"Asia's Angel" is a story that takes place in Korea. The heroine is also a Korean, but its style and rhythm still maintain the charm and temperament of Japanese literary films. This may be because the screenwriter and director are all Ishii Yuya .
Ishii Yu also likes to shoot low-level people, and is also good at shooting low-level people. In this movie, the wife of the male protagonist Aoki (played by Jungryu Ikematsu) died of illness and raised his 8-year-old son Ao Xue (played by Ryu Sato). At the invitation of his brother Aoki Toru (played by Joe Odagi) he left his hometown and took his son to Seoul to join his brother. He thought he had the promise of a generous job and the conditions for Ao Xue to transfer to school smoothly.
As a result, my brother was just doing cosmetics smuggling in Seoul, and was accidentally stolen by his Koreans and was stolen directly. In order not to disappoint my younger brother, he made a statement that he could go to Gangwon Road to do the kelp bud business, so the two brothers took Ah Xue to take the train to Gangwon Road.
heroine Xiaolu (played by Cui Xixu) is an outdated singer. Now she can only earn some living expenses by singing in supermarkets.
Xiaolu has a close relationship with the president of the agency, but what she didn't expect was that in the other party, she was just a "female No. 6 with a good figure and can be called and swayed"... Both dreams and love were broken, but the family was not worried. After his parents passed away, Xiaoluo worked early to shoulder the burden of life and supported his brother and sister. Brother Zhengyu is a good old man and a coward; his sister Xiaochun has asthma and has been urged by Xiaoru to take the civil service exam, but Xiaochun feels that his sister has lived the life she wants, and he feels disgusted that his sister is often ambiguous with strange men.
Xiaoru, who was confused about the road ahead, could not recall her parents' appearance, and she also lost the sense of belief of continuing to work hard. So, based on the reason why the mother's anniversary taboo was the three brothers and sisters boarded the cheap train back to Gangwon Road.
When he was in the supermarket, he just saw the little rate of singing in the noise. After that, he met the little rate of drinking to drown his sorrow in a cheap tavern again. Just now, he was a frustrated novelist, and Xiaolu's clear eyes that told countless stories deeply attracted him. So after the reunion on the train, at the suggestion of his lustful brother Tou, the Japanese Aoki family followed the Korean brother and sister to go to visit the grave. (It will be explained later that Zhuo is coveting Xiaolu and Xiaochun's beauty on the surface, but in fact, selling kelp buds on Gangwon Road was originally an illusory thing, so he tried every means to stop Gangwon Road from rushing to Gangwon Road with him.) During
, he experienced various things. Although Xiaolu and Gang were not in language, they unexpectedly gradually understood each other. Brothers Gang and Tou had seen an ugly and old angel before, and the angel bit the two brothers' shoulders. Xiaolei, who experienced setbacks, also met an ugly and old angel while drunk. It was precisely because of the appearance of the angel that Xiaolei was prompted to seek the next direction of life by sweeping the graves of his mother.
In fact, Gang and Xiaolu have various similarities. For example, Gang's wife and Xiaolu's mother died of gastric cancer. As a novelist, she was silent after she wrote a best-selling novel. Xiaolu had released one or two albums before, but since then she was also lost in the public. Gang left his hometown to join his brother in Seoul to learn a stable life for his son Ah, while Xiaolu did not hesitate to have a secret relationship with the president of the agency, and also to support his sister in order to successfully pass the civil service exam...
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Whether it is the Aoki brother or the three Xiaolu brothers and sisters, they are actually ants living on the edge of society. There have also been deceptions (such as the Aoki Brothers), disgust and complaints among relatives. But no matter what, they are all "good people".The movie uses many details to show that these ants are "good people". For example, when I first arrived in Seoul, no matter how coldly treated them, Gang always taught his son to treat others well;
For example, my brother Zhengyu has always been cowardly and was shouted by his sister Xiaoluo, but in the eyes of his younger sister, the incompetent brother is "much better" than his sister who earns money to support his family, and Zhengyu has indeed waited for the big cart lent him to go home to visit the grave (but this big cart is also a little worn). Faced with the scumbag and bad president, the Aoki brothers seemed to have the upper hand, but they were all paper-stuffed tigers. In the end, Xiaoru kicked the president over.
Honesty, cowardly, kindness... is the character background of these main characters in the play, and it is also the foundation for them to understand each other across nationalities and to save each other.
Ishii Yu did not bite the ants at the bottom to compete for survival space like "Parasite". On the contrary, it is precisely because each other is an ants that can understand each other's difficulties and hardships. This may be because Japanese and Korean directors have different narrative emphasis.
As for the title of the film "Asian Angel", according to the plot, it refers to the old and ugly angel that both the Aoki brothers and Xiaolu have seen. The incident of "having seen an ugly angel" has also become a main content of the confession to Xiaolu, and the subtext is because we are the same people.
But deeper meaning, I think "Asian angel" may refer to those good qualities that people cannot give up in the humanistic context of East Asia, no matter how hard or difficult it is, they cannot give up, be friendly and help each other. As long as you always have a "angel like this" in your heart, no matter how much blow you suffer, losing relatives and friends, having a heavy blow to your career, or betrayal of love... you can still cheer up and move towards a new life.
PS: Maybe it's because of the different roles and character designs. The most brilliant character in this movie is Chi Song Zhuangliang. When he stares at people, he seems to be able to look directly into your heart and see through everything about you. From this perspective, "Asian Angel" may be the male lead Takashi Aoki played by Zhuori Ikematsu, laughing.
Also, Komasato Ryu is also very cute, fleshy, a bit like the original Suzuki Fuku.
