text | Panpan
022 Japanese drama spring is disappointing, while the newly launched summer time almost hit a new low in ratings.
Audiences who also have expectations for Japanese dramas may wish to turn their attention from the prime time of the TV station to late night time and web dramas .
The comic-adapted late-night drama directed by Mai Sakai "Tomorrow, Who Will I Become a Girlfriend" , focuses on five women who choose to be "rental girlfriends", and observes the increasingly prosperous customs from a rare female perspective. It is a niche work that breaks the dullness of spring.
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At present, the prosperity and popularity of Japanese customs industry is no longer new.
The highest award for pure literature in Japan, the Akutagawa Prize. The five nominated works in the first half of this year were all created by women. Among them, "ギフㆃド" ("Talented") , the author of Suzuki Ryomi has attracted great attention.
As a graduate of a famous Japanese university, she chose to be a wine-accompanied actor and pornographic actor. After retiring from the customs and erotic industry, she was admitted to University of Tokyo for her research papers on the adult industry, and later became a journalist, sociologist and novelist.
Therefore, she has both the dual identities of the customs industry and the observer. "Talented" is a novel she made up based on her personal experience, revealing the lives of the customs industry practitioners through the story of a hotel female public relations story.
Although there is no data to prove that this drama draws on the experience of Ryomi Suzuki, her field of observation and research is exactly what this late-night drama wants to show - Japan's vigorous development of the customs based on women is strongly affecting and permeating female survival.
As a female group drama, the novelty of this drama is not as good as "So What if People Are at 30" at the beginning of the year, but it is better than narrative angle and balanced attitude . Like Ryomi Suzuki's works, this drama chooses women who practice customs as the first narrative perspective.
"Now, in this Tokyo, it takes a lot of money to survive just one person."
is a custom industry that can be seen everywhere in parallel with the high cost of living. When young women walk on the street, they are prone to encounter " Star Scout " that provides nighttime job opportunities.
The protagonist Xiaoxue . Only through scholarships and part-time income can you barely maintain the independent living expenses of going to college in Tokyo. She chose to become a rental girlfriend/leasing girlfriend, a custom job to complete the needs of dates, shopping, movies, friends gatherings, etc. as her girlfriend.
Color for the cost of plastic surgery without end; cute and Youai in order to pay for the expensive abusive love with the cowherd; and , which seems to be the most popular among the opposite sex, chooses to date older men in order to always feel sought after and company. The reason why they choose to engage in customs is not the "desperate" in the traditional sense that they fall into the dust.
This drama follows the perspectives of these women, through the bizarre neon halo, and take off the cruel cloak of sexual exploitation. It can see the spiritual candy they want to rent out themselves and exchange, although it is an illusory and temporary placebo, it is what they need most in front of them.
Therefore, the audience may not be able to understand their choices, but they can resonate with their inner conflicts, trembling, and desires.
This drama has not gone to a happy ending of the general "saving the dust", and has not made a judgment on the choices of women in the customs industry .
"Don't do it, I'll support you." Facing a male date who wants to "persuade others to be good", Xiaoxue's first reaction is that your savings are just a favor for her parents, and what people need is real self-sufficiency.
And for Cai, he would rather give up the opportunity to get married than continue with plastic surgery. Although it is ridiculous, he will never regret it.
The protagonist in the play does not think that customs and work are shameful, and refuses to be saved by men. "Renting girlfriends" is just a way for them to survive under the current social environment.
Disassemble the business routine of the custom store, which is also a major highlight of this drama.
Visited the customs store, and it was very "discounted" for the first time. For only 3,000 yen (about 150 yuan), you can experience all kinds of cowherds and take turns to hand you business cards and express sweet words. In the play, a man named Feng perfectly demonstrates Niu Lang's insight and spiritual pua skills .
He created a pitiful life experience for himself who was poor and forced to go into the sea. He approached the heroine as a close friend of "I understand you", caring about resolving the embarrassment for the other party, and even quietly stuffed the money into the other party's palms to pay her consumption bill.
He accurately captured the cute spiritual gap. Therefore, even if Youai, a model who sells herself to support the cowherd, Meng is still trapped in it.
But this is just a sweet spider web. When the heroine sinks, once there is difficulty in supplying funds, Feng will immediately change his face and exert cold violence. If you want to continue to enjoy emotional services and continue to "love", you will inevitably fall into a longer and longer bill. After all, you have to spend hundreds of thousands of yen to open a champagne.
Meng and Youai continue to escape from the pain of selling their bodies to the short comfort of the Cowherd, and continue to suffer for the extended placebo. "Sell" in order to "buy", but you need to continue to "buy" because of "sell". This "selling and buying" mechanism is suffocating.
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Japanese drama is getting worse and worse. The reason is that it is the word "old".
The handsome guy, the "thirsty marriage" heroine... The templates are repeated constantly, the themes are becoming obsolete, and the well-known screenwriters who once created the popular Japanese drama era are still dominating the prime time, but they can't figure out the real and vivid stories of young people.
, contrary to the dull prime time, is the online drama and late night drama that are constantly bringing fresh material selection and narrative perspectives.
late-night dramas do not pursue ratings, but use TV series to drive the sales of DVD boxes, TV series formula books, original novels and comics to judge whether they are successful or not. Therefore, in terms of subject matter and form, they are not limited by TV broadcasts, but can even meet the preferences of some niche circles.
Like Yamada Yuri "So So What to Do You Go to 30", portrays the story of women breaking away from age constraints, which is eye-catching.
The director of this drama Sakai Mai . The DVD released last year's " Beautiful Him " successfully broke the circle. The topic of is highly discussed, which directly led to the start of filming of subsequent movie versions.
The theme of this "Whose girlfriend will I become tomorrow" seems to be eye-catching, but the narration is delicate and balanced, with more display and less judgment, more tolerance and less criticism, which is different from the once popular inappropriate dramas.
Looking forward to the Japanese drama world where seniority is concerned, more young directors and screenwriters can break old wine bottles and bring freshness.
