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One day in early June 2020, almost the whole world is still in isolation on a summer day. The new version of "Tokyo Love Story 2020" aired the last episode in Japan.
At the end of the story, Akina Rika leaves suddenly on the night of fireworks, Nagao Endji finally chooses to be with Satomi, and never saw Lixiang again. The ending of
seems more realistic than the original "Tokyo Love Story" 29 years ago, as the original author Chai Menwen wrote in the comic postscript:
Regarding love, the only certainty is that love must end.
Chinese netizens experienced this classic re-enactment almost simultaneously with the Japanese audience through the "mysterious method" of the Internet.
25 years ago, Chinese audiences were four years late before they saw "Toi Ai" starring Suzuki Honami, Oda Yuji and Eguchi Yosuke.
"Tokyo Love Story"
did not have a subtitle group at that time. Everyone stood in front of the TV during prime time, listening to Lixiang and Maruko talking in Mandarin with good voice.
Due to well-known reasons, overseas dramas have disappeared in the prime time of domestic TV stations for more than 10 years.
Nowadays, Chinese drama fans watch Japanese dramas mainly through the Internet. Although it is an active choice, it is relatively small.
"East Love" premiered in prime time on Shanghai TV in 1995. In the following year, various local TV stations broadcast the series in turn.
Although before "East Love", Chinese audiences have already had some knowledge of Japanese TV series through "Blood Doubt" and "Volleyball Girl General", but can be regarded as an "idol drama" enlightenment for Chinese audiences .
This year happens to be the 25th anniversary of the broadcast of "East Love" in China. The Chinese audience who watched the show grew up/grew old. Many people also broke into big cities like Tokyo from small county towns like Ehime. Began to understand the confusion Nagao Wanji faced when facing Tokyo.
was just an ignorant boy who liked to see Akana Lixiang smile, and now he has a deeper experience of love and even life.
Chinese audiences are four years late to catch up with the trend of Japanese idol drama
. After the reform and opening up, Chinese audiences have three stages of exposure to Japanese film and television works.
In 1981, the Japanese TV series "Zusan Shiro" was translated and broadcasted on Shanghai TV. CCTV introduced "Volleyball Women" in 1983, "Blood Suspicion" in 1984, and "Axin" in 1985, all of which set a record high. Ratings.
"Blood Suspicion"
believes that netizens over 45 years old must remember how popular Japanese dramas have been on Chinese black and white TV sets.
At this stage, family dramas are the dominant type of Japanese TV dramas, and the above-mentioned works are also dominated by family dramas.
In the early 1990s, Japanese TV stations began the production of トレンディドラマ (literally translated as: trend drama or trend drama), mainly based on urban life, modern TV series about the relationship between young men and women, such as love and friendship.
Of course in Greater China, people prefer to call them "idol dramas".
"Idol dramas" are mainly broadcast during prime time. The leading actors are all popular star actors. The audience is mainly housewives, white-collar workers, and new generation women aged 20-35 years old. The occupations of the characters in
are mainly the media, propaganda, and planning departments of popular advertising companies or television stations.
's "Tokyo Love Story" in 1991 is a typical representative.
"Tokyo Love Story"
"idol drama" has achieved great repercussions in Japan, and is slowly gaining popularity in Taiwan and Hong Kong. After
arrived four years late, the "Tokyo Love Story" broadcast by Shanghai TV in 1995 has aroused popularity among mainland audiences and brought the influence of Japanese TV dramas to a peak in China.
"Long Holidays"
The 1990s was the golden age of Japanese idol dramas. In addition to "Tokyo Love Story", there were also "In the Name of Love", "Long Holidays", "Love Century", "Under the Same Roof" and other dramas. Make Takuya Kimura, Honami Suzuki, and Takako Matsushi popular in Southeast Asia.
After entering the 21st century, "Korean Wave" has gradually become stronger in the field of pop culture in mainland China, and Korean dramas are the "vanguard" of the Korean Wave spread overseas.
Due to the high similarity of the audience and the low price of copyright, Korean dramas have replaced Japanese dramas as the center of introduction of domestic and overseas dramas.
The most influential Japanese TV series in the last 10 years, "The Great Olympics"
The third stage is the last 10 years. Japanese TV series are mainly distributed through the subtitle group network, and some video websites have genuine introductions, but Japanese TV series as a whole It tends to be niche in the Mainland.
After the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television banned overseas dramas from broadcasting during prime time in 2012, Japanese dramas were almost insulated from domestic TV channels.
