Actor's Road

Yang Yueming came to China not only to accompany Anyang, but also because Anyang wanted her to relax.During this period of time, Yang Yueming has been in a very negative mood because of the filming of SP "The Last Home" and the movie "Maliciousness".

The movie "Maliciousness" is adapted from the novel of the same name by Keigo Higashino.This novel is the fourth in the Kaga Kyoichiro series.The best-selling author Kunihiko Hidaka was killed at home the night before going abroad. The first person who discovered the body was Osamu Nonoguchi, a depressed children's novel writer who was the writer's new wife and friend of Hidaka.Kyoichiro Kaga participated in the investigation of this case.According to the clues at the scene, he soon discovered that Nonoguchi was the murderer of Hidaka.Nonoguchi confessed to his crime, but his motive for killing Hidaka was different every time he confessed.During the investigation, Kaga discovered that Hidaka had stolen Nonoguchi's works, seized Nonoguchi's weakness, and asked Nonoguchi to act as his ghostwriter.Could this be Nonoguchi's motive for killing Hidaka?The evidence is impeccable, but there is always a feeling in Kaga's heart that the truth is not the case.He came to the hometown of Nonoguchi and Hidaka to explore the secrets of the two who grew up together... The truth of the case made Kaga feel the boundless chill of falling into an abyss.

"Maliciousness" was made into a TV series with only 2001 episodes in 5, starring Nishihara Kokoo, Sasaki Karanosuke, etc., which can be regarded as a relatively complete restoration of the plot of the novel.However, due to the deletion of the famous policeman "Kaga Kyouichiro" written by Keigo Higashino, this work lost its luster, and the final response was mediocre. Compared with other works of Higashino that have been filmed, the influence is slightly weaker.

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Director Junji Sakamoto has collaborated with Yang Yueming in "Children in the Dark" and "The Canary of the North", and spoke highly of Yang Yueming's acting skills.So this time he filmed "Maliciousness", after determining the theme of the film, he immediately thought of inviting her to be the leading role of the film, as the soul of the film.

This time Director Junji Sakamoto filmed "Maliciousness". While maintaining the overall structure of the novel, he made a bold change. In the original book, Nonoguchi and Hidaka, who had been in fetters since middle school, were both set as women. Yoshiaki Yoshiaki and Masami Nagasawa starred.And Kyoichiro Kaga, who is responsible for connecting the clues, is played by the new generation actor Tori Matsuzaka.

Nonoguchi Rika and Hidaka Harumi's editor, Amamiya Mai, came to Hidaka's house together because of an incident, and found that Hidaka was killed.Kaga Kyoichiro and police colleagues appeared together and began to investigate the case.Kaga discovered that the first person to discover the case, Nonoguchi, was his colleague before he became the police.Through investigation, Kaga found that Nonoguchi was the murderer of Hidaka.Nonoguchi confessed to her crimes, but her motives for killing Hidaka were different each time she confessed.

Kaga recalls the past with Nonoguchi. Kaga and Nonoguchi became new teachers at the same school 7 years ago.Kaga is tall, handsome, and cheerful, and is very popular among the students. Nonoguchi is not popular among the students because of his rustic dress and gloomy personality.Due to their different personalities and hobbies, they had no personal contact with each other at the same age. Kaga could faintly feel Nonoguchi's rejection and hostility towards him.

Kaga discovered that one of the students, a girl named Aizawa Aoi, was jointly bullied by other girls.He comforted Aizawa and encouraged Aizawa to fight against the evil forces on campus.Nonoguchi scoffed at Kaga's approach, and accused Kaga of not understanding the psychology of bullied students and bullying students at all.Kaga did not take Nonoguchi's accusation to heart.

After Aizawa started to fight back, the bullying girls got worse.After stabbing the leader of the girls, Aizawa ran to the school's rooftop and jumped off the building to commit suicide.Aizawa's last words to Kaga were, "Sensei, you don't understand anything!"

After this incident, Kaga realized that he was not suitable to be a teacher.He quickly resigned from school to become a police officer.

Kaga did not expect that after seven years, he and Nonoguchi would meet again as investigators and suspects in the same case.

Nonoguchi and Hidaka are middle school classmates, and the two have known each other for more than 15 years.Hidaka is a popular beauty writer, and Nonoguchi resigned from his job as a teacher with Hidaka's encouragement, and began to work hard to become a professional writer.According to the descriptions of the people around them, the two are clearly close friends who have been bonded since middle school.Why did Nonoguchi kill Hidaka?

Kaga was puzzled, and he began to investigate Nonoguchi's motive for killing Hidaka.

