Regarding Japanese film and television works, whether they are dramas or movies, the ones we come into contact with more are undoubtedly animations.
If I asked you to talk about the Japanese science fiction movies (non-animated) that you have watched, you might not be able to give too many examples.
Therefore, what Brother Dong introduces to you this time is a Japanese science fiction movie-" My Robot Girlfriend ".
The protagonists of "My Robot Girlfriend" Haruka Ayase ("Ume Street Diary") and Koide Keisuke ("Jinyi") are both local Japanese actors, and the director is Kwak Jae-yong from South Korea.
Due to different nationalities, the shooting habits and systems are also different. Therefore, there are also some unpleasant episodes between the director and the Japanese team.
One year before the film was released, director Guo Zaiyong came to Japan alone to prepare to lead the Japanese film crew and actors to create a new film.
It is said that during a trial shooting, the Japanese staff started filming without saying hello to the director. Director Guo turned around and left in anger that day.
However, overall this cooperation was pleasant and successful. Guo Zaiyong later praised the Japanese shooting team for their rich knowledge, professionalism, responsibility and deep cooperation spirit.
Finally, the movie was released in Japan on May 31, 2008. It tells the love story between Jiro and the robot girl.
The story has multiple timelines, with the main line set in 2008.
Jiro (played by Koide Keisuke) is a single college student. On his 21st birthday, he planned to have a meal in a restaurant to celebrate. As a result, he met a beautiful girl (played by Ayase Haruka) whom he met on his birthday last year.
This beautiful girl fell from the sky this time. She has great strength, agile movements and amazing speed.
On that day, a man with a gun attacked the restaurant where Jiro was located. At the moment when Jiro was about to be hit by a bullet, the girl resolved Jiro's crisis and taught this hateful man a lesson.
After the two returned to Jiro's residence together, the girl told the truth about her visit by playing the video:
She is a robot from the future, created by the elderly Jiro in the future.
Because the elderly Jiro could not forget the beautiful girl he met in 2007 and wanted to change his life state of being paralyzed in a medical vehicle, he built an identical female robot and sent it back to 2008.
He told the robot girl all the misfortunes that would happen to Jiro and asked her to protect Jiro, thus changing his unlucky life.
So, Jiro, who knew little about it, began to live together with the robot girl day and night.
takes care of Jiro's daily life at home; attends classes with Jiro at the university and goes to the cafeteria to eat together; and secretly protects Jiro where he works.
She uses various special abilities to make Jiro's life more convenient and smoother.
In addition, she discovered Jiro's lonely heart and took him to his carefree childhood life through the time machine.
Later, Jiro gradually fell in love with this robot girl, but due to the programming, she did not know what love was and rejected Jiro's expressions of love everywhere.
So, in order to make her jealous, Jiro deliberately dated other girls. However, she did not understand the complex emotions of human beings. The desperate Jiro kicked her out of the house in anger, and then regretted and saddened alone.
One day, the Tokyo earthquake suddenly broke out. Jiro fell from the building and was in danger. The robot girl unexpectedly appeared and rescued him. However, the robot girl was also damaged and was crushed by the falling tall building.
At night after the earthquake stopped, Jiro, who was crying bitterly, dug out the half body of the robot girl and was very sad.
The timeline comes 65 years later. At this time, Jiro repaired the robot girl and lived a healthy old life. The story of the protagonists of
seems to have ended, and the timeline has moved back again to the future 2133.
At this time, Jiro has passed away, and the robot girl has also been put up for auction as a great invention.
A female student (played by Haruka Ayase) discovered that this robot looked exactly like herself, so her father bought it at an auction.
After she learned the memory story of this robot that spanned a century, she was deeply moved and implanted the memory of the robot girl into her own memory. She really wanted to meet the young Jiro.
So, she planned to time travel back to before the memory of the robot girl began, which was the year before the robot appeared - 2007.
It happened to be Jiro's 20th birthday. She fell in love with Jiro when she first saw him, had a meal with him, wore costumes, and finally kissed him.
But the scheduled time travel was only for a few hours, so she could only reluctantly return to 2133 that night.
Because she fell in love at first sight, she chose to go back to see Jiro again, this time after the Tokyo earthquake.
At this time, she saw Jiro sobbing while holding the mutilated robot girl, and lived with Jiro until old age this year.
In the end, the love spanning a hundred years of time and space ended perfectly.
And this wonderful science fiction love movie also left a lot of impressions on the audience.
1. The protagonist’s time-closed story
The entire story of the movie has the past, present, and future at the same time. The three are intertwined and interact with each other. Finally, the love story is perfectly closed through the time journey of a female student.
takes Jiro as the center of the story. He participates in multiple timelines and becomes the subject of changing and being changed the future.
Therefore, starting from Jiro, we can not only clearly see the complete direction of the story from the chaotic timeline, but also unearth the rationality of Jiro becoming the subject being served.
The first is Jiro’s three birthdays: 20 years old (past), 21 years old (present), and 65 years old (future), which happened to become important dramatic turning points in the movie.
The second one is Jiro in 3 different age states.
Status 1: 20-year-old Jiro, 21-year-old.
is a simple college student who longs for love and freedom. When he meets a beautiful girl, his heart will beat with excitement.
