"Infinite Dweller" is the latest film released by Kimura Takuya this spring. The film will be released in Japan at the end of April, which is the schedule of Japan's May Golden Week. Obviously, there is a lot of expectations for the box office, but I didn't expect that the box office in the first weekend of the release was not as good as expected. To the point of surprise, it is generally considered to be the biggest defeat of Kimura Takuya since his debut, and it can be called the biggest Waterloo in the history of the great gods.
After half a year, I finally saw this film directed by Takashi Miike through the Internet. In addition to Takuya Kimura, the film gathered a large number of movies of powerful Japanese idol stars. Although this film is not a classic, it can be considered sincerity. It's even more surprising why this movie was a big failure when it was released.
"Infinite Dweller" is a big IP in Japan. It was originally a manga by Samura Hiromaki, and then it was made into an animation work. Because I have never seen it, I will say a few words from the perspective of the movie.
The story of the movie tells the story of Wanji, a one-eyed swordsman with an immortal body, who meets Rin, a girl whose parents were killed by the swordsman organization "Yidao-ryu", and serves as her bodyguard and helps her take revenge.
Frankly speaking, the movie was shot very carefully, and the fighting scenes are also very distinctive. The black and white images at the beginning and the 300 people at the end are even more dazzling. It can be said that Takashi Miike used this film to make the Japanese sword and halberd film. The characteristics are once again enlarged to the extreme. Although the first half of the story is in the reverse mode of fighting monsters with thousands of assassins from all sides, because each duel has its own characteristics, it does not seem monotonous. And whether it is Kane Zixian, Manshima Shinosuke, Kitamura Ikki, Ichihara Hayato, Fushi Sotai, Kuriyama Chiaki, Toda Eirika, their shapes are quite cool, and they are all full of samurai aura, which makes the fight scene look and feel. Very enjoyable.
I have to talk about Kimura Takuya's performance in this film. In fact, Kimura Takuya's performance in the film has reached a very comfortable level. Whether it is the action of the fighting scene or the eyes in the literary drama, Takuya Kimura's performance is quite in line with the film. Nakawanji's mood, not only from his eyes or expressions, but even his actions, can make the audience feel the pain and sorrow of this undead warrior. This kind of performance depth is really no one but Kimura Takuya can control it, and it is also in the past. The level of performance that Kimura Takuya is difficult to achieve. It can be said that the role of Wanji is completely another peak of Kimura Takuya's acting career.
The most obvious thing is that you can compare Fushi Cangtai, who is competing in the same field, and the feeling is particularly obvious. Although the latter is also the representative of the recent performance of Xiao Xianrou, but in this play, you can clearly feel him and Kimura Takuya. The gap, whether it is action or aura, Fushi Sotai was completely slag in front of Kimura Takuya.
I'm not a fan of the Great God, but I have to say that Takuya Kimura in "The Infinite Dweller" is so handsome and his performance is too mature.
However, such a director is good, the main actors act well, and there is a big IP movie with luxurious group actors. When it was released, only 145,000 people were mobilized to watch the movie in the first weekend, and the box office was 189 million. Not only did it fail to win the championship, it only ranked No. Sixth, even if it was crushed by the 420,000 people of "Fast and Furious 8" released at the same time, it was not even as good as the 166,000 people of Soda's new film "Kingdom of the Empire". You must know that Kimura Takuya's own work " "Legal Heroes 2015" was watched by 540,000 people in the first weekend. However, according to a friend in Tokyo, when "Infinity Dweller" was released in Japan, the movie theaters seemed to be full of middle-aged and elderly people, right?
So, what is there to say? If young people don't approve of entertainment films, no matter how good they are, there is no market, right?
No matter from which aspect, the defeat of "The Infinite Dweller" may mark the end of the era of the great gods, and Takuya Kimura, the once brilliant national idol of the Neon Kingdom, may never have the appeal. , this is really sad.
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