But the sad thing is that it is a sealed time point, a self-contained little universe, like an exquisite work of art, the owner who made it has long since retired, was ruthlessly thrown out, and reduced to our time, The old is old, the gone is gone.
Like this 1995, the moment before Ghibli was about to become legendary. There are "Heisei Tanuki" in 1993, "Princess Mononoke" two years later, and "Spirited Away" six years later.
In 1995, on the tenth anniversary of the establishment of Studio Ghibli, it launched the first theater animation to express real contemporary life. The famous "Valley of the Wind" echoes).
The film has become a classic in time, but Hayao Miyazaki, the screenwriter who made this classic for us, was too old today in 2013 and finally announced his retirement. Director Kondo Yoshifumi died young as early as 1998. Stay in time.
"Listening to Your Side" is a script that Hayao Miyazaki got from reading the girl's manga. The story is very simple. It tells the story of a girl's first love in the third year of junior high school. She uses a brush to record the life in the eyes of a 14-year-old girl Tsukishima Shizuku. The crowded but warm family of four, the library where my father works, the fat cat in the subway, the old grandfather's second-hand store, Earth House and Cat Baron, and Seiji Amazawa's dream of going to Italy to learn violin. In ordinary life, there is something powerful - that is dream, and the warmth of people. In the early 1990s, the pulse of the times was still clearly discernible. The film's smooth rhythm is reminiscent of Hong Kong director Xu Anhua. Can you imagine "Days and Nights of Tin Shui Wai" or "Sister Peach" winning the Chinese film box office? Seems like it can't, but Ghibli did it in Japan.
The original manga of the same name is a rough and ordinary work in terms of plot and brush, so it was terminated after four issues of serialization in the manga magazine. When the author, Aoi Hiiragi, heard that this manga was going to be bought by Ghibli and made into a movie, she couldn't believe it. This makes people sigh that the so-called artist is able to turn the ordinary into the magic. The screenwriter Hayao Miyazaki and the director Yoshifumi Kondo have a delicate sensibility to life and the ability to restore reality vividly with brushes, making ordinary audiences feel ashamed that they observe life as if they were swallowing dates.
So far, "Listening" is one of Ghibli's two shoujo manga adaptations, the other being "Blooming Poppy Hillside" directed by Hayao Miyazaki Nagato Miyazaki. "Blooming Hillside with Poppies" made Miyazaki Goro wash away the failure of "Earth and Sea War", and also set a box office record for Japanese films in 2011, but from the perspective of picture quality, "Listening to the Side" is undoubtedly superior.
The almost flawless style of painting in "Listening with Side Ears", director Kondo Yoshifumi has done a great job. Kondo, who is more than ten years younger than the two supervisors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, was originally the most suitable successor, but it is a pity that God is jealous of talents, and "Listening to the Ear" eventually became the only theater animation work directed by Kondo.
The theme song of this work uses the representative work "Country Road" by American country star John Denver. Hayao Miyazaki, who was born in Tokyo, has always had the idea of putting this song into an animation work before the appearance of "Listen to the Side". How would people feel?" The story of "Listening to the Side" takes place in Tama City, Tokyo, which fits this theme. In the play, the heroine Tsukishima Shizuku repeatedly filled in multiple lyrics for this Western song.
On October 12, 1997, John Denver died in a small plane crash in California at the age of 53. Three months later, Kondo's aortic dissection also died unexpectedly. The "Listen" version of "Kantori ロード" (Country Road) was used as a requiem at Kondo's funeral on January 23, 1998. Since April 8, 2012, this song "カントリー·ロード" has been used as a tram stop song for the Keio Line's holy site Sakuragaoka Station.
Reminds me of Hayao Miyazaki's eulogy for Kondo who said:
Run to the blue sea,
run to the clear sky,
gently blend into the light, the breeze, the trees, the water and the earth,
rest in peace.
I will never forget you.
Yes, "Listening with the Ear" is a work of art left by Kondo and Hayao Miyazaki to the world, and sacrificed with their lives.
Youth, youth, and dreams have always stayed in the time and space of 1995, and the graceful appearance is swaying and moving. - I will never forget you. Just like Huang Shujun sang in "Change 1995":
The world is constantly changing, changing
my mind but I don't want to leave
the past time and keep walking away
, my memory is still
in 1995
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