Forest B&B: There are poems and distant places that we yearn for.

Forest Homestay is a Japanese drama with only six episodes, in which Satomi Kobayashi plays the hostess Kiko, who runs a homestay alone in a beautiful forest.

In each episode, a tourist comes to the hotel, where Kiko meets the guests, eats, chats, talks about his own confusion and thinks about the past and the future.

Kobayashi Satoshi is really suitable for this kind of film and television drama. She has an uncontroversial and freewheeling face, quietly observing, listening, not judging, not giving advice, and not regretting. She keeps a certain distance from others, which is refreshing and appropriate, but it is simple and reassuring, just like her roles in Gull Canteen and Good Weather for Bread and Soup and Cats, which are quiet, warm and practical.

0 1 linshan gentleman

The story begins one morning, when Kiko was picking up branches, she met Mr. Nagaki, a gentleman in a suit and tie with a leaf stuck in his head. He said he got lost and was taken back to the hotel by Kiko.

Mr. Nagaki is very busy. He helped Kiko pull weeds and do housework, and drank, chatted and ate with Kiko, saying that he felt extremely happy.

People are strange and complicated. Kiko opened a homestay in a sparsely populated forest, because she wanted to stay away from the hubbub and thought that she could do whatever she wanted and make exquisite dishes with complicated procedures, but after a long time, she couldn't taste the dishes.

People may still have to do something for others to find the meaning of their existence.

Animals are strange, too. They obviously have the freedom to shuttle freely in the dark forest, but they also yearn for the light from the forest.

The next day, Mr. Nagaki left without saying goodbye, leaving only the pine mushrooms on the bed.

Norikoyamaguchi roasted matsutake, thinking of many strange actions of Mr. Nagaki, seemed to understand something. The Japanese pronunciation of "nagaki" is "fox" in turn.

As soon as the camera turned, a fox walked into the forest.

Want to live alone

She is a kindergarten teacher and a gentle and kind person, but occasionally she gets tired of the noisy life in the city and wants to live alone.

She went camping in Shan Ye alone, but she met a noisy old man in the camp. She had to look for the campsite again, and happened to meet Kiko and came to her host family.

Two people eating western food, drinking red wine, breathing fresh air, listening to the breeze, feeling the life at this moment.

Then set up a tent in the hotel, drink whisky, talk about the confusion of life, and easily tell strangers what they have never said to others.

Sometimes, we need to stay away from life in order to feel its original beauty.

03 combustion

The third visitor is an old friend of Kiko.

She is a photographer, loves photography, and has devoted all her passion to her love. Now she suddenly feels a little tired and feels that she is not suitable for the career of photographer.

Two people look at old photos and comment on them by the bonfire in the summer forest, while waiting for them to burn, talking about their worries.

It's fun to choose things that don't suit you, as long as it's your own decision.

Shan Yan's day off.

The weather is fine. Kiko walked a long way to tap mountain springs and met Shan Yan on vacation.

Noriko invited Shan Yan to the hotel for tea.

Shan Yan is responsible for delivering food to B&B. Every time they meet, they just talk about the weather and gossip about their neighbors.

This time, he entered the hotel as a guest, talking about the pillars, wood and paint of the room, because he had done house construction work before delivering vegetables, and later left the construction industry because of injury and returned to the place where he had stayed for fifteen years to transport vegetables.

Shan Yan likes her present job very much, but sometimes she doubts whether she is living seriously.

In the chat, Shan Yan found the answer by herself. Although he does the same thing every day, the vegetables will change in different seasons and the scenery on the same road will be different. Which family has a new grandson, and which grandmother has not seen it recently. I am one of them in this alternate transformation of sadness and joy. This feeling is very good.

After Shan Yan left, Noriko cooked dinner carefully and tasted delicious food. One should also cook and eat well.

05 ex-boyfriend

Kiko was sorting out old things when her ex-boyfriend who had not seen her for years suddenly came to visit her with a bunch of purple flowers.

The two chatted about the youthful years when drinking together was a waste of time. The first time we met, we worked part-time in the mountain cabin cafe and sang together in the "good friend" karaoke hall ... chatting and chatting, they sang an old song together, sang to a happy place and danced.

There are love, memories and faint regrets in the song.

Two people drink coffee, take a walk, walk a long way, rest on a bench halfway, and have the following dialogue:

At the best time, the studio left and said that we would meet again one day.

Then, he disappeared under the gaze of Kiko.

Noriko went back and put the photos of her youth in the vase with the bunch of flowers.

There is always a strange feeling when watching the fifth episode. Later, I saw everyone's discussion in the Douban discussion group, and I understood the hidden plot in the play: the cubicle was dying or even gone. Just before I left, I suddenly visited Kiko. The purple flower brought by the visit is called Zi Yuan, and the flower language is memories and sincere love. Legend has it that the dead will open purple flowers around the grave to comfort their loved ones.

A moment that should last forever has come and gone before I know it.

06 wandering

The girl carried a big watermelon on her back and went through the Woods and streams to Kiko's homestay.

This girl is a frequent visitor to this hotel. She often comes with her mother during the summer vacation. After her mother died, she was afraid to come again. After many years, she finally got up the courage to come to the hotel again.

Two people wash vegetables, cut vegetables, prepare dinner, read postcards sent by girls when they were young, talk about interesting things in the past and eat watermelons.

Suddenly norikoyamaguchi said, come and live here. I'm moving out, and I want to go somewhere else.

When the girl left, Kiko gave her the key to the hotel, although the girl hasn't decided yet.

In a trance, I feel that girls are the norm when they are young. This episode only reappeared yesterday.

Kiko also left her host family one day to wander.

"Forest B&B" continues, and B&B and Lin Shan are the real protagonists. No matter how the owner changes, B&B is still there, neither happy nor sad.

I like this faint feeling that "you and I are both passers-by". People come and go, stay and leave, all of which are casual.

In Kobayashi's films, Masako Motai always plays a friendly role. She is an existence outside the whole story, like God's eyes, staring at everything on the earth without sorrow or joy.

She is no exception in Forest B&B, wearing a short blue skirt and appearing at the end of each episode. Silent mountains or barren streams, like ghosts in the mountains, guard everyone and every animal here.

After Kiko left, she appeared in the hotel again, and the hotel should be taken care of by her.

Although "Forest B&B" is only a few short stories, faint dialogue and shallow friendship, it has its own beauty running through it, with a fox eager for fireworks and a grandmother with a blue skirt like a patron saint, which makes the whole drama full of realistic fantasy. Taeko Ohnuki's music is a perfect combination of plain plot and inexplicable fantasy, without any sense of disobedience.

Douban Douyou said that members of Komori, led by Satomi Kobayashi, seem to have created a world, a picture and their own microclimate, and it is difficult for people without "smart and beautiful physique" to blend in.

Indeed, people with "smart constitution" will understand the significance of drama: it seems that nothing is said, but in fact a lot is said. This is the life of a "smart American", walking through the jungle, enjoying the sunshine, digesting the past and going downstream.

Thanks for meeting this drama on 202 1 spring.