Light and shadow

Some people say that Shunji Iwai has been filming Unrequited Love all his life, bringing pure love to the extreme.

Just like his films, Shunji Iwai speaks strictly and slowly, and enunciates slowly.

Shunji Iwai's attitude towards his movies is just like the state when he communicates with people around him-he is talking to another self, not talking about anything.

He was easily immersed in his own story until the other party interrupted him, but soon, he entered the next "self".

In Shunji Iwai's film world, light and shadow have become an indispensable role, and every scene and picture is telling a unique youth story.

L love letter

1995, Shunji Iwai directed his first theatrical film Love Letter.

On May 20th, 20021year, the love letter was put on the screen again.

This century-long secret love has re-entered the public eye.

On the day of the premiere, Shunji Iwai released a performance video of a winter story on Weibo.

Hearing the familiar melody, I suddenly seem to pull people back to the movie-forests, graves, letters, snow-covered flat-roofed houses. ...

Love Letter is like Proust's Memories of the Past.

The past feelings and youth gradually became clear and vivid in Fujii's memory.

Just like the old letters sorted out many years later, it makes people sink.

On the way home, I waited to put a paper bag on her passing by, get along with her by asking academic questions, stand up for her and deliberately play tricks on her. ...

Those scenes that often appear in classic youth movies later are all traceable here.

The plot of the love letter is slow and lively, and everything ends in the right place.

The ignorance of adolescence is long and hard to say.

Later, later,

We gradually understand why people who scored 27 points in English are so obsessed with the past tense of "break".

Youth literature will attract a lot of attention no matter how long it takes.

Many things will expire, but the memory of youth will shine on this one-way street with the precipitation of time.

The little secrets buried in the pages, the tricks deliberately played at that time, all look simple and interesting in the future.

In books that nobody borrowed, familiar names were written repeatedly.

So quietly telling the throb of silence.

Fujii's love was finally hidden in the library card in the book.

What is buried in the portrait is the purest feeling of the teenager and the most full and warm affection.

You can still hear those unspoken confessions.

Even if you can't stay young, even if the situation is disconsolate. ...

"How are you?"

"I'm fine."

This cross-time question and answer reverberates in the valley, which is the release of one party and the memory of the other.

Proust said: "Life is just a series of isolated moments. With memories and fantasies, many meanings emerge, then disappear and then reappear. "

Love as thin as running water, like time itself,

It seems that every casual fraction has accumulated my inner fetters and heavy feelings. ...

Similar to Love Letter, Shunji Iwai has another work, The Story of April.

L the story of April

From 65438 to 0998, Shunji Iwai directed the romantic film The Story of April starring Matsu Takako.

The total length of this film is 67 minutes, of which nearly 40 minutes are about the college life of young girls.

Many scenes and dialogues are improvised on the spot, and the prose structure also makes the daily life in the film more real and touching.

Every April when cherry blossoms are in full bloom,

It's the day when Japanese universities start school.

Uzuki, a girl from Hokkaido, came to Musashino University in Tokyo alone and started a new life of living alone.

Strange streets, strange environment, let her some at a loss.

At the freshman self-introduction meeting, I was nervous and restless in the face of everyone's ridicule;

When moving furniture in a moving company, I don't know how to talk when I put my hand on it;

When I asked about the location of the bookstore, I didn't catch it clearly. I won't ask the same person again. ...

It was not until the end of the film that the secret of Yu Ye Uzuki was gradually revealed.

Such people choose to travel thousands of miles for love. ...

"Musashino is a very important keyword for me. I gave the whole summer to Musashino Hall in Musashino. "

Maybe sometimes, love is full of countless unknown solutions.

In Zweig's short story A Letter from an Unknown Woman,

The "strange woman" has been waiting for the "I" who has only met several times all her life, but when I received the letter, I found that many things were not accidental encounters.

The same is true in Uzuki,

I have seen him play the guitar, so when I see the band playing, my eyes will unconsciously fall on the guitarist.

I used to look at his back from a distance and quietly tear off the famous brand he no longer needed.

Bury everything in your heart,

Until he disappeared on the train to Tokyo ...

Do you know that?/You know what? Do you know that?/You know what?

I took 99 steps in this coincidence.

A downpour brought a long-lost acquaintance,

The rain in Hokkaido is like snowflakes and cherry blossoms are flying all over the sky.

She finally called out his name.

"My high school teacher said it was a miracle that I got poor grades in college. I think this is the miracle of love. "

Most of the refreshing feeling in movies comes from the energy field of youth.

So the story of April, like a prose poem, has the sound of breathing and vitality.

The thoughts of youth are always flowing, flying and staying behind.

No beginning, no end,

Many unrequited loves are the same.

"If companionship is the best confession, what are you waiting for?

There is joy, anxiety, helplessness and impatience in waiting. ...

Waiting contains all kinds of tastes in the world,

Waiting is not as heartbreaking as I thought, or the flowers are blooming.

More often, waiting is a physical activity. "

Spring is coming. Is the person you are waiting for back?

Maybe we can go to the snow bottle together in winter.