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It is Kore-eda and the six stars of "Thief Family"
At the San Sebastian International Film Festival, which just ended at the end of last month, it was Kore-eda who won the "Lifetime Achievement Award" for "Thief Family". Not long before that, in May, "Thief Family" had just won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Winning the Palme d'Or and lifetime achievement award together is Kore-eda's highest praise for being a director.
Kore-eda's films seem to be babbling water, calmly and long narrating the bits and pieces of life, plain but touching. There is a saying that "the invention of cinema has extended our lives threefold because we have gained at least twice as different life experiences in them", but lz believes that Kore-eda's films are not so much about giving people more experience as they are about having a deeper understanding of their lives after watching them.
After seeing Kore-eda and his first work, I liked his works, and I was probably more impressed by "Thief Family" just now, so the first thing that came to mind when I saw the essay campaign was the theme of "Kore-eda's works recommended". I have never paid attention to the score of Kore-eda's works before, and in the process of writing this article, I found that the following seven works of Amway all scored above 8.5 points, the highest reached 9.1 points, and the rating of Douban is very high - I hope that you who like the bland and warm life drama will like this series of high-score recommendations.
1. Acquaintance No one knows (2004)
The mother moves into a new apartment with her eldest son and three "black children", and one day, the mother (Yukiko Ehara) entrusts her younger siblings to the eldest son and leaves a small amount of money in the name of "I also have the right to pursue happiness". The four children, who are helpless, begin a warm and tragic life...
When Hirokazu Kore-eda was 27 years old, he wrote the script for a real West Sugamo abandonment incident; 15 years later, everything was ready to make this "Nobody Knows", and in one fell swoop, the 14-year-old lead actor Yumi Yanagi became the youngest film emperor in the history of Cannes, and no one has broken it so far.
The archetype of the real event is outrageous: the mother abandons her children, and the brother beats the sister who stole the food to death and secretly buries it. Kore-eda's adaptation did not make major changes to the main story, except for a slight change to the death of his sister (the sister died unexpectedly). But the whole movie does not ink a lot of criticism of any one character, but uses a large paragraph to describe the happy play segments of each child, which makes people see the accidental death of the sister at the end of the film is quietly buried in a suitcase, which is more depressed and sad, and the film is also criticized by some people for "escaping reality", and the beautification of the role of the mother in the film is also criticized, which is the matter of the benevolent and the wise.
2. No stop on shoes Whether walking or walking (2008)
The eldest son, Junpei, who had inherited his father's career as a doctor, drowned 15 years ago after saving a child who had fallen into the water, and the second son, Ryota (Hiroshi Abe), refused to accept the mantle and leave home. On the day of the eldest son's death, the second son and sister rushed back to their homes in the town with their families and stayed overnight for a long time. In the long summer days of family reunion, one day and one night, what happens is a trivial matter,
This is a movie based on Kore-eda's mother, who will gently prepare delicious meals for the family that still taste in their memories, laugh at their daughter-in-law and still have obvious estrangement, and resent the eldest son for dying to save the children who fell into the water... Kiki Shirin's appearance is an excellent performance of the appearance of a real mother full of complex emotions. It was Kore-eda's collaboration with Kiki Shirin, which also started with "Non-Stop Walking". It was Kore-eda who once said, "I am afraid that only Kiki Shirin can express his mother's meanness in an unpopular way." ”
This is the first work that LZ has seen is Hirokazu Kore-eda's work, and since the first time it has been watched, it has been turned over every year or two, so it is the most impressive. Although there is no undulating plot, no obvious conflict, no deliberate climax, just shooting a day and a night of life, but the trivial chores and dialogues, the tiny actions of peeling turnips and peeling corn kernels are so comfortable.
3. Miracle Miracle (2011)
His older brother Hangichi and younger brother Ryunosuke are separated from each other because their parents are divorced, but they still talk on the phone for a long time, hoping to live together again. There is a volcano in Kagoshima, where Hangichi lives, and volcanic ash is scattered every day. When they knew that a miracle would happen when two trains met, they wanted to go with their friends to the place where the trains met and make a wish — hoping that the volcano would erupt so that they could be reunited with their families.
This work is the lowest number of Douban ratings among the seven films of Amway in this article, which reflects the average popularity in China; but the rating is still as high as 8.7 points, which also reflects the excellent quality of this work.
