What is the destination in this long life? How should we bear the burden on the way home?
If you don’t know where to find the answer, then this documentary with a Douban score of 9.6 will point you in the best direction.
The soothing rhythm of the film narrates the life of the famous Japanese architect Tsubata Shuichi and his wife in their later years. Every frame makes people not want to miss it. They just want to calm down and enjoy life with them and find their way out. self.
Inject soul into work with love
Start with what you can do, move forward slowly but surely, and take your time. This is the secret of life that Tsuda Shuichi realized, and it is also the principle of life that he follows throughout his life.
Shuichi Tsubata is a famous Japanese architectural designer. He was ninety years old when the film was shot. When he was young, he participated in part of the design of Kozoji New Town in Japan, designed eighteen residential areas in Tokyo, and designed some residential areas for Taipei City. He is the trump card of a Japanese real estate company and has rich experience.
In the video, Mr. Shuichi has silver-gray fluffy curly hair, black-rimmed glasses, and walks into a classroom with his design drawing under his arm. He was invited to tell people about this day his design career.
When designing a residential area for Gaozangji New Town, in the face of the typhoon, he proposed to build the houses higher and leave the trees in the town to achieve the unity of man and nature. At that time, it was called the ideal design of the new era. However, because the company's construction department stated that it could not turn such a design into reality, the construction plan was changed, and it was finally decided to level the mountain and build high-rise buildings on cheap land. Mr. Shuichi, who persistently pursues a slow lifestyle, hopes that people can return to the forest and return to nature. Faced with the change in the construction plan, Mr. Shuichi’s disappointment cannot be concealed.
He has an indelible feeling for Mr. Shuichi Xincheng. Although the construction plan has changed, he still chooses to build a house of his own on this land. He is willing to stay and work with others to transform the Xincheng community. He also led people to plant oak trees on the back hill of the new city, making it a beautiful scenery of the new city. "If everyone plants a tree in the yard, then we can plant a forest." Mr. Shuichi said in the film. Mr. Shuichi has been doing this for more than 40 years, slowly but surely.
"As an employee he has many shortcomings, but as an architectural designer he is the best." His assistant commented on him in the film. He once left the company without any warning and locked himself at home for several weeks without going to work, just to perfect his designs.
In his later years, Mr. Shuichi designed the construction drawings for a mental sanatorium in Imari for free. "As long as I live, I will do my best for it." His paintbrush is not rusty and the drawings are kept by his side. Always ready, he remained deeply passionate about his career throughout his life, even having his own house copied from that of his favorite architect, Anthony Raymond. Mr. Xiuyi not only has a talent for architectural design, but also has a firm work attitude. Such professionalism is precious in today's society.
We know each other well and treat each other with respect as guests
Tsubata Shuichi and his wife Eiko met at the National Games on Handa Island. The young Mr. Shuichi was the captain of the University of Tokyo Yacht Club, and Eiko’s family owned a boat. The two-hundred-year-old sake brewery provided accommodation for the entire club members. The two got to know each other and soon decided to spend the rest of their lives together. Since it was a cold November, the two decided not to hold a wedding ceremony, but simply held a yacht party.
In the film, the Tsuda couple planted 70 kinds of vegetables and 50 kinds of fruits in their yard. In order to make it easier for Mr. Xiuyi to recognize, Eiko made various signs. The two old people, whose combined age is close to 180 years old, are busy in the yard every day. Together they water the growing potatoes and carry the small They picked cherries in a bucket and walked together in the yard to admire the flowers of fruits and vegetables. Mr. Shuichi occasionally brought a small camera to capture Eiko's happy moments. In this way, they enjoyed the cycle of the four seasons with the growth of fruits and vegetables. I think this is probably the sweetest enjoyment in a person's life. Doing what you like with the people you love, the life accumulated in time seems to be beyond time.
"I won't say I love you loudly, but I will try to make something he likes." Yingzi said with a smile in the film.
You can't hide your love for someone, not only because the eyes can speak, but also because the details confess everything. Eiko usually goes to the city to buy ingredients the day after her pension is paid out. Eiko carefully selects the fish in front of the fish cabinet and puts all the fish that Mr. Shuichi likes into her bag. Eiko also remembers the fruits and vegetables in the yard. If the harvest is not good, Yingzi will buy more to make up for the shortfall. Eiko also stores a variety of homemade sauces and soups in the refrigerator at home. She will use these delicious ingredients to make amazing and sumptuous meals to ensure that Mr. Shuichi can eat well. Eiko doesn't like to eat potatoes, but a lot of fresh potatoes are grown in the yard every year. Eiko's best dish is also potato curry, because Mr. Shuichi likes potatoes the most.
Because he likes to eat, he is a specialty. Because he likes to use wooden spoons, he prepares them before every meal. Because he accidentally hurt his head on a branch in the yard, he made the same dish the next day. A sign saying "Be careful of branches and keep your head down" appeared in one place... When Mr. Shuichi was doing an interview in Taiwan, Eiko cuddled up next to him. Mr. Shuichi held Eiko's hand and said, "To me, she is the best "Girlfriend", a smile bloomed on the wrinkled face. After time, their love is like a jar of good wine exuding a fragrant aroma, making us yearn for and indulge in it.
