"Hot Love": Miyazawa Rie and Odagiri gave way to a Japanese bathhouse!

The Japanese film "Hot Love" is the commercial "debut" of director Yuta Nakano, but it became a blockbuster. It won many nominations at major Japanese film festivals and helped star Rie Miyazawa win her third award. Japanese Oscar "Best Actress".

Keywords such as "bathhouse", "terminal illness" and "maternal love" seem to make it difficult to associate it with the temperament of "Top Ten Daily News", but the reversal at the end is quite surprising. Reviewers gushed. The film will also be screened at the 2017 Beijing International Film Festival.

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The story is adapted from the novel of the same name by the director of the film, Nakano Yuta. Although it sounds like a cliched plot that makes people cry, the film takes a humorous route and buries an unexpected twist at the end, which makes people think, "Can terminal illness stories be played like this?" The surprise at the end This low-budget film has brought a lot of popularity online, and even the discerning Xun Bao has included the film as one of the top ten Japanese movies in 2016. Filmed in the oldest bathhouse in the area

The filming of the film was actually done in two bathhouses. The exterior was photographed from the "Flower Bath" in Ashikaga City, and the bathroom and changing room are from the "Moon Bath", the oldest wooden bathhouse in Bunkyo Ward. Although the shooting can be completed in one place, Nakano Yuta said that he has been obsessed with the "cash register counter" in the bathhouse and the "Mount Fuji mural" inside (note: common in Japanese bathhouses), so the staff found "Moon Bath".

↑Flower Bath

↑Moon Bath

The filming took three weeks, and the "Moon Bath" was demolished shortly after the end, so the film What is recorded is its final image. Nakano Yuta said: "Nowadays, the number of bathhouses in Japan is decreasing, because most people have bathrooms in their own homes, so it is difficult to maintain them. Instead, they are developing in two extreme directions: completely following tradition and completely renovating. But no matter which one, there is a ** *In general, they are places where you go when you want to get rid of fatigue. "The theme of the bathhouse is "returning to the original point"

Most of the independent films shot by Nakano Yuta have themes about family or people. Relational. Why did the first mainstream movie choose the theme of "bathhouse"? He said: "Because the bathhouse is a place where strangers soak in the same bath together, forget their worries, and are healed... It fits my theme exactly." When I was a child, I often go to bathhouses with my brother and friends, and I have a very good impression. “I would be shocked if I were approached by a stranger in a cafe, but if I start chatting in a bathhouse, there is nothing wrong with me. In this day and age, people can chat casually.” It’s a rare place. Although everyone seems to be avoiding this kind of "talking", the only place that provides this is the bathhouse. I hope the bathhouse is a place where you can go casually. The water can always be boiling."

In fact, Nakano Yuta's graduation film from Nippon Film University 16 years ago, which was also the first film in his life, was set in a bathhouse, "the first mainstream film. It’s nice to have the work return to its origins,” he said. " Taking a bath with strangers is a very normal thing for Japanese people, but foreigners think it is a unique culture. I also want to use a very Japanese place like a bathhouse to convey 'Japan' to overseas The concept. "Miyazawa Rie doesn't want to play a saint

After the protagonist Miyazawa Rie won the Japan Academy Award for Best Actress for the third time, she won the same number of awards as Matsusaka Keiko. Tied, second only to Yoshinaga Sayuri's 4 times.

↑Miyazawa Rie at the awards ceremony

The film was shot in June 2015, the previous year Miyazawa Rie’s mother passed away (at the age of 65). Although she still had a job and a child (7 years old), Rie Miyazawa was completely unable to sort out her emotions: "My mother did not spend her last days in the hospital, but spent them at home. How people live and die, she wanted to show them in person Daughter. There are too many people dying in the hospital, and the reality of death has become thin. But at home, everyone in the family will pay attention to their mother's condition as an important event in their own lives. "Miyazawa Rie said.

Director Nakano Yuta said that when she first met Miyazawa Rie, she said, "I don't want to play a perfect mother like a saint, but an ordinary mother." "The key to this story is 'mother' I want someone with children to play the role. I also hope that the actor understands what death is like. Rie Miyazawa has been a big star since our generation and has experienced ups and downs, so she is the best choice for the protagonist. " Director Nakano Yuta's self-report: I only "debuted" at the age of 44

After graduating from Kyoto University, I came to Tokyo in the spring of 1997 and entered the "Nihon University of Film and Television". Somehow, there is something in my heart that I want to express. Is it through novels or movies? Thinking about it now, I have had the intention to write novels since then, but at that time I still chose movies first.

When I first entered school, I was a pseudo-movie youth. I didn’t even know that the founder of the school was director Shohei Imamura. But while he was in school, he became obsessed with filmmaking. Three years later, he became the only winner of the "Imamura Shohei Award" in his grade.

I didn’t know that Imamura Shohei would eventually win the Imamura Shohei Prize when I entered school, so I’m probably the only one.

After winning the award, I was very high-spirited and thought that I would be able to enter the mainstream film industry in five years. But it didn’t work out at all. Not only did he not become a film director, he was thrown out of the film industry in about two years. But I still couldn't forget the fun of making movies... So, although I couldn't return to the industry right away, I still worked as a variety show director on children's educational programs and young people's chat shows, while making my own independent films, waiting for the opportunity to return to the mainstream.

↑"Take a Picture of Dad"

In 2012, with the feeling of "If it doesn't work this time, I will never make a movie again", I wrote my favorite script "The Last Stand". This is "Take a Picture of Dad". The film ended up winning 14 awards at home and abroad. And I, 16 years after graduating from film school, finally had the opportunity to go mainstream, and that was "Hot Love." And suggested to the producer to write a novel first.

In fact, the ending of "Hot Love" is almost the same as my graduation work - of course, the level has been improved by ten steps. People often ask me recently, is it better to watch the movie or read the novel first? I told them: "Buy a novel first, look at Rie Miyazawa's face on the cover, and decide which one to read first.

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