"My Neighbor Yamada-kun" talks about such a family. They are ordinary and ordinary, just like our neighbors. Their ordinary life and warm laughter make us laugh and envy:
An upright grandmother who still hasn't learned to judge other people's faces at her age, and has a rude and practical philosophy of life.
It seems that she is thinking seriously about what to cook every day, but she is actually a full-time housewife mother who has no cooking skills.
In adolescence, he is full of doubts and fantasies, and he can't find the answer, so he still needs to solve the problem in the sea of books.
There are old men at the bottom, and there are little strong ones who support the majesty of the head of the family, and the staff father who is often defeated by his own ignorance.
There is the innocent, lovely, enthusiastic and optimistic young daughter Nonoko.
The Yamada-kun family said in the grandmother's "Children are the greatest weapon to overcome difficulties", "Families must unite as one", "Treat children with caring and supportive attitudes, filial and support parents with gratitude", "Be alert to the calm and peaceful life in life", etc. The motto of life teaches the general direction: harmony, happiness, and vitality. But there are also funny plots: the crazy mother's strange countermeasures to deal with unexpected housekeeping, the "tacit" way of getting along with each other in love and killing each other, the parent-child interaction of the playful father and son in a mere form, and the maintenance of patriarchal power. The sadness of the father who was ignored, the determination to prepare for the test against the sleepiness, the secrets that adolescent men cannot tell, etc.
The film reveals the common secrets of Japanese society through the plot: a macho father hides a gentle and lonely heart, and a gentle and obedient mother is the essence of the family's focus; Japanese people have a strong sense of maintaining rules and boundaries, but they are not friendly to their neighbors. There is a strong interest in privacy; social morals are good teachers and lazy... Of course, only confident people dare to laugh at themselves. The self-discipline and tenacity of the Japanese are still worth learning from.
The film has strong Japanese elements: for example, in the depiction of the marriage of the parents, Japanese mythological stories such as Momotaro and Princess Kaguya are added, and the swirl pattern in Mr. Hokusai's Ukiyo-e "The Great Wave off Kanagawa": such as the wild ginger miso in the dining room Soup, sushi, Japanese hot pot, senbei, dorayaki; such as Moonlight Masked Hero, etc. Moreover, the haiku after each small plot of the film not only plays the function of dividing the structure and the topic, but also adds an old-fashioned and cute Japanese style to the film.
In short, the film uses a unique color lead comic technique to tell the dribs and drabs of family life, hustle and bustle, dejection, warmth and laughter. If you like family comics such as "Crayon Shin-chan", "Cherry Maruko", "Our Family", and "Old Mom", then you must not miss this "My Neighbor Yamada-kun"!
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