Full analysis of "Nanya Jiyou Grocery Store" (late night spoilers)

As soon as February enters, the Spring Festival seems to force its countdown cards into everyone's hands. The nerves that have been tense for a year also relax with the wallets in their pockets. In addition to the year-end bonus, there are also What is worth worrying about and worrying about?

In 2012, the Japanese mystery novelist Higashi Keinogo implanted "resolving anxiety and troubles" into the famous novel "The Worry-Free Grocery Store". Just this week, a film adapted from this novel was released in China Released in a low-key manner, it is "Nanya Jiyou Grocery Store".

Although this movie is not as rich in character creation as the original work, it is very exquisite in narrative structure. It can show this classic novel so smoothly in 129 minutes. It really makes the previous novel better. This is why I can’t wait to recommend it to you.

But if you have not read the original work, you may be disappointed with this film. Why? Because it’s too brain-consuming.

The character relationships and time clues in the original work are intricate. The movie also intersperses several timelines and character lines. If you are not careful, the character relationships and the sequence of events will get twisted into a mess. So if you want to watch this movie, please follow the following three principles:

The following serious spoilers? Do not scroll down unless necessary

Compared with the original work, the movie The five stories have been adapted into three. The relevant characters of the three stories are Matsuoka Katsuro (hereinafter referred to as Matsuoka) and Seriko, Midorikawa and his daughter, Muto Harumi (hereinafter referred to as Harumi).

But the plot setting basically remains unchanged. The mail slot on the roller shutter door of Naniya Grocery Store is connected to the milk box. People in the past would drop their letters into the Naniya grocery store of that era, and they would receive a reply in the milk box. Conversely, if modern people put letters into the mail slot, people in the past would receive and reply to the letters.

Many people may think that the opening scene is the Jiyou Grocery Store in 1969. In fact, the scene where Atsuya, Shota, and Yukihira run away from the villa is also the beginning. It was in 2012. The movie explains two things at the beginning. timeline. In order to facilitate understanding, we use character lines to distinguish them more clearly:

One line is the grocery store owner Namiya Yuji, that is, what happened in the era when he was alive, it is called the Namiya Yuji line;

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The other one is Atsushi and the other three. That is to say, what happened in the era when Atsuya and the other three were alive are called the Atsuya Three Lines.

In 1969, at Liangya Grocery Store, the Apollo moon landing was shown on the TV, which seemed to emphasize this point in time and also seemed to be a metaphor, which is the famous saying of the Apollo moon landing: " This is a small step for a man, but it is a leap for mankind.”

The owner of the grocery store is named Yuji Naniya. The original intention of the grocery store to relieve worries is to attract business. The film describes a scene where the owner Yuji Namiya hung a sign at the door of the store, which posted various strange questions and Yuji Namiya’s answers. After he asked a child’s question, he said: Since I answered your question Question, then go into the store and buy a pen.

There were three children in front of the grocery store at that time, and one of them asked how to get 100 points in the exam. Namiya Yuji's answer is - let the test takers produce the test papers themselves and they can get 100 points. Later, this child not only became an excellent teacher, but also became a principal using the method Naniya gave him. This is a plot that is not in the original work. The purpose of the director is to lead to the first story, that is One of three children - Katsuro Matsuoka.

On the night of September 13, 2012, three young men, Atsuya, Shota, and Yukihira, ran out of a villa in a panic (they will also be blamed for the mistress of the villa at the end of the film). Because the old stolen Crown car broke down, he had to stay overnight at Naniya Grocery Store to wait for the morning. The film also intersperses a scene where three people bump into a ghost bus. The director probably wants to show that the time and space outside the grocery store has traveled to 32 years ago, that is, between 1979 and 1982. More details later.

The three of them found a letter dropped in through the mail delivery port on the iron rolling door in the store. This is a letter to ask about troubles. In the original work, this should be a letter signed "Moon Rabbit". The film jumps directly to the story of Matsuoka Katsuro, the child in the first scene. The director's purpose is to draw out Qinzi, we will talk about it in detail later.

