Miyazaki Hayao disciple Kitaro Kosaka
When it comes to Kitaro Kosaka, everyone is very strange, but if we look at his work list, we can probably guess the director’s work style. Having worked in Ghibli for many years, he has participated in the production of many films such as Valley of the Wind, City of the Sky, Hal’s Moving Castle and Ponyo On The Cliff by The Sea, and is a highly valued painting supervisor of Ghibli. His fate with Okko’s Inn came from an accidental attempt. At that time, Azuma Tani of the animation production company DLE wanted to adapt the popular novel "The Young Wife of Shop-owner is a Primary School Student", which sold more than 30 million copies, into a TV animation. He found Takasaka with a proposal and hoped that he could help him draw some impression drafts of the characters. At that time, Kitaro Kosaka had just finished "The Wind is Blowing" and started to take a vacation. He read the original novel and drew impressions of more than a dozen characters. However, because the original was a children’s literature for girls, Takasaka didn’t want to participate in the production of this project.
Who knows that in the past two years, this project has been silent, but Takasaka is anxious. If the TV version of the plan is delayed, the project will be ruined. At this moment, Azuma Tani said to Takasaka, "I hope to make your characters move in the form of a theatrical version, and give you the position of supervision by the way.". Takasaka, who has been working on the original painting, also wanted to try to be a director, so he took over the project. In the plot, the theatrical version and the TV version have similar story structures, but the endings are different, and the production of the theatrical version is more sophisticated. As many former Ghibli employees participated in the production of the theatrical version, the animation style also bears Ghibli’s shadow. For those who like Ghibli’s works, this is a work not to be missed.
Warm winter healing system
Before the adaptation, Kitaro Kosaka set the tone of the story: based on the whole novel, he completely described the growth process of Xiao Zhi, the hero of the story. The first half of the original mainly focuses on the operation of the hotel, and the second half takes the underworld as the stage. When the theatrical version was adapted, Takasaka omitted the magical elements as much as possible, focusing on the growth process of Xiaozhi, while the rare magical part was reflected in the guardian elves that Xiaozhi met-Shaoshao, Meiyang and Bell Elves, who accompanied Xiaozhi and spent many wonderful times.
There is no doubt that Okko’s Inn is a healing film, and there is also a detailed embodiment of Japanese hot spring culture in the film. In order to truly restore, Takasaka read a lot of related books and took the art team to the hot spring hotels around the country to collect materials. After some investigation, it was found that these hot springs were originally used to recuperate wild animals, and later the theatrical version derived the idea of joining "divine joy" in this impression. The picture of the film is also very exquisite, which was highly praised by the original novel author Ling Zhangyuzi. "The film version respects the illustrations and characters of the original work and gives the work a new life. No matter the characters or the background, the city and the architecture, there is a delicate aesthetic feeling. The space and time of the work complete the imagination of the readers."
After being released in Japan, Okko’s Inn became the first in the discussion of Twitter film categories, and was also affirmed by major film awards. He was shortlisted for the best animated feature film campaign at the 92nd Oscar, and was nominated for the best independent animated feature film at the 47th Animated Anne Award, the best animated film at the 42nd Japan Film Academy Award, the best animated film at the 73rd Japan Daily Film Festival, the audience’s favorite award at the 20th Korea Fuchuan International Animation Film Festival, the innovation and excellence award at the 28th Japan Film Critics Award, and the animated film award at the 28th Japan Film Festival. We will wait and see what kind of comments the film will get from the domestic audience when it is shown in mainland China today.
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