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In the shores, the waves lapping at the coast, and in the distance is the island of Eno. Noriko and her father's assistant Hattori rode in the breeze. Noriko is at marriageable age, but she misses her father and refuses to marry.
Waist over, a corner crossing in front of the gate of Manfukuji Temple. Shuichi chases the tram on his bicycle, his white shirt fluttering in the wind. His brow furrowed, he was contemplating how to kill his stepfather.
In front of the Kek Lok Si Station, Xiao Ling and Feng Tai finished the fireworks festival and said goodbye to each other. Nightworm whispered, the wind too plucked up enough courage, praised Xiao Ling's bath clothes.
On Cape Inamura,000, police are laying traps to lure kidnapper Ginjiro, who is hiding here.
This is the bridge section of the four sun shadows, and the characters are either grumpy, or green, or gloomy, or tyrannical. Around the corner of their lives, their fates are very different. Their figures shuttle through the light and shadow time and space composed of mountains, seas, tunnels, and iron bridges. Connecting them is the light of the Shonan coast, the Enoshima Electric Railway.
△△Enoden Kamakura High School Front Station
"The movie is watching us"
In the late Edo period, japan was popular for travel, with destinations such as Enoshima and Kamakura in the Kanto region, which were the most popular tourist attractions among the people at the time. In Meiji 35, Enoden was opened as a sightseeing train to Kamakura and Enoshima. Of the active vehicles, the oldest is the 300-shaped, which is dressed in green and cream-colored coats in a nostalgic style. In the 9th year of Heisei, a retro vehicle built to commemorate the 95th anniversary of its opening to traffic, it was popular because it imitated the design of the Orient Express.
△△ The combination of green and cream color makes up the electric color of Eeno
Enoden starts from Kamakura in the east. It was the heart of Japan more than six hundred years ago, during the shogunate era, and was a mecca for countless Japanese artists. Ozu Yasujiro is buried there, with the big word "none" written on the tombstone; Yasunari Kawabata crossed the Long Night Tunnel and killed himself with gas in his residence in Kamakura and went to the snow country.
△△The electricity of the river that shuttles between the roads,
It has become intertwined with every corner of the city.
Yasunari Kawabata heard "the sound of the waves and the wind in the depths of the mountain stream" in Kamakura, and he metaphorically referred to it as the throbbing of the human heart, and created "The Sound of the Mountain". The famous director Akio Naruse adapted the novel in 1954 and brought it to the big screen. Setsuko Hara played the feminine heroine Kikuko. Her performance is extremely affinity — her signature, deeply intoxicating smile represents an era of Japan.
△△ Out of Kek Lok-ji Station, a 5-minute walk is the Chuangcheng Temple, known as the Temple of Hydrangea.
On both sides of the stone section of the sandao are planted 262 hydrangeas with the same number of words as the Prajnaparamita Sutra
That wasn't the most classic performance of the original set. At the end of Tokyo Story, the youngest daughter Kyoko (Kyoko Kagawa) helplessly says, "The world is so disappointing." Noriko, the second daughter-in-law played by Hara Setsuko, replied with a smile: "Yes, the world is disappointing." "At that moment, you will feel that film is different from other art forms, a great existence.
On the other hand, the selfless love of the second daughter-in-law Noriko for the entire family beyond blood, and the smiling and living with the world in the lonely situation after the loss of her husband, this makes people feel infinite warmth, which is probably the essence of all Ozu Yasujiro movies. Hara's smile and dialogue in that moment are like an unfathomable mirror, and sometimes, it's not us watching the movie—like Hara Setsuko, the movie sits upright, smiling, and watches us.
"Late Spring" begins a long journey of cooperation between Hara Setsuko and Ozu. Since then, she has become the "eternal daughter" in Ozu's films. Of course, she is particularly enjoyable in "Late Spring" - she expresses the Oedipal complex that looms in the father-daughter relationship in a subtle and timeless way.
The story of Late Spring takes place in Kamakura. The first shot of the film is Kita-Kamakura Station in late spring afternoon. On the exterior, there are Seven Mile Shore and Enoshima along the River's Electricity Line. The last shot is the Kamakura Sea at night. The regional background of Kamakura and the Shonan Coast was extremely important to Ozu at that time. After World War II, Kamakura was a refuge for Tokyo's cultural people, and it filled in the sense of loss that had arisen in Ozu due to the desolation of Tokyo. Late Spring was also the first collaboration of screenwriter Takao Noda and Ozu after World War II, and it set the tone for Ozu's future work. At that time, Ozu and Noda often visited their predecessors and writers in Kamakura. After watching "Late Spring", Satomi criticized Ozu, saying that after his daughter Noriko got married at the end of the film, the scene where her father tearfully cut apples at home was too pandering to the public and full of craftsmanship. Ozu reflected deeply after listening.
