Medley027-April Spring Japanese Drama Inventory

Today is April 24th, good weekend everyone.

After taking a few weeks off, I re-adjusted the writing process and publishing method of the "Newsletter Weekly".

3rd emergency declaration issued

Still come to pay attention to the latest infection situation in Japan. The major cities in Japan that have been "unblocked" in recent days have sounded the alarm again. Osaka has continued to set new records in a single day, and Tokyo has once again added more than 800 people a day since January. This year's "Golden Week" has a longest 11 consecutive holidays. In order to control the flow of people to the greatest extent, Japan has issued the third "Emergency Declaration" to Tokyo, Osaka, Hyogo, Kyoto and other cities. , department stores and other facilities were closed.

Love Tibetan Japan

I was very moved to see a piece of news on the daily push. When traveling to Japan, you can often see "traffic accident bulletin boards" at police stations and intersections. The number of casualties in the accident on the day is written on it. I feel that the data on the sign is updated every day. On April 8, 2021, there were 0 traffic accidents in Japan, which is said to be the first time in 53 years of statistics. Seriousness is a virtue, especially precious in this day and age.

Japanese drama world

The spring Japanese dramas will start airing one after another in April. The following are my first impressions:

Japanese screenwriters are blooming, each with its own starting point. For example, the winter episode "Story of My Family" has a strong sense of drama, while the new spring drama "Soyaba Towako and Three Ex-Husbands" is closer to prose.
In the first episode, I liked Yuji Sakamoto to set the tone for three marriages through Iwamatsu: the first marriage was sudden (unexpected), the second was comedy (noisy), and the third was fantasy ( baffling). This one-liner is obviously a prophecy, and the following descriptions and supplements of the three ex-husbands will also follow this line.
Episode 2 takes a sukiyaki pot party as the main axis, interspersed with the encounter between Shen Sen and Shiwako and fragments of their married life, and the passage of discarding the sofa is also tailor-made for Shen Sen's past. Of course, the sukiyaki party where no one buys meat itself is full of meaning: life is often like this, you spend your time on the details, and you miss the most important people, things, and moments without knowing it.
Shen Sen aka "Ex-husband Season 3" is the main target of the second episode. Watching the trailer for the next episode's "comedy" is indeed a flashback. He is a typical nihilist, doubting the necessity of all things, and he is justifiably "lost". He said that he couldn't let it go and avoided saying the word "ex-husband", so when he finally arrived at the police station and faced an outsider who claimed to be his ex-husband, his heart knot and demonic obstacles were eliminated. Japanese are very trustworthy.

Also, what is the meaning behind the "power outage night" that Shinsen didn't finish? Sakamoto Yuji also used this trick in "Quartet".
By the way, Yuji Sakamoto's reading aloud drama officially started, and Issey Takahashi and Wakana Sakai challenged to use only their voices to perform. After a short break, Sakamoto is full of TV dramas, movies, reading dramas, and dramas!

WOWOW's 30th anniversary Taiwanese drama "Gorgeous Family" was launched, and the main casts seem to be inferior to the 2007 version: Nakai Takashi's pair of Kami Kitaoji Shinya, Mukai Ri-Kimura Takuya, Uchida Yuki-Suzuki Kyoka, Fujiya Taisuke-Yamamoto Koishi, I saw a special starring Koji Ishisaka was a little surprised. Due to the change of the protagonist, the 2007 Kimura version is narrated from the standpoint of a son, and the 21 Nakai version returns to the father's perspective, and the overall tone is closer to the original work of Yamazaki Toyko. Fourteen years in a flash.

Another experimental work of WOWOW station "Matsuo Suzuki and the 30-minute actress" episode 1 "Yoshida Goat Rebellion" consists of several skits. The two who cooperated also tasted fresh internal organs together... It can be seen that Matsuo has been thinking about the arrangement and presentation of the episodes, and he is overwhelmed by animation, pseudo-dialogue, and boyfriend's perspective. Perhaps the most advanced work of spring.

Sugata Masaki and Arimura Kasumi's "Comedy Opening" is the most sincere. Episode 1 continues the line of "I'm Always Talking", with a high volume of lines, paving the way with dual-point narration, revealing the mystery at the end and boosting emotions, which can be called a textbook-level arrangement example. Maybe it's because of the situation of "Macbeth 3", the only one who can challenge Yuji Sakamoto's "Soybean Field 3 Ex-husband" this season is Kaneko Shigeru.

NHK's new drama "Beautiful Country" starring Yoshida Yang is meaningful and bitter. Originally thought it would be a group drama of urban and multi-group couples such as "Mothers in Love", but I didn't expect the first episode to set a narrative trap, interspersed with flashbacks disguised as multiple lines, adding suspense and fun. The theme of the episode is "Youth and Beauty", and I look forward to giving more profound reflection and thinking. EP2 is very interesting to watch. This work uses a unique method to graft the common "multi-line parallel group drama" onto the protagonist Huili, switching back and forth between the three age groups of 23, 33, and 43 years old. Lianfo Misako's performance of Yoshida sheep is almost real, with a similar face shape and Yoshida sheep dubbing, giving the audience a wonderful trompe l'oeil experience. In terms of plot, who is curious who broke the glass of the hair salon? And getting old and beautiful may enter a sexless marriage...

