Japanese Movies《National Treasure》Introduction to the Original Novel

There is a film and television drama worth mentioning recently called "National Treasure". The drama has successfully attracted the attention of many viewers with its gripping plot and superb acting skills of the actors.It has also triggered a lot of discussion and attention on major social media. Next, the editor will mainly talk about the Japanese movie - National Treasure - the original novel.

Japanese Movie《National Treasure》Original novel: 《National Treasure) (Author: Shuichi Yoshida).

"National Treasure" tells the life of a generation of kabuki master Kikuo in the form of a storyteller. It vividly presents the front and backstage of a kabuki performance like an ukiyo-e, with actors in front and behind.Kikuo was originally a young master of the Japanese gangster Tachibana family, but his father was killed by his brothers. He could only seek refuge with Hanai Hanjiro, a kabuki art master in the west of Japan. Hanai Hanjiro had a son named Shunsuke. Kikuo grew up with him and learned kabuki female form together., the two have different styles, Kikuo's charm and Shunsuke's aristocratic style, each has achieved fame.The two made their debut together as Daochengji, but then their lives reached a dividing line.

The master passed the title of Hanjiro to Kikuo, and Shunsuke ran away from home, taking with him Harue, Kikuo's childhood sweetheart.From a young boy to an adult, the years are full of cruelty. His master became ill for a long time and eventually passed away. When he was dying, he entrusted Kikuo to the Tsuraka family, which was in the same industry. However, he was repeatedly suppressed. Kikuo faced the trough of his acting career and struggled to grow up.Shunsuke went from being a young man from an aristocratic family to being a private citizen. He suffered a lot of bitterness, drug abuse, alcoholism, and the loss of his son... He almost fell into trouble. Chunjiang accompanied him all the way, experiencing life hard and honing his skills.

Many years later, Shunsuke returned to the public eye. The reunion after a long separation did not bring too much joy to the two of them. The maturity of middle age had already shaped their new life trajectories.Shunsuke inherited the highest title of Tambaya Hanai Hakutora, and his acting skills became more and more perfect, but his health deteriorated. His left leg was amputated, and his right leg was amputated. Even after losing his legs, he still chose to stand on the Kabuki stage. Like his father, he sacrificed his lifeKabuki.

Kikuo and Shunsuke opened up the artistic world of kabuki in their competition with each other. Although there were constant twists and turns during this period, his reputation also grew stronger. Along with his natural skills and reputation for high standards, he lost his father, his master, and his reputation.Losing his best friend, losing his lover, losing the understanding of his relatives... He stood on the top of the stage with thousands of people, but he was also in a place where there was no one. He became Japan's national treasure, but lost himself.At the end of the novel, Kikuo has completely transformed into a character in the drama. Dressed in a kabuki costume, he walks barefoot off the stage, passes through the astonished audience, and walks out of the theater, his figure frozen in the snowy sky and rolling traffic...

The description of the blend of human and drama in the novel is commendable.The author closely links the Kabuki stage repertoire with the development of the characters' stories, promoting wave after wave of plots.From Kikuo and Shunsuke's“debut” performance》Dojoji《, to Shunsuke's》demon cat《, to the two“”competition“ performance》Shirataki girl--...the plot of Kabuki and the fate of the charactersUps and downs intertwined with ups and downs, the play is a play within a play, and people are people within the play.

If you are not crazy, you will not survive.On the Peking Opera stage in China, if you want to be prominent in front of others, you have to be hindered by others. The same is true for kabuki. To develop a unique female figure is inseparable from a rebirth. There are always countless reasons behind the beautiful and moving art.Blood and tears, this blood and tears is not just a minute on stage, but ten years of hard training off stage, it is also a full taste of the bitterness of the world.Just like the protagonist Kikuo in the novel, he went from a young master of the Tachibana group to a national treasure of Kabuki. He went through ups and downs, ups and downs, and finally won the title of ”National Treasure“. However, standing on top of thousands of people, he became increasingly lonely.

All the gifts given by fate have their prices secretly marked.”Abba begged him, ‘Let me perform kabuki well’.Abba said, ‘I want to be the best kabuki actor in Japan’.He also said, 'As long as it can be realized, you don't need anything else.' Kikuo's deal with the gods was finally reached, and he became Japan's national treasure at the cost of losing everything, including himself.This is a character who loves and is passionate about the Kabuki stage, a Faustian character...

Who made Kikuo successful?The god of fate?Is everything lost?Is it himself?Or every audience here?The novel leaves room for readers to think and imagine.Kikuo is a “flower” - "In the final analysis, the world is cruel.The more beautiful the flower blooms, the more I want to see the final outcome.And I also feel that it is the duty of an actor to show off to others.Could it be that the pity for this decaying artist is also a sense of superiority in the world?"The world appreciates the characters on the stage, the world pities the suffering of others, and the world also likes to find self-satisfaction in the suffering of others. This is the tangle of human nature.Kikuo is a “Koi”——“Although it was them who raised Kikuo into such a koi, and this result is in line with Kikuo’s own wishes, the more beautiful this koi is, the more lonely and aggrieved it is.The more it looks, the more unbearable it is to see.”Kikuo is a “national treasure”. What makes him successful is the world and himself. Between gains and losses, it is this true and pure choice that makes people sigh and admire.

Are you willing to exchange all your life for the love of your life?Kikuo gave an affirmative answer. If the world seen by a madman is perfect, then Kikuo finally stood in the world he had always longed for.

Of course, the novel also has its unsatisfactory aspects. First, the explanation of some details is not clear, such as why Harue ran away with Shunsuke in the first place. The explanation in the novel is too thin; second, because it was originally published as a serial,It can be clearly felt that the author was influenced by readers' feedback to a certain extent in the processing of some plots.This is one of the characteristics of creation in our era. The reader's reading experience will quickly feedback to the author, and even affect the author's creative direction. This characteristic is naturally neither right nor wrong, but the characteristics of the times where readers are deeply involved in creation require our attention.This is especially true for online literature.

Japanese Movies《National Treasure》Excerpts from the Original Novel

On New Year's Day in 1964, the old private restaurant "Hanamaru“" in Nagasaki.There was a bloody gang fight, and everyone was horrified by howls and howls, but who would have thought that a national treasure-level kabuki actor would emerge from here.His name is Tachibana Kikuo.Born into a mafia family, he has a stunningly beautiful face.Time and destiny envelop everyone, leading Kikuo's life in an unexpected direction.Together with Japan, which is embarking on the road of development, the men who join the theater have struggled against the tide of time and destiny, improving their acting skills.The love and hatred between close relatives and teachers, scandal and glory are intertwined, trust and betrayal are intertwined.Drama, film, television, and the entertainment industry have all witnessed the changes of the times, wandering between ecstasy and despair.After reaching the pinnacle of life, what kind of scenery do you see?

”As long as you sing this sentence, the rest of your body will remember it.When she cries, why she laughs, how she gets angry, how she looks happy, everything is recorded in this body.All that is needed is dazzling lights and thunderous applause.With these, wherever the actor stands there is a stage.As long as one of the spectators wants to watch the show, even if it's just one person, nothing else is needed.

“Our actors are really clumsy by nature and can’t even put on a smile to please people.All he can see in his eyes is the path he is walking. Over the years, he has received many admonitions from onlookers, and he is afraid that he is not worthy of being a famous actor in the world.But even so, looking from the big roof of the Kabukiza, this clumsy actor is still the same person as the innocent boy who rushed out of the school morning meeting in order to avenge his father.

“So, judge, please take the initiative to talk to him.So, sir, please shine the light on him.So readers, please give him a round of applause.%

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