Many fans of this World Cup have been brushed by the Japanese a lot of good feelings, not only because of their century-old football training plan, but also their fans, every time after the Japanese team matches, Japanese fans will take the initiative to clean up the garbage in the stands.
Many people are shocked by the high degree of self-discipline of the Japanese, but in fact, the Japanese also have their own dark side -
Japan is a famous pet country.
By the end of 2017, the number of domestic dogs and cats in Japan had exceeded 18 million.
In other words, in Japan, 1 in 6 people has a pet.
The huge pet group has also promoted the development of Japanese characteristic apartments - "human pet coexistence" apartments.
That is, when the house is built, the pet has been taken into account and a special claw washing area has been set aside.
Some media have joked that along with japan's "aging population", there are also "pet aging".
Because Japanese people love pets, in addition to food, there are clothes, toys, and even "pet cars", which are all products that Japanese pet owners love to buy every day.
The favorable living conditions make the life span of dogs and cats longer.
On the streets of Japan, you can hardly see stray dogs.
But the data shows that in Japan, there are no fewer abandoned dogs and cats than in other countries.
So, where did they all go?
After the 2011 Earthquake in Japan, 20 kilometers of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was declared a mandatory evacuation zone.
In the town where people have disappeared, in addition to the broken bricks and tiles, there are still family pets who are still surviving and can only wait for death.
Someone once rescued thousands of animals from this place that everyone could not avoid.
This person appears in the dog movie that Shiva is going to introduce to you today.
"The Day You Named"
I was attracted to it at first, all because the poster was so warm!
Proper Japanese style, looking at the poster, you can imagine that every frame in it must be the kind that can warm people.
After reading the results, it is more bitter + shocking.
Unlike previous films like "Hachiko the Faithful Dog", this film has no complicated actors and does not make people cry.
Although listed as a movie, it is more like a documentary with a plot added.
The film uses a large number of handheld lenses and documentary long lenses to shoot, abandoning the gorgeous editing and elaborate sets, and only recording the unknown status quo of Japanese stray dogs and shelters from the perspective of the heroine.
TV producer Kanami Kuno originally had a cute golden retriever called Konatsu.
After Xiao Xia died of illness, she began to think about what she could do for the dog, such as making a movie.
So she began to visit the Chiba Prefecture Animal Shelter.
Japanese law stipulates that pets such as dogs and cats must be kept by the owner, and animals without owners must be sent to shelters in each county or city.
But once in the shelter, the lives of dogs are set for a deadline — within a week no new adopters appear, they are forcibly euthanized.
In other words, a dog without its owner is not entitled to live.
Chiba Wang, whose activities are based in Chiba Prefecture, is a group that actively rescues cats and dogs from shelters, saving nearly 4,000 lives in ten years.
They check each dog's personality and health to determine if it is suitable for adoption, and then post an adoption announcement on the official website.
Dogs that are considered qualified may temporarily live in the home of the group members until the adopter is determined.
Sometimes the mother dog in the shelter gives birth to puppies, and Qianye Wang's volunteers will also take them out to take care of themselves.
This group of people may be angels sent by God.
Almost every shelter will have a "hospice room" where dogs are determined to be euthanized.
Some dogs are even very healthy and very affectionate, but they are not good enough to look good, so no one has come to adopt them.
But many times, they will know who is coming to save themselves.
Qianye Wang regularly holds "dog blind dates" activities to provide people who are willing to adopt and provide opportunities to get along with dogs face to face.
However, the members of the group are very cautious, in order to avoid the dog being discarded twice, they will carefully screen everyone who comes to apply for adoption.
Compared with Chiba Wang, Lady Nakatani, who took thousands of animals from Fukushima, is relatively weak.
She had no organization, only an old friend by her side, who volunteered to be her assistant for many years.
Two days after the earthquake, the two drove to the disaster area to carry out rescue.
They spent the night in the car and saved fourteen hundred pets along the way. Once she took over the cat, it was raised for life.
Even more shocking is that she will also pick up all the animals that are about to be euthanized in the local shelter.
Regardless of old age or illness.
For this reason, her daily trip to the animal management office in Hiroshima City has become a regular itinerary for her.
Because there are dogs there every day that are about to be euthanized.
In fact, long before the earthquake, her two-person dog and cat rescue team had already taken over more than a hundred dogs and six hundred cats.
Among them, there are dogs with congenital physical disabilities that are close relatives of vicious breeders, and cats that the owner cannot keep for any reason.
Some stray dog children of the second and third generations have become very resistant to humans, but she will still help.
Human nature is so complex that some people practice their selflessness and love all their lives, and some people personally send their one-year-old dogs to euthanasia.
Fortunately, her act of kindness later attracted the help of well-wishers from all over the country.
Some provided her with space and food; some came to volunteer; including Qianye Wang's team, who also hired a cooperative veterinarian for her.
The film records the process of their joint rescue of dogs and cats in the water.
Including how to break into the interior of black-hearted breeders, how to save those uterine festering, and even the stillborn dog mothers inside.
Of course, they are not the only people who dedicate silently, but also the presidents of the first batch of pet dog nursing homes and TV producers who adopted Koharu.
Japan is a country rich in dog movies, and we have seen too much warmth and emotion in its previous films.
Most of those stories are about the loyalty of dogs, but very few people talk about their sorrow and resentment.
Not many people have seen this film on Douban, but the rating is as high as 8.4, because it brings us a new vision.
The film is full of cruelty and greatness, and it turns out that Japan, which is highly developed in humanities and economy, also has its dark side when dealing with animals.
But at the same time, we also have to marvel at the fact that there is such a group of people who have been doing the same thing for decades and changing this society with their own meager efforts.
However, as said in the film, no matter how much effort is paid, as long as the mentality of the owner does not change, there will still be unfortunate lives in this world.
So even if you have the urge to raise a pet after watching this film, or at any time you have this impulse, please be cautious.
If you really want to adopt a pet, be prepared to take care of it for the rest of your life!