Chapter 177: Hisaishi Jean
Jean Hisaishi, born in Nakano City, Nagano Prefecture, graduated from the Department of Composition at the National University of Music, and is a famous Japanese composer, singer, and pianist. In particular, director Hayao Miyazaki's works, the music production of all long-form animated films for more than 20 years, starting from the Valley of the Wind, are indispensable soundtrack masters in Miyazaki's works. The name Jean Hisaishi comes from his idol, the Quincy Jones, an Afro-American musician and producer. He changed the name "s" to Japanese pronunciation, and then combined it with the name of the nearest kanji, and it became "Hisaishi Jean". His English name is Joe, which can also be said to be a tribute to the American soundtrack master S.
Some of the more well-known cartoon films that Hisaishi and GGHBL have collaborated on are: 1984's Windy Valley, 1986's Castle in the Sky, 1988's My Neighbor Totoro, 1989's Witch Otaku and Grave of the Fireflies, 1992's Porco Rosso, 1997's Princess Mononoke, 2001's Spirited Away, 2005's Howl's Moving Castle, etc. In Castle in the Sky, he uses many elements of Irish folk songs, and the combination of music and graphics is excellent. As for My Neighbor Totoro, he believes that the music itself already has integrity and sexuality, which can be enjoyed and moved by it alone. In 1998 he released a record of symphonic suites based on the soundtrack of the GHBL animated film Princess Mononoke, performed by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, which was widely acclaimed. In 2005, Howl's Moving Castle again invited the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra to record the soundtrack. His music made the Ghbl Studios films more popular, and Hisaishi's music grew even more with the popularity of the GHLL cartoons.
In addition, the famous Japanese director Takeshi Kitano's film works in recent years, Sonata, the quiet sea that summer, the sky of the bad boy, Hanabi, Kikujiro's summer and the soundtrack of the brothers are also written by Hisaishi. In 1991, Hisaishi won the Mainichi Film Grand Prix for Music. In 1997, he was awarded the Minister's Award for Newcomers at the 48th Arts Awards. In 2004, he was invited by K2 to re-write the score for Buster Keaton's 1927 silent film The General Train, and was the only Japanese musician to receive this honour with the Orchestre de Cannes at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
One is a long-established musician in the music industry, and the other is a new TV series director. When such two people get together, they can't help but open everyone's minds, maybe it's for Jung Hyuk Jae's next TV series, my name is Kim Sam-soon
But isn't this kind of cooperation a bit extravagant, you must know that Hisaishi has been working with well-known film directors in Japan and internationally. And the price is not low, if Hisaishi let the purpose of this visit is really to come to me to call Kim Sam-soon the soundtrack. I can't help but give people a sense of anti-aircraft guns fighting mosquitoes
"Hello Zheng Jun" Seeing Zheng Hyuk-jae who came to pick him up, the bald old man smiled a little cutely, and while talking, he stretched out his hand and shook it with Zheng Hyuk-jae.
"Hello, Hisaishi Jean-kun" Although Jung Hyuk-jae's spoken Japanese is not very good, when it comes to listening, he can still hear some everyday Japanese sentences, and he can speak a few words of Japanese. It's just that because I haven't talked about it all this time, it's not very standard to speak.
But this is enough, I didn't see Hisaishi on the other side of the show of surprise, I didn't expect this young man to speak Japanese, and the smile on his face couldn't help but soften a little: "I didn't expect Zheng Jun to be so young when I met for the first time, as soon as Zheng Jun spoke, I didn't expect your Japanese to be so good"
Just now, Hisaishi asked him to understand the simple words, but it was difficult for him to understand such a long list of words, and when he heard Hisaishi's words, Zheng Hyukjae had to turn his head and look at the translation juniors he brought.
Seeing this, Hisaishi smiled. inexplicably had a better impression of the young man in front of him.
Hisaishi is not actually the first time to come to South Korea, and his impression of this country should be said to be neither good nor bad. The few times he came here before were not for work, and the stay was relatively short, so the big city of Seoul in South Korea did not impress him much.
