"The biggest slum in the world should be Kibera in Kenya, right?"

However, Xu Wenhui was not very clear in it, and the first thing that came to mind was Kenya. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

But what Xu Wenhui didn't know was that the most legendary one was the Kowloon Walled City in Xiangjiang.

Although it is not well-known in the mainland of China, in Western countries and island countries, the Kowloon Walled City has been mythologized again and again!!

Unlike the slums in other parts of the world

The Kowloon Walled City is located in the highly developed economy of Xiangjiang.

What's more, because of its unique architectural style and neon lights all over the city, it creates a sci-fi apocalyptic atmosphere!

Coupled with the special situation of police officers who dare not step into the country, all this makes the Kowloon Walled City the most "charming" slum on the planet.

The special charm of the Kowloon Walled City has made it the most frequent slum in Western and island novels, comics, movies, and games, from the horror movie "Ghost Land" to the popular PS3 game "Call of Duty: Black Ops", from "Street Fighter II", to "Kowloon Feng Shui", which was voted the 'best cult game' in the island country, and so on......

As Haruki Kadokawa said, a very peculiar phenomenon is the memory of the island people towards Xiangjiang.

In particular, the Kowloon Walled City is particularly obsessed.

Especially when the walled city was demolished, the photographer of the island country also specially applied to do photography work to record the last years of the walled city.

And the level of detail in the documentation is astonishing. And these Xiangjiang people don't have it...... From games to movies to anime. As long as it involves the setting of Hong Kong. It is also inseparable from the environment of the walled city. A drug-addicted boy and a police officer who collects black money.

The people of the island country are very obsessed with such a three-way underground siege environment.

All this makes the Kowloon Walled City a true portrayal of the apocalyptic future in the eyes of the West, which fascinates the West, and is eventually highly romanticized and futurized, so that the Kowloon Walled City has become a major theme of many sci-fi, horror, and supernatural cultures in the West and island countries.

Eventually, the Kowloon Walled City became a legendary slum that most people in the Chinese mainland had never heard of, but it was famous all over the world.

American cartoonist Troy Boyle even said, "I'd rather they demolished the pyramids of Egypt."

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Seeing that Xu Wenhui didn't understand his infatuation with the Kowloon Walled City and yearned for it, Kadokawa Haruki explained to him while walking.

"Our initial impression of Hong Kong was not the new, modern and value-oriented Heung Kong Island, but the old, chaotic and vibrant Kowloon. ”

Walking and walking

When you enter the street from the first street, you will be greeted by an advertising sign that makes people burst out with hormones.

This place, from a distance, is actually no different from a commercial street. But when you look closer, even though it's still afternoon, the roads are lit up with red, green, yellow, and colorful neon lights.

Sunset

is about to fall, and the last breath of warm xia will soon be annihilated in this high-rise building.

The disappearance of the sun is followed by the night of the city, the madness of the city, and the high tide of the city!

Neon lights, street lights, and car lights are the elements of this city, and of course, there are also people's endless greed, lust and venting, so a lot of red banknotes are soaked in this light.

It was a night to never forget

In this way, Kashiwahara Yoshie followed Xu Wenhui into Kabukicho.

When she entered Ichiban Street under a sign that flashed with charming lights across the entrance, Kashiwahara's eyes lit up.

How colorful the world is in front of you!

Xu Wenhui knew that this light may have ignited all kinds of desires that Kashiwahara Yoshie had been suppressing in her heart because she tried her best to restrain herself!

Kashiwahara Yoshie looked at the figure of the girl dressed in flowers and branches swaggering through the market with a high-end bag in her hand, and then looked at herself dressed as a student day and night, and felt a little sour in her heart.

However, Kashiwahara Yoshie did not forget her duty as a translator and translated the words of Haruki Kadokawa for Xu Wenhui.

As a translator, Kashiwahara Yoshie also sighed: "Boss, our island people's fascination with Kowloon is culminated in their fascination with the complex and bizarre aesthetics represented by the Kowloon Walled City. It was from this place that I became curious about Hong Kong, and then gradually learned Cantonese. ”

Xu Wenhui suddenly realized, "No wonder so many people can learn Cantonese!"

"Xu Sang. I don't know that our island photography community is keen to photograph ruins, and the most famous is Gunkanjima, which was photographed by Ichidaka Hara, Nara. The so-called Gunkanjima is a sea building cast of pure cement in our island country, which was once a slum. and Hiroshima photographed by Higashimatsu Illumination. Haruki Kadokawa, as a director, followed along.

Xu Wenhui nodded.

In fact, if you want to talk about it, you have to mention Ryuji Miyamoto's "Kowloon Castle", but this book was only published in 88.

Unlike the first two, which Haruki Kadokawa said, they belong to the philosophical meaning of dead silence, and the latter is more of a worldly hustle and bustle.

It captures the contradictory image of its life as ruins and its death as a forest.

It captures the walled city, which is as complex as a labyrinth in terms of architectural planning and social structure!

Just like the emperor of the island country ukiyo-e Katsushika Hokusai's pen, there are joys, sorrows, and sorrows, but because of the fate of the inevitable decline of the Kowloon Walled City, everything is shrouded in the shadow of fate!

If you have read this book and watched this movie, you can understand why the people of the island country have such feelings.

This kind of city that has been withdrawn from time and space in the shadows is most poignantly expressed in Mamoru Oshii's anime "Ghost in the Shell"!

In the futuristic city that is almost always raining, in contrast to the high-tech information transfer and stealth armament, there are old signboards with Chinese characters written on them, narrow alleys and tenement buildings, ferries and vegetable markets, which are mixed into a pile like a bewildered asteroid, highlighting the sadness of recreating man as a soulless shell in the film!

In fact, Xu Wenhui is not ignorant.

He also watched the 06 year, Matsumoto Taiyo's "Evil Boy" animated version, the scene was also set to look like a town in Kowloon, Xiangjiang and a town that was demolished during the festival and moved to Chongyang, traditional and simplified Chinese characters coexist on the wall, gangsters and police officers, trading in the dark corner in the misty clouds and sorrowful eternal daylight, Xiaobai said to Xiaohei: Peace of mind, peace of mind!

In the bizarre and abrupt colossal world, only innocent children can freely transcend.

There are many world-famous amusement parks in the island country, such as Fuji-Q Land, Tokyo Disneyland, HelloKitty Rainbow Indoor Park, etc., after the Kowloon Walled City was demolished, the craziest thing the island people have ever done is to build a playground called "Your Warehouse" in these unique amusement parks, but it is unique!!

It is completely modeled after the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong.

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Xu Wenhui smiled bitterly and said, "For you outsiders, it may be charming, but for locals, it is very nerve-wracking. ”

"That's right, I can understand that. Haruki Kadokawa saw that the other party was reluctant to talk more about the Kowloon Walled City, so he didn't continue to talk about this topic.

Instead, he began to talk about the place: "In this area, a little more than a square kilometer, there are thousands of shops. During the day, it is a place of handicrafts and local products from all over the world, and at night, it becomes a men's paradise. Naturally, we men like to go to nightclubs, nightclubs with girls. ”