Author: Qiaoxue
Editor: Jiang Yue
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read " Tokyo Love Story " (hereinafter referred to as "East Love") who forget the familiar one, and shouted Lixiang, the famous name of "ball", is like singing in Li Zongsheng's song, "No matter how beautiful the spring breeze is, it can't be better than your smile. People who haven't seen you won't understand." The girl whose eyes turn into two crescent moons when she smiles , Instantly grabbed the audience's hearts and became the soul of "East Love".
is a comic drama, the 91 version of "East Love" is a page that cannot be skipped in the history of Japanese dramas, and its importance is equivalent to that of the 83 version of "Shooting the Condor" to domestic martial arts dramas.
is different from domestic dramas. Japanese dramas are generally divided into seasons. There are about 10 episodes per season, one episode is updated every week, and the single episode lasts about 50 minutes. Therefore, after a drama is over, winter has turned into spring.
The 90s was the golden age of Japanese TV dramas. As the second part of the "90s Pure Love Trilogy", "East Love" was aired in 1991, with an average ratings of 22.9%, becoming the first single episode in the 90s to exceed the ratings. 30% of the works.
The name of the week in Japan is different from that in China. It uses "moon, fire, water, wood, gold, earth and day" instead of numbers. The 91st edition of "East Love" is a "Moon Nine" drama, so every Monday night at 9:00-9:45 During the prime time, white-collar workers and housewives in different spaces will open Fuji Terrace to attend appointments on time.
Picture: The 91 version of "Tokyo Love Story"
finale is even more touching. That night, OLs in Tokyo rushed to go home from get off work to watch TV, causing a sensation in the empty alleys, and the audience rating broke the limit, reaching 32.3%.
This TV series about the love story of handsome guys and beautiful girls has also become a pioneering work, leading the golden decade of Japanese drama.
In Japan, "East Love" represents Japan's "trend drama" in the 1990s. Most of the producers of "East Love" define it as follows: "The so-called trend dramas are TV dramas aimed at young people filmed by young staff, young screenwriters and young actors."
"East Love" does meet this standard : Director Ryo Dao in his early 30s, screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto at 24, Honami Suzuki who starred for the first time, Yuji Oda and Yosuke Eguchi who are not well-known. The popularity of
"East Love" makes trend dramas a trend. At that time, Japan was carrying a part of Asia’s future imagination, coupled with its geographical proximity, making trend dramas quickly spread throughout Asia. In Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, such dramas are affectionately called idol dramas.
In 1995, Shanghai TV Station and Shanghai Film Translation Studio introduced it and introduced it to Chinese screens, which affected the love outlook of one or two generations.
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is different from the overbearing president who is used by the latecomers to fall in love with me, travel through fantasy, and have a unique narrative. As the originator of the idol drama, "East Love" is a lot more real, and it is a plot that may really happen between men and women in a metropolis. Focus on "love".
However, many Chinese audiences who believe that "East Love" has influenced their outlook on love are not clear. Compared with the red name Lixiang in the TV series, Lixiang in the original comics is much more unruly.
"Even if you love Wanzhi, you can be with others." Comic author Chai Menwen interpreted Lixiang's view of sex in this way.
Picture: In the 91 version of the "Tokyo Love Story"
comics, when she first met, she was put pigeons in the hotel by a man, and also seduced Mikami Kenichi, because she was moved to make love with a non-state, and continued with Minister Hehe , And became pregnant with a child.
, Japan’s economy has unprecedented prosperity, and the relationship between the sexes has entered the most open and slack era. However, when the original work was adapted, more consideration was given to the acceptance of the traditional public. As a result, Lixiang was reshaped drastically-when Kenichi said, "Lixiang is very charming," Lixiang frowned chastely and said, "I am a cured woman." Erotic sex scenes were completely deleted.
In the old version of "East Love", Lixiang is pure and sunny, bravely chasing love, loves earnestly and loyally, Wanzhi is her only sustenance and support, and her sorrows and joys revolve around Wanzhi's mood.
Of course, this is also related to the screenwriter.
screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto was only 22 years old when he wrote the script of "East Love". It was an age full of longing and dreams for love. In the work, Lixiang's love for Wanji is more like the reflection of love for this young screenwriter who is new to society. He also escaped from the original work and reshaped the character according to the appearance and characteristics of actor Honami Suzuki. The original book was originally based on the love story of the young man Wanzhi in the small town. In the TV series, all the focus is tilted towards Lixiang.
In the new version of "East Love 2020", the screenwriter chose to be more loyal to the original. The beginning of the film was a daring sex scene. After the rain, Lixiang appeared ruthless and indifferent, "Let’s stop contacting me, I’m tired of you." Lixiang, a “scumbag” like
, surprised countless fans of the old version of Lixiang.
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Times make life, and film and television dramas reflect this situation like a mirror.
In Japan in the 1990s, the bubble economy has not yet collapsed. People are immersed in pleasure, spend a lot of money on love, and pursue a fashionable and eye-catching life. In a prosperous cubicle like Ginza, Tokyo, people’s desires are full of fame, wealth, and status, but their hearts still long for love and being loved.
In the love legend of the metropolis, there are two polarities, and it is hoped that the distant pure love and the love of desire that surrounds you can never be obtained. The delicate screenwriter of
sees all this.
24-year-old Yuji Sakamoto said, “In fact, there are things more important than money and material. I want to create a free and self-reliant person, so I have an image like Lixiang. I hope to make a movie that will move female audiences to tears. The work.” The price he paid for this was that most of the directors were locked into the hotel, relying on energy drinks to continue writing.
