The Style of Shunji Iwai's Works

Shunji Iwai's Love Letter, shot on 1995, caused a sensation in Japan with its fresh and touching story and bright and beautiful image, and soon affected Southeast Asia and even Europe and America. Prior to this, several TV short films in Shunji Iwai, such as Fireworks and Binding of Love, were highly praised. After winning the Dream Traveler Award at Berlin Film Festival, Shunji Iwai filmed Swallowtail Butterfly, and his latest work, Everything in Zhou Lili, attracted the attention of the whole Japanese nation. His works are either aesthetic or pure extreme in theme and content, which has a unique influence on film and television pictures. Flower girl and Alice are good friends who grew up together. They study ballet in the dance classroom every day. Alice is generous and outgoing, and she is proactive in pursuing love. On the other hand, flowers are naturally shy. They are always in secret love, and they can't even summon up the courage to talk to the boys they like. All their emotional activities are hidden under the ground. When she accompanied her friend Alice to chase her college boy who fell in love at first sight every day, Hua also fell in love with Miyamoto, who often walked with that boy.

Soon, Hua and Alice were admitted to the long-awaited university, and Hua managed to join the crosstalk club where her beloved senior Miyamoto was located. One day, as usual, Miyamoto, who was addicted to cross talk, was walking and reading a library brochure, but he accidentally bumped into an iron gate and fainted to the ground. After waking up, his brain suddenly went blank and there was a temporary "amnesia". However, the flowers that deliberately wander within the scope of Miyamoto's activities every day coincide with this scene. They are in a hurry and are not allowed to think. They told a modest and harmful lie to Miyamoto who just woke up after falling, saying, "I am your girlfriend, the girl you once pursued." From then on, the story began to unfold subtly.

Miyamoto was dubious and had to start a fake relationship under the guidance of China. At the same time, the snowball of lies is getting bigger and bigger, and the situation is out of control Alice got involved in this fictional love affair and became Miyamoto's ex-girlfriend. People are worse than the sky. Hua Na once thought that the plot of this love story written by her didn't follow her arrangement. Alice, who has been playing the role of ex-girlfriend, is getting more and more involved, and she is gradually attracted by Miyamoto, who also has real feelings for Alice. This love triangle created by flowers is gradually getting out of her control and developing in an interesting direction.

[Edit this paragraph] Behind-the-scenes tidbits After making an Arita for the independent short film collection "Jam Movie", two years later, a new film "Flower" was released, which consists of three independent and related short films: the first one is Love of Flowers, and the second one is Orchid of Flowers. It tells the story of two middle school girls' love triangle, which is both cute and slightly scary through their swaying spring period.

In terms of theme setting, this film chooses to depict the love triangle between two girls and a teenager, which is nothing new in itself. In many love stories in ancient and modern times, this theme has been told repeatedly and is out of date. But for Shunji Iwai, an all-round director who is good at script creation, all his works have been written and planned by himself since his debut, and the description of the story has not remained superficial and single. In his famous work Love Letter, the touching love story centered on A Letter from Heaven is still fresh in the memory of many Iwai fans. This time, with super imagination and inspiration, Shunji Iwai once again set the key words of the story on the small link of "amnesia", which made the plot unfold unexpectedly as "completely unpredictable".

This is a film about growing up. The unconscious days of young girls are carefully expressed in a funny style and in a slightly mysterious way. At the same time, the nonsense plot that begins with "amnesia" is like a locomotive that has lost its brakes and runs to the end that the protagonists can't manipulate and never expect. Most importantly, these two girls are quietly completing the transition to adulthood and maturity.

As a love drama, the uniqueness of this film lies in the fact that the fictional love story fabricated by the girl flower itself was branded as a rest from the beginning-the lie will be exposed at any time, love will go as easily as it came, and the frivolous spirit will come to an abrupt end at any time. The love experience of adolescence often does not last forever, and the boys and girls involved in the vortex of the story experience profound beauty in the chaos.

Shunji Iwai's film style has always tended to be meticulous and aesthetic. From Love Letter to April Story to Everything in Zhou Lili, the delicate and pure images conveyed by the characters on the stage can touch the most delicate heartstrings in the viewer's heart. This time, in Flowers and Alice, the light and gentle image seems to grasp the petals in a girl's heart and pat them on her heart. The most impressive photos of a break are flowers and Alice in the rain. The rain soaked the top of the head, the girl's uniform hair and eyes, and the girl's budding infatuation.

