The ending is smooth, but it manages to touch people’s hearts in the daily details. The screenwriter is good at using repetition, and pushes the lost and regained friendship to a climax with deja vu plots, full of emotions and moving! To sum up, this drama is exciting and interesting, with a good balance between unconstrained and unconstrained style and a sense of life. It brings out the principles of life that are not taken for granted in daily life without preaching. The idiot rhythm writes a new peak in his screenwriting career. Coupled with the superb acting skills of Ando Sakura, this season is definitely A must see!
Author: Pinger
Ratings: 6.1%
Play Name: Brush Up Life
TV station: NTV
Premiere: January 8, 2023
Time: Every Sunday at 10:30pm
Screenwriter: Stupid Rhythm
Directed by: Itaru Mizuno, Shunsuke Kariyama
Producers: Eriko Mikami, Rena Oda, Mayuko Sakakibara, Yuki Shibata, Kaori Suzuki
Music: Fox Capture Plan
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actor
Asami Kondo — Starring Sakura Ando
Natsuki Kadokura — Kaho
Miho Yonekawa — Haruka Kinami
Masaru Tanabe — Tori Matsuzaka
Shunsuke Fukuda — Shota Someya
Mita — Kosuke Suzuki
Shizuka Takami — Yui Ichikawa
Misa Maruyama — Kayo Noro
Hiroshi Kondo — Naoki Tanaka
Haruka Kondo — Mirai Shida
Kumiko Kondo — Hiroko Nakajima
Teacher Yoko—Kurumi Nakajima
Rena’s Father — Takeo Seto
Rena Moriyama — Kuroki Hana
Mari Uno — Asami Mizukawa
Asami Usuda — Asami Usuda
Toru Miyaoka — Toru Nomaguchi
The Guide to the Afterlife — Stupid Rhythm
Asami Kondo (Sakura Ando) repeatedly begged Captain Nakamura (Sugushi Jinbo) to let her fly, but was reprimanded by him with a bad attitude, creating a negative image of Captain Nakamura. In order to save their friend’s life, Mari Uno (Asami Mizukawa) and Mami conspired to poison Captain Nakamura. Unexpectedly, Mami’s medical knowledge from her previous life would come in handy at this time. The two were discussing plans at home. The super-large plan was meant to be funny but it was a bit too deliberate. On the contrary, the chat between the two from the discussion of poisoning to what they would do in the next life was more interesting. Mami learned that Mami gave up the chance to be a human being in the next life to save My friend, if it were me, I hesitated for a moment, and this reaction was too real, ha, no wonder she became a water cockroach in the next life.
Asami made a plan to wait for Captain Nakamura in the lounge. The tension in the play was well created. Unexpectedly, instead of Captain Nakamura, it was Minako Kawaguchi (Toko Miura) who appeared in a flight attendant costume. It was a surprise! It turned out that after seeing Mami’s magazine as a captain, she thought about trying to do a different job and came to become a flight attendant. Mami thought about implementing the poisoning plan, and complained to Kawaguchi absent-mindedly. The last thing she expected was a sudden powerful plot At a turning point, Kawaguchi revealed that Captain Nakamura named her to take care of his mistress, because Kawaguchi was blamed by Nakamura when he was working at the city hall, so now he has revenge, and exposed the affair to Nakamura’s wife, which also made Captain Nakamura unable to fly. In the end, Mami did not leave Du was also able to board the plane smoothly, and was so happy that he flew up.
Here it is revealed that Captain Nakamura went on a trip with his mistress, which made him insist on flying this flight for a more reasonable reason. In addition, this scene also connects the previous small details. For example, in the first episode, Kawaguchi wore a T-shirt with the word “Go to Hell” written on it when she was working at the city hall. In this scene, she scolded Captain Nakamura for “Go to Hell” is also an echo. ; Another example is that in the discussion of the screenwriter in the fifth episode, it was mentioned that the important person saved the affair and became the savior, which are presented here again; in the interview of the last episode, Mami mentioned that Captain Nakamura is from the same township, and it is reasonable and reasonable to go to the local city hall; the most unexpected It is Hekou, a character who seemed to be a passerby at the beginning, who repeatedly appears in surprising postures in the latter part of the plot, which is quite wonderful.
Mami and Mari were intercepted by a mysterious man (Asano Tadanobu) on the way to fly the plane. I thought he was trying to do something bad, but it turned out that he was also restarting his life. Because his ex-wife encountered an air crash in the previous life, he wanted to prevent the tragedy from happening in this life. Come find Mami and Mari. His presence or absence doesn’t really matter to the plot, because that’s exactly what Mami and Mari are going to do. It is the most surprising thing to ask Tadanobu Asano to play a passerby-like character. Zhenli later complained that he was reborn but could not avoid divorce. It seems that it is not easy for people who restart their lives to change their destiny.
As a result, Mami and Mari successfully rescued the plane crash. Although the picture is plain, it is moving, especially when Mami sees the space junk falling in the distance. From the watery eyes, I can feel the mixed emotions in her heart. , Ando Sakura is worthy of being a queen. The two discuss what they want to be in the next life, and Mami is not obsessed with humans, as long as she is born in her hometown. Seeing this, the author remembered that when the counter of the afterlife world described the reincarnated species, it would always explain where it was (such as the giant anteater in southeastern Guatemala in the first episode). The concept of hometown has appeared many times, and it is clear that the screenwriter has his intentions, and this paragraph also paves the way for the ending of this episode.
