After a simple lunch, Masayoshi Kishimoto and Kyoko Fukada sat back down in front of the computer in another room. They logged in again and entered the virtual beauty world of the online game Lineage to play.

Kyoko Fukada didn't have much in mind in the game, saying, "My dream since I was a child was to be a star. Didn't your original dream be to be a chaebol?"

"Wrong. My original dream was that as long as I had coke to drink and instant noodles to eat, I would be completely satisfied with playing online games. "Kishimoto is right.

Kyoko Fukada was dumbfounded. In her thinking world, anyone who has great achievements will have great ambitions when they are young.

After Kyoko Fukada came back to her senses, she blurted out without believing it at all: "You must be lying." ”

Masayoshi Kishimoto left his hands on the keyboard and mouse, looked at her well and said, "I vouch for my own personality, and I definitely didn't lie to you." ”

Kyoko Fukada said with interest: "Did you suddenly start to wake up completely one day, thinking that such a negative and decadent life is not good.

So, you took the initiative and began to work hard, and it was only then that you had a place in the Japanese financial world today. ”

Masayoshi Kishimoto couldn't help laughing and said: "Do you think this is a youth inspirational idol TV series played by yourself? A male protagonist with a humble social status fell in love with a cute girl from a high level of society, so he changed his past for her and fought desperately to move up.

In the final finale, although the actor had setbacks, he still succeeded. He was able to justifiably be with the heroine. ”

Of course, Kyoko Fukada understands that the content in idol dramas is something that has been glorified and idealized, and it really doesn't matter. She asked, "What about that?"

"Everyone has the freedom to choose the lifestyle that suits and prefers them. Eating instant noodles, drinking Coke, and playing games are rubbish?

Is the only kind of desperate work that is like being beaten with chicken blood be the right way? Don't think carefully about whether you have been completely deceived by the propaganda of the ruling class?

How many of them died of overwork? Everyone died, and no matter how great the ideal was, it was zero. Why do you have to wear Versace? Actually, I think it's good to wear Uniqlo!

Osamu Dazai also has one of the most classic words in "Human Disqualification", born as a human being, I'm sorry. His negativity and decadence are pushed to extremes.

It was this extreme that established him as one of the three great post-World War II writers in Japan. Without him, no one would know this cruel beauty.

In today's Japanese culture, it should be traced back to the beauty of the Yamato nation in "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu.

Even if you look at some of the works written by Osamu Dazai from today's perspective, they are not outdated at all. I'm also one of Osamu Dazai's fans!

Moreover, the Yamato nation is a nation that is prone to go from one extreme to another. From the very beginning of the Meiji Restoration, it completely negated everything that was originally in Japan.

Later, it was also the Japanese culture on the current set of aesthetics, or a Westerner who actively ran in Japan and called for help...... It was the Japanese who realized that their past was not all dross. Thus, people with lofty ideals began to save the culture of their own nation. Kishimoto said eloquently.

"You're not fooling me, are you?" said Kyoko Fukada as she stared at him with suspicion, still unable to believe what the other person said.

"What am I fooling you for?" Kishimoto couldn't understand.

"The purpose of your self-defilement is to make me face you in my heart and have a bad negative impact, and then gradually die of being kind to you. Kyoko Fukada said bluntly.

"Where is all this?" Kishimoto has long learned the rich associative abilities of women. They are completely capable of connecting things that can't be beaten by eight poles. He just shook his head helplessly.

No, no, in your heart. Kyoko Fukada pretended to be angry and cute.

"Let's continue to play the game!" Kishimoto knew that once a woman messed up, she would only suffer for herself.

"Don't. I'd also like to hear something about Japanese culture. Kyoko Fukada blurted out.

"What's the point of this? Let's go back to the game. Kishimoto wanted to divert the subject.

Kyoko Fukada repeated very insistently: "Speak, speak, speak." ”

"I'm afraid of you. I'll just tell you. Even if many foreigners have lived in Japan for decades, it is difficult for them to understand the true thoughts of the Japanese, because the Yamato nation is an extremely introverted nation that is not easy to be exposed.

In addition, the Japanese are very xenophobic, which further strengthens this mentality. If a foreigner wants to really get a preliminary understanding of the reality of the Japanese, he doesn't want to watch any youth idol dramas.

If you have to watch a movie, it is "Narayama Festival Examination", which won the Palme d'Or at the 36th Cannes Film Festival. It is a film directed by Shohei Imamura and released in Japan in 1983.

Although he is not very famous in the eyes of the public, I think this director has more taste. In your circle, that must be a well-known figure. "Kishimoto is methodical.

"I have also watched "Narayama Festival Examination" directed by Shohei Imamura. It's just brutal. However, it is also true.

What are the many options available in a poor mountain village with chronic food shortages? This is the best choice to make when there is no choice. Kyoko Fukada said seriously.

"Girls are born and raised until they are old, and then they are taken out and sold. Their fate is nothing more than that of prostitutes. If you think it's all cruel, it's in heaven compared to the boy who was born.

If a baby boy is born, it is usually thrown into the field to be used as fertilizer. If the old man does not die at the age of 70, he will also be carried out of the village by his children and sent to the mountains to die. Masayoshi Kishimoto briefly talked about the general content of the movie "Narayama Festival Examination".

He paused at this point, and then added: "The literature that has a preliminary understanding of the true Japanese heart, and the literary work that has a preliminary understanding of the true heart of the Japanese people, is Junichiro Tanizaki's "In Praise of the Shadows".

It is a work that focuses on writing about buildings, and it also reflects part of the character and inner world of the Japanese people.

Junichiro Tanizaki's fame abroad is not too big, not as good as Haruki Murakami, Junichi Watanabe, and Keigo Higashino, but his fame in Japan is not small.

Of course, the status of his works in the minds of literary youth, literature lovers, literary critics, etc., is much higher than that of the other three.

Otherwise, there would not have been the Junichiro Tanizaki Literary Prize. Although the literary prize is much less famous than the Akutagawa Prize, it is a literary award that represents Japan's hardcore writers.

Haruki Murakami was able to really come out of the crowd because he won the award. It's not that his work has been shortlisted for the Akutagawa Prize twice. Among them, there are many writers who have failed the Akutagawa Prize five or six times. ”