After 20 years, a movie "Summer of Kikujiro" filled with anime-style music has been successfully finalized and will be released nationwide on September 25. Grasp the little tail of summer and bring us the warmth and happiness of that summer. .
Kikujiro’s summer
may be due to Hisaishi’s music for the old man, coupled with the warm and slightly sad theme, "Kikujiro’s Summer" brings a bit of the feeling in the anime of Hayao Miyazaki, and the poster of the teacher Huang Hai Using the animation style, blue sky and white clouds plus angel bells, the owner Masato and the uncle next door, and three friends who play together form "Kikujiro's Summer".
, a classic work that has won numerous awards, has moved the audience. is a journey of left-behind children to find relatives. Because of a "uncle rogue", it becomes wonderful. Although the tone of the story is still a bit sad, the overall It seems that is relaxed and happy. For the audience, the most touching thing is to tell the sad growth story in a funny way.
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"Summer of Kikujiro" background introduction
"Summer of Kikujiro" is directed and written by the famous Japanese director Takeshi Kitano, , who pays tribute to the father who didn't communicate with him too much in a special way In this work, he tried to see a middle-aged father through the perspective of a child, but he made the audience feel the meaning of growth from the experience of two people, one old and one young. The story of the two generations of
has the shadow of director Takeshi Kitano's real life, but it is more about his understanding of the relationship between himself and his father. This made the "Shakespeare of the movie world" Kurosawa Akira, the man who said "the future of Japanese movies will take care of you," , the man whose personal experience is no less exciting than the movie.
Kitano Takeshi Kurosawa
's multiple positioning of the protagonist "Kikujiro" also gave the audience a better understanding of this work at the last point.
The multiple analysis of the identity of "Kikujiro" reflects the opposition and unity of childhood and middle age
"Who is Kikujiro?"
Kikujiro is a little boy
This is a question that many viewers have from the beginning, the title of the work Who is "Kikujiro", the story has not been explained, so many audiences subconsciously think "Z10z boy is Kikujiro ", which is also a misleading of the director to the audience.
Kikujiro’s summer coincides with the boy’s summer vacation, which is a little boy’s summer adventure memory.
The little boy
The little boy’s father passed away. His mother worked and raised him in a distant city. His grandmother took care of him alone. With the arrival of summer, the school was closed, and the friends around him went to the beach for vacation. This name was Zhengnan. The little boy felt extremely lonely . So he wanted to go to see his mother far away. The neighbor's aunt not only borrowed money out of good intentions, but also lent him his idle husband. The middle-aged man and the little boy embarked on a journey together.
was originally a simple story of an uncle taking a little boy to find a mother, but because the uncle gambling ran out of the money given by the aunt, it became more complicated. Two people without money can only find it far away by walking or rubbing a car. Mom, after finally found his mother, the happy little boy saw that his mother had reorganized the family. The two sad people embarked on the journey home. The uncle tried his best to make the little boy happy, and the two experienced a wonderful adventure. Back home, bid farewell to each other, the boy's summer vacation is over.
At the beginning of the summer adventure
, many people thought that Kikujiro was a good man. After all, the story revolved around him finding his mother, and his failure to find his mother made many people feel very sympathetic.
Kikujiro is the uncle
in the second half of the work, and the audience at began to think that the uncle is Kikujiro. This man played various treasures and amused all the way, so that countless people followed the footsteps of this middle-aged uncle back to childhood , after all, he Those who do go swimming in anger, puncture other people's car tires, steal corn from cornfields, and play funny games with a group of people. This is a portrayal of most people's summer life.
Jujiro
, this uncle is always full of swear words from start to finish. It seems that he doesn't know how to communicate with "normal people", but every little detail is the delicate and warmth of adults. Director also asked questions through the little boy's questions, letting us know that Kikujiro was originally an uncle. During this journey, has grown up not only with the positive man, but also the barbaric middle-aged man.
