In fact, there is no need to comment on this film, the whole thing is very simple; as long as you are a Murakami fan, watch it, otherwise I will never recommend everyone to come in and enjoy it.
For those who have long admired Daimyo Murakami but have not yet begun to appreciate any of his works, "Tony Takiya" provides a good starting point for them.
The story tells that the protagonist Tony Takiya has been ridiculed for his strange name since he was a child, and even developed an autistic tendency because of it, and he is still very lonely when he grows up. Since his life is just painting at home, he won't have any fun, and he has lived a married petty bourgeoisie life since he was in his thirties. He loves his wife deeply, but his wife has a morbid desire to shop, and her repeated persuasion is ineffective, and finally she loses her life because of it. After his wife passed away, Tony Takiya couldn't let it go. He invited a woman who looked very similar to his wife as a secretary. The treatment was very generous. As time passed, Tony Takiya realized that the woman who replaced his wife could only make her more memorable but her dead wife. Indulging in painful memories and unable to extricate himself, he decided to dismiss the secretary, but as the days went on, he realized that the woman had unknowingly occupied a lingering place in his heart. The film ends with an open ending in which the woman is about to walk over to the phone to answer a call from Tony Takiya.
Haruki Murakami is known as the most urban Japanese writer in modern times, and this film is adapted from one of his short stories about lonely urbanites. The film is full of icons from Haruki Murakami's works, such as jazz, loneliness, middle-aged men, and first-person spiritual monologues. All of these make the film completely loyal to Murakami's worldview, and it is even more expressive in expressing the atmosphere in Murakami's works; it only takes more than an hour to let everyone know whether Haruki Murakami has a cup of tea himself, which is actually very difficult.
By the way, I am only an entry-level fan who has read the two works of Haruki Murakami, please forgive me if I am wrong.
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