If someone introduces me to a high-scoring food program or food drama, I usually don't watch it. I'm neither addicted to cooking nor keen on eating. Food drama can't attract me. It was very accidental to watch this "Lonely Gourmet". One day, my husband told me that he watched a Japanese drama for 3 minutes, with no plot and few lines. He just played a person to eat, and he actually watched it. I'm curious. A TV series has no plot and few lines. It's just how to shoot a meal. Why do you shoot this? So I watched it together, and the drama was as deep as the sea. Since then, those good dramas that I never forgot to praise have fallen out of favor, and The Lonely Gourmet has occupied the throne of good dramas in my heart.
The monologue at the beginning of this play says: Not bound by time and society, when you are happy to fill your stomach, you will become free in a short time without being disturbed by anyone. This aloof behavior of eating without bothering is the highest cure given to modern people equally! I probably have a scarred heart that needs to be healed. Otherwise, why do I like this Japanese drama so much? When I watch this TV series, I am most worried that it will add some soothing plots and sprinkle a bowl of chicken soup like Midnight Food Store. It's not that Midnight Food Store is not good. I like Midnight Food Store very much, but I love The Lonely Gourmet more because the Gourmet doesn't tell stories and teach people truth, but only plays Goro to eat seriously during work breaks. Watching Goro eat one episode at a time, my cold heart, which has been through many vicissitudes, was suddenly cured.
Why did Gourmet cure me? In fact, I don't know. It's about that the older I get, the more I hate all kinds of meanings, values and so on. I hate the so-called propaganda of three views and positive energy, while "Gourmet" doesn't preach on the shelf. This drama just plays all kinds of delicious food eaten by grocery store owner Goro. Strictly speaking, it's just a home-cooked meal. "Gourmet" has been played for seven seasons, and Goro has never eaten Michelin's high-class cuisine. He is suddenly hungry after busy work, so he finds a small restaurant to eat a big meal, and after a while, he leaves contentedly. I am also very satisfied with it. Speaking of it, among all desires, appetite is the most able to make people feel happy. Other desires are too difficult to satisfy, too many constraints, only eating is free, only appetite is the most considerate, and you can be satisfied immediately after eating.
In the past, in my concept, the so-called gourmet must taste all the delicious food in the world. Talking about food makes me feel that I can eat an epic after eating pig food for decades and eating a bowl of chop suey noodles. Goro is not so much a gourmet as a foodie. When Goro was eating, the drums were beating in his heart, and he began to gobble up his food. He wiped the sweat from his head, rolled up his sleeves, added a bowl of rice and a dish, and his appetite made people look askance from time to time. I remember when I was a child, my parents and colleagues came home to chat one night. We all finished eating. My sister sat on the table alone and seriously dealt with a pot of soup rice. Everyone chatted. She only bowed her head and ate. When the guests left, my sister finally dried up the pot of rice. The guest praised her sister for being a good child and eating so carefully. From then on, I had a good impression on this guest, because it was the first time I saw someone praising eating seriously. Goro reminds me of my sister who ate seriously when I was a child. That night, she was a lonely gourmet. How pure happiness it was to eat seriously, many people have forgotten it.
The so-called "loneliness", in which Goro looks really lonely, runs a grocery store alone, travels all over the country every day to sell his groceries or buy products for customers, and occasionally contacts a friend for many years or is far away. But he is not lonely. He enjoys his work, enjoys the beautiful scenery or human feelings he meets, and eats happily ... When he sees the delicious food, he looks enthusiastic. Where is a lonely person? Goro's heart is boundless.
I have to talk about YUTAKA MATSUSHIGE who plays Goro. The first time I saw him was in Midnight Food Store, where he played the underworld eldest brother Long Ge, and he looked terrible. Later, I watched many Japanese dramas in which he participated. My favorite was Goro in The Lonely Gourmet, who was polite, a little alienated and a little cute. He liked his mouth open as if he had been immobilized when hunger struck. After reading the original comic book, I feel that YUTAKA MATSUSHIGE is a good actor. He looks serious and cold at ordinary times, and he is rich in inner drama when eating, like a passionate child. What's important is that the way YUTAKA MATSUSHIGE eats makes people lose their appetite. Some people say that this is a late-night terrorist attack. Yes, if you watch it every night and look at your figure in the mirror every day, it is definitely a horror movie. It is said that YUTAKA MATSUSHIGE in reality actually has a small appetite and likes to drink a little wine, but in order to play this drama, he went on a diet the day before filming, and his friend Kimura Takuya invited him to drink, so he insisted on eating what he didn't like or was too full to eat. No wonder he was slightly fat from the first season to the seventh season. He must have been injured at work. Goro, please protect yourself and try to keep eating.
As I get older, my desires become less and less, and my expectations for life become simpler and simpler. The more people are exposed to dust, the more they like purity. Well, I'd better eat the purest, eat what I like, regardless of elegance and vulgarity, and satisfy my appetite in the strong rice fragrance. As for all kinds of pickled things in the world of mortals, well, I'll talk about it when I'm full.