can be called a master-level director. Hirokazu Edema has made a wide range of movies, including comedy, fantasy, suspense, crime, etc., but the best movies he makes are family-focused dramas. And this type of film has the best reputation. It is Hirokazu Kee that has 6 family movies with a score of 8.5 or more on Douban, including his film "Diary of the Sea Street" in 2015, which is the first time Hirokazu Ee directed a movie adapted from a comic.
"Diary of the Sea Street" is about three sisters of the Koda family living in the small town of Kamakura by the sea in Japan. My parents divorced since childhood and married each other. The two younger sisters were brought up by the elder sister. Fifteen years later, they met their half-sister at their father's funeral, and they decided to accept this sister Asano Suzu who had lost both parents. As the years went by, Ling finally fully integrated into the family, and the four sisters became a real family. The director of
is Hirokazu Kee, showing a delicate picture of life to the audience in an almost line drawing way. The overall film is warm, and the storyline is mainly warm. However, conflicts between family members and the death of relatives and friends are also the focus of the director, Hirokazu Ke. It is Hirokazu Kee in a calm, calm and calm manner, slowly touching the softest part of people's hearts. The film he directed tells the audience: It is not only the ups and downs that can be exciting and calm. Daily life can also touch people's hearts. The first funeral of
: The choice is the first funeral of
, which is the funeral of the father.
has been away from his father for fifteen years, but it was at his father's funeral when they met. For the three sisters of the Xiangtian family, their father was not a good and responsible father. They abandoned them and married another woman, and have not had any contact since then.
Asano Suzu, the daughter born to the woman and father who separated their family. At the funeral, the three sisters met their half sister for the first time. This young sister was well-behaved and sensible in normal funerals, and this sensibility was beyond her age. Fortunately, the eldest sister
knows that Ling will live with her stepmother who is not related to her, because her father remarries after Ling's mother. Perhaps it was out of sympathy, or perhaps because of the unclear ties brought about by the blood relationship, the elder sister fortunately decided to invite Ling to their home in Kamakura. Just like Aunt Tazi in "Natsume's Book of Friends" said to Natsume: "If you want, do you want to come to our house?" At this moment, Asano Suzu said without hesitation: "I'll go." The funeral of
, The three sisters Kada and Suzu Asano were given a choice.
The three sisters of Xiangtian chose to invite Ling, and Ling also chose to enter the family. In fact, most of our choices in life are two-way, especially when it comes to emotions. This two-way choice represents a willingness to establish a special connection between each other. When you reach out, the other person holds your hand. The three sisters of
Kada accepted a person who was related by blood but had nothing to do with them in the previous fifteen years of life; and Ling also chose them. Although these sisters are nominal sisters, they have never participated. Three people in her life. The second funeral of
: Forgiveness is the key to untie the knot. The second funeral of
is the funeral of the grandmother (actually the seventh anniversary of the grandmother). The role of grandmother does not appear in the
movie, but from the words and actions of the three sisters, we can know that grandma is a very warm person. After their father and mother both abandoned them to form a family, it was the grandmother who took care of them and left the old house for them. The three sisters kept the clothes that grandma wore, the plum wine made ten years ago, and they also cooked the dishes that grandma had cooked before.
After the mother left, the eldest sister fortunately assumed the responsibility of the eldest daughter, as the saying goes: The eldest daughter is like a mother. Fortunately, she indeed took care of her two younger sisters and guarded this old house like a mother. However, fortunately, she has been unable to forgive her mother for two reasons: one is that she abandoned her and her sisters when they were young and had a new family; the other is that her mother did not rush because of the distance when her grandmother died. Come back to the funeral. Thus, in a calm and gentle plot, the first quarrel appeared on the screen in "Haijie Diary": the quarrel between the eldest sister Xing and his mother. The eldest sister complained about her mother's ruthlessness, and her mother said that she had no choice but to make such a choice.
inOn that rainy day, the eldest sister Xing and her mother went to visit grandma's grave together. In the mother's confession, she learned that her mother was not omnipotent, and she also had pain that she couldn't say. Fortunately, she finally forgave her mother and gave her all the plum wine made by her grandmother. The funeral of
gave Xing a chance to meet her mother again, and it also gave Xing a chance to forgive her mother and untie the knot between their mother and daughter.
Since then, the mother does not have to live with regret and self-blame, but fortunately she has recovered the missing maternal love. In front of her mother, she is no longer the elder sister who takes care of the whole family and takes good care of her younger sisters on weekdays, but just a daughter who needs care and attention, and someone reminds her to "be careful" when she runs on rainy days. The third funeral of
: Life, sorrow is also beautiful. The third funeral of
is the funeral of the hotel proprietor.
