On October 19, the TV series "Tokyo Love Story 2020" will be exclusively launched on Watermelon Video. The play is produced by Japan's Fuji TV, and is the first Japanese play introduced by Watermelon Video. At that time, members of Watermelon Video can watch the full episode first. The 1991 version of "Tokyo Love Story" is known as the "Divine Drama of the Heisei Era". It was once popular in Asia and shaped a generation of collective memories of Japanese love. After 29 years, the classic IP has returned, reappearing the love story of urban girl Lixiang and country boy Wanzhi under the background of the new era. The post-90s actors such as Ito Kentaro and Ishibashi Shizukawa will jointly interpret the living conditions and emotional experiences of the young Japanese generation in the current society.
While continuing the main tone of the comic of the same name and discussing romance and conflict in love, the new version of "East Love" will show more changes in women's outlook on love. The 2020 edition of Lixiang is a representative of the "new era independent women" in the hearts of modern women who are chic, free and self-seeking. She has a stronger self-awareness and gives her sincere love in love, but at the same time she stays awake, can gain a sense of security from herself, and constantly pursue a better self in life. The new version of "East Love" of
has a new interpretation of women's love values, which has aroused heated discussions among the new generation of audiences. In terms of production, the play also maintained the level of the previous work. There are classic Japanese drama running scenes in the play, and Tokyo Tower is used as the main background and air space many times, fully showing the exquisite fashion sense of Tokyo's modern city. In the first half of this year, this drama was ranked fourth in audience satisfaction among the local Japanese TV dramas.
The show is produced by Fuji Television, a commercial television media that has produced many classic Japanese dramas, including "Tokyo Love Story", "101 Proposals" and "Long Holidays". The person in charge of Watermelon Video said that the introduction of Japanese drama series in cooperation with Fuji TV will further improve the content ecology of the platform.
Since 2020, Watermelon Video has reached in-depth cooperation with BBC Studios, British Independent Television (ITV), Legendary Pictures, etc., and successively introduced high-quality film and television series.
