Alternative Tourism: Japan in the 80s

Bailee 2022-10-18 19:23:25

Lucky cats, Japanese streets, supernatural porn movies, pop culture, traditional festivals, scenery along the train.

Compared with the Japanese travel programs broadcast in Hong Kong, this film is more in-depth, more like the abstract feeling of a traveler roaming Japan. Immediately think of Koji Tamaki and Akina Nakamori and others in the safe zone, they are the representatives of the 1980s.

At the beginning of the film, the big and small lucky cat is placed in the temple, which immediately caught my eye. Moreover, the Japanese lucky cats are cute and elf-shaped, and should be applied for as Japan's national treasures, and they complement each other with pandas! ! Too bad there is no real thing.

From the eyes of the French, if we observe Japan in the 1980s, is it Lost in Translation? At that time, the Japanese were dressed in old fashioned clothes and had rough movie lenses. Today, Hong Kong media reports that there are countless Japanese stars and Japanese film magazines. The street fashion of Japanese women, ingenious, eccentric and escapist costumes, exquisite packaging, and the proliferation of pornographic culture seem to be taking the speeding train of time, which is completely different.



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  • Narrator: The future was better protected than the past.

  • Narrator: He knew that his jailers would not spare him. He had been a tool in their hands. His childhood image had been used as a bait to condition him. He had lived up to their expectations. He had played his part. Now he only waited to be executed; with, somewhere inside him, a memory of a twice-lived fragment of time.