At 9:30, the crew came to the Nagahama Coast on the Miura Peninsula in Kanagawa. It is a famous tourist destination in Japan. In summer, tourists are so crowded that there is no place to put your feet. But in the middle of January, it was cold and lonely.

Today is the 48th scene of the movie, which depicts the protagonist of the play, Ah Ming, the son of Chinese chess player Guo Yishan, who has just come to Dongying to learn chess and conflicts with Dongying children. Xiao Ah Ming has only three scenes in Dongying, and the crew can't let a child stay in a foreign country where he is not familiar with his life for a long time, so he must shoot his scene first.

There is no start-up ceremony for Dongying to make movies, and now China doesn't believe in that set, and the messy things like turning on and worshipping God are only popular in Xiangjiang, and have not yet spread to the mainland film and television circle. Now which director in China starts to engage in worship ceremonies, he will definitely be criticized as a typical example of feudal superstition.

Xu Wangqiu's previous filming was to divide the shots before shooting, and Junya Sato is used to storyboarding on the scene, but the engineering process is actually the same, the same five steps: positioning, lighting, rehearsal, fine-tuning, and shooting.

Junya Sato called Rentaro Mikuni, Chinese actor Liu Xin, who played Little Amin, and the young actor Dongying to the scene and arranged for them to move. Junya Sato asked them to walk through the play twice and determine the area for the performance. According to the actor's position, the camera assistant made a mark on the ground and gave a hint to the actor, so that the actor would not walk outside the camera while acting.

After the move was completed, Junya Sato asked several actors to put on makeup, and he began to discuss with Xu Wangqiu, photographer Zhang Yimou, and other main creators about the specific storyboard, where the camera frame was, and what scenes to use.

In the process of taking the actors to the position, Junya Sato conceived a specific storyboard plan in his mind. What he has to do now is to share his plan with the crowd and discuss whether it works. He said directly: "That's what I think, like a close-up shot, shooting Amin and Morikawa scuffling, and then cutting into a big panorama, filming Amin and Morikawa scuffling, and then, Matsuba ran into the camera and pulled Amin and Morikawa apart ......"

Junya Sato has been in the film for many years, and his level is still there, and his storyboard of this scene is stable, and he can hardly find faults, but there are no highlights at all. Xu Wangqiu shook his head slightly: "This part is Songbo's memories, I think it's better to shoot from Songbo's perspective." I thought so, first give a panorama, Amin and Morikawa are fighting, and a group of Dongying children are coaxing on the side. At this point, the camera is still, and then the camera suddenly starts moving, and it quickly pushes towards Amin and Morikawa. When the camera is pushed into a close-up, Matsuna's voice is heard outside the camera, 'Stop, what are you doing?', and then the camera cuts to a panorama, and Matsuba pulls Morikawa away. This can be a little better, and the lens logic is more complete. ”

Junya Sato thought about it carefully, nodded slowly, and said, "It's really better to divide it this way." The camera is stationary at first, and then suddenly pushes forward, and the viewer wonders how the camera suddenly moves forward so quickly. When Matsuba's shout came out, the camera cut into a panorama, and the audience saw Matsuba pull away from Morikawa, and they would suddenly realize that the reason why the camera advanced rapidly just now was that Matsuba saw Amin and Morikawa fighting, and quickly ran towards them to pull them away!"

Everyone present also nodded: "This kind of storyboard is indeed better, and the logic is clearer." "I think it's better too. "When the camera is pushed over like this, there is suspense and it is more attractive. ”

In this era, many directors especially like to play with push shots, especially domestic films often have that kind of rush shots. Originally, it was a long shot, and then the camera quickly pushed towards the person and pushed it into a close-up. This kind of shot looks like a dazzling shot, but in fact there is no logic at all. Why does the camera move, why does the camera push? The director can't come up with a reasonable explanation, and the only reason is Xuan. In the films of excellent directors, the setting of the lenses and the movement of the lenses are all supported by logic.

After discussing the storyboard, the crew began to get busy, Zhang Yimou carried the camera to select the camera position, the artist cleaned up the venue according to the range seen by the camera, added and arranged props, and the lighting team began to set up the lighting.

After the lighting was completed, Junya Sato began to arrange the rehearsals for the actors. Before the official start of the movie, most of the actors arranged rehearsals, but Liu Xin, the actor of Xiao Ming, was a newcomer, and he was only familiar with the script after just a few days in Dongying, and there was no special rehearsal. In addition, today is the first time he has put on a kimono and clogs, and he doesn't know Japanese, so it is difficult to enter the play for a while.

Junya Sato knew that Xu Wangqiu had a song for the actors, so he handed Liu Xin to him and asked him to guide Liu Xin. Xu Wangqiu is not an immortal, and in the face of Liu Xin, who doesn't have much acting experience, he doesn't have a good way, so he can only guide slowly.

After tossing for nearly an hour and practicing more than twenty times, Junya Sato was finally satisfied.

With the "start" passphrase sounded, the shooting officially began. Amin and Morikawa grabbed each other and rolled on the ground. Matsuba's disciples shouted excitedly, "Beat him!"

Zhang Yimou carried the camera and pointed the camera tightly at Ah Ming and Morikawa, who were scuffling together. After a brief pause, he carried the camera and ran quickly towards Amin and the others.

Behind the monitor, Xu Wangqiu and Junya Sato clearly saw that after a brief pause, the camera quickly pushed towards Ah Ming and Morikawa, from a panoramic shot to a close-up. Zhang Yimou has experience in shooting sports shots, and he knows that Xu Wangqiu's movies always have a lot of motion shots, so he has worked sports shots. The shot is very stable, with only slight shaky and no false focus.