Status 2: 65-year-old Jiro.
is also divided into two time branches, but there are major regrets under both time branches.
The first one is 65-year-old Jiro who is following the normal trend of time without disturbing factors. He was accidentally attacked by a gun at the age of 21, resulting in hemiplegia for the rest of his life. The regret in his life at this time is that he did not have a healthy life.
One is the 65-year-old Jiro after the appearance of his robot girlfriend. The robot girlfriend was damaged in the process of rescuing him, but he also repaired it perfectly.
But unfortunately, he still couldn't give the robot girlfriend feelings, even though he had always loved the robot.
Status 3: Jiro as a child. The state of
is in the past and seems to have no impact on the timeline of the movie because it is outside the main story.
In fact, it is not the case. When he was a child, Jiro ran all over the mountains and fields all day long, tirelessly, rarely worried, and full of happiness.
And it is precisely because of the simplicity, purity and wanton beauty of his childhood that when he grows up, Jiro encounters various hardships in his life. He will choose to escape and he will be lonely.
When a strange girl smiles at him and protects everything about him, he will pour out all his love.
Therefore, Jiro’s different ages and different states accurately and skillfully support the overall structure of this story.
2. A setting similar to "Doraemon and Nobita "
Summarize the content of this movie in one sentence: My robot girlfriend is the hero sent by me in the future to protect me.
Is this very similar to an animation work that we are very familiar with?
Yes, it is "Doraemon".
In addition to not having the all-purpose treasure bag, we can see the shadow of "Doraemon" in various plots and plot designs in the film.
Take the most basic setting as an example. The robot girlfriend comes from the future and is created by Jiro in the future. She is entrusted by him to help Jiro live peacefully in the present.
There are many other similarities, such as: the robot girlfriend can always save Jiro in critical moments; teach Jiro a lesson when others laugh at them; and send Jiro to the classroom at super high speed when he is about to be late.
There are two other places that are similar in details.
The first one is that Jiro, like Nobita when he was a child, always dreamed of growing up and doing chivalry and righteousness.
Therefore, the robot girlfriend has saved people in the real world many times, which is basically the same as Doraemon’s kind heart in punishing evil and promoting good.
The second one is Doraemon taking Nobita back to his childhood. This movie has exactly the same plot of the robot girlfriend taking Jiro back to his childhood.
However, given the influence of Doraemon in Japan, such a tribute is justified.
It is also obvious that it is different from Doraemon. Doraemon prefers the creation of family life, and this movie focuses on the warm core of pure love.
It can also be said that this is a love movie wrapped in a Doraemon shell.
3. Film works with multiple positioning
The positioning of this movie is gradually increasing as the story goes.
A science fiction movie based on time travel and robots, it later developed into a love movie between robots and humans. Later, due to the grand scenes of the Tokyo Earthquake, it became a disaster movie.
has already talked about science fiction and romance, so here we will focus on the disaster part.
Its disaster is in a realistic style, choosing the most common earthquake in Japan.
But this earthquake was amplified much more than usual.
First, Jiro's residence instantly collapsed after a slow earthquake, and then high-rise buildings collapsed, boulders smashed down, the ground cracked, and destructive elements exploded.
A huge offensive of destruction suddenly hits all the previous scenes of pure love, and the atmosphere of the film suddenly breaks out in a devastating manner.
It is worth mentioning here the perseverance and acting skills of Haruka Ayase, who plays the role of the robot girlfriend.
It is reported that there is a scene where the robot girlfriend played by Haruka Ayase is crushed under a collapsed building.
The weather environment for this scene was very bad. It was raining at the time, but the actors were required not to blink. The temperature was very low, the clothes were very thin, and Ayase Haruka kept shaking.
But when the filming officially started, Ayase Haruka no longer trembled or blinked, and passed the test in one go.
Back to the movie, it is a rare science fiction disaster movie among Japanese movies. Therefore, the shooting scale of this movie also greatly exceeds that of ordinary Japanese movies. The filming period of the
film lasted for three months, and included large-scale action scenes and a large amount of CG post-production.
It is reported that during the filming process, the film crew even blocked roads and built a huge open-air background in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, to show the ruins after the earthquake.
In addition to the three impressive movie features mentioned above, what the movie ultimately conveys is even more moving.
Just two words: pure love.
"Peninsula Metropolis Daily" once commented on this movie:
"Based on the theme of pure love, the movie incorporates a science fiction plot that travels through time and space, making the love between college students and robots ultimately create a miracle and make people cry."
is Yes, pure love is always desirable.
knows that the screenwriter deliberately created the tenderness and tear-jerking, but he still bursts into tears over such a desperate love that travels through time and space.
Whether it is the love between humans and robots, or the love caused by memory implantation, pure love is a crazy life without regrets, it is love at first sight that expresses the meaning in words and is sincere in words.
Just as the robot girlfriend said "I can feel your heart", pure love is a simple heart-to-heart connection, regardless of the human heart and the machine heart.
There are also rituals on Jiro's birthday: singing happy birthday, slapping his face hard against the cake, shaking champagne and spraying his face, etc.
This is an agreement between the two people, and it is also a testament to the enduring nature of this pure love.
In the course of our lives, we will continue to lose and regain, and cherishing the current family, love, and friendship is always the most reasonable choice.
Intern Editor｜@东哥
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