Unexpectedly, Natsuki Menkura (Xia Fan) and Miho Yonekawa (Haruka Kinami) were waiting for Mami and Mari at the airport, and they recognized them when they heard the pilot’s flight announcement. The four of them went to a Taiwanese restaurant to eat together, and saw netizens complain that Taiwanese restaurants would not look like this, probably this is the Japanese stereotyped impression of Chinese restaurants. Seeing the four of them chatting happily and putting together the old photo stickers, I was really moved. This is a scene that took many lifetimes and a lot of hard work to achieve! Asami and Mari roll happily in the hotel room, so cute. The change of Mari’s title has also become a topic in the future, and it is also inferred that it is the butterfly effect. To be honest, the focus of this drama is not on the butterfly effect. Many plots are more like fate, and there is not much that can be changed if you want to change it. This is a part that is very different from the author’s expectations.
After completing the flight mission, both Mami and Mari resigned and returned to their hometowns. Asami worked as a city office clerk, and Mari became a kindergarten teacher. The following are very daily plots, and the dialogues in many scenes are similar to those that have appeared in previous plots. This includes Mami and her mother Kondo Kumiko (Hiroko Nakajima) at home talking right and wrong in front of her father Kondo Hiroshi (Tanaka Naoki), Mami asked Kondo Haruka (Shida Mirai) to send her to work, on the way she encountered pushing a kindergarten car and was scolded by a customer at work , Chatting with Kawaguchi in the tea room, these bridges have appeared in Mami’s first life, and seeing it again after so much experience is another feeling, which can be regarded as an echo from beginning to end to a certain extent. Kawaguchi didn’t work as a flight attendant because she worked too hard, but she actually worked in the city for 336 years! Note that the clothes she is wearing now say “Go To Hometown” also echoes everyone’s return to their hometown in this episode.
The four best friends have dinner twice a month, which is the same frequency as Mami used to work in the TV station. This time is Mami’s 40th birthday, and she finally passed the stage of dying safely, so I don’t need to worry about being hit by a car suddenly (laughs). Mami saw Natsuki’s paper bag and thought it was a birthday gift, so she couldn’t help asking. This scene was exactly the same as Mami complained about Natsuki not taking out snacks in the fifth episode. As a result, Mami misunderstood and was very embarrassed. Xia Xi showed a real birthday gift, and the birthday celebration scene also reminded me of Miho’s birthday celebration in the first life.
Later, when the topic came to junior high school, Natsuki didn’t need to be introduced to everyone by a friend in a cram school. This episode also appeared in the fifth episode, but I didn’t expect that person to be the councilor Suzuki Yasuko (Kondo Haruna), which appeared on the street notice board in these two episodes Its posters are even used in variety shows. The screenwriter keeps using the same plot to remind the audience of past episodes, emphasizing that they have experienced a lot, thus strengthening the intergenerational relationship between the four of them. The chatting part of the four is also so natural that it doesn’t look like filming at all, as if they are really chatting, although the topic is repeated, but I can’t get tired of watching it. I think the main reason is that the atmosphere created by the tacit understanding between the actors is very good and contagious. , Even the audience can not care about the content of the dialogue and fully invest in it.
The four of them sang KTV after eating, not only the dialogue, but also the camera placement was exactly the same as the first episode. Shunsuke Fukuda (Shota Someya), who was promoted to be the foreman, continued to deliver French fries. I admire the screenwriter who can write a lot of dialogue even when delivering French fries. It is said here that I want to contribute to the turnover, so I invited all the old classmates over. This kind of reason is too strong to think about. It is also very satisfying for the audience to turn it into a reunion of old classmates, especially because they never thought that it will be possible in the ending. Bonus points for hearing Kato Naoto (Miyashita Yuya) sing “Powder Snow”! The statement that Xiao Fu’s street concert was controlled made the students misunderstand that there are too many adults to be controlled, which is too funny here. As a result, this group of people was so excited that they sang all night, how wonderful! Realistically speaking, it is absolutely impossible to find classmates who have not seen for so many years to gather overnight. It is too unrealistic, but the author likes it.
The four walked home side by side, still on the familiar street. The content of the conversation was the relative time theory discussed in the first life in the carriage. The content of the conversation is really not important, and the smiles of the four are awesome! The ending is smooth and steady, but very heartwarming, and the author is quite satisfied.
In the play, I did not forget to explain to the old queen, and verified the words that the four of them said in front of the convenience store that they lived in a super high-tech nursing home together, and the four of them still talked at each other when they were gray. Asami lived to die at the age of 98, and lived a total of 232 years. In the last scene, Granny Xiaoyao looked at the four pigeons lined up on the pole, echoing what Mami said on the plane when she mentioned what she wanted to do in the next life. Of course, it is unknown whether the protagonists are reincarnated in groups. Leave room for the audience’s imagination!