Junya Sato was very satisfied with this shot, stood up and shouted: "Stop! Mr. Zhang! This shot is very good!" He turned his head to look at Xu Wangqiu and said, "What do you think?"

Xu Wangqiu pretended to be very forced: "It can only be said that it is average, and with the strength of Yimou, it should be possible to shoot better." ”

Junya Sato didn't know that Xu Wangqiu was pretending to be forced, so he believed it, so he said to Zhang Yimou: "Mr. Zhang, one more!"

The young Ah Ming only had three scenes in Dongying, but these three scenes were filmed for three days.

After completing the scene of the young Amin, the crew began to shoot the scene of the international students returning to China to participate in the war.

This morning, the crew came to a street on the outskirts of Tokyo. At this time, the whole street was hung with the sun flag and the rising sun flag, as well as slogans such as "Wish victory" and "Wish Nanjing Festival" to celebrate the capture of Nanjing.

Today's scene tells the story of Songbo's family having dinner in a restaurant for Ah Ming's promotion to the fifth dan, where Ah Ming met several Chinese students who were preparing to return to China to fight. From them, Ah Ming learned that the Dongying soldiers had carried out a large-scale massacre in Nanjing. Meanwhile, outside the restaurant, Tokyo citizens are marching with lanterns in celebration of victory. This scene symbolizes the unexpected very strongly, inside and outside the house are two worlds, and the suffering of the Chinese is in sharp contrast to the celebration of the Dongying people.

Historically, the Dongying army did hold a large-scale celebratory parade after the capture of Nanjing. On December 13, 1937, when the news of the Japanese army's occupation of Nanjing reached Dongying, the people of Dongying were ecstatic, and some people took to the streets to parade or "raise a glass to celebrate" that night. Starting at 5 p.m. the next day, hundreds of thousands of people lit red lanterns to celebrate the victory, and the "Million-Man Lantern Parade" began with a band playing a majestic marching song. In addition to Tokyo, other cities such as Osaka, Kyoto, and Shizuoka also held celebratory parades, and the whole country was jubilant. On the afternoon of 17 December, the Central China Front with Matsui Ishine as its commander held the so-called "Nanjing Entry Ceremony." The news spread to Dongying, and a new wave of celebration was set off in various places, and the entire procession of Dongying was transformed into a sea of lights because of the lantern procession.

When talking about Dongying's invasion of China, China always condemned the crime of the war of aggression on the heads of "a handful" of Dongying military grub elements, and positioned the vast majority of ordinary people in Dongying as "war victims." In fact, this is not right, and the people of Dongying are extremely supportive and fanatical about the invasion of China.

"Toshiro's Diary" records such an incident, before Toshiro set out for the expedition, his mother said to her: "This is a trip that is hard to buy, you go happily, if you are unfortunately caught by the soldiers, you will commit suicide by disembowelment, because I have three sons, it doesn't matter if you die one!" Then, she gave Toshiro a dagger with words engraved on it.

The support of the people of Dongying for the war can be seen from this.

This scene is to show this fanaticism of the people of Dongying, and to show that the responsibility for the war of aggression against China cannot be only placed on the heads of the "handful" of the Dongying army and the criminalists, and the people of Dongying are also responsible.

The relationship between the Chinese staff and the Japanese staff of the crew of "A Game of Chess That Has Not Been Finished" is very good, and the atmosphere of the crew is also very relaxed. But today, the whole crew is not as relaxed as before, and there is no laughter, and the atmosphere is particularly dignified.

The Chinese staff just nodded their heads when they saw that the staff members who usually had a good relationship with each other did not talk to each other, as if they had made a mistake by telling them. Tang Yuqiang has a good relationship with Akina Nakamori, and they have a rivalry today, but after arriving on the set, he didn't pay attention to Akina Nakamori at all, and he didn't communicate with her.

Akina Nakamori didn't know what was going on, so she secretly asked Yoshiko Yamada, why the crew was weird today, and even Tang Yanqiang was no longer himself. Yoshiko Yamada told her that it's none of your business, it's because of this scene.

Akina Nakamori is relatively young and not very clear about the past history, but most of the Dongying people in the crew are clear, and they know that the dazzling slogans around them are a huge humiliation to the Chinese members of the crew, and the content of this scene is picking at the scars of Chinese. They were very conscious, and if it was not necessary, they did not talk to the Chinese staff and worked silently.

If it was usual, Xu Wangqiu would definitely engage in some activities to adjust the atmosphere, but today he didn't do anything. He knew that even he, a traverser, saw the sun flag, the rising sun flag, and the slogans celebrating the capture of Nanjing, and his heart was tingling, not to mention that many people in the crew came from that era.

Junya Sato understood Xu Wangqiu's feelings, but he was worried that it would affect his creation, so he still persuaded: "I was born in 1932, which happened to be the war years, and I often saw news reports about the Japanese occupation of Nanjing, Wuhan and other places. At the end of the war, I learned about what the Japanese army had done, and I was very ashamed. Nowadays, the young people in Dongying are as ignorant as I was at the beginning, and we should make this movie well, so that people can look back, learn from history, understand the disasters of war, and understand the evils of war. So, please stay calm and don't let it affect your creation. ”

Xu Wangqiu smiled at Sato Junya, Dongying's right-wing forces are very strong, and when the movie is released in Dongying, Sato Junya will definitely be attacked by Dongying's right-wing. At this point, he has great respect for Junya Sato. He exhaled vigorously and said energetically: "Don't worry, I am a professional director, and I will definitely stay calm when creating." ”