"Hisaishi let X, let's take the car back to Seoul in a while, and then go to Gangwon Province tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, can you see the itinerary arranged like this?"
After the translation of the juniors, Hisaishi nodded and said: "There is a Chinese saying called guest and host, so you can arrange it."
The group of three walked towards the parking lot of the airport while talking.
Although Hisaishi made a famous Japanese composer and pianist. He is also one of the most influential artists of modern music, but he looks very plain in his dress. Not at all in line with his title, dressed like an old uncle from the country who first entered the city.
Jung Hyuk-jae is similar. In the last life, he picked out clothes and bought clothes or something, all his girlfriend helped him, for fashion, he can be called a complete fashion idiot, his idea is that the clothes can be worn, fortunately, he has a willful face enough for him to squander, if it is ordinary people to match his clothes, it is definitely a fashion nightmare.
Although these two people don't have a relationship with airport fashion at all, they can't stand up to their identities, so it goes without saying that Jung Hyuk-jae is a writer, screenwriter, and director in the domestic TV drama circle, especially at yesterday's Baeksang Art Awards, Jung Hyuk-jae has gained a lot, and he won five of the nine awards related to TV dramas, accounting for more than half.
Not to mention Hisaishi, composer, pianist, musician, etc., almost every identity was enough to amaze the reporters present.
"Jung Hyuk Jae X, may I ask Hisaishi to let X come over this time to talk about cooperation with BC TV" Several entertainment reporters followed closely behind Zheng Hyuk Jae and asked repeatedly.
"Jung Hyuk Jae X, may I ask if your cooperation with Hisaishi Rang X has something to do with my name Kim Sam Soon?"
"Excuse me"
The reporters who followed followed kept chasing Jung Hyuk-jae, which made Jung Hyuk-jae a little unhappy in his heart, if it was a formal interview, it was okay, out of courtesy, he would definitely answer them a few questions, but he had no eyesight. The group of reporters who followed him was a little annoying.
Thinking of this, Zheng Hyukzai stopped, turned his head to look at the group of reporters and said word by word: "I have urgent matters next." So don't ask any more about interviews or whatever. ”
"Well, you can answer a few of our questions," one of the reporters retorted. His words immediately attracted the nods of many reporters, and what he said was quite reasonable.
"That's right, Jung Hyuk Jae X, we'll ask you a question"
"Jung Hyuk Jae X, let's just finish asking this question, really" One reporter started, and the rest of the reporters echoed him, and the momentum was quite amazing for a while.
"I'm sorry. I'm in a hurry" said, Jung Hyuk-jae turned around and was about to leave, first ask Jung Hyuk-jae to come by car, the metropolitan city is not far from Seoul, and it will take more than an hour to reach it by car, which should also mean that it is a satellite city of Seoul.
finally asked those annoying reporters, and Jung Hyuk-jae had time to have a good chat with Hisaishi.
"Jean Hisaishi, I'm actually a fan of yours, and I've seen several movies where you've worked on the soundtrack, especially the one you collaborated on with Hayao Miyazaki. I've watched every single one, and I've watched the movie more than ten times."
"Thank you," Hisaishi, who is in his fifties, said as he nodded, in fact, in the email that Jung Hyuk-jae sent to Hisaishi. Jung Hyuk-jae has already said that he is his fan, and he is full of praise for his ability to compose and score music.
In the email, Jung Hyuk-jae said very sincerely and seriously, which is one of the main reasons why Hisaishi asked him to come over this time to cooperate with Jung Hyuk-jae, and the other is the script of Welcome to Dongmo Village.
There are many anti-war movies, but the only script that can make Hisaishi look at it and keep his eyes peeled is currently the Welcome to Dongmo Village.
South Korea seems to have a lot to say about the war, from the big to the small. There are not many movies about this Korean civil war in Korean movies, but there is only one movie like Welcome to Dongmo Village. The angle of view of the insertion is also unique.
