On the same day of the weekend, two young girls, Sachiko Kamaike and Junko Aoyama, spent their holiday time happily.
They first went to see the recently released movie "The Tale of Bamboo".
This movie is based on a traditional Japanese literary work. The fairy in the moon descends to the earth and turns into a three-inch-long little girl who lives in a bamboo tube. She is picked up by an old man who chops bamboo in the mountains and takes her home. After three months, she grows into a girl.
A young and beautiful girl named Kaguya.
Kaguya's beauty is so stunning that all men in the world don't want to marry her and try their best to please her, but Kaguya is unmoved. The emperor wants to marry her by force, but she will never obey, and finally returns from the human world.
Return to the Moon Palace, such a story.
This story is known to everyone in Japan and is comparable to the Seven Fairies from the Rabbit Kingdom descending to earth.
Since the era of silent films, this story has been continuously shown on the big screen as a repertoire, but in terms of production lineup and investment, this version is still the largest.
The director is a famous person with a brilliant resume like Kun Ichikawa, the old man chopping bamboo is Toshiro Mifune, a veteran actor who is very famous in the world, and Princess Kaguya is set up to be a beautiful woman. If the actor is not chosen well, she will be Simon
The role of Little Henhen is played by the high-profile actress Yasuko Sawaguchi.
For such a great beauty to play Princess Kaguya, she is very convincing.
People who walk into the cinema, even if they find fault with the changed plot, or find it funny that Kaguya is greeted by a UFO when she returns to the moon, they will not feel that the heroine selected is not beautiful enough.
In the mid-1980s, that is, after the Plaza Accord, a large amount of money poured into the film industry, and Japanese-invested films can be seen around the world.
However, anyone who is not a hot-headed nouveau riche can see the irreversible decline of Japanese movies. The downward trend that has been going on since the 1970s, especially the popularity of video tapes, has given a heavy blow to the film industry.
one strike.
The companies that made small pink movies were all affected by the small movies starting with the word "a", so they shrunk their theaters until they closed down.
In this way, more well-known directors or subjects with guaranteed box office will be able to obtain sponsorship.
After watching the movie, it was almost noon.
Restaurants on holidays are often overcrowded, so the two girls can only find a restaurant where they don’t have to wait for a long time. After eating, they go shopping, walking past one fashion store after another, happily trying on clothes, and playing until
evening.
As soon as I start shopping, I seem to have endless energy. But as soon as I stop, it's like a switch is turned off, and I start to feel quite tired.
After shopping until evening, the two of them took a break at a cafe in the department store.
Junko Aoyama had a busy day and didn't want to have dinner alone, so she suggested trying a recently opened Kagoshima restaurant, "I heard that even the ingredients are flown in from Kagoshima, let's go and have a luxurious meal."
, Sachiko."
Kamaike Sachiko also thought it was good, so the two girls continued today's date and went to have hot pot together. It wasn't until almost eight o'clock in the evening that Kamaike Sachiko said goodbye to her friends and headed to Shinjuku Station and took the train.
Home tram.
There is a direct train from Shinjuku Station to Qinno City in Kanagawa Prefecture. The whole journey takes about an hour and a half. It departs at eight o'clock. By the time we get to the station closest to home, it is almost nine-thirty.
Kamachi Sachiko got off the car and walked out of the station.
This time in Tokyo would be bustling with people. But here, there are only one or two small restaurants and convenience stores with lights on in front of the station, and there are almost no pedestrians on the road.
Qinye is such a deserted town.
Kamai Sachiko took out coins from her coin purse, put them into the public phone, and dialed home.
From the station to home, there is still a walk of about ten minutes, and there is a dark tunnel in the middle.
It is always a cautious thing for a single woman to walk alone at night. It is even more scary to have to go through a dark tunnel again. Kamaike Yukiko hung up the phone and stepped forward. When she reached the entrance of that tunnel,
He looked at it for a moment before stepping forward.
The dim light barely illuminated the tunnel. It was very quiet inside, and the only sound was the sound of my own footsteps.
About a third of the way there, the light of a flashlight from the opposite side shone vaguely. Kamaike Sachiko noticed the swaying light, felt warm in her heart, and immediately felt very at ease, and her steps became brisk.
She knew that her mother was waiting at the exit of the tunnel.
This is a tacit understanding between Kamaike Sachiko and her mother. The distance from home to this tunnel is about the same as from the station to this tunnel. As a single woman walking alone at night, not only Kamaike Sachiko is afraid, but her mother at home is also worried.
So the mother and daughter agreed that when Sachiko Kamaike arrived at the station, they would call her in front of the station. After that, the two of them set off at the same time. When Sachiko Kamaike walked into the tunnel, her mother happened to be waiting for her on the opposite side.
Ever since she joined Kanzaki Real Estate, she has been like this every night except during holidays.
I live in Qinye but go to work in Shinjuku. For this reason, I have to get ready to go out at seven o'clock every morning. On weekdays, it is almost after eight-thirty when I get home from get off work. Three hours of the day are spent commuting to and from get off work. I almost lost my own life.
Sachiko Kamaiike has such perseverance to travel back and forth to work between the two places. Her classmates and friends who stayed in Qinye, or colleagues in Tokyo, were all incredulous about this and were surprised by her resilience.
Her father at home often advised her that she might as well come back from Tokyo and find a job nearby. Only her mother, for more than half a year, came to the tunnel to wait for her without any complaints.
Approaching the end of the tunnel, Kamachi Sachiko saw her mother's figure, quickened her pace, and walked over, "Mother!"
"Did you have fun in Tokyo?" Mother said with a smile.
Kamike Sachiko nodded and replied with a smile: "I'm very happy."
The mother turned off the flashlight, and the mother and daughter walked side by side for the last part of the way home. As soon as she returned to her mother, Kamaike Sachiko became a talkative and lively girl, describing to her mother the movie she had watched today.
, store that I have been to.
As a housewife, my mother seemed to regard Qinye as a camp. She rarely even went to Tokyo. She repeated the same routine almost every day and never left the circle of Qinye.
Because of this, she always smiles and listens when she hears what Sachiko Kamike describes.
When she got home, her mother asked her, "I made hamburger meat tonight. Do you want to eat some more later?"
Sachiko Kamaike didn't want to let down her mother's wishes, and she was a little hungry on the way back from Shinjuku. "Then let's eat some more. Mother's hamburgers are the most delicious."