After a series of investigations, Kaga gradually restored the truth. Five years ago, Hidaka stole Nonoguchi's work and won an award for this work, making his debut as a novelist.Both Nonoguchi and Hidaka fell in love with Masato Hasegawa, Hidaka's editor at the time. Four years ago, Hidaka and Hasegawa got married. Hidaka deliberately provoked Nonoguchi, saying that she had already seen that Nonoguchi liked Hasegawa. meaning.Nonoguchi tried to kill Hidaka, but Hidaka took evidence instead.Nonoguchi is threatened by Hidaka to be her ghostwriter. Two years ago, Hasegawa died in a car accident. Nonoguchi resigned from his job as a teacher and planned to debut as a writer, but because of pressure from Hidaka, he could only publish some short stories or fairy tales in children's magazines. A year ago, Nonoguchi was diagnosed with cancer. Three months ago, Nonoguchi discovered that Hasegawa's car accident was not simple.Hasegawa discovered the fact that Nonoguchi was Hidaka's ghostwriter. In order to eliminate the fact, Hidaka designed a car accident and killed Hasegawa.Nonoguchi decides to kill Hidaka to avenge Hasegawa.

The evidence is sufficient, but there is always a voice in Kaga's heart reminding him that this is not the case.

Suspicious, Kaga comes to the hometown of Nonoguchi and Hidaka.

Nonoguchi began to be bullied by his classmates when he entered middle school, and eventually developed into not going to school (refusing to go to school).In the second grade of middle school, Hidaka became Nonoguchi's neighbor and classmate because of his father's job transfer.Nonoguchi has a cheerful personality and a beautiful appearance, and is very popular among his classmates.After discovering that his neighbor was not attending school, Hidaka began to visit Nonoguchi's house every day to encourage Nonoguchi to return to school.

After returning to school, Nonoguchi joined a small group of bullies in order not to be bullied.Rigao became a new target of bullying because he spoke up and defended another girl who was bullied.

Kaga finally discovered the truth of this case, but the motive behind it made Kaga feel cold all over, like falling into an abyss.Nonoguchi has deep malice towards Hidaka who wants to bring her back to the horrible school, and the two people's completely different encounters on the road of writers make Nonoguchi even more jealous of Hidaka. , with less than two years to live, Nonoguchi finally decided to make a plan. After killing Hidaka, she would be ruined and put on the devil's skin of plagiarizing a friend's work and designing to kill her husband.And she was only one step away from success.

At the end of the novel, Keigo Higashino gave Nonoguchi a motive to kill Hidaka—in his youth, Hidaka inadvertently took a photo with evidence of Nonoguchi’s bullying, which made Nonoguchi feel like a thorn in his throat.

Director Junji Sakamoto believes that deleting this plot can better reflect the theme of the movie's "pure malice".After discussing with Keigo Higashino, the director decided to set Nonoguchi's motivation in the movie as simply "just seeing her upset".

According to the character setting, the character of Nonoguchi has an ordinary appearance and a gloomy personality, which is extremely inconsistent with Yang Yueming's appearance.Therefore, when putting on makeup, the stylist tried to make Yang Yueming's hairstyle and clothes rustic, with short hair, bangs covering his forehead, wearing old-fashioned frame glasses, his skin color was also made very dull by cosmetics, and there were many freckles on his face .

Playing the role of Nonoguchi Rika brought a lot of negative emotions to Yang Yueming.

After receiving the director's invitation and reading the script, Yang Yueming was a little hesitant.Nonoguchi Rika is a very challenging role for Yang Yueming.She and Yang Yueming have very different personalities.She has a dark mind and always looks at the world and the people around her with malice. She hates Hidaka because of his help to her, and the kindness of others becomes the source of her hatred.In reality, Yang Yueming doesn't like this kind of person, she is very afraid that she won't be able to interpret this role that doesn't fit her three views.

In fact, this is not the first time Yang Yueming has received the role of a villain.As early as 2009, she starred in the TV series "MR.BRAIN" starring Kimura Takuya as a guest in a single episode and played the murderer Akiyoshi Kanako who pretended to be a serial murderer of a schizophrenic patient. Tragedy characters with deep feelings that make people love and hate, such as the female teacher Moriguchi Yuko who avenges her dead daughter in the movie "Farewell", and the tragic female new town created by the times by killing others and taking the identity of the victim in SP "Train" Qiao Zi, Yukiko Nakamachi who fell into a terrible obsession in the TV series "Keigo Higashino's Reasoning Series White Murder Weapon", etc.However, although these characters are not very positive, there are more or less embarrassing reasons behind their final crimes, especially Kanako Akiyoshi and Yuko Moriguchi, which also aroused the sympathy of many audiences.When Yang Yueming created this type of character, he didn't have such a strong sense of repulsion, and he didn't feel divided.

Yang Yueming had this uncomfortable feeling when he played the role of Atsuko Kamihara in the eighth chapter of "Detective Galileo Season [-]" as a guest last year.Atsuko Kamihara is obsessed with acting, and even has a mentality of using the experience of killing her cheating boyfriend to accumulate acting experience, which can be said to be very bad.The role of Nonoguchi Rika is more terrifying than Atsuko Kanbara. Her malice towards the world makes Yang Yueming shudder.