Life needs a sense of ritual
In the film, the smooth lens shows us an ordinary life of two people having three meals a day for four seasons, which is not as refined as the Vlog bloggers who are now popular on the Internet. , but it has a real atmosphere of human fireworks.
There are too many fruits and vegetables in the yard, but almost every one of them has a small sign painted by Mr. Xiuyi made by Eiko. The yellow background is particularly conspicuous among the clusters of green leaves, "Bamboo Shoots: Hello" and "Bamboo Shoots" Spring flowers: Spring is coming." "Peony: It's beautiful." "Lingxiao flower: Enjoy this red corridor." "Birdbath: Please help yourself." The words on the small signs were written by Yingzi one sentence at a time, even the ones at the door of the house. There is a small sign with simple drawings of Eiko and Mr. Shuichi at the mailbox. The bright yellow color is eye-catching, and the cute slogans not only touch our hearts, but also make us marvel at this love for life.
Different fruits and vegetables have different ripening times. During the time when the fruits are growing quietly, Eiko and Mr. Shuichi will collect the dead leaves and spread them on the ground. These dead leaves will grow slowly as time goes by. Become an excellent fertilizer. When the strawberries are ripe, Yingzi will slice fresh strawberries to make strawberry cake; when the ganxia is ripe, Yingzi will mash them and sprinkle them with sugar to make jam to make pudding; when the branches are covered with bright green Mr. Shuichi will cut off the plump walnuts with scissors, and use a knife to cut off the pulp and take out the walnuts inside. Baskets of apples, oranges, peaches, and chestnuts were packed into gifts by the Tsudaans and mailed to their concerned relatives and friends far away. Mr. and Mrs. Tsudata understand nature as if they were their own children. They carefully take care of the growth of the fruit, and when the fruit matures, they share the gifts of nature with others.
"The more seriously you live, the better your life will be", this is the summary given in the film. In the modern materialistic society, people are always in a hurry. They have to get up early to catch the subway to go to work, and they have to work overtime. After get off work, they are exhausted physically and mentally and just want to lie in bed. We are pushed, driven, and driven away by life. In a fast-paced lifestyle, slowing down is a luxury, so what about living seriously? This is why Mr. Shuichi takes the unity of man and nature as the core of his construction design. Forest fruits and vegetables heal our souls, and their growth gives us a sense of ritual in life. As they grow, we will also slow down and listen. Life, as slowly and surely as they do, is lived seriously.
What is the meaning of life? Zhou Guoping said, "Life is meaningless." The soothing but busy life of the Tsuda couple under the camera may be the best explanation for this statement. Human beings are children of nature. We are no different from the fruits and vegetables in the yard. Fruits and vegetables grow slowly throughout their lives, from seed germination to flowering and fruiting to withering and death. The dead leaves turn into fertilizer, fertilize the land and help the fruits grow in the coming year; we His life is also growing slowly, from birth to going to school, working, getting married and having children, and finally raising his children to grow old himself, just as Mr. Shuichi wrote in the postcard: "Leave something for future generations." Things, enrich their future, people are more important than money.
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“All the answers lie in nature.” Life comes from here and will eventually end here. Instead of thinking hard about the meaning of survival, it is better to slow down and relax, in the cycle of four seasons, in the fruits and vegetables. Discover the true nature of life in the breath of growth, and learn to move forward and grow slowly and steadily like natural fruits and vegetables
On June 2, 2015, Mr. Shuichi took a nap after weeding, and then. He didn't wake up either.
The death under the camera is the most touching. One second, Mr. Shuichi and Eiko were walking under the warm spring sun, and the next second, it was Eiko on the bed where Mr. Shuichi died. He said his final farewell before saying, "The road ahead may be lonely, but you have to wait for me. We will take a boat trip to the South Pacific together. You have to wait for me, Mr. Shuichi." ”
After Mr. Shuichi passed away, Eiko would prepare three meals every day and place them in front of Mr. Shuichi’s photo. On the plate were Mr. Shuichi’s favorite potato curry and meat balls, as well as a commonly used wooden spoon. After a heavy rain, Yingzi changed the wet paper windows alone, picked a bucket full of yellow persimmons under the autumn sunshine, sat hunched over in front of baskets of apples and sweet oranges, and packed them busily. A harvest season!
Eight months after Mr. Shuichi’s death, the construction plan he designed for a mental sanatorium in Imari officially began. This construction retained all of Mr. Shuichi’s designs. Soon After that, it will bring spiritual shelter to people in the city, allowing them to return to nature and find themselves.
If you can use one sentence to describe the life of the Tsudaans, it would be: "The wind blows dry." Leaves and dead leaves nourish the soil, and fertile soil helps the fruits grow slowly and steadily. ”
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