In 2016, Yoji Yamada's "Family Suffering" was quite popular with fans. Not only did it have a double harvest at the domestic box office in Japan, but its influence also spread to China, which is also an oriental country, including Huang Lei. Deeply moved, Huang Lei decided to remake this film as his directorial debut, which shows his love for this film.
Yoji Yamada is a prolific director who shot "Family Affliction 2" while it was hot. Japan is scheduled for May 27, 2017, originally thinking that it will take some time to meet him, but unexpectedly, the filmmakers announced that they would premiere the film at the Beijing International Film Festival.
According to everyone's experience, sequel movies are difficult to surpass the previous works, and even sequels that can reach the same level of the previous works are rare. The reason is very simple, either the box office and word of mouth are not enough to promote the emergence of a sequel, or the content you want to express has been expressed, it is difficult to have a breakthrough, and the dog tail continues to fry cold rice.
But this "Family Affliction 2", as a sequel, is rarely better than the previous game.
This has to sigh that Yoji Yamada is worthy of being a master of Japanese "Shumin drama". At the age of 86, his creativity is still so exuberant, and he can't accept it.
For this kind of family-themed comedy, Yoji Yamada is really handy, and he can always find comedy jokes in his daily life and present it to make you feel more intimate. It may not be possible for the general public to see this "Family Suffering 2" for the time being, but the super-long "Injiro's Story" series has long proved the level of yamada's ability to succeed.
"Family Affliction 2" continues to tell the bondage between the family and the trivia between the family in a comedic form, and in Yamada's films, you will always make you smile, and everything seems so beautiful. "If the heart is beautiful, what you see is poetry, the sun and the moon are gentle, the years are gentle, and the daily life is poetry", Yoji Yamada's comedy is like poetry in Chichigo's heart.
Fortunately, I watched this movie in the screening unit of the North Film Festival, and what Kichigo admires most is that he actually uses the same plot framework as the first one, but there is no sense of repetition. This "I've seen this episode" plot setting will actually increase the comedic effect of the movie, and Director Yamada added a character plot involving "death" in the sequel, which always makes you laugh and feel a little lost. This is high-level comedy, full of jokes but also let people taste the sadness of life, outstanding comedy always has a tragic core. Laughter and tears are life.
The characters in his films are optimistic, righteous, kind, humorous, humane, and romantic. Yoji Yamada's films are always like this, seeing the truth in the plain, so popular, so "enjoying with the people".
Regarding Yoji Yamada, the evaluation of the film critics has won my heart, and I share it with you here.
"The 'Family Suffering' series is here in my place, which is an extremely scarce and difficult to supply in the world's film art. It is good, and it is even more compassionate. Honestly, I don't see that in Ozu's films. However, in Yoji Yamada's film, it is easy to look at it, Zeng Jian said it well, you can be as cute as you want, and vice versa, it is the same. Deeper feelings, how unsympathetic you are, you will be one step closer to the 'human will', the human will is not used to calculate, or even to communicate, because forced understanding and understanding, is not a greed.
For more than a decade, every time we met with Yoji Yamada Films, it felt like time was giving us gifts. Those little people who are absolutely self-sufficient and non-invasive bring us happiness at the same time, but also give us many possibilities for life, it is with their company that we do not have to compare the truth, in the face of the river of years, we are not even too late to suffer from gain and loss. This, in my opinion, is also a kind of miracle. Yoji Yamada is now smiling and saying goodbye to the past. What Family Affliction 2 is about is so simple, that is, so inspiring. ”
Having already seen "Family Suffering", Chichigo suggested sitting and waiting for "Family Suffering 2", and those who had not yet seen "Family Suffering", Chichigo suggested hurrying to see it. In addition, the Chinese version of Huang Lei's remake is about to be released, and it can also be compared.
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