Anne Suzuki and Aoi sora, beautiful new girls about the same age as the characters in the play, play the leading roles in the play. Their pure and beautiful appearance and true colors ensure the original freshness of this film "Youth Love". What's more worth mentioning is that this musical work is completely produced by director Shunji Iwai himself and composed by computer. Iwai has been continuing his film lineage and constantly refreshing his own records. [Edit this paragraph] The director interviewed Shunji Iwai, who was born in 1963. I fell in love with movies when I was a student. After graduating from college, he has been engaged in shooting TV series, MTV and commercials, and his works have also won awards. I am known as the newest and most potential "video writer". 1993 filmed the TV short film Fireworks, and the Japan Film Directors Association awarded him the annual newcomer award for the first time. The TV series "Bundle of Love" was made into a film by the production company because of its outstanding achievements. During the period of 1994, Iwai produced the first feature film "Love Letter", which received rave reviews and established his position as the "flag bearer of Japanese new movies". Later, Dreamwalker won the news inspector award at the Berlin Film Festival. 1996, Iwai made a stunning swallowtail butterfly. 1998 directed the story of April, and in 200012000, Everything in Lily Week focused on Japanese teenagers, involving juvenile crimes such as aid exchange, which attracted Japan's attention.

On March 13, Shunji Iwai's latest masterpiece Flowers and Alice will be fully released in Japan. Iwai said in an interview at the new film release conference that although the structure of this campus youth film is still chaotic, it has left the usual sadness in his film and become a light and smooth comedy. ...

"Looking back at the student days, there will always be new inspiration. In fact, I think I am better at light drama than serious drama, so I have always wanted to do something close to comedy. As a result, the structure of this work becomes chaotic, and the protagonists Hua and Alice still fail to be the good children they imagined. It is a movie that gives people a feeling of being particularly like a wild girl. "

"I always thought that if I didn't find something new about myself, I couldn't start making new movies. So this time it will also be a brand-new work. Perhaps closer to love letters and fireworks in tendency. This time, I decided to make a comedy in my mind. When writing a script, these two words always hover in my mind. " [Edit this paragraph] Some people say that in fact, creation is nothing more than a balance of nutrition, and movies are nothing more than a lack of something. When love is gone, all people want to keep it, or those who have tasted the sweetness of love want to tell the latecomers what the original ecology of love is. So watching romantic movies has become a yearning for love fantasy and a memory of love degeneration.

In fact, I don't know what kind of person Shunji Iwai is, and I don't know what kind of gratitude he uses to express love, if the theme of his creation is love. But the audience can vaguely guess his intentions through image sharing. Once, everyone looked forward to this Hannah and Alice with great enthusiasm. I have seen its poster-two girls standing side by side, with empty eyes and full bodies, like two small animals.

Shunji Iwai should be the only one who can make people look like animals. Because the camera he controls records all the children-children waiting to grow up, grow up or just grow up. No director insists on such a "hobby" like him. They are all lost in cruel youth, lost in exploring love, communication and their own confusion, at a loss but "aggressive" From love letters to swallowtail butterflies to this flower and Alice, there is no exception. Children practice the director's strategy like animals ... [Edit this paragraph] Introduction to the film music album:

Hua and Alice are two girls and inseparable friends. They practice ballet together.

Yasushi Miyamoto is a teenager, holding Buddhist scriptures in his hand all day, a seemingly fragile child.

Exquisite teenager, good-looking side face. At the station where he can always be seen, his figure has become the object of girls' camera pursuit. Is this out of love? Maybe, it's nothing. In Iwai's lens language, this is a beautiful feeling of youth.

Everything is so beautiful. When you see a greenhouse surrounded by all kinds of flowers, everything is so beautiful. When you see two girls bathing together in sakura rain, everything is so beautiful. When you see a girl's slender and powerful legs show a graceful ballet posture. Really, everything is so beautiful.

Hua has been silently watching her Miyamoto predecessors. By chance, she told him a big lie about love. The story of three people unfolds in this lie.

Teenagers are always soft and gentle, and seem unwilling to struggle too much with reality, but only vaguely accept a girl's easy deception.

