Of course, since Miyazaki has a screenplay (and adaptation of the original) and the team is still Studio Ghibli, it is understandable that there are a lot of Miyazaki elements. Overall, this is "Student Movement x Dream Street Girl x Boer on the Cliff", but the interesting thing is that this time it is no longer the same as before, which completely takes time out of Japan's social and political issues. In the past, Hayao Miyazaki was mostly playing metaphors, but this time he spoke clearly.
Note: spoilers below.
The story takes place in 1963, a year before the Tokyo Olympics, when Japan entered the starting line in rebuilding its economy and national self-confidence after the war. The heroine's father, who was the captain, was killed by a mine during the Korean War. The significance of the Korean War to Japan after World War II was that they became the logistics base of the United States due to historical coincidence. Economic reconstruction. Originally, Japan, as a defeated country, could not have an army, but because of the Korean War, the Self-Defense Force was established after the Korean War. This was the first step for Japan to rebuild its self-esteem after its defeat in World War II.
The heroine's father was killed because he participated in the logistics supply of the Korean War (the fatherhood of the hero is not discussed here), and it is no longer an anti-war spirit, but how the Japanese regained their sense of self-esteem after World War II. story.
The story tells that the hero and heroine launched a small student movement to "occupy" the Academy building. In the hero's Academy room, a newspaper about the "US-Japan Security Treaty" was displayed on an easel on the wall. The "security struggle" triggered by the "US-Japan Security Treaty" took place in the 1950s. During this large-scale student movement, some college students were even killed by the police. The middle school campus in the story is also filled with an atmosphere of student movement. The newspaper "U.S.-Japan Security Treaty" on the wall seems to explain the origin of the era background of this fiery atmosphere.
The scene of the three leading actors and actresses going to Tokyo to find the chairman of the school board. There are slogans of the Tokyo Olympics everywhere. It was already the 1960s, and the Japanese economy began to develop. The Tokyo Olympics was a time to re-show the image of Japan to the world. Opportunities, so the whole of Tokyo is engineering, which also marks the prelude to Japan's rapid economic development. In those turbulent times, the country's economic, diplomatic, and political development direction brought many contradictions, and also laid the groundwork for the student movement in the late 1960s.
Of course, the student movement in the story is a "those years" version of the student movement, with no shocks, no bloodshed, and a comedy ending. In 1963, the hero and heroine were in their second year of high school, and when the nationwide student movement occurred in 1968, they were college students, and they may have participated in the all-common struggle (all-community struggle committee).
It can be interpreted like this - the protest at the Society Building in the story is actually a projection of the "years" of the All-Common struggle to occupy the Yasuda Lecture Hall in Dongdaemun. The success of the former is actually a psychological compensation for the suppression of the latter. The era when the economy took off and the left-wing student movement was intertwined with Japanese pop culture from time to time, perhaps because it was a collective memory of many creators. The business Kamitojima farming in "Course Long Island Farming" is one example. He also participated in the student movement in his student days, but after graduation he joined a large electrical appliance company and became a typical example of the most prosperous era of Japan's economy in the 1978s and 1980s. represent.
I'm not sure whether I will over-interpret the ideas of the Miyazaki father and son, but what is certain is that this time is a big change in style, from taking time out of the background and only playing with metaphors, to directly using the historical background to tell the story. In addition, it is worth mentioning that this time it is also rare in the works that Hayao Miyazaki participated in using real urban landscapes (Tokyo and Yokohama).
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