How to evaluate the TV "Tokyo Vampire Hotel"?

Although it is very heavy, I find that there are deep meanings behind the whole drama that are worth thinking about, and these can only be realized by people who understand various social problems in Japan.

First, the Japanese government crushes and deceives its citizens to keep the state machine running.

The outer layer of the hotel is reinforced concrete, but the inner layer is countless human bodies and blood. In today's Japanese society, the consumption tax is constantly increasing. Isn't it that enterprises die of overwork by sucking blood from ordinary people to maintain their "longevity"? The whole hotel is just a lady dressed naked in Japan's Heian period, symbolizing that the upper bureaucratic aristocrats in this country are still "feudal" in their bones and have always believed in Shinto "suck blood" from the bottom people. In addition, vampires deceive humans that the outside world has been destroyed by nuclear explosion, but it is actually safe and sound. The main news media in Japan are basically controlled by the government. On the surface, it seems that democratic information is open. In fact, the government instills in the society through major media how difficult it is to live abroad and how safe and beautiful its own country is.

Second, Okinawa people and foreign immigrants who are excluded from mainstream Japanese society.

One of the leading roles, Shinnosuke, who plays the hotel manager Yamada, was born in Okinawa. You can see from his face that he is not Yamato. Yamada's father sold his son to a hotel for profit, and Yamada was deeply ashamed of it until his death. This is not a symbol of Japan's occupation of Okinawa, but also for the United States to build a base in Okinawa. The dispute over Okinawa's sovereignty is a major problem in Japanese society now. Generally, Japanese people on the island don't think that Okinawa people are discriminated against like Yamato people, and Okinawa natives are ashamed of their own history. As for the other Kaho (whose real name is unknown), there may be my own over-interpretation. There are rumors on the Internet that Kaho's father is from China. If so, there is no doubt about her mixed-race identity. In recent years, the attitude of Japanese society towards foreigners has improved slightly. But for mixed-race, there are still many exclusions for long-term immigrants who stay in Japan permanently and their descendants (whether naturalized or not). And does it make sense for the director to deliberately use these "special" actors?

Third, Japanese society is indifferent, and there are fewer and fewer friends between the opposite sex. The Japanese government is eager to solve the problem of declining birthrate to maintain its own development.

The young men and women invited to the party in the hotel have no relatives or friends. In short, no one cares about them in society. But everyone is lonely and eager to make friends. So the new vampires use this to force human beings to reproduce in order to maintain their infinite life. In recent years, the Japanese government is really worried about the problem of declining birthrate, but behind this problem is the indifferent human culture that Japanese society is difficult to solve. If there are fewer young people, there will naturally be fewer taxpayers. How does the country "suck blood"? Therefore, the Japanese government has always attached great importance to the problem of declining birthrate.

Fourth, the Japanese government is closed to the outside world and unwilling to see the world.

New vampires preach that the outside world is disgusting, so it doesn't matter if they are eliminated. And tricked the invited humans into offering blood at ease. The human world outside is beautiful, but the vampire itself, as an excluded existence, naturally puts itself on the opposite side of the enemy of the general world. Unwilling to understand, constantly hate the outside world. The Japanese government wants its citizens to stay in Japan and pay heavy taxes to maintain their longevity.

Five, the law of the jungle indifferent society

In the first two episodes, the woman ran wildly in the streets of Tokyo, hoping to ask others for help, but in the end she found in despair that her living environment had already been occupied by vampires. Vampires look like humans on the surface, but they have a pair of fangs. When the time comes, they will suck human blood. I think this can be understood as the indifference of Japanese society, and the phenomenon of "cannibalism" occurs from time to time.

6. Japan wanted to break away from the rule of western countries, which in turn was overthrown by the "civil strife" created by western countries, and finally the chess pieces were discarded.

This is easy to understand. The whole play revolves around the dispute between Romanian old vampires and Japanese new vampires. What impressed me most was that the role played by Kaho was always used by Romanian old vampires until he defeated the leader of the new vampire and was abandoned by the leader of the old aristocracy. The actual Japanese society is that the United States has been ruling Japan economically and politically since the war, and the pro-American Japanese government was cultivated during the reign of GHQ. In recent years, the idea of independence from the United States has become more and more important at the top of Japan, and how can your American father make your son proud easily? Instill democratic ideas into all parts of society through invisible hands, and encourage Japanese bottom-level nationals to oppose the Japanese government.