Keigo Higashino, viewers who like to watch suspense films must be very familiar with this name. As a top Japanese mystery novelist, his works such as "White Night Walk" and "The Appearance of Suspect X" have been adapted into movies, which are loved by Asian audiences. So the mystery movie I want to recommend to everyone today is also from the novel by Higashino Keigo-"Masked Restaurant" スカレードホテル
This is a mystery mystery film played by Kimura Takuya and Nagasawa Masami. Takuya Kimura does not need to introduce much. With the youthful memories of a generation of audiences growing up, the popularity of Asia is half the sky, and the ratings record set is unmatched so far. The man who was broadcast live by NHK during the marriage, through the ages, seems to be the only man. After
started Weibo in China, it also triggered a crazy follow-up of stars such as Luo Zhixiang. After seeing the VCR he sent, Big S was moved to tears.
As for Nagasawa Masami, her sweet smile is affectionately called "sesame sauce".
The Japanese national goddess, remember that in "Legal High", after watching Machiko's interview, Gu Meimen shouted "If only Nagasawa Masami came". It shows her top popularity in Japan. The configuration of
, coupled with the words Keigo Higashino, is indeed a series that cannot be missed during the lifetime. "Masked Hotel" tells the suspenseful story of the detective Nitta, who is undercover in the hotel for investigating a series of serial murders, and the hotel front desk Yamagishi chasing the murderer. Readers who know Higashino Keigo know that his mystery novels contain strong human affection. Even a murderer with blood on his hands will give people inexplicable sympathy when the truth is revealed. Moreover, in terms of setting, "Masked Hotel" is also different from previous reasoning stories in that it is a "prevention" case.
Nitta is an experienced agent of the police station. Not long ago, there were a series of murders in Tokyo. When the police arrived, they found that a note with strange numbers was placed on the deceased. The victims of the three cases did not know each other, and there was no overlap in their life trajectories, which caused a great obstacle to the police in the investigation. It doesn't matter, it means that the murderer is likely to kill randomly, but through the numbers on the note, Nitta still found the clue. The number of
is subtracted from the date of the crime, and the result is the latitude and longitude of the location of the crime. Through reasoning, the police got a new coordinate, located in a bustling 5-star hotel on the streets of Tokyo. Not surprisingly, this hotel will be the location of the murderer's fourth crime. In order to prevent the tragedy from happening and to catch the murderer, the police decided to act first and stay in the hotel undercover. Xintian was arranged at the front desk of the hotel.
Because there, he can see everything in the lobby, he can see the passengers coming and going, and he can lock the suspects in the first place. However, for a hotel, the role of the front desk is very important, meaning the hotel's facade, service, and even the guest's first impression of the hotel. Yamagishi said that he could not accept the five-big and three-thick Xintian at the current stage.
So at the beginning, the two people competed secretly. One saw that everyone was a suspect, and wanted to find the murderer on the spot. One does not agree with the police's reasoning from the bottom of his heart. How can there be serial murderers among the residents? And the story starts from here, and enters a routine similar to a road film, a front desk with iron strikes, and a stream of residents.
You don’t know where these people come from or where they are going, and you don’t know their thoughts. Everyone is like wearing an invisible mask, and Nitta wants to peek into their hearts through the mask. This is where the title of the mask restaurant is derived. The
movie introduces a few special and weird guests. Everyone is full of doubts. Like this blind old lady, wearing a hat and sunglasses, her whole body wrapped tightly. Xintian quickly noticed her weirdness, but to Yamagishi, she was nothing more than a poor widow and lonely old man who went out alone. Therefore, she provided services with great enthusiasm.
, but the old lady has nothing to do with everything, as long as she has a problem, she needs to find the mountain shore at the front desk, and even if the button on her body is lost, she has to come to the mountain shore. In addition to hearing, blind people need to perceive the world by the touch of their hands, but isn't it strange that this old lady wears gloves wherever she goes? There are some people with ulterior motives in the
restaurant. A beautiful-looking female guest ran to the front desk and told Shan'an that an old man had been there.Follow her. If this man moves in, don't reveal his room number to him.
As a woman, Shan'an naturally sympathized with the young lady, promised to strictly abide by professional ethics, and decided not to reveal the privacy of the guests. However, for Xintian who was investigating the case, the term "stalker" caught his attention. He conducted a detailed investigation of the stalker mentioned by the female guest, but found that their background was very innocent and there was no doubt.
However, at this moment, because she sensed that the "stalker" had moved in, the female guest used the excuse of fear to get his room number from Shan'an. During the surveillance, everyone was stunned. The female guest who kept saying that she was afraid of stalker actually knocked on the door of the male guest...
The third place is even more exaggerated. As soon as I checked in, I called him and asked Nitta to do it. Personal service, and then all kinds of picky. Even if the information in the computer is gone, he will blame Xintian and force Xintian to type the information by hand, otherwise he will complain.
All kinds of residents come and go at the same time, the police investigation into the serial murder case has made new discoveries, and the suspect in one of the cases has been locked. But the strange thing is that the murderer does not seem to have the time to commit three crimes at the same time. In other words, someone deliberately took all three cases to himself in order to confuse the police investigation. The undercover is for the purpose of anti-guest, but I didn't expect that the murderer would have stepped on it and waited for an opportunity to act... And who would have thought that the victim who the murderer was staring at turned out to be the front desk Yamagishi who has been serving guests warmly. The performance of
is impeccable, regardless of whether it is serious or not, he can handle it with confidence. But this movie did not cause a huge wave in Japan like "White Night Walk" and other works. The reason is not that Keigo Higashino is no longer popular, but that the film has been dealt with slightly in terms of rhythm.
Every strange guest comes here wearing a mask. They may be good people, or they may not. The blind old lady, the female guest who claimed to be a stalker, aimed at the male guest of Nitta... Keigo Higashino wanted to show us such a picture of beings through the window of the hotel. In fact, the film sir thinks that this kind of single-line film is more suitable to be made into a TV drama and become a unit drama, otherwise all the plots that can be unfolded will be squeezed within 2 hours, which will inevitably be flawed.
Therefore, in a sense, "Masked Hotel" is not an addictive logical reasoning, but a warm film that exposes and faces humanity. Masked restaurant, and why are we living a masked life of our own?