After reading the script, Hisaishi couldn't help but hide his face and think deeply. Welcome to Dongmo Village, although it is a war-themed movie, it is uniquely romantic; Although it is a comedy, people can't help but shed tears after watching it; It has breathtakingly beautiful and unreal scenes, as well as real and horrific images.
The time in the play is September 1950, when the Korean Civil War was in full swing. After the US-led "United" 75,000 men landed at the port of Incheon on the west coast of the DPRK, the Korean People's Army suffered heavy losses from the enemy's back, turned from prosperity to decline, and entered the stage of strategic retreat. Captain Lee so-hwa, veteran Jang Young-hee, and recruit Seo Taek-gi in the film are from the Korean People's Army. With their wounded soldiers, they cautiously searched for a way out, but they were ambushed by the enemy, and the team was almost completely wiped out. The surviving three were led by the crazy girl Yuyi to a place called Dongmo Village. At the same time, the second lieutenant of the Korean watch and the hygienist Moon Sangsang also came to Dongmo Village
It was because the script written by Welcome to Higashimo Village was very good, and there were many places in the play that Hisaishi made up his mind to take on this collaboration, which was also the first time Hisaishi had collaborated with an Asian director outside of Japan, which was very historic.
Accompanied by Jung Hyuk-jae, Hisaishi has just left the airport, and the news about the two has already spread to the editorial offices of major newspapers and magazines in Seoul through the Internet, and naver is no exception, and the entertainment news section even published a photo of Jung Hyuk-jae and Hisaishi shaking hands with each other, in which the two of them did not hide anything, and shook each other generously.
As the largest search engine in South Korea, Naver's attitude towards the news is not bad, and the headlines are also truthful reflections of the situation in the photos, Jung Hyuk-jae and Hisaishi Jean meet, and they are not like some other shameless and unscrupulous media outlets, using various headlines as a cover to gain attention and traffic in this way.
In addition to Naver and a few online media, other news topics are a bit too exaggerated, what BC invited Hisaishi to join the TV station, Jung Hyuk-jae is about to go to Japan, Hisaishi asked him to participate in the dubbing work of many BC TV series, etc., the key is that these online news reports have a little more credibility after their artistic processing, and the news immediately caused an uproar.
"BC TV is really rich enough, and it actually invited the composer Jean Hisaishi, a multi-billion won TV series Just in terms of soundtrack, did he give Hisaishi hundreds of millions?"
"Just thinking about it, I feel that BC TV, which has always appeared as a funny image, is finally handsome this time"
On the Internet, there are discussions about Hisaishi Jean and Jung Hyuk Jae everywhere, and the most mentioned ones are naturally Zheng Hyuk Jae, Hisaishi Jean and BC TV, which is quite concerned by everyone, and by the way, I also helped BC TV and my name Kim Sam-soon, who was filming, to do a free publicity.
Maybe there are more and more rumors on the Internet, everyone says that the main purpose of Hisaishi's coming this time is that everyone is more inclined to Hisaishi to warm up for Jung Hyuk-jae's new drama I called Kim Sam-soon, because Jung Hyuk-jae is currently working on this TV series and has no other work.
Because the rumors on the Internet are getting more and more fierce, even Director Kim Jae-yeol of BC TV Station knew about this little matter and immediately called Jung Hyuk-jae, who was driving, received a call from Kim Jae-yeol, and his first sentence on the phone made Jung Hyuk-jae stunned, what is this, how can Kim Jae-yeol believe this kind of news on the Internet
At present, Jung Hyuk-jae is also more comfortable in BC, and if BC TV does not mention it in the short term, then we will talk about the future at that time.
After explaining to Kim Jae-yeol, Jung Hyuk-jae hung up the phone and sent several more text messages, all of which asked him what the rumors on the Internet were all about.
Just now, the news heat caused by Jung Hyuk-jae has not completely dropped, and a post posted on a well-known forum in South Korea has attracted many netizens to seek and discuss, and the name of the post is "Inventory of the Rich Second Generation Hidden in the Entertainment Industry". To be continued
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