In 2016, " Tokyo Women's Picture Book " was very popular.
episodes truly present the love and desire of urban women, triggering topic discussions in the country.
For a time, the content of "XX Women's Picture Book" was rampant, becoming the "reference answer" for urban women to get the title.
However, some netizens called for "I would have done a man's picture book."
So, 3 years later, it really came -
"Tokyo Men's Picture Book"
Douban 7.5.
is somewhat disappointing compared to 8.7 in "Tokyo Women's Picture Book".
But based on the same production team is still worth a look. What is more noteworthy is that
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B premiered worldwide, two months earlier than Japan.
It seems that this drama is brave enough to first accept the test of Chinese audiences' views.
As expected.
One episode is 20 minutes, a total of 10 episodes.
has been broadcast for 6 episodes, and the male lead changes his girlfriend in one episode.
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01
continues the previous work "short, concise, realistic and sharp" style.
"Tokyo Men's Picture Book" has changed the gender and changed the perspective.
opens the plot from the perspective of 's ex-girlfriend , telling the story of a Tokyo man over 20 years.
story began in 1997.
The male protagonist Shota is a college student who studied in a famous private university in Tokyo from his hometown.
Sleep in class and attend the sorority party after class.
He successfully got the girl he met for the first time with his local love words.
Going to your girlfriend's house is a daily routine.
or take her to a cheap hotel.
In order to fall in love, you can skip class.
When the classmates were working hard for their post-graduate planning, he was the only one who did not make any preparations.
He is not only poor, but also has no future.
It can be said that he is a salted fish who only knows how to fall in love.
And his girlfriend is a person who enjoys material life.
The clothing store that took Shota to, a suit costs more than 1 million yen.
French restaurants I like to go to, with an average of 30,000 yen per person.
One day, Shota's friend found out that his girlfriend cheated on a rich old man.
Yes, he was green.
Shota was hit hard by this. He made bold ambitions:
Working in a famous company
Get 10 million yen annual salary
Wear high-end clothing, eat delicious food
Let all the gold worship girls bow down at his feet
After graduation, Shota worked in a first-class trading company in Tokyo.
aims to work hard on his career with an annual salary of 10 million yen.
However, the lens turned.
Shota walked into the high-end suit store where his ex-girlfriend brought him to, but he still secretly took out the tag and was frightened by the price to smirk.
can't help but make people sigh at the difficulties in the adult world.
But for a scumbag like Shota, his urban story has just begun.
At work, he is smooth in his work, can flatter and accompany his boss to drink and socialize.
deliberately missed while still bowling.
But as soon as the boss left, he showed his real skills to attract his second girlfriend.
A date, Shota took his girlfriend to a high-end restaurant for dinner.
He was jealous because his girlfriend said this was her second time, so he went to date other girls.
result, he accidentally met his girlfriend holding a strange man's hand across the street.
Afterwards, neither of them mentioned it.
Two years later, my girlfriend put her marriage on the agenda.
Shota then said his true feelings and showed that he had changed his mind.
0 After breaking up, Xiangtai's career encountered a crisis.
The boss gave the opportunity to be promoted to Kojima, a colleague of Shota.
It turns out that the boss had long seen Shota's " greasy ".
Boss prefers people who are as hardworking and down-to-earth as him and work hard in private.
What's more, having a stable family is the unspoken rule for the promotion of the workplace in Japan.
At this time, Shota proposed the idea of getting married.
The third girlfriend directly refused.
I won’t marry a business office worker. My husband’s annual salary must be at least 30 million. After
, Xiangta met a girl working in a foreign bank.
The two met and felt that the other party was very good.
But Xiang Tai took the initiative to say that he already had a girlfriend to force his honor.
In fact, he thinks it is a shame to be with a girl with a higher income than him.
At this time, Xiangta is also in a embarrassing situation at work. The colleague who was promoted to
came back to become his team leader.
and he still has an annual salary of just over ten million yuan.
He either changes jobs and gets new development opportunities by reducing his annual salary, or stays in place and follows the steps.
But in love, he will never get true love.
either he uses his annual salary to screen women, or others think he doesn't make much money.
At the age of thirty, how would he choose when facing love, money and desire?