Before the ban, in the summer of 2009, Shanghai Dragon TV rebroadcast "Tokyo Love Story", "Love Century" and "Long Holiday", which briefly blew nostalgia, but these three dramas could only be late at night after many years. Meet the Chinese audience at 23:00.
Reminiscences about Mandarin dubbing
Maybe some Japanese drama fans don’t know it. In the past, audiences watched Japanese dramas on TV with Mandarin dubbing version.
In order to get closer to the tone of the Japanese speaking, the voices that come out are more polite, often appearing such words as "please take care, please", and the Hollywood film dubbing "for God's sake, kick your ass fiercely" Each has its own characteristics.
"Tokyo Love Story" introduced in 1995 was produced by the Translation and Production Department of Shanghai TV Station.
According to local Shanghai media reports, "Lixiang" is dubbed by Shanghai's famous voice actor Mei Mei, "Wanzhi" is dubbed by Xia Zhiqing, and "San Shang" is dubbed by Shanghai TV host Liu Jiazhen.
The recording studio of Shanghai TV in the 1990s was in difficult conditions. There were gaps in the ceiling, and rats occasionally appeared inside. The actors are recording below, and the mouse will come out whenever there is a movement.
waits until the real record is true, and the rat is out of the way, it's no record. Everyone had no choice but to have fun: "So good-looking TV series, even mice can't help but come out of the nest to watch."
It is said that when the translation version was broadcast, another channel was still simultaneously broadcasting the original version of "East Love". , The original version and the dubbing version are put together, and the careful audience feels exactly the same.
This is attributed to the serious attitude of the voice actors. They first read the script, then went into the studio, watched the original version twice, while trying to match silently, and then recorded it, repeatedly pondering the character characteristics of the characters in the play. After the
TV series was broadcast, Meimei, who dubbed Lixiang, received many letters from the audience.
But she herself said: "This is the original character well-drawn. The audience talks about the Akana Rika portrayed by Honami Suzuki in the film. I just restored it with as little distortion as possible, which is just one word: Post." The upsurge caused by "Tokyo Love Story" has also had a great impact on the production of domestic TV dramas. The 1998 "Keep Love to the End", which was broadcast in 1998, has the shadow of Japanese idol dramas from the selection of actors, script structure, and production techniques. It is very similar to "In the Name of Love" (1992) by Honami Suzuki.
"Keep Love Through to the End"
"Keep Love Through to the End" Wen Hui and Yang Zheng are the track and field relay team, and "In the Name of Love" is the rowing team.
"In the Name of Love"
A few years ago, Zhang Yibai admitted in an interview with the media that in the late 1990s, the Japanese TV series broadcasted by Phoenix TV's "Idol Theater" had a great influence on him. The first Japanese TV series he watched completely was " "Long Holiday", I feel very fresh.
At the time, I met singer Xie Yuxin during the MV shooting. The other party happened to have the money to ask him if he wanted to make a TV series, so he started. Although
was influenced by Japanese dramas in style, Zhang Yibai revealed thatThe plot of the story mostly refers to the emotional stories experienced by friends at school. The screenwriter Diao Yinan of the TV series
(yes, the director of "Fireworks in Daylight" and "The Party at Southern Station") once told Time.com that there was indeed a reference to the Japanese drama Zhang Yibai liked during the script writing process.
The far-reaching influence of "Tokyo Love Story" in Japan
Compared with the influence of "Tokyo Love Story" in China, it is even more phenomenal in Japan. The source of everything comes from the cartoon of the same name published by Zamonwen in 1988.
"Tokyo Love Story" comics of the same name
"East Love" comics of the same name were released in 1990 as a single book, Fuji TV began to plan the shooting of live-action dramas, which were launched from January 7 to March 18, 1991, with an average ratings of 22.9 %, the highest audience rating is 32.3%.
This not only triggered a wave of drama watching craze, but also became the end of the golden age of Fuji Station's "Ninth Gear". It is from the beginning of "East Love" that the term "Moon Nine" has become the exclusive term used to refer to Fuji TV's opening of the series at 9 pm on Monday.
However, the "Tokyo Love Story 2020" released this year is different from the winter drama 29 years ago. It has become a spring drama, and the costume style is very different.
The story structure of Lixiang and Maruko in the 1991 version of "Tokyo Love Story"
is much simplified compared to the comics, and some minor characters have been deleted.
is different from the comics telling the story from the perspective of Nagao Wanji, and changed to the perspective of Akana Rika.
Under the brush of Chai Menwen, the heroine Akina Rika has a more independent consciousness than the 1991 TV series. The character is set to grow up in Africa, the character is daring to love and hate, love is overflowing, and she does not follow the rules.
