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This year, Game of Thrones, The Big Bang Theory... Many of the "old dramas" we are familiar with have waved goodbye and are waiting for the finale.
A drama can become a series, a surprise that people wait for year after year, and the reasons why they can continue to exist are always so numerous that they are unclear: an appetizing plot, a superb actor, or some impressive scene in the shot.
The drama I want to talk about today can be described as a Japanese drama, which can be called one of the longest series of Japanese dramas in history: "Xiang Stick".
A few days ago, the new broadcast has been its 18th season, this season returns, Douban score 9.2, and it is the rhythm of high score brush screen!
Strictly speaking, the show's budding began in 2000, when it aired as a special episode of the single-episode TV series "Saturday Wide Theater". But it officially appeared in 2002, and "XiangBang" changed to a serial drama in that year, and has been broadcast for a total of 18 seasons so far, at a steady pace of one season a year.
So, this year, TV Asahi celebrated the 20th anniversary of the broadcast of the "Sobab" series.
(Season 1)
The first story of this season of "Xiangba" is also a commemorative work for the 20th anniversary of the birth of Xiangba.
The story takes place in the northernmost elevated island of Japan, "TenriShima", Sugishita Ukyo, who has returned from a trip to London, suddenly disappears, and his partner Kanjo goes to Tenri Island to find the missing Ukyo, but there are serial murders on the island, and there are secrets that may shake the country...
For this season's filming, the actors performed more than 10 days of large-scale location shooting in Hokkaido, taking advantage of Hokkaido's dynamic landscape and cutting-edge imaging technology, which is also unprecedented in "Xiangbang".
No one would have thought that a drama that seemed to have no waves at that time could become a long-lived drama that is still broadcast today.
At that time, the show did not have a detective mystery drama with big-name actors, all by its fascinating plot, which caused the ratings to soar, from 10% of the first few seasons to 20% of the high ratings later, with an average rating of 16.1%, and the highest rating of a single episode was the 16th episode of the 9th season, "Supervision Object: Sugishita Ukyo", which reached 23.7%.
Word of mouth is also rising, and it has been widely praised by the public and has become a well-deserved work of the Japanese people. Even the Douban score, since 18 seasons, has been above 8 points in every season.
During this period, in addition to the 18 seasons of TV dramas, the "Xiangbang" series also produced 6 movies and derivative works such as comics, novels, video games and stage plays.
The drama "Xiang Stick" has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of Japanese drama fans.
In Japanese, it originally meant two carmen carrying a car bar together, but now it means partner, partner.
This name, also a staff member of "Xiang Stick", stumbled upon during a meal at a Chinese restaurant, and was used as the name of the series (the previous temporary drama was called "Golden Cop").
The setting of "Matchmason" fits its meaning perfectly: Sugishita Andyo and his partner form a special team of only two people to investigate countless suspenseful cases.
It is this combination that has become the center of charm throughout the 18 seasons, and one of them, named Sugishita Ukyo, is the "absolute first male protagonist" among them.
The character is played by veteran Japanese actor Toyotomi Mizutani, who has been playing "Sugishita Ukyo" since 2002 and has not been replaced until now.
It is he who has brought the charm of Sugishita Ukyo's character to the extreme: in 2018, a Japanese website published the most powerful detective role selected by 500 readers, with Furuhata Renzaburo ranking first, and Sugishita Ukyo ranking second with Kaneda.
In "Matchmason", Sugishita Graduated from the Law Department of the University of Tokyo, studied in the United Kingdom, and then became a national civil servant and became a criminal police officer.
He dresses in a more British style, looks gentlemanly, loves English tea, reading, chess, has super delicate observation, amazing memory and strong reasoning ability, and has also made countless achievements.
but...... He has an eccentric personality, often intimidating, and many colleagues have shunned him.
To say how much this drama and Sugishita Ukyo, played by Yutaka Mizutani, are attracted to fans? "Detective Conan" author Tsuyoshi Aoyama once made his TV series debut for it!
In the 2011 New Year's Day special episode of "Xiang Stick", "the father of detective Conan" Tsuyoshi Aoyama starred as an forensics officer (the person in the circle below) with no lines.
Not only that, Tsuyoshi Aoyama and Toyotomi Mizutani, the star of "Sobetsu", are each other's fans and admire each other very much.
Tsuyoshi Aoyama painted Sugishita Ukyo, played by Toyo Mizutani, in the famous detective's book.
Toyo Mizutani has a collection of 70 volumes of Conan and is a veteran Conan fan.
It is worth mentioning that Mizutani's salary for starring in the 16th season of "Xiang stick" the year before was exposed by the Japanese media.
He was the highest paid japanese actor in the winter of the previous year, earning 3.5 million yen (about 210,000 yuan) for a single episode, surpassing popular idol Takuya Kimura by 1 million yen per episode.
The other is a good partner of Sugishita Ukyo to solve the case, and the characters are constantly changing according to the continuous change of the plot.
During these 18 seasons, Kaoru Kameyama, Kobe, Kaisei, and Kanjo were accompanied by Kaoru Kameyama.
From the beginning of the 14th season, Sugishita Ukyo's partner, played by Takashi Inomachi, was an elite official of the Ministry of Justice and was the fourth generation of "Sobuki".
Naughty and lustful, he often uses language to return to Sugishita Ukyo, giving people a set for ultimate pleasure, and often giving people a set to solve a case. He is an indispensable comedy role in the play, and the team of the two is more like a tease and a hug, and the fun is infinite.
In addition to the two pleasing characters, there are also amazing reasoning plots in the "Xiang Stick" series, such as Blizzard Mountain Villa, flashback reasoning, enigmatic murder weapons... A variety of suspenseful and exciting storylines.
From the 3-person screenwriting team in the first season, to the 10-person screenwriting team in the fourth season, to the screenwriting team that has now launched more than 30 people, they are thinking about how to show a more exciting story to the audience every day.
When some people began to question why "Xiang Stick" had been popular for so many years, TV critic Takashi Kimura once said that "the main reason for the good script is the most important reason." ”
In addition, "Xiang Stick" is not limited to reasoning, but more reflects and describes real social problems and institutional problems.
First of all, there is the workplace factional struggle presented in "Xiang Stick".
After 18 seasons, you will find that this part is no less than its case-solving reasoning. Although the male protagonist Sugishita Ukyo is very good, he can only become a cold bench detective of the "special team" because he was ostracized in the handling of the case.
For example, in Season 1, a gifted child who witnessed the sexual harassment of his female class teacher used a bow and arrow to kill the male teacher to avenge his teacher.
For example, in season 16, a politician who discovers the secret of his corruption in order not to let himself be corrupted, forces his daughter to commit suicide, and is told the truth by Sugishita Ukyo.
In the 17th season of "Xiang Stick", the scientific research unit used a high-IQ little girl to do experiments, which was chilling.
Each story is closely related to reality, and there have been adolescent psychological problems, aging society, marriage relations, political topics, etc. in "XiangBao", which are related to the times or individuals, and are worth the audience's repeated chewing and thinking.
These are also the reasons why "XiangBang" can always be expected by the audience - always absorbing new content, interesting characters, interesting reasoning, interesting stories, projecting reality.
"Xiang Stick", a good reasoning drama that has stood the test of time, is worth chasing.
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