Yoshida Yang's other spring drama "Life, Death, Father" and Kunimura Hayabusa played father and daughter, adapted from the autobiographical work of columnist Jenny Su, and liked their rivalry, but the original work seems to have room for exploration and expansion. Not much. EP2 tells the story of the father and daughter going to the nursing home to visit their aunt who has limited mobility. The beautiful and warm family time is also the end that everyone can't get around.

The first week of Ronya Nakamura's late-night drama "How about a cup of coffee" consists of 2 short stories, featuring Xia Fan and Kuchigu Shibori respectively. The rhythm is slow and charming, aiming to become a fixed healing time every week. Originally thought that "How about a cup of coffee" would be like "The Twelve Hairpins of Jinling" by Lun Nakamura to solve problems for all kinds of women, but in fact this work is more mature and ambitious. Asami Usuda played the villain in "Shiny Coffee" in the first half of episode 2, and then gained more space in "Broken Coffee", and the characters immediately became real; in episode 3, please visit Shigeyuki Toji and Kenichi Takito Cameo, touches on the growth of life and the choice of life.

Tamaki Hiroshi's "Cherry Blossom Tower" combines criminal police drama and "white giant tower", and climbs up while solving the case. The three major factions of the police station, such as the Sengoku daimyo "supporting soldiers and self-respect", the criminal department Shiina Kupei the most foreign faction, the garrison department Kotaro Yoshida follow the local route, and the garrison department Koishi Yan have a high degree of education. The configuration of Ryoko Hirosue, Kenshi Okada, Yisa Nakari, and Saki Takaoka are quite satisfactory, and the little boys in the big river drama "Rush to the Blue Sky" have good acting skills.

On the 9th of the month, "The Raven of 1 Punishment" Takeno Uchitoyo's partner Kuroki Hua, a court legal drama that follows the golden formula. My so-called Japanese drama formula can be summed up as HTC: Human (complex human nature, the same is true for Home), Team (group total battle), Character (behaves abnormally different from ordinary people). Thinking of another "Your Honor" in which "Old White" was a judge not long ago, two worlds.

Sakurai Sho and Hirose Suzu's detective drama "The Nemesis" continues the line of "Bump partner". The unique visual language comes from the hands of director Yu Irie. He still remembers the late-night drama "We Are All Superpowers" that he created many years ago. . At the same time, in order to make the script more solid, the partner Kodansha invited many suspense writers such as Masahiro Imamura (representative of the "Zombie Villa Murder") to join in to add a "sense of natural reasoning". It's a pity that the second episode is a bit smashed, and there are obvious gaps in the plot settings and reasoning sections. The same is true of composition. The frame is well set up and the words are written beautifully. After all, it depends on what is written.

The romantic light comedy "Living" tells the story of how flash-married couples fall in love with each other. Similar plots are emerging one after another. You may have seen Keiko Beichuan as a fashion magazine editor, but you must have never seen Ying Tai with such a well-trained figure slap her mouth crazily, and slide down the flyover stairs in the way of "playing stars", super handsome! The international lawyer Yashiro Yinghui flashed by, and I don't know if he will make a cameo appearance. I like his performance in the variety show political commentary.

"Love Cartoonist" is partnered by Ryohei Suzuki and Liho Yoshioka. The love light comedy mainly depends on the eye (actor), and because of the doubled favorability of Liho Yoshioka in "The Statutory Police", the ratings are a bit miserable, but they will chase.

In addition, NHK has released 2 new dramas that are currently being filmed: - Adaptation of Ogawa Line's "Bookstore Award" runner-up novel "Lion's Snacks", joined by Suzuki Kyoka; - Travel drama "Traveler Hill Eri" starring Ando Sakura, the original work is from Harada Ma what.

absolute sense of language

I heard a statement in the variety show "WILDnaSHOW", and took it for granted: The funny comedians who eat by teasing and sarcasm are in a sense similar to the circus jumping through fire rings and carrying flying knives. It is dangerous in the real society, full of discrimination and ridicule, and it is obviously inappropriate to demand too much "political correctness".

digital garden

After watching the Apple conference and waiting for the broadcast, the colorful gradient brushes continued to draw the LOGO, and the background music seemed to be meditating. Cook strolled through Apple Park, and from carbon neutrality to the M1 chip, the two most popular new products have obvious shortcomings: the positioning device AirTag needs to replace the button battery; iMac has to retain the "chin" design in pursuit of thinness, which is a failure. I'd rather have a 16" iPad Pro anyway...

"Assemble! "Animal Crossing Friends Association" and Uniqlo's UT series will be launched at the end of April. This joint venture is full of sincerity: Uniqlo not only has beautifully designed Tee, but also a series of small objects; a batch of design drawings will be launched in the "Ji Sen" game, and there is also a "Uniqlo Official Island" for players to play. However, because I am spoiled by the "zero load time" of PS5, I have no motivation to continue playing "Assembly!" Animal Crossing Friends will have to wait for a long time to open the door...

The above is the entire content of this issue of "Newsletter Weekly", we will see you at the same time next week.