Tokyo Literary Godfather

After leaving the pizza shop, Daniel walked down the street a little depressed.

Although he ate a good pizza, the taste of fish-bone raw chips lingered in his mouth and throat, making him feel irritated.

When I thought about what the girl at the pizza shop said, I felt even worse.

And he did care a little about what the girl said. He seemed to have underestimated the local filmmaker named Fujiwara Kei. The strength shown by his past experience and his influence in the local area seemed to far exceed his judgment.

Knowing yourself and your enemy is always victorious. With this thought in mind, Daniel stopped outside a theater, looked at the large poster posted outside the theater and walked in.

After entering, I took a look at the movie screening schedule, bought a ticket for the nearest movie "Infernal Affairs", and sat in the rest area waiting for the movie to start.

While waiting, Daniel paid attention to the movie tickets in the hands of other spectators in the rest area, and found that most of them came to watch "Infernal Affairs". I took another look at the all-day screening schedule and found that this theater had allocated all 80 of its screenings to "Infernal Affairs", which made me even more horrified.

Although Japan's film industry is not as developed as that of the United States, with hundreds of flowers blooming, so it is easier for the phenomenon of "one pole" to occur, this kind of film arrangement ratio is still a bit too scary.

What's more, Japan is not a country with an underdeveloped cultural industry. It is just not as good as the United States. Compared with other countries, although it is in decline, Japan is still the economic and cultural center of Asia. There were many local competitors at the same time, but they were unable to fight back against this "Infernal Affairs".

The 80% film schedule is indeed a bit exaggerated, even if the films of the same period were weak, they would not reach this level.

Daniel was also mainly confused. The reason why this theater ranked "Infernal Affairs" so high was because this theater had just been purchased by Shuibo Productions and belonged to its own theater chain.

It was time to check in, and Daniel walked into the screening room. Since it was daytime on a weekday, there were not many people, but there were nearly thirty people in one screening room.

The movie starts.

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[The sins of the eight major hells are called endless hell, which means suffering great suffering without interruption, hence the name. 】

There was a sentence explaining the title of the film at the beginning. After reading it, Daniel knew that it originated from a Buddhist concept, so he also had his own guess about the content of the film.

It is probably a film that relies on religious culture to make things mysterious.

There are many such films in the United States, but Hollywood films are about their most important religion.

For example, the seven deadly sins, holy marriage, various legends in the scriptures, the preferences of popes and priests for little boys, etc. are all good subjects for filming, but I have watched too many movies on this subject, or More or less, it will feel that it is the same and there is no new idea. This movie changed from Christianity to Buddhism, but I guess it’s not much different.

Daniel preconceptions about the earth's core.

He opened a large jar of marshmallows, which he had just bought at the theater door, just to keep him going for the entire movie.

It's not that he expected that he wouldn't like the movie and found it boring, but it was a Japanese movie after all and he couldn't understand it and could only read the English subtitles below.

This is very hard for an American. After all, they have not had the habit of reading subtitles since they were young. When they watch a movie, the screen is a clean block, unless there are some difficult local dialects or foreign languages. There are subtitles.

Therefore, most English-speaking audiences do not have the ability of later generations of Chinese audiences to watch the screen and read subtitles at the same time.

It was precisely for this reason that Daniel did not plan to watch this movie at first.

Sure enough, just as he had guessed, the scene at the beginning of the movie took place in the Buddhist world.

A short, fat man who looked like a Russian matryoshka doll was standing in front of a group of young people lecturing.

"Five years ago, Kabukicho, the parking stall outside Ryugu Nightclub, opened with great success. My brothers and I were very ambitious. Who knew that less than half a month after opening, we were raided an average of 1.3 times a day, and six people died within a year? brother."

"Buddha bless you!"

"The fortune teller said that I am a general who will die with all his strength, but I don't agree. I think it is up to you to decide whether you live or die when you go out to fight. You follow me for the shortest time and have the cleanest foundation. How to take the road is up to you. Decide."

"Cheers, sirs."

…

The movie got down to business less than ten minutes into the movie, and soon Daniel understood the theme of the movie.

Is it a story about gangsters and police lurking around each other?

What a great idea! I just don’t know if it can be photographed well?

You know, the creative world always talks about the words "creativity" and "idea", but Daniel actually knows that creativity is not valuable at all. The most valuable thing is realizing the idea.

In many films, you will think that their creativity is very good, but when the complete story is made, it is just a piece of shit.

Daniel kept putting his hand into the sugar bucket at first, but as time went by, his speed became slower and slower.

Half an hour later, Daniel simply put the candy aside because it was too much for him to watch the movie!

Although I am not used to watching movies with subtitles, the story of this movie is really attractive! He doesn't want to miss any details!

The plot was very exciting. When the Black Boss team was conducting drug transactions, and when the undercover agents of the two parties used their own methods to deliver news to their own camps, Daniel held his breath.

And when the two discovered each other's existence, Daniel felt his heartbeat speed up.

Obviously, the movie has two protagonists, both male. The two have equal roles, and each has his or her own highlight scenes. The acting skills of these two actors are very impressive, but if you think about it with your heels, it is impossible to choose actors with substandard performances for such a high-profile production.

The rhythm of the movie is even more excellent, and it almost plays with the audience's emotions to the extreme. There is no peeing spot in the whole movie, no boring place, and no useless plot.

Even in the seemingly ordinary plot where the two male protagonists first met in a stereo store, Daniel could smell some fate in it.

The pacing of the narrative is simply perfect, with a key plot point barely reaching fifteen minutes.

The black and white sides play a tug-of-war; the positive side almost discovers the undercover identity of the negative side; a friend dies trying to cover up his undercover identity; he is killed on the summit; the black boss is killed; and finally the rooftop confrontation...

Until the male protagonist, who played the role of a police undercover, was beaten to death in the elevator. Daniel shook suddenly. He looked up at his watch and found that one hundred minutes had passed and the movie was over.

It seems that the ending ends with the victory of the undercover villain.

The lights in the screening room came on, and other audience members stood up and discussed the plot. Daniel couldn't understand Japanese very well, but judging from the expressions of these people, it seemed that they were very satisfied with the movie.

Daniel naturally knew that this was an absolute masterpiece, and he felt extremely comfortable now. This was a heartfelt physiological reaction after watching a good movie.

But immediately, he thought of another thing, and his mood suddenly became gloomy again.

For such a film, the creators and actors are extremely well-known in Japan. How can we compete with them?

This time at the Japanese box office... it is better to lower expectations appropriately.

Daniel was a little disappointed for a moment, but soon he thought of another thing and got excited again.

He hurriedly walked out of the screening room and made a call to Akutagawa Pictures, a senior executive of the Japanese distributor of "Two Guns".

"Mr. Akutagawa, I would like to meet the director named Kei Fujiwara. Can you introduce him to me?"