△△Compared to the Hydrangea Trail at the Gorin Shrine,
The electricity of the river and the hydrangea that sail in front of it constitute a painting,
It has become a holy place for countless railway fans.
Shortly after the film's release, under the influence of Satomi, Ozu settled in Kita-Kamakura and lived with his mother. The three Satomi, Ozu, and Noda brothers, at intervals of five to five, eat tempura and drink sake at the Chigasaki Pavilion, a hotel located in Chizaki. Satomi wrote novels and Noda wrote screenplays. It was during this time that Ozu and his works began to become famous all over the world.
Like his predecessor Ozu, Kore-eda often went to The Chizaki-kan to conceive films. When Kore-eda became a director, the Japanese film environment no longer allowed him to write scripts in a hotel for a long time, like his predecessor Ozu. In the early years, when filming "Non-Stop", he spent a week at the Chizaki Pavilion. In his words, "tortured": the old hallway floors creaked, the rooms had dim lights, and the air conditioning equipment didn't work. But at night, the dark atrium hears waves that can't be heard during the day. When I thought that director Ozu might have heard such a sound, Kore-eda couldn't help but feel very deeply.
Where his predecessors became famous, it was Kore-eda who completed the script of "Sea Street Diary". The story of the four Kamakura sisters is based on the manga of the same name created by Akio Yoshida. Yoshida's only request for Yoshida is to photograph the "Four Seasons of Kamakura" well. Therefore, after watching "Sea Street Diary", you can clearly feel that Kamakura is the protagonist of the movie, and it is Kore-eda who uses aesthetic images to focus on the "time and space" change of the film: at the beginning of the film, in the summer, it is Kore-eda who uses the moving bridge section to make the "home" appear, and at the end of the film, in the winter, it is Kore-eda who extends the concept of "home" to the whole town from the perspective of Korei (Hirose Suzu) to the sea in the final shot.
On the one hand, Kore-eda depicts the "present" timeline, the family is changed by time; on the other hand, he also tells people how the past years have affected the characters. In the movie, Enoden is like a time train, which appears frequently, connecting characters and plots from old and new times: Yubihama Station, Koru and Kazuta (Maeda Wangshiro) talk about cherry blossoms on the beach; Inamurasaki Station, Yuki (Haruka Ayase) and Shiina (Shinichi Toi) talk for a long time on the stone steps on the coast. At Nanarihama Station, the four sisters are twice relaxing by the sea, and at the end of the film, they walk together to the Cape of Inamura. Kek Lok-ji Temple appears several times in the film and becomes an important coordinate connecting the old mansion where the four sisters live with the entire Kamakura. It is worth mentioning that the scene in the movie about the ritual activities of Kek Lok Si Temple is the first time that kek Lok Si allowed the crew to shoot inside the temple, and people had the privilege of seeing the hydrangea flowers blooming in the temple on the big screen for the first time. While expressing the change of time and space, Kore-eda is fortunate to bring out the artistic conception of life and death through the precious images in the Temple of Bliss.
"In front of the corner, the scenery is nostalgic"
In Meiji 31, when the construction team of Enoden laid the rails, it caused public outrage among rickshaw pullers, who set off a movement against Enoden. Those who favored the construction of the railroad provided their land as a railroad surface — the winding lines that now seem to sew up every residential street.
From Kamakura to the terminal station Fujisawa, Enoden is only 10 kilometers long. In the meantime, the railway and the house are almost integrated – people in the car, the flowers on the balconies of the houses are within reach. Another distinguishing feature is that there are about 93 corner bends across the line. Every time Ezhidian turns a corner, it makes people collide with the unknown beauty.
An interesting phenomenon is that couples walk into the theater and look for a seat, they will subconsciously hold hands, and they may not be so close outside the theater. You might say that this is a natural reaction to a dark and quiet environment. But this is also the reaction when you are about to embark on an unknown journey - the seat in the movie theater is the seat of Enoden, because one minute you are still walking around the residential area, and the next moment, it takes you to the beach. Sitting in the river and watching the scenery along the way is like watching a movie whose plot is developing every second and can't guess the ending.
△△ Satoshi Miki's "Turning" is like a movie that sits on a tram and watches it from the window.
Satoshi Miki's "Turn Around" is like a movie that sits on a tram and watches it from the window. The debtor, Fumiya Takemura (Played by Ketō Oda), is repaired by the creditor Aiichiro Fukuhara (Yukazu Miura) and is still unable to repay the debt. Fukuhara reluctantly proposes to cancel Takemura's debts, but on the condition that he accompany him on a walk in Tokyo.
