本片榮獲藝學院賞最佳電影、最佳劇本、最佳男主角(西田敏行)最佳助演男配角(田中邦衛)最佳新人(萩原聖人、裕木奈江)暨最佳導演六項大獎!!
《學校》是山田洋次構思了15年的意念。影片的背景是一所夜間中學,負責教學的是已屆中年的黑井先生。
他本來可以有機會調職到另一家正規學校任教,但他卻拒絕了。又一個學期要過去,在畢業禮即將來臨之前,黑井叫每個學生都以過去一年的日子做題材,寫下一些值得回味的事情。班上的同學,有不同年齡的、不同國藉和背景的,不約而同都發現:歲月雖然匆匆,但箇中悲喜,尤其是黑井的關懷,卻教他們永誌難忘。
本片是山田洋次創作生涯上的另一高峰:七年間已拍了四集,是山田繼《男人之苦》後的第二個成功系列。
Directed by the creator of the Tora-san series, Yamada Yoji, "A Class to Remember" unfolds in a night junior high school on the lower east side of Tokyo. Students from their teens to their sixties are enrolled. One of the most beloved teachers, Kuroi, asks each student to write an essay recalling their experience in the night school. In the midst of the class, a piece of tragic news arrives: Inoda, one of Kuroi's students, has passed away, upon which the whole class starts talking about each other's memory of Inoda. Compassionate and extremely poignant, "A Class to Remember", marks the beginning of another film series for Yamada. So far four installments have been made and all are box office hits.
2002年,韓培印的兒子勝利考上了西安一所大學,從農村來到城市。為了讓勝利上學,老韓變賣了家裏所有值錢的東西,到西安打工,為兒子解決大學的生活費和來年的學費。做了一輩子農民的老韓堅信知識會改變命運,他樂觀地盼望著,兒子上了大學,將來一定會有出息。
勝利面臨畢業,性格內向的他面對強大的就業壓力,感覺這個城市越來越遠,上過大學的他很可能賺得比父親還要少。
有一個本子被老韓隨身裝了好幾年,裏面記滿了三年來十元、二十元的借款記錄,以及他對兒子勝利的期望:“我兒勝利要在2013前後,也就是父親的60歲前後,咱們全家到北京好好的玩幾天,那時候咱們大家都很有錢……”
In China, HAN has sold off all the family’s home valuables and now works in Xi an city to make money for his son to go to college. HAN firmly believes that knowledge has power to change their destiny. “Around 2013 or so, roughly my sixties, Sheng-li will take our family to Beijing for a sightseeing visit. We will have plenty of money by then…”
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