating, cloudy and uncertain", with her, never boring, always have new stimuli.
Different times
Many people ask "can't surpass the classic, why do you have to remake?" Some people also asked: "Why is it so big?" (In fact, the 91st edition is a bigger adaptation of the original work, and the new version is more loyal to the original work)
The main creative team of the new version also knows that the old version of "East Love" is an insurmountable classic, so this remake does not follow the style of the original version, which is also reasonable. Otherwise, why shoot it again?
In the 1990s, the Japanese film and television content market pure love TV series prevailed, "Dong Ai" can stand out with "stomachache four-corner love", and the shaping of the role is a magic weapon for its success.
In 2020, four-corner love is no longer a popular theme in film and television dramas, and the adaptation of classic stories must be another way, and there must be a new interpretation of the love of young people in the new era.
The most interesting point of the new version compared to the old version is actually the characteristics of the era of "mobile phone love".
The 1991 version of the story echoes the era when the BB machine was prevalent, and the protagonists were misunderstood due to their inability to communicate in time, which further affected the development of the four-corner relationship.
Time and space have shifted to modern times, and now that it is the Reiwa era of 2020, things like losing contact will not happen again.
Smart phones and social networks are booming, and the clues of lovers cheating are found through social media, and mobile phones are the love fields that belong to this era. "Go to his or her side when you miss it" became "Open the line when you miss it".
In 2020, things like losing contact and making the wrong phone call will no longer happen, and the new version of the plot is more in line with the expectations of modern urban women.
To take a simple example, when Wanzhi released Li Xiang's pigeon and ran to comfort Rimi, the old version of Li Xiang waited for hours in the rain, dripping water, still happy for the appearance of Guanzhi.
And the new version of Li Xiang went home after learning that he had finished his appointment. When she learns that Kenji is lying, she finds out that the person Chosen by Kenji is Rimi, turns around and leaves, and even asks her old lover to pick her up in an irresistible tone; Kanji is also awakened by Rimi, and suddenly turns back to find Li Xiang. Li Xiang no longer blindly pays and hides patience, but has more initiative.
Times change, and it's hard to tell whether the distance between lovers is closer or farther.
In the 1990s, "Tokyo Love Story" presented the highest romantic love before the bursting of Japan's bubble economy, and love should be dashing, and love should be dashing.
Along with Kazumasa Oda's "Sudden Love", the opening scene of the old version of "East Love" is a Japanese street scene in the 1990s, rushing pedestrians from all over the world, highways, public telephones, and Tokyo Tower at night.
Then to every character, every costume, every scene in the play, you see the aura of Japan's amazing economic and cultural strength at that time. (The original manga was serialized in 1988, when Japan's economy surpassed that of the United States.)
The new version of the ending song comes from the 19-year-old musician Vaundy's "Lights", the picture is pushed from tokyo tower to the distance, Tokyo's lanterns slowly transition to the traffic on the elevated road and the lights of the thousands of homes in the tall buildings, and finally retract to the top of tokyo tower, depicting the great changes in Tokyo in the past 30 years.
In the new version, you can also feel the swaying struggle of everyone in their feelings, including Li Xiang. Young people's romance is more everyday and more personal, the world is getting smaller, and our love is getting smaller.
The play has become less "pure love", but it has more successfully captured the struggle between the contemporary person and love.
In the view of The House Jun, the new and old versions really do not need to be separated, they all faithfully restore the love form of an era.
Whether it is the aesthetic style of the casting, the framing, and the story rhythm of the new version, it is very different from the version 29 years ago, even if it makes many people wonder whether Li Xiang can change her fate in different contexts, but in fact, even if Li Xiang is still a person, in this era, it is really not a regrettable ending.
The original manga was released in 2016 with a sequel, telling the story of 50-year-old Nagao Kenji reuniting with Akamei Rika because of his daughter's marriage, and Budiya Jun is also looking forward to making a sequel.