The original work is "The Story of the Harmonica in the Night".

Knocking on the blackboard, although the time is July 1980, this paragraph actually happened when Matsuoka Katsuro, Atsushi and three other people were passing letters to each other. It can also be understood that the year inside the door is 2012, and the year outside the door is In 1989, people from two generations communicated through letters through grocery store mail slots and milk boxes, but neither Matsuoka Katsuro nor Atsushi knew about it.

Suppose Matsuoka Katsuro was 10 years old in 1969. He was already 21 years old at this time. He did not hesitate to drop out of school for the sake of music. However, he encountered obstacles on the road of music and was not appreciated. However, due to poor health of his father in his hometown, he needs to inherit the fish shop opened by his family. Caught between the two options of "pursuing dreams" and "accepting reality", Katsuro didn't know how to choose, so he sent a letter to the "Naniya Grocery Store" near his home to ask about his worries.

After the three of them read the letter, they thought it was simply a willful act of a guy who was born with good fortune, and wrote back in a teasing tone to accuse Katsuro.

Seeing that he had been misunderstood, Katsuro didn't want to pay attention to it, but he was unwilling to let it go, so he decided to reply again. Katsuro's father, Takeo, was overworked and his heart was so overwhelmed that he suddenly appeared in great pain while moving goods.

Katsuro met his father in the hospital. His mother, Kanako, believed that the fish floss shop should be closed and rested for two or three days, but Takeo disagreed. Seeing his father's stubbornness, Katsuro gave in and offered to help out at the Fish Floss Shop. Unexpectedly, my father actually supported my music career. If I try my best again and fight hard in Tokyo, it doesn't matter even if I lose in the end. At least you have left your own footprints, Takeo said.

When Matsumoto Katsuro sent the third letter, he played the song "Rebirth" on the harmonica at the door. Through this song, Atsushi and the other three remembered Seri, who was also in the orphanage and had become a singer. According to Qinzi, this song was written by her brother's savior. Atsushi and the other three now understood that they had received a letter from 32 years ago. In order to save Seriko's brother, they decided to encourage Katsuro Matsumoto to continue making music.

So before returning to Tokyo, Katsuro received the third letter from Naniya Grocery Store: Your persistent pursuit of music will never be in vain. I believe that someone will be saved because of your song. The music you create will also live on. If you ask me why I can assert this, it is difficult for me to answer, but it is indeed true. Fish shop artist Katsuro Matsuoka returned to Tokyo for the third time to make music with the encouragement of Atsunya and his father.

Before Christmas Eve in 1988, Katsuro Matsuoka went to the orphanage "Marumitsuen" to perform a condolence performance. Here Katsuro met the young Xiaoqin. Xiaoqin disapproved of Katsuro's performance until Katsuro sang. When he composed the song "Rebirth", Xiao Qin showed interest and even took the initiative to chat with Ke Lang. In the original work, Katsuro visited the orphanage twice, so I won’t go into details here.

In the movie, Matsumoto Katsuro slept in the guest room of "Marukoen" after the performance. In the evening, a fire broke out in "Marukoen". Xiaoqin's brother was trapped on the stairs. Katsuro died in the fire trying to save Xiaochen. Later, Xiaoqin became an unparalleled talented female singer, and she would sing "Rebirth" throughout her life.

Namiya Yuji received a letter signed "Green River", which told that she had a child with a married man and was hesitating whether to give birth to the child. Namiya Yuji was very embarrassed, but he still replied to the letter. The time should be in the first month of 1979. In the same year, Namiya Yuji was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer and could only live for three months at most. While he was hospitalized, he learned from the news that "Green River" and his daughter fell into the sea and died in their car. He believed that it was himself who caused this tragedy, and he felt very painful.

In 1991, the reason why there was a three-person line with Atsuya was because Yuji Namiya had already passed away at that time.

Midorikawa's daughter, who was Seriko's partner in the "Marukouen" orphanage, learned of her unfortunate life experience - her mother fell in love with a married man and gave birth to a child, and she and her daughter fell into the sea and died in a car. , pushing himself out of the window before dying. She attempted suicide by jumping off a building and was later woken up by Qinzi in the hospital.

