The Method of Stealing Keys is a 128 minute feature film produced by Japanese Cine Bazar.The film was directed and written by Kenji Ueda, starring Sakai Yaren, Shinichi Xiangchuan, Ryoko Hiromachi, Ryoko Arakawa, Yoshiko Moriguchi, etc., and was released in Japan on September 15, 2012.The film tells the life entanglement between a failed actor and a killer.>>>
Small theater actor Takeshi Sakurai（Sakai YarenDecoration)After years of struggle, he never made a breakthrough. He was poor, frustrated in love, and desperate. He even failed to commit suicide.In desperation, he had to take a bath in the public bath, but unexpectedly, he slipped a strange man with a piece of soap.The man fell to the ground and fainted, while Sakurai stole the other party's key to the locker. From then on, he assumed the pseudonym of Kondo and lived a life of wealth that he never dared to reach.But what he could not imagine was that Kondo（Shine on XiangchuanDecoration)He was a cold-blooded killer who was famous in the underworld.After that, Sakurai had to take over the entrustment from the mafia and work hard to kill people.At the same time, Kondo, who woke up from the hospital, lost his memory and mistook himself for Sakurai, who was desperate.Zaomiao, a beautiful woman who met by chance on Shuidao（Guangmu LiangziDecoration)With the help of, he gradually reconsidered himself as an actor, and painstakingly explored the way forward. In the process, his and Zaomiao's hearts also changed quietly.When his memory was restored, the fate of the three people was entangled[2]。
Male, 35 years old, without fixed occupation.He loved performing, but he failed to rise to the top. He was poor and his future was bleak. In despair, Sakurai decided to commit suicide.As the saying goes, people who are unlucky enough to drink cold water are stuffed with teeth, and can't die if they want to.
Kondo meets beautiful women in the hospital.Gentle and excellent, but the flower of love has not bloomed yet.In order to let her dying father have no regrets, she desperately went on blind dates, hoping to let him attend her wedding.
A legendary professional killer who never shows his true face to anyone.After being severely hit on the head, he developed amnesia. According to the objects around him, he was convinced that he was an unsuccessful young actor, Sakurai, and he looked blank in the face of the hopeless future.
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Kazuya Yoshii
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Director Uchida has the habit of recording good ideas and materials at any time. It is said that the moment when he fell down in the bathhouse and lost his memory came from the inspiration he got when he took a bath in the bathhouse in his twenties.
The inspiration of the film comes from the musician Katsumoto(Part A:The lyrics of his work "Birth of Heaven (Ou Ma れ in the Kingdom of Heaven)", "There is so-called love that will not be realized, and he has already given up. But there is no dream that will not be realized, and he should never give up."
The setting of "identity exchange" did not exist in the first few drafts, and it was not added until the last few drafts.
Xiangmiao and Kangdao have a large number of handwritten notes in the film. Their "pen replacement" is Han Mingjun, who has 35 years of calligraphy experience. Because there are many scenes in the film that need words on paper, Hong Man is burdened with work and suffers from tendinitis. He laughs that this is a heavy physical work.Sakai wrote the words himself.
For a scene of Qian Tang, two places were selected for shooting.The entrance is a coin soup in Yanekou, Daocheng City, and the interior is a coin soup in Nanxuegu, Datian District.
Xiangmiao's car is an advanced car worth 20 million yen, so the crew was very nervous when shooting, and quickly retreated after the shooting.
As he said, he was a person who was easily frightened, so he would recite the script with all his life before shooting.In the face of director Uchida, who is good at editing and directing and is dedicated and serious, he dared not take it lightly. Not only his own part, but also the lines of other actors tried to write down.
It was revealed at the end of Guangzhou that he was ruthlessly NG by the director for many times because of his "too cute" performance in the film[6]。
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2012-06-20
The 15th Shanghai International Film Festival Golden Jubilee Award for Best Film
Methods for Stealing Keys
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Best Screenplay of the 15th Shanghai International Film Festival
Kenji Uchida
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2013-03-08
The 36th Japan Film Academy Award for Best Screenplay
The Japanese humor style has a certain expression in the Method of Stealing Keys, that is, they focus on certain details to the extent that you think it is funny. It belongs to a serious humor style, but it has a nonsense effect.
The way to steal the key is to cut into the way of humor expression. Guangmo Liangzi, the 34 year old editorial director of the publishing house who plays Guangmo Liangzi, announces that he is going to get married, but the candidate has not yet been determined. Ask colleagues to help introduce him. Then colleagues ask what the requirements are, and answer "healthy, hard working is OK." Same as the previous requirements for temporary workers.Later stories revolved around Loser Sakurai, who played by Sakai, and Kondo, who played by Sakagawa, who was extremely planned to do things. After exchanging identities, the story was carried out in accordance with the contrast of his usual way of doing things. The process was full of black humor, and revealed that Loser could not blame fate for becoming a Loser.The title of the film should mean that only by understanding a certain way of doing things can we achieve our goals[15]。(NetEase Online Review)
The Way to Steal Keys is a story about finding a key. If you find the right key - even if you don't want to change it, it can help you open the right door to life.In fact, this kind of small pattern story theme is not uncommon in Japanese movies. Sabu made a series of works in those years, in which there were frustrated little people and killer with full tone. It is today's Kenji Ueda, who is full of enthusiasm.
The film tells of a funny Oolong's identity exchange, and then the underworld is involved, which is absurd."The Method of Stealing Keys" seems to repeat a line of "Golden Dream": the most powerful weapon is habit.Even if a person loses his memory and any valuable things, he can still change his destiny through habits, and even find precious love.Don't forget, it is Hiroshi's good habits that really make things turn around(like eating salt)。Habit decides everything, so the sad fate of Sakai people is also their own fault.
The most popular part of the film is that Xiangchuan taught the Sakai people how to act. The poor cute emperor really has to kneel down.In addition, like the performance of Xiangchuan's code of living(Planning and sorting addiction), extremely unusual of Sakai people(Sloppy, lazy and impractical kindness), Hiromachi's marriage battle and Arakawa's good and honest version of the black boss are all carried out in an orderly manner, and the details around identity exchange can also echo back and forth.Kenji Ueda has used unexpected subversion settings for many times. Excellent girls are not wanted, and killers do not kill. Even the straightforward Yako is so delightful. It's a good sentence, "That old thing is a fart". It's completely a weak person who has turned over and hidden himself.Therefore, it is not too much to hand over a happy happy ending and eggs in the Method of Stealing Keys.The car anti-theft alarm is not only joyful, but also exciting[16]。(Sina Online Review)
