I like Japanese food movies very much, and I always feel that there is a calm and healing taste. I have watched many such films, but "Dandelion" is one of the more special ones.
"Dandelion" does not focus on a fresh route like ordinary Japanese food movies. It can even be said to have some American Western flavors. The male protagonist Yamazaki gives the film a strong western flavor. The picture and the editing were quite jumpy. Many students said that they didn't understand half of them and then abandoned them. However, the seemingly scattered stories are inextricably linked, and it turns out to be the work of the ghost director Itami.
Itami Thirteen seems to only use “ramen” as the starting point, but in fact it has cast the food rules of the entire city and even the people of the world in a small way. From the perspective of the film as a whole, Itami uses the heroine Dandelion as the main line of the narrative, and the gangster white man as the secondary line of human nature. At the same time, he weaves the relationships of multiple groups of characters into a huge web like a food chain, and captures the various states of life in it. Compared with ramen, the Japanese inspirational main line that describes the heroine's gradual growth, I prefer a few subtle stories interspersed with it.
Old man eating ramen
Food color
Ladies Tutorial
Egg fried rice made by beggars
An old man who is extremely devoted to ramen; a black man in white clothes who combines food and sex; a group of powerful and nodding assistants who don’t know how to order in an Italian restaurant; Italians and upbringing who make a loud noise when eating pasta The lady training teacher who can't speak loudly when the girls eat noodles (?); the uncle who has a terrible toothache and still can't give up the food; the beggar who is proficient in cooking and singing, and has great taste in life; dying The mother who still had to cook a hot meal for her family before; the habitual offender who still had to eat a bite of Peking duck before going to prison; the gangster white brother who still told his wife that he wanted to eat pig intestines before he died; and the long one at the end The camera is scattered on the arms of a mother on a park bench. The baby in a swaddling baby, with her eyes closed peacefully, sucking her mother's milk. This is the instinctive starting point of life...Itami has blurred his libido and appetite more than once Boundary appeals to the harmony between appetite and sexual desire. A few short stories cover the world, and the depiction of these fragments is the presentation of vivid sections of social life. These fragments not only reflect people's obsession with food, but there are also many satires of Japanese society at that time. The film’s narrative structure is full, the supporting characters are diverse, vivid and colorful, and the main line is clear. It is a good movie worth watching.
I like Itami XIII's movie style very much, and I recommend everyone to watch his movies.
A chronology of the directors of Itami Thirteen is attached:
"Funeral", 1984,
"Dandelion", 1985,
"Female Tax Officer", 1987,
"Female Tax Officer 2", 1988,
"Fortune Girl," 1990,
"Daughter of Civil Violence" "1992
"Big Patient" 1993
"Quiet Life" 1995
"Supermarket Daughter" 1996
"Guardian Woman" 1997
(The director committed suicide in 1997, so there are no works after that...) The
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