When she falls in love with someone, she will be completely dedicated and ask the other person to do so. This has become the fuse for Yongwei to leave her. In the original work of
, Wanji and Sekiguchi Rimi confirmed their love for each other when Rika was temporarily away from Japan. He still cared about Rika, who was pregnant with a child other than his own, and went to Ehime to find Rika to keep the agreement.
Lixiang was pregnant with her supervisor's child. When Ehime and Wanji reunited, the child was about to give birth.
In the 1991 version of the TV series, the more negative setting in Lixiang's personality was deleted, including pregnancy and childbirth, in order to complete the treatment and Satomi and quit by herself.
Obviously, the adaptation of screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto made Rikasu's personality more pleasing, and it also made the role of her, Honami Suzuki, a hit.
2020 version of "Tokyo Love Story" in Rika and Maruko
29 years later, the 2020 version of "Tokyo Love Story" restored these plots in the comics, changed to tell the story from the perspective of Nagao Wanji.
Ishibashi Jinghe's Lixiang has a more individual character. Maybe today's Japanese audience can also accept more independent women. The author of
comics Chai Menwen once said: "The prototype of Lixiang was about a woman next to me more than ten years ago. It is difficult for her to fall in love with one person without hurting each other. Although some people think she is A disgusting woman, but I like her and I can’t help being attracted to her.”
, 25-year-old Honami Suzuki, didn’t really want to play Rika when she first received the script. She didn’t like this kind of overly emotional Cute character.
The 24-year-old Oda Yuji was not the first choice for Wanji's actor. He only entered the battle when the original actor Naoto Ogata temporarily opened the skylight.
By mistake, these young people have achieved classic roles together.
screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto and Honami Suzuki
Where will you and me in 25 years?
For the post-90s or younger audiences, it may be difficult to understand the impact of "Tokyo Love Story" on the adolescent audience at that time.
25 years after this Japanese drama was broadcast, there are still people who will ask and answer questions about this drama on the Internet in China.Related topics, looking for answers to love and life.
The white trench coat was once a fashion that many young audiences yearn for.
After many years, I will look back at the plot line of "Tokyo Love Story": "From the small town of Ehime Prefecture to Tokyo to work hard, Nagao Wanji met the lively and kind urban white-collar Akana Rika , Was infected by her positive and optimistic attitude towards life. Although
has a good impression of his colleague Lixiang, he also can't forget his first love when he was young, and now he is also a kindergarten teacher in Tokyo. At the same time, he is a childhood friend and romantic Kenichi Mikami also likes Satomi, so a few people fell into two complicated love triangles."
Lixiang is waiting for the seaside
It should be said that this kind of plot is more suitable for the current China. 25 years ago, urban white-collar workers were still a rare thing. It is rare for young people to work hard from small cities to big cities. The boys and girls of
had difficulty understanding premarital sex, let alone answering why they were so in love and why they could not be together.
Many years later, those inferiority boys from small cities fall in love with or marry confident girls in big cities. There is a more realistic term on the Internet in China- "Phoenix man" .
The young audiences who were influenced by "Tokyo Love Story" can more or less find resonance in the love of the characters in the play:
Nagao does not dare to love too much, and always calmly and rationally plans, maybe with him It's about coming from a small city like Ehime Prefecture. Maybe in this love, he loves himself more often.
The love of beauty in the gate is wobbly, not easy to find the belongings for one's love, using friendship as a shield, wandering between the two. In the final analysis, she needed to be a reliable partner, and finally chose Nagao Wanshi.
Mikami Kenichi's concept of love is frank and magnanimous, a typical representative of men not bad and women not loving.
Akina Lixiang treats love like a gamble with life as a bargaining chip. She has her own position while working hard.
In 2016, the original manga author Chai Menwen created a short sequel "~After 25 years~" for "East Love". It took many viewers 25 years to read the first half of "East Love", and the sequel had a more detailed description of life. As cruel.
The marriage of 50-year-old Nagao Wanji and Sekiguchi Rimi slowly became unhappy, and the boyfriend his daughter knew was Akana Rika's son. Wanzhi came to the countryside of Chiba Prefecture to look for Lixiang. In the past 25 years, she brought up the child alone on the farm in the countryside.
The two of them still haven't figured out why they separated at the beginning, maybe it's fate.
When parting, Lixiang’s remarks struck Wanzhi’s heart: “If you want to stand out, you will flatter your boss and oppress your subordinates, bear loans, endure traffic jams, get tired of your wife, but you don’t have the courage to cheat. It’s not like this kind of life!"
friends who once liked "Tokyo Love Story", what kind of life are you living now?
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