Winter Japanese dramas, pure love themes account for half of them. First there was " Jingxue " that made people cry with the love of the hearing-impaired, and then there was " First Love " that used old-fashioned amnesia jokes to tell a bloody and heart-wrenching reunion story.
Although there are still viewers who buy it, you will get tired of the batched pure love sugar substitutes if you eat too much. Therefore, the Japanese drama that has recently emerged from the crowd is a unique female healing drama. The Douban score was once as high as 9.1 points -
"Women Who Want to Cook and Women Who Want to Eat"
This article was first published in 24th Floor Cinema
This drama can be regarded as a gourmet drama or a lily drama. Each episode is 15 minutes long, easy to heal, and especially suitable for watching with meals.
"The Woman Who Wants to Cook and the Woman Who Wants to Eat" (hereinafter referred to as "The Woman Who Wants to Cook") is adapted from the popular comic of the same name. It tells the story of the heroine Nomoto and her neighbor Kasuga, who bonded over food and fell in love.
At first glance, this looks like a gender-transformed version of " Yesterday's Food ", telling heart-warming stories through the flow of life between same-sex people. However, "Woman Who Wants to Cook" does not focus on the daily life of real same-sex couples, but uses food as the entry point to tell the story of the many prejudices and stereotypes that women encounter in society and families. The protagonist of the story, Nomoto Nomoto, is an ordinary office worker. Her usual hobby is cooking.
But like many people with small appetites, after cooking exquisite delicacies, uploading them to social media, and receiving praises, they can never finish the meal in front of them, let alone cook more delicacies.
Nomoto, who lives alone, looks forward to it: How great it would be if there was someone who would like to eat the food he made!
Many people will say at this time, then invite friends to eat, or find a boyfriend! Nomoto also encountered this problem. When colleagues saw the exquisite lunch boxes he brought to the company, they would say: "You will definitely be a good mother in the future."
But what Nomoto was thinking about was, obviously he did it because he liked it, so why should he always attribute everything to men?
This inner OS speaks to the voices of many women living alone in big cities. If you want someone to share your delicious food, but you don't want to be defined by the prejudice of "good wife, good mother", then how to solve this situation?
The emergence of another heroine Kasuga changed Nomoto's dilemma.
Kasuga is Nomoto’s neighbor. She is slightly fat and a big eater. Nomoto met her in the elevator for the first time. When he saw Kasuga carrying several portions of and family bucket , he thought the other party was going to have a party. However, when he asked, he found out that she was eating them all by herself.
It turns out that Bon Appetit is nearby. After checking his eyes, Nomoto took the initiative to invite Haruhi to eat his delicious food.
Watching Kasuga feasting, Nomoto felt satisfied and happy in his heart.
This allowed her to reaffirm the meaning of her love for food. She did not do it to become a good wife or mother, but just did it when she wanted to. If someone could say it was delicious after eating it, she would be satisfied.
In this way, Nomoto and Kasuga formed a couple. Nomoto cooked delicious food in different ways every day, while Kasuga seriously enjoyed every meal and gave Nomoto feedback.
Of course, if the plot only ends here, it will probably be on the level of an ordinary gourmet instant noodle series. But the good thing about this drama is that it uses food to bring two strangers closer together, and tells about the healing and warmth that women give each other. The process of getting closer to
is gradual and slow-paced. With the usual delicacy and daily sense of Japanese dramas, is full of the author's careful observation of the psychology of urban women.
After Nomoto and Kasuga formed a meal partner, they not only shared delicious food, but also began to care for and help each other in life.
Nomoto sometimes had dysmenorrhea and couldn't cook. Kasuga thoughtfully bought sanitary napkins and painkillers, and also made Nomoto's favorite fried rice balls.
They will also discuss the problems of women's menstruation. Kasuga will encourage Nomoto to go to the hospital if she can't bear it. Nomoto feels that she should be as strong as Kasuga and not talk about her discomfort, but Haruhi tells her that if you can't persist, don't hold on, and Nomoto doesn't need to change and just maintain the status quo. Although they are all women, everyone is different.
Kasuga looks serious and cold, but she is careful and considerate in her interactions with Nomoto. Every time he eats, he brings his own rice cooker, so Nomoto can focus on making delicious food and bring rice according to his own appetite.
When Kasuga eats Nomoto’s food, she doesn’t just sit back and enjoy it. She will also help cook and pay for Nomoto’s meals to express her feelings about the food.
The relationship between the two is like the resonance of souls. Nomoto heals Kasuga with delicious food, while Kasuga gives feedback on the details of life to heal Nomoto's lonely heart.
The emotional flow of Nomoto and Kasuga is based on the small details and worries of daily life, full of realism and very close to the ground; at the same time, it also brings understanding and recognition of each other, and a sense of resonance with the common situation faced by urban women in society.
As the relationship deepens, the story takes us into the past of spring. We then learn why Haruhi is so obsessed with eating.
Kasuga grew up in a conservative family. Everything at home was based on the needs of her younger brother. Haruhi's needs were always ignored. Even the food treatment was different from that of her younger brother. She would often get hungry in the middle of the night and get up to eat by herself.
The harm from her family when she was young made Kasuga independent and tough, and she vowed to eat back the food she didn't have enough as a child.
But when she grew up, she still faced various stereotypes about women from society.
For example, when Haruhi went to a restaurant to eat at the beginning, the boss preemptively gave Haruhi a small portion of rice instead of the normal portion of the male customer next door.
Haruhi likes rice with dumplings, but the man at the next table told her that wine is the best pairing with dumplings. Haruhi, who can't drink, would bite the bullet and order a beer at first to cater to the other man's preaching.
This kind of pervasive preaching and prejudice against women that occurs in daily life gives the series a hint of sharp insight from a female perspective in a warm and healing atmosphere.
Food is just a cut. Its focus is actually to describe the many hidden pains of women, menstrual troubles, salary inequality, neglect from the family, stereotypes and prejudices from society...
is exactly the same, when Nomoto’s beauty When Haruhi eats all the food in one bite, we will also have infinite empathy with Nomoto who was moved to tears in the play. This is not only because Nomoto feels that some people like the food she cooks, but more importantly, some people accept her love of cooking from the bottom of her heart and will not think that she cooks just to be a good wife and mother.
When Nomoto watched her eat with satisfied eyes every time, Haruhi also felt the love from Nomoto. No one looked at her differently because of her large appetite, but she sincerely appreciated and recognized herself in front of her.
This is the ingenuity of the narrative of "The Woman Who Wants to Cook". It seems to connect the emotions of two strangers through coincidence, but it also reveals the inevitability of it through a female perspective and many background details. The plot of
Lily is the icing on the cake and a smooth sailing. When social prejudices and constraints are peeled off, two women who are equally sincere and love life meet, and the various bonds created are both enviable and healing.
It allows us to see that true tacit understanding and empathy really exist; it turns out that true love comes from "seeing" each other.
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