Yang Yueming once discussed with An Yang whether to accept the movie "Maliciousness".At that time, she also complained, "Do I have the potential to be a villain? Otherwise, when it was decided to change the two roles of Nonoguchi and Hidaka to women, why did the director think of me as the first time? Obviously I played the role before. The characters are all positive and optimistic.”

"No, didn't you play a guest role in "Detective Galileo" last year as an actress who cut off her boyfriend because she cheated on him?" An Yang said realistically, "By the way, there is also "Keigo Higashino..." Seeing Yang Yueming stared at him without speaking, he silently zipped his mouth shut, and his girlfriend's eyes told him that he seemed to have said something wrong again.

Because he really wanted to challenge Nonoguchi Rika, an absolute villain, Yang Yueming finally took over "Maliciousness".But she obviously underestimated the impact of the experience of being bullied in middle school on her.

Yang Yueming went to schools affiliated with Keio University from elementary school to high school.Most of the students in this prestigious school are from good backgrounds, and they are better at bullying and crowding out classmates with cold and violent methods.So the bullying that Yang Yueming suffered in middle school was different from the beatings, locked warehouses, and being poured with dirty water in many film and television works. Her classmates would not be so violent. They would "unintentionally" forget to notify her of some group activities , she will always be left alone when she is in class or in groups after class, and the homework given to the class representative sometimes disappears...

The island country is a class society, and this class gap is well reflected in a prestigious school like Keio.Yang Yueming's parents are from a good family background, so she would not have been bullied and isolated.But after her parents divorced, her and her mother's position in the family gradually became marginalized, and because of her work, she seemed a bit different in school and didn't integrate into the circle. She is upset", the confession incident happened to be the first.However, after entering high school, she applied to study at home because she was too busy with work, and this experience of being bullied remained deep in her memory.

The story of Nonoguchi Rika being bullied in middle school has only a few scenes in the movie, and it is played by the young actor Yuki Mio, who played the role of acting as a boy.But in order to fully understand Nonoguchi's heart and better interpret this role, Yang Yueming set the background in detail before the filming started, so as to achieve the purpose of adding more drama.

"Obviously I don't go to school anymore, and I have already stayed away from those demons. Why do you pretend to be a good person to persuade me to go to school? What does it have to do with you? You come to explain me, just for you It’s all just self-satisfaction!” Hidaka’s pure enthusiasm, in Nonoguchi’s view, is just hypocrisy, “Are you really introducing me to a job? No, you just want to show your superiority in front of me! How can there be People you hate so much? Can you stay away from me?" The gap between the two in terms of appearance, writing talent, and interpersonal communication made Nonoguchi even more jealous of Hidaka.

After substituting Nonoguchi's thinking and thinking with Nonoguchi's logic, Yang Yueming found that her psychology was getting darker and darker. She began to like to blame others and became more and more impatient with others.Finally, one day after all the filming was completed, Yang Yueming saw a young man helping a fallen little girl, and realized that his first reaction was to sneer. When he felt that the young man had bad intentions for the little girl, Yang Yueming realized the problem seriousness.

Why was he so easily influenced by Nonoguchi?Have these negative emotions been hidden deep in my heart?Yang Yueming began to reflect.Originally, when filming "The Last Home", she had the idea that she was too selfish, and now she began to doubt whether she was born with a dark mind.Yang Yueming unconsciously fell into loathing for herself.

Anyang soon discovered Yang Yueming's abnormality.But he has never felt split because of being too involved in the drama, and he doesn't know how to solve her.After consulting the doctor, Anyang decided to let her leave the previous environment temporarily, so this was the reason why she acted like a baby and asked her to go to Huaguo to accompany him.

Maybe it’s because after filming the movie, I gradually left the character state, or maybe it’s because I’m in a new environment, or maybe it’s because of Anyang’s company and enlightenment, or maybe it’s because all I’ve seen recently are better stories, Yang Yueming gradually got rid of negative emotions and became cheerful.

The author has something to say: Keio University is a well-known private university in the island country. Although it is not as famous in China as Todai University and Waseda, its ranking in the island country is higher than Waseda.The elementary school, middle school, and high school affiliated to Keio University are famous private schools. To use an inappropriate analogy, it is a bit like the Yingde Academy in "Boys Over Flowers".Their elementary school is called Keio Yijuku Kindergarten, co-educational system; middle school is divided into Keio ordinary school and Keio middle school. One is a boys' school and the other is a girls' school; there are also branch schools in Yokohama and New York.The schools that the heroine went to from elementary school to university are Keio Yijuku Kindergarten, Keio Yijuku Middle School, Keio Yijuku Women's Higher Division, and Keio University Literature Department.The heroine's experience of being bullied at school is fictional by the author, please don't misunderstand the school.

Everything about entering and exiting the play is made up by the author, please don't take it seriously.