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Article on Love You 10000 Years in travel magazine
(only parts related to Zaizai)
Translated by sytwo @ VIC & AF
Credit to vicchou - jawu for scan and ivych for article transcript
"Love contract for 90-days, exchange for a pledge of "Love you ten thousand years"
A love affair of 3 months through an amazing contract, a fresh romantic comedy that is like Japanese manga, resulting in the bizarre romantic love of "Love you ten thousand years". Director Beichun Fengqing (Toyo Kitamura) has chosen Taichung to film "ove you 10000 Years" because of the good weather and novel characteristics of the shops/ stores. It combines the romance and relationship development of the lead actor and actress, with the vitality and creativity of the city. The movie is planned to broadcast in August, coinciding with the Chinese Valentine's Day theater schedule, and will be setting the climax for tourism in Taichung. Taichung is the central traffic/ travel hub in Taiwan, where people from the south going to the north must pass through the city. Access roads are convenient but not crowded. Plus the moderate climate where it is not too hot in summer and not too cold in winter, making the city the top place for residence. As the Taichung residents come from many places, they have high acceptance of new things. This has also made Taichung the place in Taiwan for craze or fads of certain food or snacks. Taichung also has many universities and colleges, higher than in Kaohshiung, and can be called a city of culture. In the past years, the city has made strong efforts to develop/ promote tourism, and its museums and the Metropolitan Opera, making many people see it in a new light.
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Facts about "Love you ten thousand years" :
Release Date : August 13, 2010
Director: Beichun Fengqing (Toyo Kitamura)
Main Role: Vic Zhou (playing Wu Qifeng), Jiateng Youji (playing Juzi), Natto
Important records: Even before the film is released, fans could not wait and has created "Wikipedia" page for "Love You Ten Thousand Years"
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Confession of the truth from director Toyo Kitamura, culture collision of Taiwan-Japan leading to sparks
Residing in Taiwan for 12 years, Toyo Kitamura said earnestly in his Japanese-accented mandarin, "I feel I am more like a "tai-ke" (stereotypical taiwanese person)." When he said this, his face has an expression of delight and perhaps it is such a personality that caused him to create "Love you ten thousand years," a serious (realistic) comedy movie. "Love" was originally a short film, and it was because of its "100 percent laughter result" which led to the production of the full-length movie. Toyo smiled and made lively gestures as he said "when he was discussing the movie script with the screenwriter, he found out that many people in Taiwan love to read Japanese manga, and that Japan and Taiwan has almost identital trend in terms of popular manga. So both him and the screenwriter used the manga methods, where in the movie there will a blending of off-plot "Love Lectures" . These type of hilarious and surreal plot will surely become a subject of lively discussion.
Innovative technique is a challenge, gettting an idol star to act in a comedy film is another challenge. "I communicated with Zai Zai in advance, both of us want to shoot the kind of comedy that is not intentionally funny." Toyo said that he wants the plot to have a sense of reality, where the actors do not act in an artificial way (overly exaggerated) but perform seriously "type of comedy". Toyo said that many times during filming, after he shouts "CUT" he will "laugh until his lung hurts", and he believes the audience will also laugh due to the plot.
Talking about his course of events in communicating with Zai Zai, Toyo has strong praise for him, that he is an earnest/ serious actor. He said that in order to act as the lead singer who also plays acoustic guitar in the film, Zai Zai spent a lot of time in training. He was afraid that Zaizai is not able learn it, and even comforted Zai Zai not worry, saying that during the actual filming they can overcome that through controlling the camera angle. But amazingly when they officially started filming, Zai Zai is already skilled enough to play and sing at the same time, and totally did not need a replacement to play on his behalf. In addition, the song made famous by Wu Bai ie. "Love you ten thousand years," will also be sung by Zai Zai and recorded as the film soundtrack, but it will be adapted to the 2010 edition, with British rock style.
When talking about the soundtrack, Toyo suddenly said : Do you know you about the Japanese folk dance songs? The ones with clapping while shouting "嘿咻, 嘿咻" (to make love, to make love)? I wrote a song for "嘿咻 (to make love ) dance" which will be used in the movie. As he said this he began to open up his notebook and played this comedy song which he composed with Japanese lyrics. The reporter asked Toyo whether he knows that "嘿咻 (to make love)" has a special meaning in Taiwan? And how will this song be blended into the film? He nodded as he hummed along side the music tempo, that he knew what "嘿咻" means, and even said: "I'm going to put this song in the scene where the male lead entered the room of the female lead, and his mind was full of fantasies which will be accompanied by this song." It appears that this Taiwan-Japan cultural encounter will result in more than just one language of laughter, making one even more looking forward to this Taiwan-Japanese hybrid of "National film".
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