Thus, decadent youth and decadent middle-aged people began to wander aimlessly, chatting about boring, even slightly vulgar topics. Gradually, they get to know each other and begin to reminisce about their past. It turned out that Fukuhara had accidentally killed his wife many years ago and could never get out of the shadows; Takemura had been abandoned by his parents since childhood, never went out alone with his father, and dreamed of riding a roller coaster with his father.
△△ Fukuhara reluctantly proposed to cancel Takemura's debts, but on the condition that he accompany him on a walk in Tokyo.
Along the way, they unscrewed grandma's bicycle bell; met masquerade superman who stole the girl's clothes, remembering the thrill of cheating with a middle-aged woman; drinking coffee that had expired for several years at the home of a female painter from Mars; unable to afford a crocodile shirt for a girl they liked, so they put a crocodile logo on the polo shirt, and the sign fell in public; a gorgeously dressed and skillful electric guitarist in the tail line suddenly stopped his manic style in front of two policemen with batons, and said respectfully: "Good evening." ”
Further down, around the next corner, they might meet more interesting people.
The end of the journey, the end of the movie. Two people like father and son will be separated. Fukuhara and his family invited guests, called out to taketake village, and sat around to eat a casual meal. Takemura knew that after this meal, their Tokyo walking tour was coming to an end. Takemura, who has never experienced home before, can't help but shed tears of emotion and regret during the banquet, while explaining that he was crying by curry.
△△ Two people like father and son will be separated. Fukuhara and his family invited guests, called out to taketake village, and sat around to eat a casual meal.
Briefly forgetting our own identities and integrating the people and things we encounter into us, such as Takemura and Fukuhara in "Turning Around", and the same is true of us who watch them. This is the common essence of walking and film, and it determines that we travel between here and there. How nice would life be if it were like a movie? After one edit, the next scene can be 10 or 20 years later, which can skip how much blandness and triviality.
The Enoshima Electric Railway Line is the essence of a 34-minute movie.
Outside the tram, in addition to houses, mountains and seas, and iron bridges, there are children who go to and from school; beautiful women in bath robes waiting for the tram to pass by at the level crossing; and dark-skinned men carrying surfboards to the sea. If you're in the landscape, you can choose to wave to a driver sitting precariously, and they'll smile back and wave to you — that's the "unknown" of the journey, and like watching a movie, people can only meet "them" but can't live together. We met under a sky where no one could stay, and then the whistle sounded, the subtitles played, and we had to leave.
Tomohiro Nitta, the "youngest driver" in the history of Enoden, completed a brief encounter with the unknown world on the train.
△△ Tomohiro Nitta, the "youngest driver" in the history of Echinden.
Seven months after his birth, he unfortunately developed dilated cardiomyopathy, a congenital form of heart disease. His father was a railway fan, and often brought him all kinds of toys and books about trams, and took him on the River No Den. Peng Hongjun has had a dream since he was a child: to become the driver of Jiangzhidian. But the disease demon kept extending his magic palm to Peng Hongjun, and his body deteriorated.
When Vice Minister Takahashi learned of this, he immediately promised to help fulfill Peng Hongjun's wish. But for Peng Hongjun, who has no railway driving qualifications, driving Jiangzhidian is illegal. Jiangzhidian Headquarters finally decided to let Peng Hongjun enter the cab and feel the driver's working state. It was early winter, and the cold was the enemy of heart disease patients, who even considered emergencies and rehearsed countless emergencies.
Just as all kinds of preparations were in progress, Eiei, the chief of the General Affairs Department of Enoden, learned that Peng Hongjun's mother, Yuko, had never been able to ride the train with him due to her physical condition, and died. Every time Peng Hongjun took the tram, he would always say to his father, "I want to sit with my mother." "Isn't this emotion associated with being a tram driver?" Tsubasa's intuition led him to decide not only to let him into the cab, but to make Hiroshi Tomo a real driver.
△△ Go down, and on the next corner, they may be able to meet more interesting people.
On November 11, 1998, the sky was cloudless. Wearing the uniform prepared for him by Enoden, Tomohiro-kun travels from Fujisawa to Kamakura to begin his dream journey. The staff of all the stations of Jiangzhidian all the way saluted Peng Hongjun, which was the first time in the century-old history of Jiangzhidian.
Peng Hongjun used all his strength to stand up and walk to the driver's seat, and the doctors in his company were stunned. The professional driver held Peng Hongjun's small hand and drove the tram to complete the journey. He then dressed in uniform, got into an ambulance and returned to the hospital. Four days later, Peng Hongjun passed away.
After this, Every time, Kaoi would tell the story of Peng Hongjun to the new people of the company: "There are children who love Enoden so much, we must work hard!" ”
Employees entering and leaving Enoden's headquarters will surely pass through a wall on which hangs a painting by Tomohiro Nitta, a railway teenager who has only lived a short life of 16 years: The boy drives Egenden, happy and satisfied. c
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