This is why many girls floating in big cities like Tokyo women's picture books. This Japanese drama can see their shadows now and in the future.
The heroine Ling was born in Akita, a small county town. Her dream is to live in Tokyo and live a Tokyo-style life. After graduating from an ordinary university, she gave up her stable job and visible lifestyle to work in an office building in Tokyo and lived in Sancha, a gathering place for migrant workers.
Here Aya met Naoki, a fellow villager in Akita, and had a sweet and plain love. They stood on the street eating octopus roast, found a delicious and cheap restaurant, and cooked a pot of Xi Shou roast in a small rented room. Like the first love of many of us, at that time, we were both young and didn't have much money. Only sincere feelings can warm each other.
When I woke up one morning, Aya suddenly felt bored. She doesn't want such an ordinary life, which goes against her original intention of coming to Tokyo-enviable. Her mind kept echoing what others had said, "A good woman is dating in a Michelin restaurant before the age of 30." So she began to socialize, moved to a more advanced community, Ebisu, and began to associate with the rich second generation.
Long Zhi took her in and out of high-end restaurants and clubs. She spent 6 million yen on underwear, hoping to be a woman who won't be embarrassed to take off her clothes anytime and anywhere. Long Zhi said that she was unmarried, and Aya kept hinting that it was normal, just because "it is a good woman to date in Michelin restaurant before the age of 30", Long Zhi promised to take her there for dinner on her birthday.
The dog blood story of "the sparrow can't become a phoenix" comes one after another. Longzhi lost contact and soon married a model.
From simplicity to luxury, from luxury to simplicity. Ling's salary can no longer cover her current living expenses. After some efforts, she jumped ship and went to Gucci with better treatment.
By chance, she met the owner of a high-end kimono shop. He said, "I can give you anything except marriage. It is better to have a suitable good product than to have three bargains. People should be exposed to beautiful things when they are young. Taste can't be developed overnight. You can't judge a person by his appearance. If you wear this kimono well, you will be better than others, which will increase your self-confidence and guide you to live a higher quality life. "
Contact with the most cutting-edge brands in fashion will naturally be of great benefit. After that, Ling's life began to "advance by leaps and bounds", her taste became higher and higher, and her career became smoother.
At a friend's party, when she was going to take out a magazine (The Woman Women Want to Be) that published her interview and share her joy with her sisters, she found that all these friends who had been fighting in the past had children, and some were even preparing to have a second child. Their topics all revolve around their children and children's products. Shan Ling couldn't get a word in at all, so she could only smile apologetically.
At this time, Aya is 30 years old, and people around her no longer discuss where the restaurant is high-end, which brand to use for clothes, hats and bags, and what kind of boyfriend to find. When to get married, have children and have a second child, these voices are full of Aya's ears.
Aya wavered. She left the kimono shop owner and started an endless blind date, stipulating that she must meet two men every week and participate in various blind date activities.
Finally, she married an unattractive traditional man. He has a house and his annual salary is within the expected range. She said to the camera: it's not bad to be a supporting role, just be happy.
But she was really unhappy. When she came home after working overtime, the living room was a mess of clothes, the kitchen sink was full of unwashed dishes, and her husband lay on the sofa complaining that she was working too late and no one was cooking.
There is only one meaning for two people to be together: having children.
A marriage without many quick feelings will break up quickly. One-night stand, mistress pregnant, husband divorced. The blow came off guard, and it was too late to divorce Ling.
"It is said that marriage is a woman's happiness when she is unmarried. After marriage, I was oppressed by the silent pressure that giving birth to a child is a woman's happiness, and I was endlessly persecuted by the definition of women's happiness. "
In order to avoid these voices, Ling, who returned to single, began to jump out of the original social circle and get together with some older unmarried women. She thinks she is like these people: successful in career, not short of money, tasteful and unwilling to make ends meet. Don't you know that they are all aborigines in Tokyo, with noble birth and rich family? They can easily marry the elite men in the same circle, and Aya can't squeeze into this circle no matter how hard she tries.
Unconsciously, 20 years later, 40-year-old Aya bought her own single-family building in Yoyogi, Tokyo, and lived a petty bourgeoisie life. At that time, her boyfriend became her boyfriend holding hands.
In the last scene, a couple dressed in fashion went out to walk their dogs and walked past them. Aya looked at the woman and imagined her as herself. Her clothes are on her body, her earrings are hanging on her earlobe, and she is holding the handsome man alone. ......
Narrator: A greedy woman like me is never satisfied with her immediate happiness, but has told herself countless times that enough is enough, so she moves forward step by step. Only when this kind of jealousy is tasted as the spice of life can we be considered as real urban women. Come on, because there are still many things you want.
The women in this play are all living in comparison and pursuit, and can't tolerate any trampling by other women. The only person who can show a sense of transparency is the model who married Gao Zhi and divorced the flower shop. Her ideal marriage partner is a man who doesn't have to be very attractive, but will wholeheartedly support his wife's affairs.
She comes from the port area of Tokyo. She was born with the height that Aya longed for all her life, so she has the confidence to do what she wants without being disturbed. Even so, she finally remarried.
The women in the play run around just to live happier than others, while people in reality come and go for life.
When I was a child, I always felt that I was the protagonist, and I firmly believed that my life would be beautiful and very different. When I grow up, I find that they are ordinary stories that can be seen everywhere. I am not a unique protagonist, and even feel like a supporting role.
Ling is the epitome of women's struggle in first-tier cities, and every stop she meets is a part of people's lives. The difference is that some people stopped early, and some people still walked alone. It doesn't matter whether it's good or bad, as the woman in the play said: just be happy.
Aya always knows what she wants. She could have walked more smartly, as long as she didn't live in other people's mouths. You are you, the unique woman in the world, and you are a different soul. Why must we pursue the same life? Whether you are constantly climbing or content with the ordinary, it is the life you have chosen. Just like it.