"The world is so wonderful, daily life is beautiful, and life itself is a miracle." This "Miracle" can be said to be the most beautiful and joyful one in Kore-eda's works. In this drama, the performance of the Maeda brothers is fresh and cute, but it makes the father of the musician played by Shu look a little out of tune. Did a miracle happen at the end? It doesn't matter, the brothers have grown up after experiencing various bonds with their families, friends and passers-by in the process of pursuing miracles, which is enough to make people smile.
4, Joko and Become Father (2013)
Office worker Nomiya Ryota and his wife Nonomiya Midori have been married for many years, and have a smart and well-behaved son, Nonomiya Yoshita, living a quiet and happy life. At this time, a phone call came from the hospital where Gyeongta was born: Keito was not the son of the Nonomiya family, but the children of Yudai Saiki and Yugali. Is it the precious feelings of getting along day and night, or is the bondage of blood connected to each other important? Faced with the consequences of a small misunderstanding many years ago, Liangduo and Green did not know where to go. And for xiongda, eucalyptus and the two children who are not biological, they are also faced with difficult choices and so on.
Is it blood or time? This is a question that runs through the whole play, and the protagonist of the whole play, which is the subject of the previous question, is Ryota Nonomiya (Masaharu Fukuyama). Many middle-class people have been carefully cultivating their sons, and the sudden accident has made him panic, and after witnessing the completely different education methods of the Saiki family, he has also had new thinking about "father and son".
Compared with the family drama, this movie focuses more on the parent-child part. Time is beyond the existence of blood to accompany parents, family affection is the need to accompany and communicate, work is important, father is also the irreplaceable work of others.
5、 Sea Street Diary (2015)
The story tells that three sisters whose parents divorced and lived alone lived together in a house in Kamakura. One day, the three suddenly received news of the death of their father who was far away in Yamagata, so the three decided to go to Yamagata Prefecture to say a final farewell to their father. At their father's funeral, they met their half-sister. After all, blood is thicker than water, and the three sisters are worried about their little sister's life, so they decide to take her to live in Kamakura...
The eldest sister who plays the role of the mother is introverted and responsible, and has a sense of Yamato Fuzi; the second sister has a straightforward personality, but she is born with a rotten peach blossom physique; the third sister... Simple and cute, but also a bit naturally dull - Milk Haruka Sauce and Xia Fan interpret these three characters perfectly, even if you have seen the manga of Akio Yoshida's original work (highly recommended), you can't refute it. Plum wine, fish rice... By entertaining the little sister who received them, these home-cooked delicacies are linked to the memories of the family, and it is difficult for the adult world to be evaluated in black and white, and the gradual unfolding of small things also allows them to know more about their father and mother. In addition, Kore-eda also photographed the mountain scenery and streets of Yamagata and Kamakura beautifully, and it seems that it is also a good movie scene punch card~
6, Deeper than the High Sea Still Deeper Than the Sea (2016)
An award-winning novel of his own 15 years ago made the protagonist still hold the dream of a novelist in middle age. However, after the divorce, he is addicted to gambling, has a low eye and escapes from reality, and from time to time he asks for living expenses from the old mother, not only can not afford to pay the rent, but even the son does not have the money to buy gifts. Briefly reunited with their ex-wives and sons on the night of the typhoon, they reminisce about the past, and after dawn, they each return to their old lives, and everything is the same.
Abe Kuan himself is tall, with a beard and sloppy clothes, perfectly interpreting the image of a middle-aged man who wasted firewood. On the other hand, while complaining that his son always asks for money, he gives his son a homemade popsicle; for the deceased boss and his son's daughter-in-law, three or two sentences can break the truth; he is calculating and intelligent, worldly and real - the mother played by Kiki Shirin in this movie is simply too cool, and the role of the mother has become the glue of various characters. The several scenes of typhoon night are the climax of the whole film, the divorced family sleeps under the same roof again, the mother usually says "without love, it is impossible to be together", finds the father's novel for the son, the grandmother tells the grandson the story of the father, and has expectations for the former daughter-in-law, these plots make people look forward to the next day's story. However, like many ideals, their marriage also had to face reality in the ideal.