02
"Tokyo Men's Illustrated Book" is in line with the production of "Tokyo Women's Illustrated Book".
Fast food style urban love and cruel workplace life.
Whether it is from a rural town to Tokyo to work hard and pursue a love career.
is still a poor boy Shota who has been cheated on by his girlfriend since then.
These can resonate with men and women living in urban life.
And the plot that makes people confused about social animal life also makes its topicality not inferior to that of "female pictures".
But to put it bluntly, the "Tokyo Men's Illustrated Book" is far worse than the "Tokyo Women's Illustrated Book".
even though the imperfection of the protagonist is also preserved.
However, the "male picture" is a bit rough in terms of plot and character design.
"Tokyo Women's Picture Book" has a clear goal of making a name for himself.
Whether it is material desire for bags, clothes, etc., or for love, her desire is written on her face.
And for Shota, his struggle is only measured by his annual salary and titles from beginning to end.
Apart from this, he is not clear about his desires.
When it comes to work, he has no career ideals and no real efforts.
When it comes to love, he stereotypedly defines all women as "money first".
In "Tokyo Women's Picture Book", Ayan's growth process from the age of 20 to 40 covers almost all the situations that an urban woman can encounter.
And Aya aims to make a name for herself in Tokyo without any background, and finally achieves a perfect class climb.
Although she is still not satisfied, in the face of secular pressure of marriage and childbirth, Ayan cannot realize her ambitions.
This is why real society still regards family and marriage as the best destination for women.
so that the characters in the play broke the fourth wall many times and talked to the audience.
We can gain stronger resonance from it.
Plus, the characters in it talk about the problems faced by women from their own different perspectives, which made the drama realize its critical significance for reality.
And in "Tokyo Men's Picture Book", using salary as a measure of the male protagonist's goal can be said to be realistic, but it is a bit narrow.
In addition, the series spends a lot of plots setting the dilemma in career development. Women not only appear as a materialistic woman, but also appear as a tool to measure whether the male protagonist is successful in the process of rising step by step.
This is obviously patriarchal perspective .
Although the beginning of the play is the time when a woman, as an outsider, comments on how she spends time with Shota.
However, this type of interview with pseudo-documentary in the form of cannot cause deeper social thinking at all.
Obviously, the male picture has not taken a step further in criticizing social problems.
also plans your life with a material-first attitude.
For Yan, in her words.
She always thought she was the protagonist of the story, but later she realized that she was just an inconspicuous supporting role. The presentation of this life gap in
episodes is exactly where the success of "Tokyo Women's Picture Book".
And Shota, he is too self-righteous in his career and love.
The result is that you cannot get true love or the minimum respect.
03
The only thing that impressed this drama is Shota's interpretation of "Aesop's Fable".
He compared men to ants and women to cricket .
20-year-old women will be sought after even if they don’t work hard
so they always look for older rich people to play
. At this time, men are working hard to improve themselves
. Wait until the cricket girl brings the harsh winter of 30 years old. When she is abandoned
they will cry and shout and flatter the ant man with savings
imply that they are an ant man and the women around them are cricket women.
In fact, just like Shota’s colleague Kojima said, he is the cricket.
He has biased against all women because of his past love history.
He is clever inside and outside the company, trying his best to show himself and please his boss.
even harms colleague Xiaodao for personal gain.
He has always been proficient in calculations and believes that it is irreplaceable.
Unexpectedly, he was eventually defeated in the promotion campaign. The one who was selected for
is the island he looked down upon.
Other side, he went to the class reunion.
originally wanted to show off as a trading company and a high salary to find a sense of existence.
It turns out that when the real topic character is mentioned, he can only escape from the scene in embarrassment.
episodes also recall his youth through insertion of .
He was originally an ignored single person and could only speak bad things behind his back.
Now, he is going to become the central figure he once hated. The comparison of these scenes of
exposes Shota's vanity and inferiority at a glance.
Actually, you will find it in the end when you see it.
Whether it is Aya or Shota, it is the fragile self-esteem and vanity hidden deep that has become their motivation for hard work.
In the process of continuous satisfaction and loss, they distorted their values and could not obtain true happiness throughout their lives.
