What kind of movie can touch people's warm feelings and dusty moving? love? Friendship? Or affection? Delicate, gentle, and meaningful, films that focus on and describe such stories are even more touching.
"Tokyo Sonata" directed by Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and "Day and Night in Tianshui Wai" by Hong Kong director Hui Anhua were released in 2008. They also focus on ordinary family life, describe the simple relationship between people, and work together in different time and space. Side by side, I have witnessed the empathy in how many theaters, and how many families have united the joys and sorrows? The two films choose the same story angle and use similar narrative methods, and they also gain success and affirmation together - "Tokyo Sonata" won the Grand Jury Prize in the "Un Certain Regard" category of the French Cannes Film Festival, and "Days and Nights in Tianshuiwei" Bao Qijing's subtle and affectionate performance won the Best Actress award at the Hong Kong Film Awards. The two awards represent different recognitions: "Tokyo Sonata" has a clear story line, meticulous and meticulous play, well-defined characters, and a simple and quiet director. The overall level and style of the film have outstanding performance, and the comprehensive film award is well deserved. "Days and Nights of Tin Shui Wai" is quite satisfactory, the dramatic tension and climax are a little dull, but the performance is accurate and the character is accurate and vivid, so it is a matter of course to win the performance laurel.
The male protagonist of "Tokyo Sonata", Sasaki Ryuhei, is a middle-aged man who works as a section manager in a company. The tide of the economic crisis has caused him to lose his job. In order to maintain his face as the "head of the family" and bear the burden of life, he is looking for a job while doing business as usual. Going out early and returning late, concealing the fact that you have been unemployed. Wandering in the street park every day, crowded in the interview line every day, what does it mean for a middle-aged man to suddenly lose his job? The wife is a virtuous but lonely housewife, and the two sons are also separated from Sasaki. Until one day, the colleague Kurosu, who was unemployed with Sasaki and concealed the truth, committed suicide in desperation, and the eldest son, Tzu, was unwilling to endure the cold atmosphere of the family and decided to join the army. The sharp increase, the wife also inadvertently learned the news that her husband had already lost his job. All the problems followed in an instant. Sasaki's overflowing inner disappointment and depression made him miserable. He still played his father's prestige in front of Kenji, but was humiliated by Kenji. Accused, and ultimately can only accept the job of a cleaner in the mall. The stupid thief who broke into Sasaki's house and tried to rob Sasaki's wife kidnapped his wife, but unexpectedly brought a touch of warmth and turbulence to her dull life... In the end, when her husband fell on the street and his wife did not return overnight, Kenji was overwhelmed. Gathering confidence and hope, he impresses the audience with a beautiful and skillful piano sonata in the examination room of the High School Affiliated to Music.
Family ethics stories highlight "emotions and connections", and such works have always been excellent works. "Tokyo Sonata", with its plain and indifferent but quite dramatic conflict and connotation, makes the film show a special charm that is slightly sentimental and helpless but high-spirited. The layers are clear, the inner conflicts of the characters and the detailed description are meticulous and euphemistic, it is easy for the audience to walk into it without realizing it and sit side by side with the characters in the play, examining their life fragments and spiritual trajectories. This is the successful transformation of director Kiyoshi Kurosawa. He is good at telling thriller stories and full of cult style. This time, he has taken a different approach and interprets such a family story that goes deep into his heart with a new perspective and a tiling way. Surprised in the calm, his accurate grasp of the characters and his subtle and profound personality interpretation perfectly express the inner contradictions and unease of the characters, which is worthy of praise. In addition, the wife played by Kyoko Koizumi and the son played by Koyanagi You and Ino Raka also performed well, and even the burglar played by Koji Yakusho also made people understand and sympathize. Although the role is light, but in him Under the wonderful interpretation of ordinary but quite tension, it also shines with the light of humble, small but warm and kind humanity!
"Days and Nights of Tin Shui Wai" is known as "the return of Hong Kong films" - a return to the mainland, a return to realism, and a return to tradition. A heartwarming story that happened in an ordinary family in the Tin Shui Wai community. It doesn't even have a clear plot or intense conflict. What flashes on the screen in the film is only the deep love between mother and son and the warmth of the neighbors. An optimistic and enthusiastic middle-aged woman lives with her son, works hard in the supermarket, goes home from get off work to manage the housework, cares for each other with relatives and friends, gets along with her neighbor's mother-in-law who lives alone, gives her selfless care and care, and treats her son carefully and tolerantly. , recalling her deceased husband with tears in her eyes and always smiling when she treats life. This is a kind and good mother, kind and good neighbor, confident and good colleague. She dedicates her enthusiasm and energy to all those who need care and help around her. Bao Qijing's splendid performance and her inherent virtuous and calm temperament make the character exude a touching style, and there is no suspense to be crowned her "Best Actress in the Academy Awards".
As one of the few famous female directors in Hong Kong, Xu Anhua is very familiar with the subject of family ethics. His masterpieces such as "Departing to the Furious Sea", "Autumn Hate", "Woman, Forty" and "Peach Sister" are among the treasure troves of classic Hong Kong movies. She also marks her films with strong and fresh lyrical impressions, showing the distance and distance between ordinary characters, which is the theme she is good at mastering. This is the most distinctive feature of a director who is good at observing life, paying attention to the mood of the characters, and loves realistic and natural descriptions. , Under the seemingly bland exterior, the film is full of the creator's deep concern and enthusiastic praise for the characters' personalities and their inner worlds, which has been widely recognized and praised.
"Tokyo Sonata" and "Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai", the two films also focus the camera on the ordinary people in ordinary families, and tell the story lightly, like prose poems, full of simplicity and beauty, as if bursts of cool breeze , brings the elegant fragrance to the heart, and also makes the long-lost warm feelings spread, spread, and spread on the streets of Tokyo, in the Hong Kong community, and in every tiny corner of the world...
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