Uchida Baikan (1889-1971), a famous writer in the history of literature of the Showa era, Meiji, Taisho, Japan. Formerly known as Uchida Rongzao, No. Bai Xian, also No. Hundred Ghost Garden. Zeng was a teacher of Natsume Soseki. Good at dreamlike psychological depiction. Early works include "The Way of the Dead" and "Tokyo Diary". Especially famous for his essays. The short story collection "Essays of the Hundred Ghosts Garden" was popular throughout the world, establishing its unique literary status.
In fact, Uchida's original pen name was [Bai Jian], and it was changed to [Bai Xian] after the war. The word "Xian" was written as the month in the door. Bai Xian resigned from teaching at the age of 61 to concentrate on writing. In his writing, he often takes pleasure in being poor, "Everyone sees me as a poor man. As long as the topic of poverty is involved in the crowd, everyone will look at me together. If anyone turned their back on me at that time, they would definitely return. Look over at me", and the phrase "one who has no permanent debts has no perseverance", which benefits from the words of Mencius, is a picture of his stubborn but not ugly, harmonious but not joking innocence and elegance.
The Japanese name of the film is "まあだだよ", transliterated as "Madadayo", which is what children shout when playing hide-and-seek: "—Are you ready? (Mahda-kai)—Not yet! (Madadayo) ", the English name is translated as "Not Yet", which retains the original meaning but lacks a certain tone, while the Chinese translation, whether it is the mainland version of "curling sunset love" or the Taiwan version of "a generation of fresh teachers", is not satisfactory, and there is no interest at all.
From the age of sixty-one, his disciples founded the "Moaduo Society" to celebrate his birthday. Every year, the students would jokingly ask, "Are you ready?" After that, he always said, "Not yet!" The "Moaduo Club" was held for a total of 18 sessions, and the end of the film stayed at the 17th birthday party. That night, the gray-haired Bai Xian made a Dream: The children were playing hide-and-seek, and many children were shouting at him, "Are you ready?" He hid himself in the straw pile and said, "Not yet!" The sky suddenly turned into colorful clouds.
This warm ending probably also contains the unbearable old man Kurosawa who is over 80 years old. Maybe the two have a good heart and let each other go.
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