You once made love to me, have you forgotten? We are lovers, remember? Have you forgotten my name, too Then you must have amnesia. An imaginary amnesia, an imaginary love, just broke into the life of the teenager, and the poor teenager is still trying to remind himself of that imaginary memory. His eyes are always so blank that he can't see the world clearly. And the photo of himself that he stumbled across on the computer in China-which he thought was the key to solving the mystery-became the beginning of another bigger lie. Alice was also invited in. For the sake of friendship with China, she seems to spare no effort to exert her imagination and play Miyamoto's ex-girlfriend. Do you remember? This is the place where we first dated; Under this big tree, where we kissed for the first time, it was raining like that day! Do you remember? Do you remember? Do you remember? Alice was so persuasive and eloquent that she stirred up ripples in the young man's heart. I seem to remember! But why did we break up? How did I fall in love with flowers?

What if the memory is half restored? Poor boy, what he said made me feel bad. He fell in love with Alice, but Alice said you should like flowers. Yes, what should love be? The story happened among three people.

A simple love triangle story, not every director dares to try. Because if you are not careful, you will be defeated. Only Shunji Iwai has this ability. In the lens of Iwai, everything becomes extremely beautiful. When you are in it, it seems that you can temporarily forget the noise of the world and experience a real light cloud. Friendship, affection, love, life, study, work, all things are what you see every day, so real, but so real and moving. Perhaps Shunji Iwai has more eyes for finding beauty than we do, which makes his films so touching.

A story about two girls, the film unfolds like a breeze blowing through the pages, every frame is full of warmth, and every page of the story is touching. In Shunji Iwai's eyes, youth is not so crazy and passionate, nor so dark and cruel. Youth is also a natural life, with budding, shyness, lies and true feelings. Youth is still a rhythm of life, which is contained in a girl's body. When she dances, I believe that each of us can see her.

Album tracks:

0 1. Blooming season

02. Asiana & Alice/Sakura

03. Fish in the pond

04. lover

05. Memory loss

06. Slug terror

07. Round dance

08. I love you

09. Sweetheart/Secret Meeting

10. Dancing in the rain

1 1. Hannah's season/ocean

12. Hana's thoughts

13. wo ainee/ Arabic (I love you)

14. Asiana & Alice

Note: the introduction resources are all from VeryCD [edit this paragraph] flowers and Alice. Book Editor: Han Xi Editor

Market price:? 25.00

Publishing House: Shanghai People's Publishing House

Page number: 192

Publication date: 2009

ISBN: 16745957

Bar code: 977 1674595093

Version: 1 version

Binding: paperback

Page number: 16

Chinese: Chinese

brief Introduction of the content

Since its publication in September 2007, Alice has been sought after by readers for its unique design style. In April 2009, Alice was officially upgraded to a periodical, and its content was also fully upgraded. In addition to retaining the original readers' favorite theme graphic creation, it also includes various columns: introducing movies, books, tarot cards, the creators' living conditions and so on. Special topics on deep figures of international masters; Frontier interviews with young new forces; And the inventory topic of cultural hot events. ...

The inaugural issue of Alice? 6? 1 The theme of unicorns has different meanings: "Unicorns may be hunted or abused because of their talents or traits; Perhaps simple people suffer from credulity; Perhaps the seemingly beautiful and pure girl is actually the bait for hunting, or she is a hunter herself ... Xia, Zhen Sheng, Cao Xiaoyou and other graphic authors combine with the theme exhibition to create wonderful works and deconstruct them. In the same period, there was an in-depth topic of famous Japanese photographer Mika Ninagawa; Lin's latest prose. The special part also has the first-hand information disclosure about the most anticipated cross-border cooperation between Anne Baby, Yan Yue and hansey 2009. As well as the exclusive background story of the mystery novel Gaudi Code, which sells well in Europe, America and Taiwan Province Province.

Editor's recommendation

Alice, fully upgraded, made her debut in April with a brand-new look.

* * * Edited by hansey, the best young designer in China, and upgraded in honor in 2009 * * *

* * * Top new generation graphic creation magazine, unique design quality reading boutique * * *

* * * Leading the creation concept of similar books with unique and novel column structure * * *

* * * The horizontal connection of international culture runs through different times vertically * * * [Edit this paragraph] Flower and Alice No.7 Author: Shi Editor-in-Chief.

[1] Release date: 2009-10/

Version: 1

Page number: 19 1

Printing time: 2009- 1- 1

Page number: 16 Page number

Printing times: 1 sheet: offset paper

Industrial and commercial bank number: 977 1674595093

Packing: paperback

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Character master

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Overflow of language

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[America] [hope]

MZ

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Strange familiarity

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After the rain

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Love letters before dawn

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