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Different inspirational movie "hundred yuan love"

This is a popular and wonderful Japanese inspirational film!

By jean208Published 3 years ago 4 min read

I don't know how many times I've secretly resolved to go running after dinner, preferably for a few kilometers, even if I can't lose much weight, but it's always good to exercise! However -

The badminton bought already has a layer of ash, the treadmill has turned into a drying rack, the dumbbells bought in addition to the first day to play their own use, the rest of the time is quiet under the bed.

The first thing you need to do is to take a break and eat fruit snacks while looking up at the ceiling at a 45-degree angle to stop your tears, and how to watch the newly downloaded movie "Love of a Hundred Dollars".

Why is the name of the movie called "Love of a Hundred Dollars"?

The so-called "hundred dollars" is actually 100 yen in Japanese currency, according to the exchange rate, it is worth 73 cents only!

The movie heroine called Saito Ichiko, 32 years old, not trim female man, Ichiko is a capital waste, more than thirty years old still alone, face ordinary like a glass of plain water, no work, can only rely on mother and divorced sister to support, every day only know how to play games, and nephews grab video games, and sister look at each other disagreeable. She occasionally smokes a cigarette and rides out on a broken bicycle, stopping in front of the boxing gym to take a look at her crush on the down-and-out boxing man.

After a fight with her family, Kazuko moves out of the house to live an independent life, working the evening shift at a 100-dollar convenience store with two strange to odd co-workers and the boxing man who comes to the convenience store every day after work to buy bananas.

The boxing man proposes to go out on a date together, and Ichiko buys new underwear and puts on a flowery dress. The boxing man is called Kano, who has nothing to do after retiring from boxing, and is picked up by Ichiko at the entrance of the convenience store with a hangover.

When sick to take care of each other, one of the clips can be called the most moving love scenes, Kano for the cold Ichiko made a big plate of meat, Ichiko eat while crying and laughing. Why are you crying? You can't bite it, you're crying, but you're laughing because finally a man is willing to cook for him!

When the audience, like Ichiko, thought they could comfort each other and live happily ever after, Kano said, "You really think you're my wife," and turned around and ran away with the long-legged girl selling tofu, never to return to Ichiko's house. It turns out that it is not a drama of a warm man rescuing a girl who is a loser. Love for Ichiko is like a big piece of meat that the hero can't bite off.

The shelter of family and love are gone, which could be a reason for Ichiko to continue to degenerate and give up treatment, but she did not, she found a way to save herself, self-fulfillment: boxing.

Once a person has a pursuit, losing a family, love, unemployment does not matter, decadence stops, burning love begins, turning anger into motivation, not because of love, because boxing man to practice boxing, boxing is their own independent way to pursue their own self, do not rely on anyone, completely on their own way to pursue the meaning of existence.

Boxing gyms, convenience stores, the street, all kinds of practice. The transformation of the lying aunt into a dynamic woman running fast is diverse and rich, and the parallel contrast is meaningful. At first it was Ichiko watching Kano fight through the window, but now it's Kano pulling the tofu cart and watching Ichiko fight from afar.

But everyone applauded excitedly, and Kazuko was bruised and cried, saying she wanted to win. In fact, she has already won, from not wanting to do anything, to wanting to win, wanting to fight with life, to try hard for once, which is off the charts.

Summing up.

The first half of "Love for a Hundred Dollars" keeps putting that boring, drawn-out and self-loathing life, and the more detailed the description of the hopeless life, the more powerful the change of perspective brings afterwards. In a way, the breakup is a stimulus for Ichiko to change something, to make herself less of a failure. At least she can become a person who doesn't disgust herself.

Boxing, in the film, is a metaphorical and carefully chosen sport. It begins with Kazuko asking her boyfriend, "Are you and your opponent good friends? Why are you tapping him on the shoulder?" Later, after a chance meeting after a breakup, her ex-boyfriend asks her why she practices boxing. Kazuko added, "It's that feeling of tapping on the shoulder."

In a way, this sport is a fight and a hug, it has a sense of conquest that no other sport can bring, but also in the post-fight hug there is a kind of great enlightenment like reconciliation and forgiveness that outsiders can hardly experience.

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