Nanya Yuuji is receiving treatment in the hospital. It may be because of the Midori River incident that he is more worried about the people who have corresponded with him. He is worried that something unfortunate will happen to those people because of his reply. matter. He asked his son to take him back to the grocery store. That day was September 13, 1979. Before entering the grocery store, he handed a suicide note to his son. The suicide note stated that 32 years after his death, Naniya Grocery Store would be resurrected from dawn to early morning on the same day, which is where the grocery store would be. Take some time to reply to those who come to write.

After entering the store, Yuuji Namiya unexpectedly found that a series of replies had been stuffed through the mail slot of the store. They were all thank-you letters from the future. That is, Yuuji Namiya made a suicide note and was resurrected. The letter came from the grocery store in the early morning, that is, September 13, 2012. Interestingly, Namiya Yuuji finally received a blank letter.

Those who have read the original work will understand that because Yuuji Namiya saw the thank-you letter from the future a year ago, his mentality improved and he lived one year longer than the doctor estimated. He died on September 13, 1980. , so 32 years later it will be September 13, 2012, which is the day when Atsunya and the three broke into the grocery store.

Because Muto Harumi was born in the era of Namiya Yuji, and had intersections with Atsuya and the other three.

At dawn, Atsushi and the other three received a new letter. The sender of the letter is a nineteen-year-old girl who calls herself "The Lost Puppy". In the letter, she describes her confusion. She has her own job during the day and works as a bartender at night. She plans to quit her job and become a rich person. As a mistress, she opened a shop in exchange for a sum of money to repay her adoptive parents, because she was also born in the "Marukoen" orphanage. The three of them thought she was a frivolous girl and wrote back, but in subsequent letters, the "lost puppy" described the situation of her adoptive parents, and the three of them couldn't help but change their minds and gave incredible suggestions.

They told Harumi in 1980 what had happened in a letter: Japan would usher in a period of rapid economic growth after 1980, and asked her to engage in a finance-related job and put her All the money earned was invested in real estate and the stock market, and all real estate was sold before the onset of the Great Depression in Japan after 1990.

Qingmei actually followed what the three people said in their letter and started investing in real estate and stock markets around 1985. She successfully escaped the Great Depression of the 1990s and became the boss of a large investment company. After Harumi became successful, she has been funding the "Marukoen" orphanage. After two generations of directors, she never thought that the second director would take all of Harumi's subsidies for himself. The orphanage was facing bankruptcy and even had to sell off its real estate.

The two timelines and character lines of the film begin to converge here. Three young people born in the orphanage, Atsuya, Shota, and Yukihira, mistakenly thought that Harumi was buying the orphanage. In order to save the orphanage as a family, they decided to take revenge on Harumi, so the film returned to the beginning scene.

At around 11pm on September 12, 2012, Atsushi and three others broke the glass door and stayed there until Harumi returned to the villa in the early morning. The three tied up Harumi and took away valuables. In the snatched handbag, Shota found a letter of thanks written to Naniya Grocery Store. From the letter, the three of them learned that Qingmei was the lost puppy. At this point, Atsushi and the other three decided to surrender and start a new life. At the last moment before leaving, Atsushi opened the milk box and found a letter "To an anonymous friend". This letter was actually written by Yuji Namiya, because he was in Before dawn, I put a piece of paper with nothing written on it into the mail slot. 33 years ago, Yuji Namiya received this last blank letter and wrote a reply.

The letter said:

You wrote me a blank letter. I thought about it for a long time and found that you asked a very wonderful question. You can’t see your own question now. Road, never despair or be discouraged, because your future is a blank piece of paper. It is precisely because it is a piece of white paper that you can draw anything. Just because it is a piece of white paper, you can draw the map as you like. It's all up to you. For you, everything is free and there are infinite possibilities in front of you.

At the end of the film, Atsushi and the other three ran to Harumi’s villa. What awaited them was...

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