In the end, unlike the "Yamato Nadeshiko" style women that was common in Japan at the time, the 91 version of Lixiang is passionate and bold, bravely pursuing the love she wants, and can walk away without fail. On the one hand, she is a representative of avant-garde and advanced women, but she also entraps men, especially conservative Asian men's fantasy of ideal women: well-behaved, loyal, considerate and generous. As for the theme song of
, most Liang chose Oda Kazumasa, who is quite popular among women. He was dissatisfied halfway and asked him to rewrite it, just to make the emotions stronger. This set of
obviously succeeded.
High school boy Miki Koichiro from Toyama Prefecture became a member of the Toai fan. "As a high school student, after watching the original TV series, I have a beautiful vision for the whole world."
On May 1, 2019, Japan entered the Reiwa era. From 1989 to 2019, the 11070-day Heisei era is over.
"After entering Reiwa, I don't know why, I want to remake "Toai" more and more intense." Fuji TV gave him the opportunity, Miki Koichiro got his wish and became the director of the new version of "Toai 2020".
Thirty years later, this time, Lixiang in the original work finally meets the audience.
In the eyes of the original Chai Menwen, Lixiang is not a simple character. This exposed heroine shows untamable individualism in the concept of love. She sincerely devotes each relationship to each other, and at the same time betrays again and again. Own boyfriend.
The new version of "East Love 2020" is more like a love story dedicated to Tokyo metropolis men and women: love in the big cityThe entanglement with sex never ends. Unlike rural towns like Ehime, there are many types of humans here, and love has become more complicated.
Picture: The new version of "East Love 2020"
Saimon Wen said: "Love is for a man, like hanging a picture in an empty atrium; for a woman, it is like listening to music." How to change, the one who cannot escape, is always the gaze of female audiences.
As a pressure relief outlet to escape from real life, idols and idol dramas all exist to meet the needs of women. But in different times, women also face different propositions of the times. The long river of culture of
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is less than 30 years as the node, but the economy can be ups and downs in 30 years.
This is reflected in the numbers. Japan’s per capita GDP has dropped from the second largest in the world in 1990 to 26th. In 2018, among the top 50 companies in the world by market value, Japan only had Toyota, ranking 35th, while the United States and China had 31 and 7 companies on the list respectively.
From the 1990s to the present, it has been Japan's "30 years of decline". From the golden age of its heyday to the decline of the bubble economy, young people have become the pressure of social transformation, especially young women.
The marriage rate in Japan in 2018 was only 4.7‰, which is a 10-year low.
Viewing images through the times, in the bubble economy era, the entire society is constantly expanding. The 91 version of "East Love" is more like an elegy to the times, standing in the center of Tokyo calling for love; and in today's low desire society Next, the new version of "East Love" wants to pay more attention to the true and diverse view of love of Japanese women under the pressure of life.
Miura, a professor at Sophia University in Tokyo, said: "In a marriage, Japanese women have given too much freedom and independence."
Yes, like actor Suzuki Honami, the story of returning home, husband and teacher, is getting more Fewer, more and more Japanese women continue to work after marriage, and the number of dual-income families and full-time housewives have reversed.
The whole world is not constantly turning to the right, and the same is true for Japanese TV dramas. Compared with the well-known drama series like " Long Holidays ", "White Paper on Love", "101 Proposals", and "Under the Same Roof" in the heyday of the 90s, the Japanese dramas in recent years have become more and more involuted. It is not outward expansion and export.
Pure love stories are rarely seen on Japanese screens, and social topics such as unmarried and divorce are constantly being introduced.
These changes are fully reflected in the screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto. He successively wrote a series of Japanese dramas such as "Mother" focusing on parent-child anxiety, "The Perfect Divorce" which explores marriage and love, and "Problem Restaurant" which focuses on sexism topics. . In these works, the love between Wanzhi and Lixiang is hard to find, and the concentration of love has been diluted by heavy social issues.
The old version of Lixiang said: "I want you to think about me 24 hours a day," the new version of Lixiang said: "Except for the time with me, he belongs to him.
All the favorite Cinderella plots in idol dramas are deleted. , The girls finally realized the value of self-existence, the joy of love does not mean attaching to the sorrows and joys of others.
and more striking is that Japanese women, in the narrow choice of love, are more willing to be alone And self.
According to the latest census data of the Japanese government, one in four women in Japan has never been married, and the virginity rate has reached 40%.
does not love, does not marry, and does not have children. Women are fighting against the invisible slogans of society.
True, modern women have more choices. Love and marriage, the right to choose is more and more in their own hands, and under pressure, the love of desire, and the love of pure love Relationship, moreIt is the barrier between reality and imagination. Stepping over, I saw at a glance that I was nothing but a tiny individual under the operation of a huge social machine, and I just wanted to be alone.
is like in the finale of "East Love", Lixiang said in her final farewell: No matter where, what are you doing? I'm all myself.
Of course, I think that Lixiang’s lines 30 years ago are still applicable today-
"So-called love, as long as you participate in it is meaningful, even if there is no ending. When you like the moment, it will never disappear. At that moment, it was the courage of life and a beacon in the dark."
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[1] The playwright Yuji Sakamoto recalled "Tokyo Love Story": I still had a longing for love at that time, Cheng Yanliang
[2 ] "30 Years of Japanese TV Drama", Teresa
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[4] "bubble The Japanese Drama Feast after the Economy: The Golden Decade of 1991-2000", Japan Pass
