What is the best Japanese romance in your mind? Why?

The most beautiful Japanese romance in my mind is your name.

Your Name is not the work of Makoto Shinkai, who was once so beautiful that every frame was almost perfect. The interweaving of fantasy and reality makes people feel for the first time that the animated film directed by him can be so rich in plot, so that the pure love to cleanse the soul and the painting style like a duck to water are combined to brew this impeccable masterpiece.

In fact, the plot has always been the only shortcoming of Makoto Shinkai's films, which also makes a seemingly accessible but insurmountable gap between him and Miyazaki Hayao. Your name is like Makoto Shinkai's epiphany, completing the last step between himself and the master. Looking back at the work itself, there are not many movie roles, and it always revolves around the romance between teenagers and girls. This story is not new. The idea of exchanging bodies has long been an alternative to Hollywood comedies.

Under the guidance of dreams, the country girl Sanye exchanged physical development with the Tokyo boy. In a short time, the humor induced by this is fascinating, but it is subtle to grasp an appropriate degree. The beginning of the comedy is just a key to the suspense and emotional precipitation of the movie. At the same time, through the exchange of their identities, the film uses two completely different living conditions, rural and urban. Japan's traditional beauty of humanity and nature comes upon us, which also makes people feel tired and cunning in the seemingly colorful urban life. In fact, the city life that San Ye yearns for is far from perfect as he imagined.

If the film stops here, it won't be so amazing in terms of perception. The catastrophe caused by the fantasy comet has become the tension of the later story, and the film is no longer as simple as a simple comedy of identity exchange. By combining with Japanese Shintoism belief and applying the concept of time and space double crossing, Makoto Shinkai makes the national traditional culture carried by the film convincing, and at the same time makes this simple love story ups and downs.

Looking at the whole movie Your Name, through the plot tension from simple to complex and from complex to simple, it is not a profound philosophical metaphor, but a simple love that is ignored or even forgotten by many people. This kind of love without any impurities has been seen in many works before Makoto Shinkai, but it has never been comparable to this new work, which stems from the beauty of the picture.

The film left the suspense until the last moment, how afraid that two people who had experienced life and death on that ladder would eventually become strangers, when the former teenager got up the courage to say the old-fashioned strike up a conversation line "Where have I seen you?" Her tearful words: "Me too" not only sublimated "your name" at the end, but also made people truly feel that pure love. Poetry and books in literature/dreams