Jujiro
The original uncle is Jujiro! If you look at
again, will think that both of them are Kikujiro and they are not like Kikujiro . Kikujiro is the father of director Takeshi Kitano. We have no way of knowing his real experience, so these two people are not Kikujiro . But and they are all Kikujiro . In this way, the director sees the middle-aged Kikujiro from the perspective of a childhood director, sees his father from the perspective of a child, and at the same time treats him like a middle-aged man. Children, this is a summer shared by father and son, and perhaps represents the childhood experience of left-behind children. In this way, the author of
makes a person who has lost a loved one's childhood and middle age intertwined. The middle-aged is innocent and naughty in childhood, but the child reflects the maturity and stability of adults. Will change back to his identity when playing. This way of intertwining narratives presents an opposite picture that returns while experiencing. The life experience of
Kiujiro was interpreted by two people. The old and the young formed a sharp confrontation, but finally completed the unity. It turns out that this is a person's childhood and middle-age experience.
And Kikujiro's short journey of finding his mother these days with a boy, also represents Kikujiro's ups and downs in finding his mother for decades.
The two children’s "journey to find a mother" corresponds to the meaning of growth, highlighting the meaning of growth
is such a cute and well-behaved child, why did he grow up to become a stubborn uncle like Jujiro?
From the outside, this uncle was actually not too cute at first. He not only loves solo broadcasting, but also caress about Kikujiro. He is bullying and afraid of hardships. He also likes to take advantage of others. He can't swim and he likes to pose. A typical middle-aged man. The image of the uncle, but in all kinds of experiences, he showed an unusual side. Perverted gays, hotel attendants, couples who took them on the ride, wandering poets and speeders, , a child without parents, faces all kinds of societies. When it was wrong, he finally became an uncle so that he could take care of himself properly, but he gave another child a chance to realize his dream and took him to find his mother . The warmth of uncle
When we saw that the mother who was in her heart had another happy family, both of them did not bother tacitly. This did not fit the character of the uncle, but it showed us kindness and consideration. This was put together with the scene where the uncle went to the nursing home to see his mother when he was on his way back to the city. He also took a long look and left. Knowing that you are doing well, I feel relieved.
This adventure of looking for his mother, a man who has experienced strong winds and heavy rains, muddy and roughness, hunger and sadness, pretending to be pitiful and begging for a ride, has changed many times in just a few days, and it corresponds to the uncle’s mind for decades. The journey, the mixed feelings in the heart of this middle-aged man over the past few decades, and whether the moment when he sees his mother again is relieved or uneasy, the audience can't help but feel sad.
Unknowing mother
In the journey of finding a mother, Zhengnan and Uncle played the role of children. Z10z faced the sadness and sadness of the mother reorganizing the family from childhood, and the relief of seeing the mother again when we grow up, growth brings us It is the understanding of the mother, and the salvation and letting go of oneself . I still remember that the uncle told Zhengnan that he must tell his mother how good he is, and kept taking him to find his mother. In fact, his inner expectations and concerns about his mother were actually hidden in the story. The last childhood game of
, a few boring adults and a child playing with wooden people, octopus, aliens, Indians, and watermelon games, let the little boy experience the joy of childhood, a group of people together Spent a happy summer. Uncle 's angel bell , the Big Dipper of the wandering poet, has brought hope to this boy, so he can grow into a kind and warm hearted uncle .
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director Takeshi Kitano called out his comedy-time partner "Pai Ziqing" and a few members to shoot this tribute to his childhood and father. When the movie was released, his father Kikujiro had passed away for 20 years. When he was alive, he had little communication with his father. Only once did he show off his swimming skills in a movie when his father took him to see the sea. Thinking of the various experiences of getting along with his father, Takeshi Kitano later had some new ideas about the relationship between father and son. The father of should be the first stumbling block in his child's life journey, , so he came up with this work.
Famous scene
In an interview about "Summer of Kikujiro", Director Takeshi Kitano said about his feelings about this work.
"Is Kikujiro your father's name?"
"Yes. He seems to have never spoken to him before his lifetime. But now in retrospect, he is really a bit lonely. The theme of the movie this time is a bit like the feeling of filial piety to the grave. This is also considered as offering. (Take Kitano)"
