“I cried again watching your movie. Even though I knew the story roughly from the trailer, I couldn’t escape from the director, Yamazaki’s unbelievable directing technique.
The excitement and driving story of the movie is not degraded at all from the first movie. Instead, it is surprisingly far more exciting than what we all expected.
I had an important discovery this time; that is, the ones who are healed by the director’s skill, heart-warming affection, kindness or sentimentalism reflected in this great movie are not only the people in their middle age, but also the young generation. 40 percent of the audience was the young couples, and they looked very happy after watching the movie.
The themes of “Sanchome no Yuhi” are: hope for the future, family and things we cannot buy with money, I think. We are too shy to scream this kind of themes in a movie anymore in this Heisei era, but I guess it can turn the audience honest and make them cry so much because it dares to set these straight things as the themes of a movie. I want to send my “thank you” to you. The honest movies like this movie are now needed more than anything by the Japanese people, from the young to old, who are exhausted and hurt.
The CG technique was 100 times more progressed than the first movie. It was as if confusing with watching NHK Archives. I could sense how the CG production staff, with their best techniques, created CG while trying very hard, very persistently, and having fun at the same time.
I imagine that you receive an e-mail from my husband too, because we watched the movie together. Let’s see each other again. We hope for your further success. One year or two years after, I am really expecting the next work of the world-famous director, Yamazaki.”
The text above is an e-mail to Mr. Yamazaki, whom I respect so much. I first met him at the Women Scientist Forum two years ago, where I invited him as a guest. Since then, we have been close friends as well as our families.
He is a person that never shows off his fame, very modest and very young for a CG creator. He looks like in his early 30’s if he is surrounded by young people, so I sometimes almost forget the fact he is a great director and feel like I am talking to my young relative. Anyway, it was a wonderful movie. The quality of CG is especially perfect, as good as it can ever gets.
This movie reminded me of that, In the 30’s of Showa, when the ending of the war was not so long ago, many people called “Heitai-Kuzure” or the ex-soldiers back from the war, were still earning some money by many kinds of fraud business they come up with to live.
Although Mr. Yamazaki is not the post-war generation but rather the next generation who spent their adolescence in the high-growth period, both the first and the second movies are not forgetting to depict the scar of the war as the shadow-part of the 30’s of showa, while depicting those days as a period full of light and hope. I felt Mr. Yamazaki’s consideration through this depiction. This movie is so exciting for any sake. This movie is so much fun in any case. This is a great movie that any people in any generation can enjoy together. Please go and see it in the theater.
Always Zoku Sanchome no Yuhi
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