Kiki Shirin and Abe Hiroshi are back in the role of mother and son, and the character settings (even the son's name is "Many") are slightly similar in all aspects, and if you are too familiar with "Non-Stop", you may not be able to avoid drama when you watch this film at first. In this film, Abe's roles of "father" and "mother" are more intense, so the role will give people with similar identities more touches.
7. Thief Family (2018)
This "Thief Family" won the "Palme d'Or", the highest award at the Cannes Film Festival, a few months ago, which shows that audiences around the world and filmmakers in the circle have a lot of praise for this film.
When "Thief Family" was introduced to the mainland, the distributor specially designed two posters that made Kore-eda praise:
One of the posters with the theme of "Sea" adopts the ukiyo-e style, and the scene is a scene in the movie where the family is playing happily at the beach, and it is the role of grandma who does not appear in the poster holding an umbrella:
In the face of the happy "family", Grandma (Kiki Shirin) uses her lips to say "thank you", which is also the last sentence left by this character in the film, a tearful scene.
Another version of "Hanabi" is a scene where a family watches fireworks in the cloister under the eaves: the sky is full of gorgeous fireworks, and below is a happy family looking up at the sky.
However, the reality is cruel, the scene of "watching fireworks" in the movie, only the "family" hears the sound of fireworks, imagines the beauty of fireworks, and looks up at the empty sky of the black hole in the courtyard.
As the poster shows: it's a movie about an unrelated family living at the bottom of society.
Six socially marginalized characters (the grandmother who was abandoned by her ex-husband to live on the pension of the elderly, the father of the low-income laborer who worked odd jobs, the former sex worker who killed the ex-husband", the mother, the sister who played jk to help rub the edge ball, the brother who was left behind by the parents of Bai Qingge and almost suffocated in the car, the sister who was locked on the balcony by the abusive parents and almost froze to death), relying only on the income of the old man's pension and casual work, and the father often took his brother and sister to the convenience store to steal to "subsidize the family". But in the first half of the movie, it gives the impression that these people seem to live in a utopia, the instant noodles are extremely satisfied with fried coke cakes, and the funny dialogue and happy smiling faces fill the narrow room, warm and peaceful, and let time flow quietly. However, in the second half of the plot, the plot takes a sharp turn, and the sharp contradictions instantly tear the family apart...
Every "member" of this "family" has a similar experience of being abandoned or abused by the family of origin. Although the family they re-formed is only an illusory existence, it gives them a warmer "home" feeling. Each of them has their own private thoughts, but it is precisely these characteristics that in turn make their shining points more tearful and make these characters more plump - this is the life of ordinary people, and it is also the characteristic of Kore-eda and all movies.
A little bootleg at the end
In "Thief Family", shortly after accompanying the family to the beach, Grandma sleeps forever on a peaceful day. In the theater, facing the end of "Thief Family", LZ also said to lp, "I really hope that the old lady will live a long life." And now, the movie seems to be a rehearsal for reality - "Grandma" actor Kiki Shirin just died on the 15th of last month.
For Kore-eda, Kiki Shirin is like a mother. The two also have a good relationship in private, often eating and chatting together. On the day of the "Thief Family", Kiki Shirin once gave Kore-eda a scan of his whole body, and the cancer cells had spread to the bones of the whole body, and the doctor had said that there was less than a year left in his lifespan. Playing a deceased character in "Family of Thieves" is probably also a kind of providence, allowing Kiki Shirin and Hirokazu to say a final goodbye, and Kiki Shirin also said that this was the last time to cooperate with Kore-eda. In fact, after this day, Kiki Shirin did avoid seeing Kore-eda, and September 15, the day kiki Shirin died, also happened to be the day of Kore-eda and his mother's death, which was really sad.
Starting from "Non-Stop Walking", lz is also a film that has been watched all the way through kiki Shirin, and in addition to Kore-eda's work, it also has excellent performances in "The Taste of Seongsai", "My Mother's Handbook", and "Tokyo Tower". After watching "Thief Family", although she already knew that her cancer had spread to her whole body, she still couldn't help but silently recite "Please be sure to live a long life" to the scrolling subtitles. To borrow the last words from Kore-eda's eulogy to Kiki Shirin: "Ms. Shirin, I am so grateful to meet you." Good bye.
In a few days, that is, on October 13, Japan will release kiki Shirin's last posthumous work, and sincerely wish the box office a double harvest: