Death is always gloomy and sad, and the vast majority of viewers will reflexively reject this aspect of things, and few people will take the initiative to understand death and contact death.

Conversely, works of art such as novels and movies rarely directly depict death, even in Japan, a civilization with a strong culture of death.

Moreover, even if it is a work that depicts death, in most cases, the work is describing the process of how a life dies, and few works directly describe death itself, describing the corpse and what happens after death.

Few works will be described, because for the vast majority of people, it is content that they don't want to touch, and if the operation is not good, it will make people feel that this is a very sad and unpleasant movie and refuse to watch it, so now the appearance of Zhou Xiao's work, the first thing to do is to alleviate people's worries because of the type of film.

Therefore, the first plot of the film is very important.

A car slowly drove in the heavy snow, and the shooting location of this snow scene was not Yamagata, but Hokkaido, because the filming time of the movie was not the depths of winter.

Then, as the undertaker, the male protagonist followed the master to the deceased woman's home.

Kneel and bow, put incense together, and then, the two protagonists get to work.

"He committed suicide by burning charcoal." The old man played by Yamazaki Nu said to the master.

"How do you know?" Masahiro Kimoto asked, the voices of the two people were soft, as if they were afraid of disturbing the person in front of them.

"The expression is very peaceful, and it would have been found in a cold car a long time ago." Miraculous angrily.

"It's a beauty." Looking at the woman's face, the male protagonist whispered to the master next to him.

"That'...... Do you want to do it? The master and president played by Yamazaki asked.

So, the male protagonist Masahiro Kimoto began his "performance" in front of the woman's family.

It's really a performance, every step of the burial process is so pleasing to the eye, the male protagonist caresses the woman's cheek like a gentle lover, so that the body is eased by his body temperature, and the gentle movements make the sad expressions of the woman's family also ease.

Masahiro Kimoto began to put on makeup with the woman. The corpse's originally tattered and bruised face was made up very beautifully by him in a skillful way, just like when the woman was alive.

Then it's the dressing process.,Although it's a change of clothes in front of the family.,The whole process won't show a trace of skin except for the head.,The male protagonist is very skilled in taking off the quilt and clothes on the woman's body and starting to change into another dress.。

The costume change was almost complete, and Masahiro Kimoto said, "Next, please allow me to wipe her body." ”

As he spoke, he reached into the side of the woman's body and began to wipe her with it.

From the upper body to the chest, then a little down. He stopped until his hand touched a part.

"Huh?" He had a strange expression on his face.

The actor's hand under the clothes moved again as if to confirm, and finally he was sure, and he couldn't decide, he covered his body, turned his head and asked his master: "...... There's that thing there. ”

"Huh? What is it? "The master played by Yamazaki Nu is very angry, the work process of the mortuary is very rigorous, this kind of thing is absolutely not allowed to chat and talk, what can't be solved later.

"That's it......" Masahiro Kimoto didn't seem to understand Yamazaki's thoughts, but insisted on explaining something to him.

"What's that thing?" Yamazaki asked.

"That! That one! Masahiro Kimoto couldn't point directly at a certain body part, so he had to repeat it repeatedly.

"That?" Yamazaki finally thought of something based on the location that Masahiro Kimoto was referring to.

"That's right! That's it! Masahiro Kimoto nodded.

Magical Fury finally showed a look of sudden realization.

Masahiro Kimoto handed the cloth to his master with both hands. Yamazaki Nu didn't refuse, but after coming, he knelt down and rubbed forward, and also put his hand into the body of the "woman", and then ...... Even the old man's face, which was accustomed to seeing life and death in the world, could not move like a mountain, and there was an unconcealable surprise.

This ...... "woman" really has something that that woman should never have.

The old man took his hand out. Gently moved to the woman's family and asked, "It's rude, I have a question I want to ask, after changing clothes, I want to put on makeup for the deceased, this makeup ...... It is according to the man's order. Or is it according to the woman's ......? ”

Yes, that's right, the truth of this deceased who was praised as a beauty by Masahiro Kimoto turned out to be a ...... Man!

It starts with Masahiro Kimoto touching a certain part of the middle of the woman's body. The whole theater began to burst into laughter, and when Yamazaki asked the line, which could be regarded as announcing the correct answer, the laughter finally reached its peak, and everyone understood why Masahiro Kimoto was struggling.

It's so important to put an opening like this in front of the film, and a movie that everyone is worried about will be too heavy is diluted by such a paragraph, and even people's attitudes towards the corpses in the movie are relaxed.

At the moment, many people in the movie theater have adjusted their sitting posture to be more comfortable, and the relaxed opening has relaxed those who were worried that it would be heavy, and even a little reluctant to watch such a movie.

Especially many AKB girls, they can't quite understand very deep topics, and they will be a little worried when they see the name of Zhou Xiao's movie, but now they see that the style of the whole film is not strict but more relaxed, and the girls are much more relieved.

This opening paragraph is not the beginning or end of the experience of the male protagonist of the whole movie, as part of the experience of the male protagonist, after being taken out, the audience easily accepted the film, and after this paragraph, the movie finally began to tell the story.

The actor who lost his cellist job returned to his hometown with his gentle wife and got a job that made a lot of money, but he didn't expect that he was an undertaker, of course he didn't want to do these jobs, but looking at his wife's appearance, he couldn't refuse this job with a good salary, and the first official job he started was to shoot a promotional video for the company and play the corpse, in this paragraph. Because of the ease of facing the corpse in the first paragraph, there is still no heavier plot arranged in this paragraph.

When he wiped his body with Bian Mu, the cold cotton cloth made Masahiro Kimoto who played the corpse tremble, and when he shaved his face, the old man's hand and shaving cream stimulated him and couldn't help but move, and even the shaving cream blocked his nose, forming a thin film that shook violently with his breathing.

And then...... In Yamazaki's line "The body is more easily injured than we think, and the skin may be damaged by touching it with a finger", the razor unsurprisingly scratches Masahiro Kimoto. The corpse shouting "it hurts" made the whole theater burst into laughter again, and at this point, most of the audience in the theater finally relaxed, and everyone felt that although the name sounded quite scary, the movie should still be relatively relaxed.

However, there are relatively few in the theater, and a group of more professional filmmakers, especially the directors who came to watch Zhou Xiao's films, sat up straight one after another, and the balance of a movie is very important. If the whole movie is in this kind of lighthearted plot, then this film is at most a relatively good-looking comedy, but Zhou Xiao is not this kind of person, he is going for the Oscar in this movie. So next, these people are all anticipating, and it is likely that the plot that balances the atmosphere of the whole movie is coming.

The actor finally has his first concrete job. He followed the boss out, and asked himself anxiously on the way what he was going to do. The boss and master said generously: "It's good to watch from the side." This made the actor instantly feel a lot easier.

But the boss's next sentence gave him a vague premonition.

"I'm really unlucky, I ran into ...... for the first time"

"Huh? What do you mean? The actor asked.

"It's okay, it's okay, you'll know when you go." The boss said.

After the two arrived at their destination. The male protagonist finally knows what his first job is.

"The old lady lives alone and has been dead for two weeks...... the policeman's statement made the male protagonist and the audience in the theater have a bad premonition.

Died for two weeks, the highly decomposed corpse made the actor collapse the whole person, although there was no frontal shot, but this plot also made many people in the theater feel the same way, as if they had seen the horrific scene with their own eyes, some AKB girls even wanted to vomit and wanted to leave and stop watching.

After returning to the company, the actor's appearance in a daze alone and the day's salary handed over by Yamazaki Nu finally eased the atmosphere of the whole play a little, but the portrayal of the male protagonist's psychology did not stop.

I felt the smell of my body on the bus.,The male owner who got off the bus got into the bath.,Crazy wiping his body.,After going home, the male owner looked at a whole chicken.,Thinking of what happened during the day, I couldn't help but vomit.,Holding his wife.,Greedily sucking the taste of the living......

The audience felt his struggles and difficulties with the male protagonist.

Time and plot slowly advance to the sound of the cello, the salmon's efforts to migrate heralded the arrival of autumn, and the work of the male protagonist and the plot of the whole film gradually got on track.

Bearing the gaze of many people who do not understand, but painting the most beautiful makeup on the deceased, Masahiro Kimoto, who worked with his master Yamazaki Nu, experienced the sacredness and beauty of this work, and the deceased regained his appearance little by little in the hands of the old man.

"The process of bringing the lost back from the new one to the eternal beauty is calm, delicate, gentle, and most importantly full of love. Witnessing the parting of life and death again and again, soothing, perfect, deeply touched me......"

He finally realized the charm of this work.

The family members, who had complained about them because of their tardiness, apologized and thanked them when they finally saw them off: "This is the most beautiful moment of her life." Such gratitude is simple and sincere, so that Masahiro Kimoto really feels the sense of accomplishment brought by this work.

So, he persevered in this work.

The plot progresses little by little, and the faint and funny at the beginning dilutes the tension brought by the name and the subject matter, and gradually, people finally begin to immerse themselves in the movie and realize the true meaning of the so-called healing content of the whole movie.

Even if his wife returns to her parents' house in a bad mood, she still has to stick to this job, because he really found the job he likes, it is true that many people don't understand, but in the process of this work, he also gained a lot of gratitude and touching, which supported him from autumn to winter. Accompanied by the melodious melody of the cello, it leads the audience to experience the deep meaning of real work.

Of course, there are still many details in the whole movie, such as the cello of the male protagonist, such as the description of appetite, these plots enrich the whole movie, giving the movie more poetic and healing.

Although this drama is full of life and death, most of the life and death partings belong to the supporting characters, and although the whole movie depicts death, it does not seem sad, and the girl played by Maeda is cute "byebye" when she says goodbye to her grandmother. When the man was said goodbye, the family had lipstick all over their faces and laughed...... Masahiro Kimoto on the embankment plays the cello from winter to spring, accompanied by the scene where he eats haute cuisine alone, bringing an extremely warm scene to the whole play.

Then, in the spring, when the flowers begin to bloom and the grass begins to grow in the picturesque prefecture of Yamagata Prefecture, the wife who has been back to her parents' house for a winter finally returns. And he also brought back the child in his belly......

In such an atmosphere, the two key scenes of the film arrived, the mother-in-law in the bathhouse and the father of the male protagonist, these two scenes can be regarded as truly expounding the connotation and meaning of the whole play. is not only tear-jerking, but also makes a very wonderful ending to the whole play.

Amid the melodious music, the film comes to an end, when the subtitles appear along with the scene where Masahiro Kimoto gently arranges the demeanor of the deceased. Many in the audience finally found the tears on their cheeks, and they were not sad or moved, but a sense of healing growing in each other's hearts. Echoing in each other's hearts.

The lights of the theater finally came on, and most of the people present were cultural people, and they all knew how to appreciate it, and this movie won their heartfelt appreciation, so after the film ended, they did not hesitate to give applause.

The ending music of the symphony was played in the theater, accompanied by a standing ovation, and the main cast and crew of the film, such as Zhou Xiao and Ryoko Hirosue in the front row, also stood up, turned around and applauded, and bowed frequently to the audience in thanks, with smiles on their faces, because the play seemed to be a real success.

The movie "The Undertaker" has received a lot of praise when participating in film exhibitions in various countries before, but no amount of praise is better than seeing the effect yourself, only when you really see this movie, can you appreciate the magic of the zào created by Zhou Xiao, a man.

A man who writes saliva songs about female idols just made a work full of healing, beauty and tenderness.

This is the end of the premiere of "The Undertaker", after the premiere, most of the people in the theater have left, but the people from AZX and AKB, as well as all the staff of the whole film, have not left, and these people have run together to a large hotel not far from the theater, where there will be a celebration banquet after the successful broadcast of "The Undertaker".

There were quite a lot of people attending the celebration banquet of "The Undertaker", especially the dozens of AKB girls who participated in this kind of large-scale buffet for the first time, and everyone looked around with great interest.

Zhou Xiao chatted and laughed with the main actors and staff from major companies, and accepted some flattering compliments from these people.

"Mr. Zhou Xiao, hello." Just when Zhou Xiao was chatting with someone, a greeting voice suddenly inserted next to him, and surprisingly, this greeting voice turned out to be ...... Chinese.

Chinese? Zhou Xiao looked back in surprise, and what he saw in front of him was a person he had almost never seen.

"Are you ......?" Zhou Xiao was surprised.

"Mr. Zhou Xiao, I'm Huang Feng, hello!" The man who stretched out his hand in front of him looked mediocre, but the suit on his body looked high-end.

"Mr. Huang, have we met there?" Zhou Xiao shook hands with the man named Huang Feng and asked.

"No, I don't know, in fact, it's my first time in Japan, and there are some things...... Can I talk to you? Huang Feng asked.

"First time in Japan? Anything else to talk to me about? Zhou Xiao was surprised, how did this person find him, and how did he get here?

"You're asking how I got in? Haha, there's nothing in this world that can't be solved with money. Huang Feng said.

"Then ...... you look for me," Zhou Xiao hesitated.

"I came to you to discuss business cooperation with you." Huang Feng said.

"Business?" Zhou Xiao was a little angry, there is a celebration here, you came over and said that you want to talk to me about business, so I will leave these people here to talk about business with you?

"Mr. Zhou, you don't have to be angry, this is my business card, I just want to get to know you this time, business cooperation and the like, I will look for you later." Huang Feng said.

"Oh? Okay, Mr. Huang, I know, I'll contact you when I have time. Zhou Xiao accepted Huang Feng's business card and said.

"Of course no problem, then...... Excuse me. Huang Feng said goodbye when he saw it.

After Huang Feng left, Zhou Xiao casually put the business card in his pocket, but in his opinion, this Huang Feng didn't know how to enter his celebration banquet, this alone was very rude, and he was not short of money at all, and he needed to invest, so he would never make this call, and he definitely didn't want to have anything to do with this Huang Feng. (To be continued......)

PS: Good 2015.