Sea Cat Canteen is a restaurant frequented by the four sisters of the Xiangtian family. This restaurant has lasted for three generations, but unfortunately, the hostess, Ms. Ninomiya, became seriously ill and soon left the world. However, the funeral of Ms. Ninomiya did not make people feel too heavy and sad. At the funeral of
, Ms. Ninomiya used a photo taken when she was watching cherry blossoms during her lifetime, and her smile was bright in the photo. Although she knew that her life was about to wither, what she saw in her last life was the beauty of cherry blossoms.
can still feel that beautiful things are beautiful before dying, which is a blessing for a person. Everyone in the
movie has all kinds of troubles: the eldest sister was fortunate to raise her sister by herself after her parents divorced and set up a family. For this reason, she has never married, guarding the old house left by her grandmother, she even Like her father, she fell into an unruly relationship and fell in love with a husband; the second sister Jia Nai had troubles and was always deceived by Xiao Bailian; the younger sister Asano Suzu’s biological mother had already passed away, and her father would marry again. In such a family, she is bound to She would be wronged, she had to mature prematurely when she was young... But in the end they all became better people, the eldest sister gave up and love and did not go to the United States with that man; the second sister decided to focus on her career and achieve better results ; And the younger sister Asano Suzu, also under the care of the three sisters, completely opened the knot and became the sisters' favorite little sister.
Xiaoling finally truly integrated into the family, although she is the half-sister of three other elder sisters, although her biological mother broke up the family of her three elder sisters, even though she was as cautious as an outsider at first, Before she knew it, she had already integrated into the family.
These unknowingly moments, perhaps when the elder sister was holding her to talk to her, when the second sister painted her nail polish to teach her to fall in love, it was when the third sister gave her delicious food. When they were sitting in the yard together picking plums to make plum wine, when they were wearing yukatas and setting off fireworks together, when Xiaoling's height was also added to the doorpost of the old house, was Ling dare to speak generously in front of the sisters When I miss my mother, and my father who has passed away... The funeral of
bids farewell to the past and faces the sorrow of life, reminding them to remember the beauty of life. At the end of the
movie, the four sisters walked together on the beach by the sea. The eldest sister said: "Although my father is a failed person, he may be a gentle person. Because he left such a sister for us." The four sisters laughed together at the beach, discussing what beautiful things they would think of before they died. At this moment, those sorrows in life seem to be forgotten.
The thought of "things sorrow" that haunts the whole movie
"The Diary of the Sea Street" in this movie, the Japanese Yamato nation's "things sorrow" thought is revealed everywhere.
"Things" are all things, and "sorrow" means sorrow and sorrow. "Sorrow of things" is an aesthetic consciousness hidden deep in the bones of the Japanese nation. This kind of thinking that has continued from the Heian period in Japan to the present day is largely related to geographical factors. The island country of Japan is in a high-risk zone geographically. Natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis are very frequent. Over time, people living on this land will feel the emotion of "life impermanence". Life is fleeting, and no matter how beautiful things are, they will eventually disappear. "The Tale of Genji" created by Zi Shibu is a typical "sorrow of things" literary work. Since the creation of "The Tale of Genji" more than 1000 AD, the "sorrow" in Japanese literature has continued to the modern and contemporary Japanese literature. Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, including contemporary Japanese worksHaruki Murakami is all influenced by the literary concept of "sorrow of things".
Professor Ye Weiqu from the Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures of Peking University once said: "In addition to being an explanation of sorrow, sorrow, and tragic, it also includes the meaning of pity, sympathy, moving, and magnificence."
"Hai Street Diary" The beginning and the end of the funeral are all centered around the beginning and end of the funeral. It was Zhi Yuhe who put the most routine scene in the movie, because in his view, the funeral is a part of life, and death is a part of life. Life is not indestructible, but fragile and perishable. Many elements in the movie are also related to "transience", such as fireworks and cherry blossoms. They were once dazzling and vivid, but soon disappeared after being extremely gorgeous. However, this is precisely the most unique Japanese aesthetic sense of sadness-they express sorrow for perishable things, and at the same time think that these things are exceptionally beautiful.
Compared to the gorgeous summer flowers, they prefer autumn leaves that gradually fall from the branches into the soil.
Life is impermanent, things are unpredictable, life is not absolutely beautiful, it is bittersweet, it has joys and sorrows, but when midsummer, the seaside, fireworks, rainy season, cherry blossom tunnel, plum wine, sardines, trams... these kinds of elements blow your face. At that time, the yearning for life and the expectation for beauty came into being. Just as Haizi said: "It will always be like this. The wind is behind the wind, the sky is above the sky, and the road is still the road." Perhaps what Hirokazu Kee wants to tell the audience in the end is: life will be painful, but if you feel it with your heart, Can still capture beautiful things and meaningful emotions.
