"Talk about love, dance and dance": dance a beautiful new life

After years of hard work at work, Masahiro Shiyama, a middle-aged man in his forties, bought a property belonging to his family and finally had the opportunity to start paying attention to his interests outside of work. From the car window, I saw a woman with a reverie sign in front of the window of a dance school, and I had the idea of ​​​​pursuit. Soon signed up to learn to dance, in order to create opportunities to get close to the dancing woman. It so happened that the woman was the dance teacher, but her inflexible thinking and clumsy dance steps not only did not get the woman's kindness, but also humiliated her mind in person. Afraid of losing face, Shan Shan insisted that he did not drop out of school, and used various spare time to hone his clumsy dance steps. Slowly, Shanshan fell in love with dancing, and also aroused the interest of dancing girls in teaching. Not only Shanshan participated in the dance competition in the end, but also taught his wife to dance. Most importantly, I also listened to the unknown past events of the dancing woman. It was Shanshan's dance enthusiasm that made the woman re-understand herself and start a life of hope.

After the film was released in 1996, it won 14 awards of the Japanese Academy of Film Awards in one fell swoop. The heroine Kusakari Mindai and director Zhou Fangzheng also tied the knot in this film. It was subsequently remade by the same name in the United States in 2004, starring Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez. Although Zhou Fangzheng acted as his part-time screenwriter, the effect is not as real and touching as the original version, delicate and vivid. The original version pays more attention to the humanistic atmosphere and the pursuit of value, and each character has a full life and joys and sorrows. Moreover, the film also bears two major guiding messages, one is to guide the life pursuits of rigid middle-aged people, and the other is to let Japanese people who don't like dancing discover the charm and value of dance.

Dancing is just a tool used in the whole film, not the whole thing to show, although the dance skills in it are very wonderful. It is only through dancing to attract all kinds of empty middle-aged people together. There are middle-aged women who raise their daughters alone, and Naoto Takenaka, a bald man who pursues self-confidence. No matter what kind of blows and defeats you encounter in life, as long as you devote yourself to dance, it will be a way to throw away your troubles and dance a new path of life. This is where the original version was so successful, while the American version is too much in pursuit of superficial dance forms, lacks the attention of humanistic feelings, and is unavoidable to be mediocre without depth.

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